This is beautiful: "My Rinpoche says that whenever we hate someone, we might try imagining the pain in their heart. The pain is always identical. An experience I had in rehab was spending a month detesting someone but then, after I heard their life story in group session, who they were made absolute sense. From then on, I was convinced that if I were anyone, I would be them. If I were Donald Trump, I would be Donald Trump. As Jean Genet said in his text on Rembrandt, every person has the same value as me."
It very much reminds one of this passage from Francisco Varela's Reflections on Chilean Civil War (and yes, Varela was a buddhist):
»But every political stance contains the elements on which the truth of the other is based, and that all we are doing is a little dance. Sure, I have to take this side, and that is cool, but how do I really embody in that action that I acknowledge the importance of the other side and the essential brotherhood between those two positions? How can I go to Pinochet and say, »Hello, my brother?« I don’t know. I don’t think that I am that enlightened at all. I wouldn’t be able to do that, but in some sense I realize that is a great limitation. That should be in some sense possible.«
This is beautiful: "My Rinpoche says that whenever we hate someone, we might try imagining the pain in their heart. The pain is always identical. An experience I had in rehab was spending a month detesting someone but then, after I heard their life story in group session, who they were made absolute sense. From then on, I was convinced that if I were anyone, I would be them. If I were Donald Trump, I would be Donald Trump. As Jean Genet said in his text on Rembrandt, every person has the same value as me."
It very much reminds one of this passage from Francisco Varela's Reflections on Chilean Civil War (and yes, Varela was a buddhist):
»But every political stance contains the elements on which the truth of the other is based, and that all we are doing is a little dance. Sure, I have to take this side, and that is cool, but how do I really embody in that action that I acknowledge the importance of the other side and the essential brotherhood between those two positions? How can I go to Pinochet and say, »Hello, my brother?« I don’t know. I don’t think that I am that enlightened at all. I wouldn’t be able to do that, but in some sense I realize that is a great limitation. That should be in some sense possible.«
Egoist woz ere ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIREcAu0PI
wow literally the first two people you mention in your writing on substack are trump and hitler and your take is that they are good
kids ..................