Edgar, and Group,
Edgar mistakenly wrote:
"Alleviation of suffering is NOT a path to enlightenment (though some Buddhist
sects mistakenly claim it is)."
They don't.
And there's no mistake about it. So don't "dis" them, because you are wrong
(using your word).
Metta is a practice. Along with all the other practices of the school, a
person *may* awaken. The person must also eat breakfast, but that meal alone
is not a sole path to awakening.
Zazen is not a path to awakening. Zen practice is. And lunch.
Metta is not a path to awakening. Vipassana practice is. And dinner.
Li' that.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Carl,
>
> Alleviation of suffering is NOT a path to enlightenment (though some Buddhist
> sects mistakenly claim it is). True compassion is the RESULT of enlightenment
> (realization is the term I prefer). Because realization includes the
> realization of the sufferings of all other beings as well as one's 'self' and
> a natural inclination to diminish unnecessary suffering.
>
> Yes, obviously all beings don't suffer all the time. I never implied that.
> For almost all beings life is a various mixture of happiness and suffering
> and other feelings as well. My point was that the natural design of the web
> of life that IS the biosphere necessarily incorporates suffering of some
> beings for the good of other beings. Thus physical suffering (pain) is part
> of nature's design and without it the biosphere and the web of life on earth
> would fall apart and it is questionable where life itself would survive...
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