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The emphasis on Compassion may derive from the realization that all separate entities, as living organism and inanimate objects, are various elements of a single unified whole, and thus there should exist no antagonism between the individual and any aspect of reality. The individual as another of the multitude of aspects of the natural world, can consider themselves as perhaps not all that different from any other, and may be able to empathize with other attributes of that same whole.
The absence of Compassion and the existence of the many vices of humankind, that bring misery such as greed, warfare, racism, religious
strife and villainy of every sort, may be attributed to what the Buddhists
call Duality. The concept of Duality
may be comparable to the bipolar dichotomies contained in the perspective of
Progressive Materialism. These dichotomies arise from antagonisms that are inherent in the
Antithetical Oppositions that derives from the adoption of
Excess and Profit, and the perspectives of progression, in which any or all of the negative rationales and emotions may be employed as contributing rationales, for the drive to progressive superiority. Buddhist teachings emphasize the transcendence of Duality that reflects the realization of the single unified whole, a lifestyle that promotes a simple existence and reflects the a perspective of the equality of all in terms of the whole.
Another major characteristic of Buddhism are the concepts of the Ego and Attachment. The ego is considered to be one of the major impediments to the obtainment of Enlightenment. Ego can be described as the personality of the individual that results from the personal experience of living.
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