Is kindness weakness?
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Yes and No.
Consider a situation, for instance. We all know Gautam Siddharth, Buddha. He had everything: wealth, status, power, everything. He was a prince afterall. He married a beautiful princess and had a son with her named Rahul. Yet he gave up everything in search for truth.
Similarly, consider a case of a beggar. He moves from one place to another. He has nothing to begin with and he lives like Buddha as well.
So who is great? One can say both are equal but that's not true. Why? It's because what Buddha did was true renunciation. To have everything this material world can offer for pleasure and still to throw it all away, that takes will and self restrain. For someone who never has experienced the pleasures of this world, how can he say that he has thrown away everything at all? In reality he is in illusion, and have low self restrain and will for he had chosen the path of abandoning this world when he never submerged in it, in the first place.
Kindness too is like this. If you don't have the strength to actually resist the evil and only hiding your cowardice in the mask of kindness, then that's weakness. But if you are strong, and then showing kindness to your enemy then that's the greatest strength of your character. That's what Krishna said is Gita.
Consider a situation, for instance. We all know Gautam Siddharth, Buddha. He had everything: wealth, status, power, everything. He was a prince afterall. He married a beautiful princess and had a son with her named Rahul. Yet he gave up everything in search for truth.
Similarly, consider a case of a beggar. He moves from one place to another. He has nothing to begin with and he lives like Buddha as well.
So who is great? One can say both are equal but that's not true. Why? It's because what Buddha did was true renunciation. To have everything this material world can offer for pleasure and still to throw it all away, that takes will and self restrain. For someone who never has experienced the pleasures of this world, how can he say that he has thrown away everything at all? In reality he is in illusion, and have low self restrain and will for he had chosen the path of abandoning this world when he never submerged in it, in the first place.
Kindness too is like this. If you don't have the strength to actually resist the evil and only hiding your cowardice in the mask of kindness, then that's weakness. But if you are strong, and then showing kindness to your enemy then that's the greatest strength of your character. That's what Krishna said is Gita.
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Definitely not. People who have kindness in their hearts are stronger than those who don't. For instance, there's a fight. Person A swore at Person B. But if Person B was kind and forgave, it would make him the stronger person. Also, it would shame Person A.