Is It a Ghastly Quality of Mind?

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The polly sanscrit is meta and a it really is just the wish for others to be happy, a wish for them to be free of suffering. For that wish to really be tuned up to something like its maximum, a few things have to beo purged, you know, or going o burned off, as as impurities there. Theres so another aspect of another variant of it, called a mudita, which is a sympathetic joy, which is the antithesis of envy.

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