XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > < to feel with another or others. In your simple Tat Vam Asi   
   > modality, is there any element of feeling? I'm not speaking   
   > about emotions here, but something that goes deeper than   
   > just seeing or cognising; something that penetrates the   
   > existential skin?>>   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   I don't understand what you mean by "something that penetrates the   
   existential skin", can you restate that in moron-ese please?   
      
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