In Nature
Watching some nature documentaries by David Attenborough an
observer can notice that sentimentality does not exist in nature amongst the animals,
plants and even the elements. What rather exists is survival of the fittest.
A big black ugly python finds the den of a mother leopard and
strangles and swallows her cute, defenceless cub while she is away hunting for
food. A victorious male lion prancing through his new pride rushes at the young
male cubs, who approach him with enthusiasm as if to play, and for that they
receive death by a crushing and unrelenting bite to the neck.
Then you see buffalo gathering together to fend off
attacking lions.
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| Don't think this lion was being nice, it followed through with its killer instincts. |
Then you see a mother elephant rescuing her young calf from
the mud while the others in the herd help and standby lending their
support. Is this sentimentalism?
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| Up you go baby jumbo! |
In Human Life
Does sentimentalism exist among humans? Of course it does,
but does it exist only because it is a creation of the human mind or does it
exist in life, on the earth all by itself?
I honestly think that because sentimentalism is subjective
it does not have a true absolute existence by itself. It has a relative one. That
is, it depends upon the mind to exist, but not just any mind, a mind trapped within
relativity and duality.
What Then Really Exists?
Love, but conscious love! The real compassion exists also,
such as the compassion in the compassionate heart of the Buddhas and their bodhisattvas.
The compassion of Avalokiteshvara, Guanyin etc.
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| Avalokiteshvara with a 'thousand' arms to help. |
What is Conscious Love?
I don’t know! I can’t write anything about it, except that
it is discovered in the moment, processed in the moment and yields the intended
result.
End (1245).
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