The Dalai Lama once said: "Love and compassion are necessities. They are not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." Anthropologist, author, teacher and Zen priest, Joan Halifax, takes that statement a bit further: "...it is not only humanity that won't survive, it is all the species on the planet...It is the big cats, and it's the plankton." Not only does compassion enliven us, it enhances our neural integration and our immune system. But why, if compassion is good for us, aren't we training our children in compassion? Watch this TED talk to learn about the many facets of compassion.