We were waiting for a taxi, and it took some time to get one. The thought came while we were waiting that it’s good to practice rejoicing when the taxi comes and other people get inside. It’s good to practice rejoicing that the person received happiness, what they need. This is an excellent practice, and helps the negative emotional mind, anger, and being upset not to arise. You keep the mind in virtue and Dharma because you are sincerely wishing happiness for others. This is very pure Dharma and also keeps your mind in a state of happiness. Wishing happiness for others opens the door of all happiness, whether wishing happiness for an insect, a person, or many people.

In the Lama Chöpa it says, "The mind that cherishes all mother beings and would secure them in bliss is the gateway leading to infinite virtue." This is from the Buddha's Mahayana teachings. This means it becomes a cause for enlightenment. If you want to be, like His Holiness says, intelligently selfish, rejoice. The common result of rejoicing in this way just once, in this life and hundreds of thousands of future lives, is you have no difficulty finding a taxi, you immediately find a vehicle when you are traveling. It could be difficult for other people, but for you it is easy. It creates the karma for that. Your rejoicing does something good, such as this practice of thinking of the karmic result, which is happiness for yourself. This is called being intelligently selfish, because at least from this you get the karmic result of happiness in a future life, at least it becomes Dharma and virtue.