I’ve heard this charge that empathy is incompatible with Stoicism (or Buddhism) somewhat often but I don’t see it myself.
Passion, on the other hand, I understand.
Passion, on the other hand, I understand.
Similar, though less essential, with other emotions. Stoicism is not the eradication of feeling. That would be denying our basic humanity and contrary to stoic principles. Instead, it is the mastery of it. Keep logic in control. Think Spock.