Rather than Keep Saying “I Vow to Liberate All Beings” Incessantly, It’s Better to Empathize with an Enemy’s Pain

Rather than Keep Saying “I Vow to Liberate All Beings” Incessantly, It’s Better to Empathize with an Enemy’s Pain

For a practitioner, rather than proclaiming “I vow to liberate all beings” every time he opens his mouth, it’s better for one to gently calm his mind, put himself in the other’s shoes, and mindfully empathize with an enemy’s pain. If he can even shed a few tears from this, I guarantee that the merits of such deeds cannot be enumerated fully even by the Buddha himself.

That’s why I find it very important that the Dharma shall resonate with the mind, even if it’s just a single sentence. I plead that you carefully give some thoughts to the above.

Palyul Choktrul
2020/08/20

Tibetan version   སྤྱིར་བསྟན་འགྲོའི་དོན་ཆེན་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱིན་ཡོད་ཟེར་ནས།
Chinese version   開口閉口說度一切眾生，不如感受一個仇人的痛苦
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