2/ The heart only knows what it doesn't want, not what it wants. It can only recognize lies, not truth. The process of elimination is how truth is revealed.
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3/ Forcing people to care is the greatest form of disempowerment. Guilt and Shame are used the most commonly. Especially on children.
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4/ This gaslights individuals until they can no longer hear their own heart. They're forced to swallow whatever the external world forces into them and smile while doing it.
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5/ When people aren't forced to care, they can walk away based on the merits of the situation alone. This creates real pressure for leadership. "Why should I follow you?" "Why should I care?"
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6/ Only "real" vision wins. Only "real" leaders lead. When you can't force people to follow you, you have to really be on to something.
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7/ Bad leaders take caring for granted. Any revelation that someone doesn't care is treated as heresy. Everyone ends up pretending to care. Surface becomes much more important than substance.
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8/ Spend enough time in such places and you end up caring about everything and nothing. You forget how to walk away and let things be. You take things too seriously with "musts" and "needs" and "shoulds".
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9/ Meditation can be thought of as the cultivating of this ability to not care by purposely doing nothing, with the end goal of living without a care in the world.
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10/ The trap is you can end up caring too much about meditation by having a goal to become goal-less.
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11/ Bodhisattvas have the particular challenge of caring very much that people ought not to care very much.
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