"Most of us find it is easy to feel kindly toward the defenseless, but not toward those who intentionally cause harm. Yet these people need our compassion. The Buddha taught that, because each of us experiences the consequences of our own acts, those who behave with cruelty and malice will reap the greatest misery and pain....
[C]onsider what it would take to go into the hells of this world and give all to shoe in seemingly inescapable pain."
--from No Time to Lose
She goes on to say that until we use the mud of our lives--our attachments, our judgments--to grow a lotus flower, our aspiration to help others will be sorely tested in the hells of this world.
[C]onsider what it would take to go into the hells of this world and give all to shoe in seemingly inescapable pain."
--from No Time to Lose
She goes on to say that until we use the mud of our lives--our attachments, our judgments--to grow a lotus flower, our aspiration to help others will be sorely tested in the hells of this world.
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