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The Difference Between Real Compassion and Idiot Compassionism
When you were an early teen, your dad decided that every summer i should engage in some type of academic act. He felt so strongly about this that he was willing to put up with my fetchingomatit and not wanting to do it. The buddhists talk about the difference between true compassion and idiot compassion. Wise compassionism is helping them to do things that are hard in the moment, even if they don't want to do it. And because my dad had that wise compassion at the time, as was willing to putting up with my yarguing, it led to something that i'm much more grateful for in the future....