10. Stephen Jenkins | Understanding the Role of Compassion in Buddhism
The Buddhist Studies Podcast
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The Pizza Effect and the Importance of Compassion in Buddhism
In Buddhism, you cannot become selfless because you don't have a self in the first place. The achievement of realizing no self is related to it undermines attachment and takes away a lot of negative factors. And this is very explicit in Buddhist tradition as a type of error that can be made. It's really important to remember that the vast majority of Buddhists were never meditators or philosophers.
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