Can kindness be cultivated as a skill? How?
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Replying to @vgr
Meditation is part of a solution - it gives you some space to do this
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Replying to @babarganesh
I think that just creates the motivation not the skill.
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Replying to @vgr @babarganesh
Is that your actual experience with meditation? My experience is that more motivation naturally (and even spontaneously) leads to more action. More action leads to more skill, and the desire to learn whatever is necessary to be kind (or compassionate or generous, etc.)
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Replying to @VincentHorn @babarganesh
Yes, every specific situation needs skilled handling besides general predisposition
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Replying to @vgr @babarganesh
Example: It takes skill to make subtle conceptual distinctions, such as we’re doing here. I’ve noticed in your writing that you’re very good at this skill. But if I try and do that so that I can be right, then that skill is in service of righteousness not kindness.
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is there a natural dilemma in the tension between truth (the sentiment underlying righteousness, which is just truth+assholishness) and kindness? I feel like some of the hardest ethical challenges involve finding ways to be truthful and kind at the same time.
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Do we, like John Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men”, think that “you can’t handle the truth?” Or do we invite each other into deeper truth, knowing that truth is always a double edged
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deciding for someone else that they deserve ignorance is one of the most profoundly unkind ways of treating someone that I can think of, and of course Col. Jessup is an archetypal villain for a good reason.
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Replying to @danlistensto @VincentHorn and
refining my question to align more with my values: "how can we incorporate kindness and compassion into communications and activities motivated by truth-seeking?"
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tone, affect, word-choice, and timing are all important aspects but I'd by lying if I said I was good enough at communicating to think I had really nailed this aspect of it. it's terribly easy to be misunderstood both in content and intent.
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