The Heart Centric Perspective on Veganism

[Fleetinglife]

On 9/3/2021 at 4:54 PM, Scholar said:

I think you are limiting yourself by holding onto an egoistic-altruism framework and choosing this one contracted lense to analyse human behaviour and the world. While this framework can be useful, it is also only one side of the coin. But more importantly it is merely a model, a model that if you engage with it by looking at it as if it were true, will shape your being and how your interact with the world.

 

See, if you engage in compassion with an attitude that it will serve yourself, you will never have true compassion, you will never have a true concern for the other. Your concern will, in practice, be fuel by your own selfishness. And while you will be simulating compassion and using the parts of your mind that generate genuine compassion, you will always remain and act from a particular sector of the mind.

See, fake compassion, or self-motivated compassion, is fundamentally not the same as true compassion, true Love. It will seem the same on the surface, but it will actually play out differently in practice. Because what if you do not benefit from not torturing babies? What if you benefit greatly from it? What would you do then?

Would you be able to sacrifice yourself on the cross and have the capacity to forgive those who are torturing and killing you, if all of your compassion was fundamentally of a self-serving nature, and that the way you have understood self-sacrifice was through a lense of selfishness?

 

What you propose might be a first stepping stone for an undeveloped mind, but it will not be enough for you to truly change, or for society to truly evolve. What it takes is grounding your values in not your own self-desires and benefit, but actually beginning to recognize the nature of your true self. That your desires are serving not your contracted self, but rather that they are an extention of the greater collective. That fundamentally, you are not doing everything to serve yourself, that this is only what it seemed like. That infact, you are the one who is subservient to desire. That desire is not yours, but rather that it is impartial, serving a greater need outside of yourself.

That you never were motivated to self-serve, but that you have always been motivated to serve the desires to which you are a slave. That from the beginning it was the other way around. That you did not use the world to serve you, that the world used you to serve itself, and that this is the genuine role of your being within this existence.

Okay, read and saved your post will think about it and contemplate on it more in my free time.