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Dharma Quote of the Week
Boundless joy is the joy you should feel when you see gifted and learned beings who are happy, famous or influential. Instead of feeling uneasy and envious of their good fortune, rejoice sincerely, thinking, "May they continue to be happy and enjoy even more happiness!" Pray too that they may use their wealth and power to help others, to serve the Dharma and the Sangha, making offerings, building monasteries, propagating the teachings and performing other worthwhile deeds. Rejoice and make a wish: "May they never lost all their happiness and privileges. May their happiness increase more and more, and may they use it to benefit others and to further the teachings."
Pray that your mind may be filled with boundless equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion and joy--as boundless as a Bodhisattva's. If you do so, genuine bodhichitta will certainly grow within you.
The reason these four qualities are boundless, or immeasurable, is that their object--the totality of sentient beings--is boundless; their benefit--the welfare of all beings--is boundless; and also their fruit--the qualities of enlightenment--is boundless. They are immeasurable like the sky, and they are the true root of enlightenment.(p.49)
--from The Excellent Path to Enlightenment, by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, translated and edited by The Padmakara Translation Group, published by Snow Lion Publications
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