One of those nice words, that I like in English! "Empathy", word which says so much,.....well at least to me. Putting oneself into another's position. Putting your foot in another's shoe!
I was watching a French movie (name was something RED). European movies are quite nice, a different world from the American movies! Anyway, in it there is this psychopath retired judge, whose neighbours did not like him, and once a while one of the neighbours would throw a stone at his house. Peacefully he was collecting all the stones, ....there were six of them till that day. He was saying to his friend, "I think they must be hating me like anything. I am sure I would have done the same at their place". His friend gets surprised and asks, "you would have thrown stones??". He answered, "Its so natural; given those conditions, anyone would have behaved exactly the same!".
What we call as ourself, our morales, our principles, none of them actually belong to us. We have picked them up in our journey called life. We are bad or good, its as much natural. Philosophers sometime say, its natural to be happy. Its our nature to be "Anand". Then why are we not? Are "WE", different from nature?
If someone is bad its natural, if someone is good, its equally natural. Put yourself in his/her shoes, you can not become anything else! So where is the reason to be happy that I am good or to be sorry that I am bad (or have bad feelings)?
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On similar lines I had already something. I wrote a little piece of experience, that I shared with my friend, but being him. :)
It's one of the best gift you can give to anyone. :)
Sir,
i liked your post, but i think the conclusion is a bit misleading. The point is that the person collecting the stones could understand the perspective of the thrower by putting him in his(thrower's) position. SO he could control his reactionary emotions. it was ideal for him since he was on the recieving side. But had the thrower done the same,he could have consoled(saved) himself, since he was equally suffering (and the world would have changed).
So,i think, its not about being good or bad, it about how (much) you see it, more aptly, as to hw much you know about.
So the main subject here is, are you knowledgeble(happy) or foolish(sad).Good, bad are essentailly perspectives.
Well; its again the conventional education that forces us to look for "conclusions" in each piece. I have not tried to give any conclusion.
BTW, the judge (the receiver of the stones) never told that he did not react. To react or not to react was his choice. He just told that given the same situations he would also have thrown stones.
Knowledge again is a silly word. I will still stick to the old adage of "ignorance is bliss"! And when you distinguish between "happy" and "sad", you also distinguish between "good" and "bad". The only point was to try understanding "non-duality" through empathy...
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