What motivates us to end suffering for all beings?
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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · People & Blogs
A question for Gary (inmendham): Rationality alone (ie, the thinking ego) leads to nothing but thoughts about thoughts. In order to act, we need the will (I am not asserting a free will in the strong sense by referring to the faculty of will, just to that part of the mind opposite the part that thinks: the part that acts). So what is the nature of the emotion or disposition that leads to such a selfless act as attempting to end suffering for all beings?
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