[MD] Compassion

[MarshaV]

At 10:20 AM 5/3/2008, you wrote:
>      "...the coincidence of contrary..."     :
>paradox
>
>
>
>      Since coincidence is true in the above context,
>and the fragility of life grows in the midst of such
>desperate opposites that in true contrast would
>destroy all static patterns from latching whatsoever,
>and it is obvious that a tree grows from seed in this
>climate, in the midst of such paradox, and it is this
>coincidence of contrary that something else works
>allowing this paradoxical climate to thrive here on
>earth and for bonds of atoms to come together on the
>sun.  In such paradox it is this coming together that
>evens allows such coincidence that compassion is the
>place holder.  It is this relationship in shared
>respect between contraries that allows for this
>coincidence.
>
>SA
>



A paradox is that while we may be the direct beneficiaries of 
"enlightenment", if this is our only goal, we will not attain it 
because we will still have the mind of self-grasping and attachment 
to enlightenment itself.  We not only need to be completely selfless, 
we have to be unattached to our selflessness.  This is a most 
difficult thing to do.

Another paradox related to the one above is that our happiness is 
directly tied to the level we are able to seek happiness and benefit 
for others.  The more we look for happiness in external "stuff", the 
more it will elude us.  The more we seek to give happiness to others, 
the more we will experience it in our own lives.

http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/thurman-interconnectedness-compassion 







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