garudha wrote:Check your list. Compassion is not on your list. You're trying to slander me and the mistake is on you. Sorry.
I'm saying that Compassion if not a concept but I consider your list to be a list of concepts.
Seems like you're trying to twist what I'm saying.
Compassion is inherent to the "skillful states" in the following 2 items:
Exertion for the arising of skillful states
Exertion for the sustaining and increasing of arisen skillful states
Compassion is also integral for Right Action, which was on the list and is also part of the 8 Fold Path:
The Buddha wrote:And how is one made pure in three ways by bodily action? There is the case where a certain person, abandoning the taking of life, abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his... knife laid down, scrupulous, merciful, compassionate for the welfare of all living beings. Abandoning the taking of what is not given, he abstains from taking what is not given. He does not take, in the manner of a thief, things in a village or a wilderness that belong to others and have not been given by them. Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get sexually involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with flowers by another man. This is how one is made pure in three ways by bodily action.
In fact, it's part and parcel of much of the 8 Fold Path - for example, it's very closely related to the "harmlessness" listed in Right Resolve (Intention).
The Buddha wrote:And what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill-will, on harmlessness: This is called right resolve.
EDIT just to show the connection with "harmlessness"
Vipassana.com on Right Intention wrote:The Intention of Harmlessness
The intention of harmlessness is thought guided by compassion (karuna), aroused in opposition to cruel, aggressive, and violent thoughts. Compassion supplies the complement to lovingkindness. Whereas lovingkindness has the characteristic of wishing for the happiness and welfare of others, compassion has the characteristic of wishing that others be free from suffering, a wish to be extended without limits to all living beings. Like metta, compassion arises by entering into the subjectivity of others, by sharing their interiority in a deep and total way. It springs up by considering that all beings, like ourselves, wish to be free from suffering, yet despite their wishes continue to be harassed by pain, fear, sorrow, and other forms of dukkha.
Many of the other bullets in the list are not significantly different from compassion in the sense that they are qualities that manifest through action and not concepts to be considered or rules to follow:
Equanimity
Tranquility
Mindfulness
Energy
Joy
EDIT: I'm not sure what mistake I'm being accused of making. I think the quotes speak for themselves.