> It seems to me, coming from a rural background, that too often compassion is > equated with "niceness" and avoidance of people and situations that jar our little > island of calm. At the moment, this tendency reminds me of still trying to get > things > right, so the "Judgement" doesn't make us hurt. That's avoiding suffering, not > ending > it.
Judgement in general isn't bad or anything. Petty, blatant, pointless, or judgement for the sole purpose of placing someone else below you or just to point fun at them is not compassionate. A compassionate person does not do that. In the sense that it take judgement to function in everyday life, of course, but in the sense that some people do it for the mere sake of it, without regard to how they affect others, I cannot see how those people could be compassionate. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
