21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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21. Compassion and Desire Meet
in Embodied Persons
‘If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion’
Dalai Lama
‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field; I’ll meet you there.’
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
‘Compassion is the antidote to the self-chosen poison of anger.’
Author unknown
How can I satisfy my desire? How can I have compassion for others? The idea expressed in this chapter is that these two questions, which were the starting point for the whole work, are really just the same question. If we look again at the meaning of compassion used in this work — as justice and celebration — then hopefully the reality of this will start to become clear. Compassion is much more than a response to the suffering of others in acts of mercy — it is
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