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From Bodhicitta
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When your own virtues are being praised, you wish that others may rejoice in them with you. Yet, when the virtues of another are being praised you do not wish joy even for yourself. +
Therefore, I will destroy this enemy’s nourishment, since +
If you have given rise to the thought of awakening, by wishing happiness for all sentient beings, how can you now become irritated when sentient beings obtain happiness on their own? +
You claim that you seek for living beings the state of a buddha, which assures them of the veneration of the three world spheres. Then, how can you burn with envy on seeing that they receive insignificant honors? +
The person who nourishes those that you are supposed to support is in fact giving only to you. Why do you resent and not enjoy the sustenance your family has received? +
He who wants awakening for all sentient beings—what will he not want for them? How could the thought of awakening ever occur to one who resents the success of others? +
If someone else does not receive the offering you wanted for yourself, it remains in the donor's house. It will not be yours anyway. What does it matter to you whether it is given or not? +
Should the recipient hinder the transference of merit, the act of virtue in the faithful donor, and his own virtue? Should he not accept, though he receives? Tell me, what would not make you angry? +
Not only do you fail to regret the evil you yourself have done, you want to compete with others who have done good. +
If some calamity came upon your enemy, what in it would give you satisfaction? What has no cause for its occurrence will not occur merely because you desire it. +
On the other hand, if you could succeed in causing him ill merely by desiring it, why should there be joy in you when there is suffering in him? Even if there is some gain for you in his unhappiness, the resulting loss will be much greater. +
For this apparent gain is the terrible fishing hook of the fishermen, the afflictions. From their hooks the guardians of hell will purchase you to cook you in their pots. +
the most unpleasant event will not perturb my satisfaction. In discontent I do not find the object of my desires, rather it makes me neglect meritorious action. +
Praise, fame, honors will not give me merit or long life, strength, health, or bodily comforts. +
But the latter are the goods desired by a sage who knows what is of benefit. One who seeks only temporary pleasures, on the other hand, can dedicate himself to drinking, gambling, etc. +
Some will even throw away their fortunes and sacrifice their lives for the sake of fame. But can one eat the syllables in words of praise? Can one enjoy glory after death? +
Like a child crying in pain when his sand castle is destroyed, my mind weeps when it has lost praise and glory. +
This praise is nothing more than a sound. It has no thought of its own, therefore it cannot praise me. The only cause for my joy is the idea that someone else is happy for me. +
What does it matter to me, then, whether someone else’s rejoicing arises with respect to me or with respect to another? This joy and happiness belong only to this person. I do not share even a small part of it. +
If happiness in me is due to his being happy, then I should have the same happiness whenever another is happy. Why is it then that when someone finds joy in the happiness of others I find no happiness myself? +
