An idea from The Way of the Bodhisattva

There’s a harder exercise. Picture yourself through the eyes of someone poorer, then an equal, then someone above you. Feel their envy, rivalry, and scorn aimed at you. You see from the inside how your own pride looks to them.

From The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

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