/lit/ - Literature

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>Compassion is being ashamed at your [mind's] overreaction to your own suffering.
Though the word "ashamed" kind of strikes me as too much, there's certainly something like that happening. Shame is a reaction to impropriety. One can be improper in quantity or quality. Impropriety strikes people because something is outside of the norm, is not in tune with the situation, does not "fit". It might be that the situation is purely in people's heads, but this is beside the point.

Now, when one puts a square object in a square hole, both the object and the hole "disappear", one fills the other, though they don't stop being there. This is why, to me, it seems better to talk about truth as non-falsehood than falsehood as non-truth.

Now if I talk about oneself and another, the analogy of the two squares still holds up. I cannot be myself without the other and vice-versa; as an alienated self I am incomplete, but, to begin with, the alienation is illusory because there is no complete alienated self -- the mistake is not in seeing that the self is incomplete but in looking for one that isn't. But the fact that this relation is inevitable is what makes it so there is no commandment for me to give myself to the other. And when there's no commandment I can give myself freely, spontaneously, not as an expression of a dialectic with a past, future or parallel self, nor as retribution or correction, there's no mediation that comes to fill the space between the two, one is not other to the other, nor identifies with one's self.

One might say then, that a problem might arise if such action were not to occur. However, if I'm correct, it is already the case that one exists for the other. If one were to look for the resolution to live for the other, one would not find it whether looking in or out -- the act of looking is already not having it, and it's in the end like trying to grasp air. "Beating a drum in search of a fugitive", is what they call it, because your mind will look for anything that it can grasp on to, it will do anything to run away from you, will use any names or resources it can to hide. So what you can do is trust yourself, because nobody can do it in your place.