Q11-19880716-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-questions_and_answers-1554 Leandra Tejedor (1)

Talk: 19880716-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-questions_and_answers-1554 Leandra Tejedor Start_time: 01:26:36 Display_question: I think it is important not to hold a dualistic view between myself and non-meditators etc. Keyword_search: Brooklyn, retreat, dualistic, meditators, delusion, greed, hatred, compassion, suffering, unpleasant, punishing, mirroring Question_content: Questioner: Well, there was a question about Brooklyn that came up earlier. And it strikes me that there is a subtle, or maybe not so subtle, occupational hazard of retreat type situation coming off it. And I think it's not so much that it's heavy duty out there, but the their becomes a sort of dualistic way of looking at it, it’s as if the people who are meat eaters, and non-meditators, and murderers, and everything else, are somehow, are of a different race. Larry: Right. Exactly. Questioner: And so the object, is to get through the day as purely as possible, and maintain one's own integrity, and blah, blah, blah, blah, but at the same time lose one's heart in terms of compassion, and seeing that, in fact these people with the degrees of delusion, and greed, and hatred, and everything else, are actually no different. They are not any different, as human beings, than anybody else. And if you maintain that kind of dualistic view, I feel that it's very, very harmful ultimately to practice… Larry: Do you feel that teaching is suggesting a dualistic view? Questioner: Absolutely not. Larry: Yeah. No, sure. More, and more, when people are unpleasant with us, you can see that the unpleasant is coming out of their own suffering, and there's less necessity to punish them for it, but to behave in some way, that takes into account that the person is doing that of their… Questioner: When they do that, there is a mirroring effect, and there is a relieving of suffering right then and there, on some level, there is not just absorbing it Larry: Exactly. Yes. End_time: 01:28:29