Quote: "Let's stop mucking about. "
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are you mucking about, rustic ?

I have looked into the eyes of dying men, wishing them well, but without malice or mercy. 

I felt at those times that we shared a certain understanding of life and death; the shortness of life, the certainty of death.

I could not help them.  Maybe they helped me.  I felt closer to them than anyone.

Mr. Lightpink,
Is talking about compassion compassion?

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so what glory remains?

someone have some passion for me. im about to get all my teeth ripped out soon and get dentures.

this sucks.

haha.

In my current understanding , compassion as in Buddhism concept is a condition of being less self ......not resulted by desire or emotions but a reflection of self realization .

Buddhism to me is a process of all being regardless living or non-living and is natural . As in human , Buddhism is a process that will lead into accepting ownselves and ending own existance . Buddhism is a process that involve all experiences , knowing , understanding , discovering own emotions , desire , compassion , love by being awake , by own realization leading to acceptance of ownselves and emptiness .

So as human understand ownselves that is all emotions , desire , love , compassion , anger , hate , ego  etc and as he progress into greater realization , his emotions will be decreased .......his emotion of anger , love , compassion , ego will be decreased and the burden of carrying "himself" also decreased ......he will be in a condition accepting he is no special than other being , he will accept all being is same and equal.....he will accept that all being is in their own process leading to himself , he will accept he is same and equal with any human , any animal , any plant , virus , table , pen , rock , water , dirt etc .........he will accept nothing belong to him nor family , material or even his body .........he will understand no special love for family or even himself , he will see himself in others being , see others as himself................as all is one , and one is emptiness ...

So he will treat others , same emotion as himself regardless their nature ......he will carry same emotion for animal , pen, rock  same and equal as  for his mom ...have same emotion for  the virus that attack his body same and equal with his daughter ..........thats my understanding of "compassion" in Buddhism , not resulted from desire , or culture , or knowledge but is a condition of one acceptance / realization ...........

Thks

CSEe