08-02-2011, 07:27 PM
You are playing with semantics and missing the conceptual nature of these ideas, I feel. You are speaking with an absolute perspective where none is applicable.
What is loyalty if not part of your nature? What is altruism if not part of your nature? Etc
The things you are describing are manners of using these virtues, not the virtues themselves. This is what Ra speaks of as necessarily balancing Wisdom and Compassion, and not practicing what Dzogchen Buddhism calls "Idiot Compassion".
What is loyalty if not part of your nature? What is altruism if not part of your nature? Etc
The things you are describing are manners of using these virtues, not the virtues themselves. This is what Ra speaks of as necessarily balancing Wisdom and Compassion, and not practicing what Dzogchen Buddhism calls "Idiot Compassion".