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Originally Posted by Megan  |
My heart still feels ok about it. Then again I didn't throughly engage with the article's contents. I still feel ok about it though. I could do more for those people with a laptop than without one and in the end, there is probably very little I can do for them (directly) unless I focus full attention on them (which I'm not going to because I'm focusing my attention where I deem it can do the most good for myself and my immediate loved ones).
Humans have primarily evolved to care about those within our tribe. The "compassion for all beings" thing seems disengenious at best. The unelightened spiritual wannbe cares about whatever they care about and pretends to care about all. Whereas Jedy claims to care about nothing. I care about what I care about and try to be honest about it. I care about people's suffering outside my sphere of influence but since I can't directly do anything about them I cut myself off from my emotion about them and focus it (my emotion) instead on things I can change in my everyday life. Seems practical.