Merle, Thinking caring thoughts IS NOT compassion. It doesn't help anyone. Compassion is actually helping people or animals alleviate suffering in the REAL world.
You are just massaging your own ego to think otherwise.... Edgar On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Merle Lester wrote: > > edgar... > > do i have to prove to you what i do?.. > you can do what ever you like and be as compassionate as you wish with your > immediate surroundings.. > > however compassion extends to all living creatures.. > do they really have to be within sight of you..?... > i taught at high school level art ages 12 to 18 for 30 years...and at one > school for 4 years with many disadvantaged kids... > > you have no idea what i have been through or am going through.. > your arrogance is appalling as joe has told you in another post about my son > who is suffering as i type.. > > i am a people's person.. > i listen to people i meet and am compassionate and caring even in the > briefest of conversation in the supermarket with a stranger... > i love all animals and plants just as much as you do.. > anyway why do i have to explain myself to you... compassion is not a > competition > > i do not know how you could not feel anything for those people in the boston > bombings.. > i suppose 9/11 blew over you too... > you sound so callous uncaring unfeeling... > > sure you are helping the creatures in your immediate environment.. > great.... don't you think i do not do that?.. > for christ sake...there is a broader world out there... > so it's water off a duck's back to you about what suffering goes on apart > from what is under your very nose?... > > merle > > > Merle, > > You offered ME compassion when I was NOT a victim. > > All I said is I didn't need your compassion because I wasn't a victim, and > then you went ballistic on me.... > > Can't you understand what is obvious? Don't you actually read what people > write? > > If you want to understand compassion go out and ACTUALLY HELP ONE suffering > being. Just spouting off has NOTHING to do with compassion. > > This morning I rescued a bunch of lady bugs trapped in my window and put them > outside. This morning I fed the fox with the broken hind leg. This morning I > replanted a bunch of pansies the raccoon I fed last night dug out looking for > worms. > > That Merle is TRUE compassion...... What did you do to fulfill YOUR > Boddhisattva vows? > > Edgar > > > > On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Merle Lester wrote: > >> >> >> >> edgar,,, >> >> do you think am stupid? >> >> i figured i was an earthling when i was i was born >> >> ..what age did you realise?... >> >> for christ sake it's nothing about EGO... >> >> because you do not understand where i am coming from you choose to rabbet on >> as if i am ignorant of world events elsewhere on the planet.. >> >> i know what goes on edgar.. >> >> don't get your self all frothed up and foaming at the mouth... >> >> you show no compassion for mankind by your callous and uncaring attitudes... >> >> it's your attitude.. >> >> is this the buddha nature that you see as reality? >> >> a false buddha nature and you are not even the slightest bit aware because >> your ego is bigger than a thousand football fields >> >> and you BUSILY praise yourself in the darkest of nights believing you are >> at the pinnacle of enlightenment awareness and perception.. >> >> totally unaware that >> >> your presence on this earth is as small as a grain of sand and even less >> significant than the dust on your mantlepiece >> >> >> >> merle >> >> >> Merle, >> >> Your 'caring' doesn't help them in the least, it just makes YOUR ego feel >> better. I have no problem if you want to express your feelings on this but >> criticizing others for not is not Zen..... >> >> And I do NOT consider myself an American! I'm an Earthling, one among ALL >> life forms on the planet. The earth and all its life forms have my >> allegiance and are my brothers, not just human Americans... >> >> The bombing in Boston is just one more among the interminable series of men >> killing men and other species, including US drone strikes, and wars which >> have caused enormously more suffering. It's one among millions of historical >> blips.... >> >> Edgar >> >> >> >> On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Merle Lester wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> edgar... who the hell do you care for apart from yourself?... i find this >>> a tad disgusting.. they are your fellow americans...merle >>> >>> >>> Merle, >>> >>> Why offer sympathy to me? It has nothing to do with me... >>> >>> Edgar >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> with deepest sympathy edgar >>>> >>>> Merle >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
