user-1: I got wondering, idly it's not part of any practice or effort, that everything has something like empathy, but of one thing, empathy for the buddha.
Can that be read into buddhism, or panpsychism at all?
Might the answer to this fall under the terms "empathy" and "response", as drawn from the lotus sutra?
I promise this will be my last question, sorry for starting so many :)

user832: All is consciousness and all is not consciousness and neither of the preceding is true. This is the kind of logic that Zen sees the world in ways that at best are uncertain. 
In one sense you are asking does a table have Buddha nature?
This has been answered in this post Does a dog have Buddha nature?
The Buddha-nature of a dog
I have only found one thing that helps me, when I find empathy and compassion for all beings. What their nature is does not seem to affect me. My own acts in consciousness do affect me directly.

user2442: EMPATHY
empathy 
• n : understanding and entering into another's feelings
.
I don't if i am upto a satisfying answer or not but the empathy that i have got after getting your question is that 'it is within'. If you think that everything about buddha ends up as an empathy than its not wrong. But the empathy (may be very-2 important question to everybody) is just a milestone where one can relax at his doings (karma) , only if that one's practicing it right. Buddha left his body long years ago, but not his will ( a will that can benefit many of us and our inner know it somewhere somehow). That is strange. Thats concern. Thumbs up for you. You are on right path. You are picking up stones but not making yourself or your pocket heavy. It is all within. You are the nearest to it for you, not for becoming a buddha. Regards for coming up.

-1: <p>I got wondering, idly it's not part of any practice or effort, that everything has something like empathy, but of one thing, empathy for the buddha.</p>

<p>Can that be read into buddhism, or panpsychism at all?</p>

<p>Might the answer to this fall under the terms "empathy" and "response", as drawn from the lotus sutra?</p>

<p>I promise this will be my last question, sorry for starting so many :)</p>
 832: <p>All is consciousness and all is not consciousness and neither of the preceding is true. This is the kind of logic that Zen sees the world in ways that at best are uncertain. </p>

<p>In one sense you are asking does a table have Buddha nature?</p>

<p>This has been answered in this post Does a dog have Buddha nature?
<a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3130/the-buddha-nature-of-a-dog">The Buddha-nature of a dog</a></p>

<p>I have only found one thing that helps me, when I find empathy and compassion for all beings. What their nature is does not seem to affect me. My own acts in consciousness do affect me directly.</p>
 2442: <p>EMPATHY</p>

<p>empathy </p>

<p>• n : understanding and entering into another's feelings
.
I don't if i am upto a satisfying answer or not but the empathy that i have got after getting your question is that 'it is within'. If you think that everything about buddha ends up as an empathy than its not wrong. But the empathy (may be very-2 important question to everybody) is just a milestone where one can relax at his doings (karma) , only if that one's practicing it right. Buddha left his body long years ago, but not his will ( a will that can benefit many of us and our inner know it somewhere somehow). That is strange. Thats concern. Thumbs up for you. You are on right path. You are picking up stones but not making yourself or your pocket heavy. It is all within. You are the nearest to it for you, not for becoming a buddha. Regards for coming up.</p>
