Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Calling of Transformative Knowledge
- Part I Nurturing the Garden of Transformational Knowledge: Roots and Variants
- Part II Rethinking Knowledge
- 6 Some Recent Reconsiderations of Rationality
- 7 Contemporary Challenges to the Idea of History
- 8 Rule of Law and the Calling of Dharma: Colonial Encounters, Post-colonial Experiments and Beyond
- 9 Compassion and Confrontation: Dialogic Experiments with Traditions and Pathways to New Futures
- 10 Rethinking Pluralism and Rights: Meditative Verbs of Co-realizations and the Challenges of Transformations
- 11 The Calling of a New Critical Theory: Self-Development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations
- Part III Aspirations and Struggles for Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations
- Afterword
- Advance Praise
9 - Compassion and Confrontation: Dialogic Experiments with Traditions and Pathways to New Futures
from Part II - Rethinking Knowledge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Calling of Transformative Knowledge
- Part I Nurturing the Garden of Transformational Knowledge: Roots and Variants
- Part II Rethinking Knowledge
- 6 Some Recent Reconsiderations of Rationality
- 7 Contemporary Challenges to the Idea of History
- 8 Rule of Law and the Calling of Dharma: Colonial Encounters, Post-colonial Experiments and Beyond
- 9 Compassion and Confrontation: Dialogic Experiments with Traditions and Pathways to New Futures
- 10 Rethinking Pluralism and Rights: Meditative Verbs of Co-realizations and the Challenges of Transformations
- 11 The Calling of a New Critical Theory: Self-Development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations
- Part III Aspirations and Struggles for Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations
- Afterword
- Advance Praise
Summary
Introduction and Invitation
Compassion is a key theme and foundation of life in paths of Buddha. It means to share in the suffering and joy of others. According to the Dalai Lama, this is the foundation of Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism. Compassion heals and makes new ways of human development and social transformations possible. But compassion needs to be accompanied by confrontation: the courage to confront those parts of self and society which do not help us to blossom and realize our potential. In my recent visit to China and Tibet (July–August 2009) I saw images of Buddha as well as the Goddess Tara with swords in their hands. This is an example of compassion being accompanied by confrontation. The present chapter discusses compassionate confrontation as an important part of experiment with traditions in Buddhism and explores the contribution of Kashmir, especially the traditions of Kashmir Saivism, on Buddhism in realizing paths of compassionate confrontation.
Dynamic Harmony and Dynamic Sunyata and Pathways of Compassionate Confrontation
Compassion and confrontation are meditative verbs of co-realizations. It is compassion that enables us to confront even our friends, not only our enemies, giving rise to emergent pathways of compassionate confrontation. Compassionate confrontation is pulsated by the simultaneous flows of dynamic harmony and dynamic sunyata, or dynamic emptiness.
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- Knowledge and Human LiberationTowards Planetary Realizations, pp. 165 - 170Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013