Your pain is hard to bear because you call it yours. Someone else’s pain is just as much pain. Pain has no owner, so there is no line to draw between yours and theirs. Remove it wherever it is.
From The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva
Your pain is hard to bear because you call it yours. Someone else’s pain is just as much pain. Pain has no owner, so there is no line to draw between yours and theirs. Remove it wherever it is.
From The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva
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