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His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Response to a Question about Refugees

One of the most useful concepts for understanding the Left is what Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa called "idiot compassion"

This is a brief post explaining what "idiot compassion" is and how it differs from real compassion

People want to be good, and want to be thought of by others as good.

These are not the same thing, and both can become entangled in deception and delusion.

One can fool others by projecting an image of one's own goodness while hiding one's true motives and character.


Worse, one can fool oneself. People convince themselves that they are good people, that their motives are pure, that their energy is positive and wholesome

But they compartmentalize and are blind to their own selfishness, often while accusing others of selfishness
Idiot compassion is born from this confluence of the desire to be seen as good with innate human selfishness & the desire to put one's own interests first

In order to understand how idiot compassion is the ape of true compassion, we must first understand what real compassion is
Authentic compassion is being with the suffering of others and, where possible, alleviating it through skillful means. Like a medical procedure, the healing may at first be painful and make the person feel even worse

But goodness is measured by the end result
For example, for a drug addict to get better, they will need to quit using drugs. The initial withdrawal will be painful and miserable. The addict may kick and scream and blame you for depriving him of what he thinks he needs. But wisdom understands that he is delusional
Authentic compassion is not invested in what the delusional addict thinks of you, what names he calls you, what he tells other people about how bad you are for not giving him drugs. Authentic compassion is only invested in his actual well-being

But idiot compassion is concerned with surface and appearance. It is a superficial understanding of compassion which falsely equates it with being "nice."

It isn't nice to tell a crackhead that he's harming himself and those around him. It isn't nice to say obesity is unhealthy
Many things are not nice to say but are nonetheless true, and moreover are necessary to confront.

Idiot compassion always prefers niceness and avoidance of conflict, even when it makes things worse by delaying and allowing problems to grow
Idiot compassion allows people--idiots--to feel good about themselves, to think they are kind and helpful, when in reality they are not, they are selfish and cowardly because they don't want to face reality and don't want to deal with difficult problems
Idiot compassion denies reality in favor of a temporarily comfortable lie. It wants consensus on this false reality, lashing out angrily at whoever points out the true nature of things
The biggest delusion of leftists and shitlibs is not their wrong ideas about society or economics, but rather their wrong ideas about themselves.
They are deeply invested in believing that they are the good people, the kind ones, the open-minded

And their lack of awareness--most of all self-awareness--allows them to persist in this delusion while perpetuating and enabling all manner of closed-mindedness, cruelty, and evil

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Conservationists who cull grey squirrels to protect reds reveal they are often accused of being ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic’

‘We also get called xenophobic, because we are promoting a native species, so it’s all about British stuff.’

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Awesome way to hang up a jar or any type of container.