Is Compassion a Delusion?

[Lifelover88]

How do u differentiate "compassion" from a form of self deluding? Is the pain you're feeling of another person something you're actually seeing in the other person or are you just making it up when it's not really there in them? Compassion not only seems arbitrary for survival, but if other sentient beings don't exist, the pain you are feeling for them isn't actually there in that person. Should we have compassion?

[Thought Art]

@Lifelover88 Worth contemplating in detail. 
 

Though, for humans compassion is essential for survival. Without compassion life turns into a shit hole pretty fast. 
 

If you are good… and want to be good.. it doesn’t matter if others are “real”. 
 

Compassion, when done with love, wisdom, and maturity is very intrinsically rewarding. 
 

If, being selfless, wise and loving is the key to the Good Life… then… do that. 
 

But is it the key to a good life? Well, only through living and experimenting can it be known. 
 

Why wouldn’t you want to be compassionate? Why would you want to be a selfish jerk to others?

The beauty of loving self and other is it’s own reward.

Edited October 13, 2023 by Thought Art

[Razard86]

1 hour ago, Lifelover88 said:

How do u differentiate "compassion" from a form of self deluding? Is the pain you're feeling of another person something you're actually seeing in the other person or are you just making it up when it's not really there in them? Compassion not only seems arbitrary for survival, but if other sentient beings don't exist, the pain you are feeling for them isn't actually there in that person. Should we have compassion?

You need to study human history more. A lack of compassion is a sign of a limited intelligence that has not matured to see the bigger picture.

1 minute ago, Thought Art said:

@Lifelover88 Worth contemplating in detail. 
 

Though, for humans compassion is essential for survival. Without compassion life turns into a shit hole pretty fast. 
 

If you are good… and want to be good.. it doesn’t matter if others are “real”. 
 

Compassion, when done with love, wisdom, and maturity is very intrinsically rewarding. 

As Thought Art said, compassion is necessary for survival. Without compassion Laws wouldn't exist, Constitutions wouldn't exist, social programs wouldn't exist, education wouldn't exist, basically society is a symbol of compassion. Sure its flawed but it cannot even be constructed and defended without compassion.

If a society ever loses its compassion it will devolve into a civil war, and fall into a world of survival kill and be killed. A sign of growing compassion is when the bare necessities are not as hard to acquire as before. Food, water, shelter, are a lot easier to acquire than in times past. This is because of compassion.

[Inliytened1]

1 hour ago, Lifelover88 said:

How do u differentiate "compassion" from a form of self deluding? Is the pain you're feeling of another person something you're actually seeing in the other person or are you just making it up when it's not really there in them? Compassion not only seems arbitrary for survival, but if other sentient beings don't exist, the pain you are feeling for them isn't actually there in that person. Should we have compassion?

Compassion is really about yourself.  How selfless and loving are you,  it was never about other people, it was about you. That should answer the question of delusion.   It doesn't matter whether others are having an experience or not.  But on that note -  If you imagine they are then they are.  Imagination IS reality. 

Edited October 14, 2023 by Inliytened1

[AerisVahnEphelia]

A school of fish just band out of compassion.

 

[Hojo]

@Lifelover88 i saw that the world is empty meaning if you are sitting on a couch with your girlfriend you really love and you are cuddling and feeling loving all of it is created by you. The feeling of closeness the sharing of love. The warm and comfyness you two are sharing is all completely constructed by you. There are no feeling outside of you its void of everything. 1 cm outside your skull is a void of nothing and no feeling. You can never be with someone you are only with yourself. Not only that but everything you think your girlfriend is feeling  and thinking you are creating. 

If you kiss someone and feel a spark you are creating the spark and you are creating the love for yourself.

Therefore I think it is only delusional if you are doing it for anyone else but yourself.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Hojo

[An young being]

4 hours ago, Thought Art said:

@Lifelover88 for humans compassion is essential for survival. Without compassion life turns into a shit hole pretty fast. 

 

Compassion is in fact a product of survival. Many animals exhibit compassion as well. But why compassion is called a spiritual quality is because this tool called compassion can be used to expand your ego as much as you want. Your higher consciousness or sixth sense or the 'glitch' in evolution allows it to be possible. A deer can't love a lion, especially when it is being attacked but a human can certainly love them. A human can love another human even when he is getting stabbed by a person completely unknown to him. That's how compassion becomes a godly character, although many have to start from what evolution or genetics has given us.