not love constancy of
do not have persistent
hate not fixed
do not care
Some people may think that if there is no love and hate, there is no standpoint, or even an expression of indifference. In fact, when we treat all beings as equals, we can not only let go of our hatred, but we can also have indifferent compassion for all beings, and we will not favor one or the other. This is not indifference, but kindness, compassion, and love.
Because of the ego, sentient beings will be self-centered everywhere. In fact, ego is just a wrong setting of oneself, which serves as a support for reincarnation. With this reference standard, we will feel that who is related to me and who has nothing to do with me, thus forming a whole set of relationships such as closeness, distance and closeness, and then love and hatred will develop from these relationships. In fact, these supports and references are unnecessary, and they all come from wrong settings.
We should learn to look at love and hatred from the perspective of reincarnation. From the perspective of this life, the one who loves loves like glue, and it is difficult to give up; the one who hates gritted his teeth with hatred, and they are incompatible. How can they be equal? This requires thinking from the perspective of reincarnation.
life does not start in this life,There is a past without beginning. The person you love now may be the enemy in the past and has done something to hurt yourself; the person you hate now may be the love in the past, who loved to the death. It's just that the world goes around, we forgot all this.
Even if you don't talk about reincarnation, just from the changes in this world, love, hatred, and hatred are not fixed. The inversion of those who love each other turning their eyes into enemies and those who opposing each other turn their enemies into friends often happens in life. The so-called love and hatred are just a kind of emotion at the moment. Love is not constant, so you don't need to be attached; hatred is not fixed, so you don't need to care about it. These thoughts are helping us build compassion.
If ego is removed and viewed from the perspective of dependent origin, the relationship between us and others and all sentient beings is flat, and there is no so-called center. I am so, and so is the world. Does the universe have a center? Is there a center in the legal world?
The key to the practice of sacrificing one's heart is to remove the ego, so that the center can be removed, and then the relationship established around the center can be removed, and all beings in the Dharma can be faced with equality. Only on the basis of equality can we extend compassion and rejoicing to all sentient beings and establish broad and undifferentiated compassion and rejoicing.
corresponds to equanimity, as well as balance, peace, and normality. These are the original state of the mind and the most precious qualities in life. When we return to our original mind, we will be able to treat all beings equally and indifferently, and face the world as if not moving.
—— Excerpt from "The Four Immeasurable Minds" ——
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