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com·pas·sion [kuhm-pash-uhn] Show IPA
noun
1.
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by astrong desire to alleviate the suffering.
care [kair] Show IPA noun, verb, cared, car·ing.
noun
1.
a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
2.
a cause or object of worry, anxiety, concern, etc.: Their son has always been a great care to them.
3.
serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution: She devotes great care to her work.
4.
protection; charge: He is under the care of a doctor.
5.
temporary keeping, as for the benefit of or until claimed by the owner: He left his valuables in the care of friends. Address my mail in care of the American Embassy.
Since the definitions of Compassion and Care are all negative - it's about sharing another's pain and doing something about it, is it possible for these to exist in a perfect world? How can you have compassion or care for another's opinion when things are already perfect? If the world is perfect then there is nothing to make a person feel better about, right?
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by alyoshablue
But if duality is true, if a world like Earth exists - with wars, famine, and hate, shouldn't an opposite world exist with peace, abundance, and love?
Yin & Yang are Co-Arising and Interdependent:
The curves and circles of the Yin-Yang symbol imply a kaleidoscope-like movement. This implied movement represents the ways in which Yin and Yang are mutually-arising, interdependent, and continuously transforming, one into the other. One could not exist without the other, for each contains the essence of the other. Night becomes day, and day becomes night. Birth becomes death, and death becomes birth (think: composting). Friends become enemies, and enemies become friends. Such is the nature - Taoism teaches - of everything in the relative world. Source
Existence & Non-Existence In The Yin-Yang Symbol:
"Existence" and "non-existence" is a polarity which we can understand, also, in the way suggested by the Yin-Yang symbol: as mutually-arising and interdependent “opposites" which are in constant motion, transforming one into the other. The things of the world are appearing and dissolving continuously, as the elements of which they are composed go through their birth-and-death cycles. In Taoism, the appearance of “things" is considered to be Yin, and their resolution back into their more subtle ("no-thing") components, Yang. To understand the transit from "thing" to "no-thing" is to access a profound level of wisdom.
Originally posted by arpgme
But if duality is true, if a world like Earth exists - with wars, famine, and hate, shouldn't an opposite world exist with peace, abundance, and love?
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by ottobot
It is disgusting that people are saying that it is OK for children to be killed (war) because it is part of the balance.
This is a philosophy of cowardice, but I will make a new topic explaining this because I don't want to talk about duality on this topic of
Compassion (Care) turns the world into heaven... subject
Originally posted by ottobot
It's not "OK", but there is nothing you can do about it other than save your children (and loved ones) from being killed. So, do it.
Originally posted by ottobot
You are not going to turn the entire world of earth into heaven, but you can turn your microcosm of the world into heaven.
Originally posted by ottobot
Also, you are contradicting yourself by displaying "hate"
Originally posted by arpgme
my point was, if there is a world where war, famine and hate is dominant there has to be a world dominant of peace, abundance, and love is dominant if duality exist.
According to this "duality" philosophy, if there is light , there is dark, so if there is war dominance, there has to be peace dominance.
If there is life planets, there has to be dead planets...
I really don't believe in this "duality" anymore, I think it is false but I don't want to get too far off topic.
Originally posted by arpgme
Not true, you can speak out against it, you can actually do something to stop it. You can educate people.
I can't alone, but we can together. You say that what I do affect the microcosm, but the microcosm is a part of the macrocosm. If enough people do it , we can change the macrocosm into a lovely place to live. The Earth is our home after all, we should care for here.
Originally posted by ottobot
No I'm not. I said the most important thing is care (compassion), not love. If people showed hate towards war, they are CARING.
Allowing the evil to exist and not speaking out about it , is apathy.
CARING is hating the evil and loving the good.
If there is no evil, then you can still love the good, so I guess I answered my own question, care can exist in a perfect world.
Originally posted by arpgme
CARING is hating the evil and loving the good.
Originally posted by ottobot
See, this is where we differ in opinion. For me, caring and compassion come from seeing and knowing the evil, but using love and good to combat it. So, if I see people doing evil, I feel compassion (not hate) for them. I will do what I can to show love in their presence, but I will not allow them to do evil to me.
Originally posted by ErroneousDylan
That is a contradiction. Hating and caring are two opposite things. They do not exist at the same time.