10. Stephen Jenkins | Understanding the Role of Compassion in Buddhism
The Buddhist Studies Podcast
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The Importance of Compassion in Buddhism
The attitude towards the world as illusory is really very different in Buddhism. When you wake into an illusion, it's like waking into a dream and being an elusive dream versus waking up from a dream and the dream disappears. So there's a fundamental difference between waking into an illusion which you can still be engaged with and be at play with but not be overcome by. If the world is but a dream or like a dream, it's always important that Sanskrit word iva,. You know, you very often hear people say that the world is just a dream. It is like a dream in Buddhism. It's the only dream we've got. And its presentation is our very lives.
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