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KINDNESS : NATURE AND STOPPAGE
Kindness is in the nature of the living being.
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Because kindness does not come about due to the rise of any karma.? Therefore, kindness is not a fruitional disposition. As kindness is not a fruitional disposition, it is not a cause for karmic bondage. Kindness is not a changeable or transient volitional disposition." Therefore, it is either destructional or subsidential or destructosubsidential volitional disposition. Part mercy is destructo-subsidential volitional disposition. It comes about due to part destruction of delusion.
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Kindness melts or moves the heart.
Melting or moving of the heart results in sensitivity.
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Sensitivity results in increase in consciousness. Increase in consciousness results in the destruction of inertia. Destruction of inertness results in breaking of delusory attachment. Mercy is related to the destruction of delusion, not to the rise of delusion.
Destruction of delusion results in reduction of impure volition.
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