If Nondualists Are Compassionate, Why Aren They Involved In Correcting Social Evils?
Actually, some of them are. But Nondualists are just like other people; not all of them are inclined to be involved in social or political causes. Whether they are or not is largely a question of temperament, personality and conditioning. There’s nothing in the nature of Nondualistic understanding which either motivates activism or suppresses it. Moreover, Nondualists from the West have usually pursued their understanding through individual motivation divorced from the social and moral community contexts usually found in the East, such as in the Buddhist tradition. As a result, many Western Nondualists tend to remain aloof from the social evils surrounding them, often under the dubious explanation that it’s all relative or unreal anyway. Occasionally, students of Nonduality will naively argue that actions taken to correct any form of social evil are pointless, because the correction is never permanent and the evil will just return in one form or another. But that claim is as silly as s
