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To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.
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To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.
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In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. when we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. what does this tell us? firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. for it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.
Happiness Spiritual Mean
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? here it is: you're suffering. suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. suffering occurs when you clash with reality. when your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. otherwise there is no suffering.
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Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. by such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
Mean Eye Reality
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. we "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. we must become one with the subject of our observation. when we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."
Love Buddhist Mean
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. i think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. we use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.
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It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. it ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. it ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. it ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. i’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.
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