Why compassion is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, stupid, useless, wrong foundation for ethics. https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/traditional-buddhism-has-no-ethical-system/#compassion …
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@Meaningness do you think part of the problem is the contemporary Western Buddhist conflation of results of practice with basis of practice?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness similar with compassion mistakenly identified as METHOD rather than result of realizing emptiness. Or so it seems to me.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@spacecrone Hmm, interesting observations. I’m not sure!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness I'd thought about this before re: conflation of method and results of practice in mindfulness instruction2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@spacecrone I’m not really knowledgeable about Theravada. But my understanding is that the texts that were (mis)used as practice >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@spacecrone > instructions were actually metaphysical speculations. So again the goal was (mis)taken as the path.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@spacecrone I think I remember canonical Mahayana texts saying the development of karuna and prajna are synergistic, but not certain
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