In regards to eating meat

[3DMonkey]

You seem to be saying that if, for example, you learn compassion from me, then I must also learn compassion from you.

I strongly disagree. That's like saying that if you teach me Spanish, I must also teach you Spanish.

My understanding of teach/learn is that you might teach me Spanich, while I teach you German.

Ra didn't learn the same things from us that they taught us.

Person A might learn compassion from Person B, while Person B might learn, say, patience from Person A.

This jumps out at me to reveal a major imbalance in communicating mutual understanding.

My understanding of teach/learn is completely different.

Teach/learn, to me and using your language example, is like if I teach someone Spanish, by teaching them I am learning a greater scope of the Spanish language itself by placing myself in a seat of co-creation with the student. Likewise, as the student learn/teaches they are learning Spanish at the same time they teach a broader perspective to the teacher by revealing a new perspective that the teacher had not experienced prior to teach/learning.

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"to learn is the same as to teach unless you are not teaching what you are learning; in which case you have done you/they little or no good. This understanding should be pondered by your mind/body/spirit complex as it is a distortion which plays a part in your experiences"
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I read this passage as, ' to learn Spanish is the same as to teach Spanish unless you are not speaking Spanish that you have learned; in which case nothing has come of the interaction'.

And we could plug anything into the example. For instance, 'to learn compassion is the same as to teach compassion unless you are not actively being compassionate as you have considered yourself to be learned in; in which case you have done you/they little or no good'.