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Metta destroys social anxiety. People generally don't have social anxiety around their friends. If you make all the strangers your friends, then where can the anxiety or fear come from? Among tigers,… (View Post)
Traditionally, a bodhisattva is anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. If you replace "… (View Post)
(Quote) I think it depends on whether or not you are using the term "we, I, me" as a conventional figure of speech or to mean "some substantial thing". It could be used either way… (View Post)
If you encounter a person starving of hunger and you give them some food and help them, so they don't suffer and die, this could be called a "virtuous action". How is this action motivated … (View Post)