Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The desire for liberation

The tendency to wish for the misery of another is the root of your own misery.
Sometimes, we are willing to be miserable ourselves if only it would ensure that another remains in misery.

To wish well for another is the most difficult task for the mind.
To desire liberation for another is so repulsive to the mind that it would accept its own bondage rather than desire liberation for another.

To keep others in ignorance is the desire for power, which bounds the mind thus.
The only cure is to desire the welfare and liberation of all beings. No other cure is possible.
No action is of any use without the intention to liberate all beings, no matter how good or evil.

Your only choice is how long you are willing to wait to accept this truth.

That to desire liberation for others as much as you desire liberation for yourself is the only cure for your misery.

That this is the only worthy intention. To desire liberation for all beings is liberation itself.

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