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For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva by H.H. the Dalai Lama

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For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva by H.H. the Dalai Lama

Author:H.H. the Dalai Lama
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Tibetan Buddhism
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2011-12-14T02:00:00+00:00


98.

Praise and compliments distract me,

Sapping my revulsion with saṃsāra.

I start to envy others their good qualities

And thus all excellence is ruined.

Praise, if you think about it, is actually a distraction. For example, in the beginning one may be a simple, humble monk, content with little. Later on, people may say flattering things like, “He’s a lama,” and one begins to feel a bit more proud and to become self-conscious about how one looks and behaves. Then the eight worldly preoccupations become stronger, do they not? Praise is a distraction and destroys renunciation.

Again, at first when we have little, we do not have much reason for a sense of competition with others. But later, when the “humble monk starts to grow some hair,” he becomes conceited, and as he becomes more influential, he vies with others for important positions. We feel jealous of anyone who has good qualities, and this in the end destroys whatever good qualities we ourselves have. Being praised is not really a good thing, and it can be the source of negative actions.



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