Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Surfing with the Buddha*

How can we know what people are really like? Is trying to look at things from their point of view enough? Can we really "get into" someone else's head? How does one turn the ideal of compassion into true empathetic feelings for someone else? Enough so that you "feel" what they feel and can then so identify with them that any violence against them becomes violence against yourself.

*If this isn't a song title it should be.

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