A very real egotistical falsehood people with wealth and power believe; it clouds their perceptions, thinking everyone wants what they have: their 'empire of dirt' 🙄
Republican President Donald Trump Tells Jaxson Dart 'Radical Left Lunatics' Are Jealous of Them
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"The Buddhist scriptures tell a wonderful parable about a kind of monkey trap. To make the trap, some tar is spread on the ground. A monkey then comes along and steps in the sticky tar. First one little monkey foot gets stuck. In trying to free itself, the monkey puts down another foot. Then it puts down one hand, then the other hand. Finally, in a desperate effort to gain some leverage and free itself, the monkey puts down its head. That is a very stuck monkey!
That is just how those tormenting states of mind, such as judging, comparing, discriminating, demeaning, and envying, collude to get us stuck, to keep us stuck, and to make us miserable. When that monkey has just one foot in the tar, instead of putting down the next foot and then the hands, if it were to reach out and grab a tree and pull itself away, it could be free. Mudita can provide just that kind of opportunity to extricate ourselves from our stuckness, to be free enough from the tar traps in our lives to be happy. If we look carefully at each of those mind states where we get stuck, we can begin to understand how cultivating sympathetic joy can help to free us."
–Sharon Salzberg (Loving-Kindness, The Revolutionary Art of Happiness)
#judgement #comparison #comparing #discrimination #envy #buddhism #bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #selfactualization
I don't think it's a terrible thing to want to be regarded as beautiful by others, so why do I feel so ashamed of that desire?
There is so much I want to share with the world, but I am terrified to show my face, because I know there are mean-spriited, cruel people, who will ridicule my appearance.
It's honestly a struggle to get through each day.
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/78567/
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The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none's so wild, But may be tame, and may be wisely mild, If they consult true Vertue's Rules with care, And lend to good advice a patient ear. [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, si modo culturae patientem…
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#envy : malice; ill will; spite
- French: envie
- German: der Neid
- Italian: invidia
- Portuguese: inveja
- Spanish: envidia
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