Bill, Go to Mexico, and be welcome by the drug kings on the highlighted words. In their minds, selling and taking drugs are 'spontaneous'. Anthony
--- On Sat, 24/7/10, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill! <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Compassion To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 24 July, 2010, 5:18 PM Ed, Thats a good question. Merriam-Webster Online defines 'compassion' as: "A sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it." I don't know how to resolve this from a zen perspective since the concepts of 'others', 'distress', 'desire' and even to some exten 'alleviate' are illusory. I think 'compassion' is just one of those Buddhist teaching devices, like karma, to help you decide what to do before you are ready to decide that for yourself. I wouldn't worry too much about compassion. Just keep sitting, and eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, wake when you're rested and deal with whatever comes up in a spontaneous manner without any goals or valutions in mind. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter...@...> wrote: > > > > What is "compassion"? > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=define%3Acompassion&aq=f&\ > aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai > <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=define%3Acompassion&aq=f\ > &aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai> = > > --ED >
