How are we supposed to view sentient beings? A confused conglomerate of aggregates? An amorphous hungry blob?

Don’t we say that there are fundamentally no sentient beings? Is it correct to be compassionate to an illusion? Or are we supposed to have compassion for emptiness as a whole? Please advise.

  • waterore@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    They are a “conglomerate of aggregates”, they are transient, they are dhukka, they are not self, yet they are at the same time, beings worthy of love, respect, consideration and compassion. Come to realize the former and treat with them with the latter. Imo.