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Just as fire is naturally hot, the afflictions are naturally destructive to our lives. From them alone spring all the sorrows of this life and all future lives in samsara. And yet the basic reason for all these ills is the fact that we do not fear samsara. | Just as fire is naturally hot, the afflictions are naturally destructive to our lives. From them alone spring all the sorrows of this life and all future lives in samsara. And yet the basic reason for all these ills is the fact that we do not fear samsara. | ||
Elaborating on samsara and bodhisattvas' relationship to samsara, Khenpo Kunpal [LINK to text p.198] states | Elaborating on samsara and bodhisattvas' relationship to samsara, Khenpo Kunpal [LINK to text p.198] states that | ||
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|quote-text= | |quote-text=it is like a ditch of fire or a den of venomous snakes and is suffering by its very nature. On the contrary, we take pleasure in it. There lies the blame. How can we enjoy and be attached to samsaric things? It is completely senseless. | ||
Although they have no desire for the sufferings of samsara, Bodhisattvas take birth there and strive for the welfare of beings. This is because they are moved by compassion. It is not that they take pleasure in samsara, for if they did, they would want beings to stay there and not be liberated. But this is not the case. It is said that the Bodhisattvas themselves cannot stand the unbearable sorrows of beings in samsara. They therefore make little of their own suffering and remain in samsara for the sake of others.<ref>Fletcher and Blankleder, ''Nectar of Manjushri's Speech'', 157.</ref> | Although they have no desire for the sufferings of samsara, Bodhisattvas take birth there and strive for the welfare of beings. This is because they are moved by compassion. It is not that they take pleasure in samsara, for if they did, they would want beings to stay there and not be liberated. But this is not the case. It is said that the Bodhisattvas themselves cannot stand the unbearable sorrows of beings in samsara. They therefore make little of their own suffering and remain in samsara for the sake of others.<ref>Fletcher and Blankleder, ''Nectar of Manjushri's Speech'', 157.</ref> | ||
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