The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life

the exchange of position, is a specific antidote to three of our most disturbing emotions: arrogance, competitiveness, and jealousy.

learn how to influence the future positively,

death—

In your mind you are constantly trying to move toward happiness and away from suffering. Every little thing that appears to your five senses or that arises in your thoughts falls into one of three categories. You like it, you dislike it, or you don’t really notice it.

is pervaded by enlightened awareness, is called the alaya.

You should care for the person who sees that self and other are equal, for the person who is essentially inseparable from all sentient beings.

The five poisons of attachment, aggression, jealousy, arrogance, and stupidity, which in turn come from the source of all suffering: self-importance.

Seeing, for example, that all our painful emotions are unreal is the most powerful antidote to suffering.

Relative bodhicitta, which arises out of love and compassion, is the aspiration to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. Absolute bodhicitta is the direct insight into the empty nature of all phenomena.