Tag: cherishing others

Being ‘Intelligently Selfish’ & Tonglen

“If you would like to be selfish, you should do it in a very intelligent way. The stupid way to be selfish is … seeking happiness for ourselves alone. … the intelligent way to be selfish is to work for the welfare of others.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Six Paramitas – Generosity

Notes & Transcript Automatic Generated Transcript (may not be accurate) These Six Paramitas, as I probably mentioned there, often translated as the six perfections. But the meaning of the Sanskrit term paramita doesn’t mean to perfect really. It means to transcend that. And so you can’t really perfect giving, can you? Because what would that […]

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