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**Zarekylin75** · 08-23-2010, 02:33 AM

If you are unable to emphasise and "to suffer with" or as in Mahayana Buddhism, to "take over another's suffering" you will not be able to recognise that other people are the same as you, they all want happiness and its causes, they all have buddha nature. Without real compassion you cannot realise the interdependence of one being with another and will be trapped into thinking there is something inherently permanent about ourselves insead of realising the emptiness of phenomena. Perhaps it's the difference between the Theravada motivation and the Mahayana motivation we are talking about here.

08-23-2010, 02:33 AM	#11
Zarekylin75 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	If you are unable to emphasise and "to suffer with" or as in Mahayana Buddhism, to "take over another's suffering" you will not be able to recognise that other people are the same as you, they all want happiness and its causes, they all have buddha nature. Without real compassion you cannot realise the interdependence of one being with another and will be trapped into thinking there is something inherently permanent about ourselves insead of realising the emptiness of phenomena. Perhaps it's the difference between the Theravada motivation and the Mahayana motivation we are talking about here.
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