How Do You Measure Compassion?

[Buddha Dharma]

Laou Tzu would probably say the one who doesn't concieve of it.

Precisely right. Master Lao Tzu is correct.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

I think what I see as good projects from Buddha-nature, but that what is unvirtue is due to illusion and ignorance. It is akin to Plato's notion that evil cannot have it's own reality, because it is by nature- a distortion or wrong application of good.

That would make both virtue and unvirtue indistinguishable at their Sorce, would it not? They only differ in their application?

I understood the rest of what you said.

 

[Skwim]

We live and percieve a world of dimensions; length, width, height and time. All these things are measurable.

My question is, how do you measure compassion? Does it exist if it isn't measurable?

I'd say input the variables as Riccati–Bessel functions: Sn, Cn, ξn, ζn, or simply use a protractor.

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[Buddha Dharma]

Not exactly because in the Buddhist worldview, one of them is born of illusion. Depending what you mean though, you could be right. Semantics can be so fun.

 

[allfoak]

Laou Tzu would probably say the one who doesn't concieve of it.

That is correct.
I do not know would be a good answer.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

I'd say input the variables as Riccati–Bessel functions: Sn, Cn, ξn, ζn, or simply use a protractor.

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If your going to speak in tongues at least provide a translator.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Not exactly because in the Buddhist worldview, one of them is born of illusion. Depending what you mean though, you could be right. Semantics can be so fun.

Yes, language is tricky. It seems that Plato was saying that evil is just a distortion of good. This would mean that at their source they are both the same.

 

[JoshuaTree]

compassion is inversely proportional to uselessness

 

[BSM1]

Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Who has the greatest compassion of all?

Should have stopped while you were winning...lol.

 

[allfoak]

Should have stopped while you were winning...lol.

I was unaware that I was... lol

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Precisely right. Master Lao Tzu is correct.

The reason being that he would then treat all things the same. This is the greatest compassion...if we were to measure such things.

 

[Skwim]

If your going to speak in tongues at least provide a translator.

Sorry.

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And "protractor."

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[sandy whitelinger]

Should have stopped while you were winning...lol.

Its always good tp make the first move.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

I've never

Sorry.

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where j_n(z) and n_n(z) are spherical Bessel functions of the first and second kind.
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I've never heard of a translator needing a translator. This can only be blasphemy.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

compassion is inversely proportional to uselessness

Thanks for driving by.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Not exactly because in the Buddhist worldview, one of them is born of illusion. Depending what you mean though, you could be right. Semantics can be so fun.

Should both have the same source, it would seem that the Budda nature would also come from a higher dimension, perhaps different from the source of dualities, ie. virtue/unvirtue.

 

[Skwim]

I've never

I've never heard of a translator needing a translator. This can only be blasphemy.

Of course it is. And thank god for the Bible where I learnt all about blaspheming, and what qualifies and what doesn't. Bessel functions being one of those that qualifies.
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[YmirGF]

I do have a cold. My mind is having a hard time. There might be a deeper meaning though. Does it come from God if it has no dimesionality? How does it exist without dimensionality?

I feel for you that you are not feeling well. Hope you get better soon.
I don't see it as coming from any god, but I do see it as a natural component of our type of consciousness. It's a personality trait.

 

[Father Heathen]

Thoughts and emotions aren't quantifiable, yet we clearly experience them.

 

[Father Heathen]

I feel for you that you are not feeling well. Hope you get better soon.
I don't see it as coming from any god, but I do see it as a natural component of our type of consciousness. It's a personality trait.

Other social animals besides humans display empathy and compassion. Clearly they must be reading their bibles if they've managed to receive such traits delivered directly from the stratosphere.