But selective compassion is not compassion - it's tribalism. As long as we don't recognize the humanity in every tragedy, we will not have a human solution to these tragedies.
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Not long ago I would have thought Buddhism was the solution to everything. But that was comically naive, no better than a mindless religious conviction. If everything is viewed through the lens of Buddhism - or any "ism" for that matter - nothing is actually seen clearly.
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The ultimate cosmic joke is that when you see the answer to all of this it's so fucking obvious - literally too obvious to put into words. So what good is awakening anyway?
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sorry. not obvious to me what it is that's obvious. can you elaborate?
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The answer to humanity's fundamental problem, which is how we can resolve the ideological differences that cause so much suffering in the world. I supposed if I had to put it into words, it would be to drop our ideologies all together.
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We're so caught up in being "right", when there's nothing to be right about.
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so if humans drop their ideologies, suffering will disappear?
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It would be a hell of a first step. I would argue that much of the reason we don't seem to give a shit about anyone that isn't us is because we're blinded by our beliefs.
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To stop asking what the right thing is to believe, and start asking what is the most useful action to take in each circumstance.
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Put another way, if we navigate the world through propositional ethics - those guided by beliefs in what is right or wrong - we get blinded by the lens through which we're viewing the world.
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