{"id":167,"date":"2019-02-28T20:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:22:13","slug":"geometric-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/geometric-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometric Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How to stop hunger? How to stop\nwars; stop people from killing each other, and other beings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to ask people, who are\ncapable of self-development, to develop themselves? Such that those, who are\ncapable of being cool and hard-working, indeed will work hard and develop\nthemselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to ask people, let\u2019s say most\nof them, to be honest; up to the extent that it is possible for them to be\nhonest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, that it is possible to\nhelp 100 people to start following the path and be enlightened. Then, if each\nof them tries to help 10 other people, and two of their students start\nfollowing the path in a serious way, we will receive 200 people in the next\ngeneration who follow the path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the rule of the\ngeometric progression, if that happens well enough, in 25 generations there\nwill be more than six billion human beings who follow the path. Now, 25\ngenerations are, let us say, 25 times by 30 years, thus 750 years. Not that\nmuch time, from the Universe\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does it not happen though?\nAre we so weak as to not keep such a geometric progression in place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to notice, \u201cpath\u201d above is\nnot necessarily the Buddhist path. It is the Path, including the Buddhist path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is not the solution, for\nenlightenment and happiness, to be sexy, work hard and develop yourself\nspiritually?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somebody who meditates, thinks,\nanalyses, aims for the compassion of others, works hard, aims to have a solid\nand strong personality\u2026 Is not this the solution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is not the solution to continue\nbeing sexy, honest, hard working and meditating, no matter what (without harm\nto others)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us keep moving and\nmeditating. And aim, of course, for compassion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to stop hunger? How to stop wars; stop people from killing each other, and other beings? How&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mindfulness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}