Timeline for are mundane acts of compassion meaningful?
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| Jun 19, 2018 at 11:20 | comment | added | user13135 | @dhamma4life yes its required to define what constitute 'mundane'. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 9:17 | comment | added | user13383 | @BodhiWalker: Does Buddha make difference anywhere? No acts are meaningless, its as if you claimed that volition of and kammic outcome is meaningless. I don't know, maybe we should better define what exactly "mundane" means in this context as well. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 3:29 | comment | added | user13135 | @dhamma4life the word is 'mundane acts' , that changes the vantage point. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 3:26 | comment | added | user13135 | @ruben2020 [3/3] He has asked, is it 'meaningful' not 'useful'. If he would have asked useful, then may be its useful, but the term meaningful changes the gist of the question given the context here is Buddhist where the supreme goal is to eradicate the suffering through Nibbana. Our time here in one life limited. Nibbana is not mundane. Mundane acts are meaningless. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 3:25 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @BodhiWalker If relevant and supporting your answer, you can put your explanation directly into your answer, instead of having it in comments. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 3:23 | comment | added | user13135 | @ruben2020 [2/3] If you indulge in mundane acts, the merit acquired will not be as such of any huge value. It will on the other hand bloster your ego of doing something for someone. This is where I see the Hindoos around me stuck into, they build temples, donate to priests and make offerings all inorder to acquire merit to gain higher birth which will get them Moksha (a hindoo version of Nibbana). It takes them nowhere. You have to understand the emphasis here is on the word 'Mundane'. On the bigger context of atainment of Nibbana, mundane is useless. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 3:16 | comment | added | user13135 | @ruben2020 [1/3] I know of the Buddha's insistence on 'Dana' and overall Buddhist approach towards Compassion. You misunderstood my answer, I am not advocating becoming 'neutral' or 'inaction', I am taking the context of the question into consideration. The questioner has quoted the Tulku, that is where the question might have been aroused in his mind. I will consider a 'mundane' act of compassion as unspiritual, and hence siding by the Tulku, 'a total waste'. Of course there will be a confusion here unless we define and agree upon 'what is a 'mundane act''. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 18:55 | comment | added | user13383 | To Buddha it was absolutely critical to do good and avoid evil as selflessness crushes Self. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | Doing good or bad things brings good or bad results, and perpetuates samsara, so stop doing anything new that is not neutral and hasten the burning up of all previous karma - this is the Jain view that was refuted by the Buddha in MN 101. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 17:01 | history | answered | user13135 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |