PHIL 3910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nice Guy, Upanishads
3 Oct 2018
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He returns to his father without anger, and learns about death. #21 yama replies subtle is this matter, gives us this one but he refuses. He is testing him and his attachments, if nciketa said yes, it would show he didn"t perform the necessary sacrifice. The first request is for compassion (it"s more difficult, he"s not being offered anything, he"s just asking for compassion. An enabler allows you to do things that are bad for you. Death is trying to see if nciketa will be an enabler to him. We lust for things that aren"t good for those because we don"t want to be the bad guy. If compassion takes the form of empathy your attached to not being true, and to being the nice guy . Being the nice guy is not always the way to go. There are times when you should be selfish because this is more important.
