Panpsychism and philosophical interpretations of buddhism 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 :)
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.