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These advices show us how we need to see self-cherishing
as the enemy. Everything we do should go toward defeating
this inner enemy, and reducing our self-cherishing.
This gives space for bodhicitta to grow, and we change
our attitude in life from cherishing the “I” to
cherishing others.
Instead of jealousy and clinging with attachment to
what we desire, Rinpoche emphasizes how we need to
learn how to rejoice in others’ happiness. When
we enjoy our life, and our mind is happy, we have so
much space in our mind to think of others, to cherish
and love them.
In this section, Rinpoche
also looks at how to turn depression around by switching
our focus from self to others and how to benefit others.
He shows how we can use depression as a meditation
to develop renunciation of worldly life, bodhicitta,
and the right way of viewing things. This way, we use
our depression to be totally free of it forever and
it becomes the best Dharma practice, and the best way
of healing ourselves.
Rinpoche points out how it is very
good to have aversion to anger, helping us to free
ourselves from samsara and reach enlightenment quickly.
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