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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/12/2015 4:14 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
      
   > The link between nonduality and compassion feels solid, but   
   > I don't know how active and constructive that compassion   
   > has to be. As with most things, there's probably a range,   
   > from the purely apperceptive to getting involved with bricks   
   > and mortar.   
      
   <>   
      
   The following is only my opinion, and nothing more.   
   The Spinozan intellectual love of the world entails   
   no compassion, just a Stoic feeling of the harmony   
   of the universe, in the abstract. The idea of the   
   individual awakening and not bothering about others   
   is accepted in Buddhism and Jainism, and probably is   
   a concept/word that precedes both of them in India   
   (pacceka-buddha). Awakening would then belong purely   
   to seeing or cognising, and not something that   
   penetrates the existential skin. (Even then, it could   
   be argued that others, who contribute to the survival   
   of such people, for example by offering food, as in   
   India, would benefit from such contact, merely from   
   the good feeling, however generated, as in learning   
   by examples.)   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
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