Thank you for sharing your trip experience, it was an interesting read. Part of it is particularly interesting, I use ellipsis for brevity:
"They think that our existence is gross, nasty, horrifying, and full of suffering, ... This is definitely the insight I will have to spend more time processing."
My understanding of Guan Yin is that it is the pure expression of compassion. I wonder if these other tones are a product of the projection of aversion onto embodied existence. I feel like pure compassion would not discriminate, and rather it's our internal reactions to these varying experiences of being human that distort and interweave to create multilayered emotional experiences like what you perceived.
If we were to take each emotion as a wavelength, it's like we have an aggregate of aversion, pride, compassion, and conceit/condescension taken chronologically. It seems like the pride arises which produces conceit, of which aversion is a consequence when perceiving the embodied experience as somehow lesser. This then overlays into the pervading compassion that wants to come through, giving it a lens of condescension due to the inherent duality in the way it's being experienced. Could these be different layers of your relationship to being human, with compassion predominating since that seems to be the primary theme of the experience?
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Thank you for sharing your trip experience, it was an interesting read. Part of it is particularly interesting, I use ellipsis for brevity:
"They think that our existence is gross, nasty, horrifying, and full of suffering, ... This is definitely the insight I will have to spend more time processing."
My understanding of Guan Yin is that it is the pure expression of compassion. I wonder if these other tones are a product of the projection of aversion onto embodied existence. I feel like pure compassion would not discriminate, and rather it's our internal reactions to these varying experiences of being human that distort and interweave to create multilayered emotional experiences like what you perceived.
If we were to take each emotion as a wavelength, it's like we have an aggregate of aversion, pride, compassion, and conceit/condescension taken chronologically. It seems like the pride arises which produces conceit, of which aversion is a consequence when perceiving the embodied experience as somehow lesser. This then overlays into the pervading compassion that wants to come through, giving it a lens of condescension due to the inherent duality in the way it's being experienced. Could these be different layers of your relationship to being human, with compassion predominating since that seems to be the primary theme of the experience?