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Developing Bodhichitta – The Spirit of Enlightenment: Tibet’s Wish Granting Jewel Tree – Ep. 306

Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

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What Do All Beings Want?

We have had equanimity, mother recognition, remembering of kindness, and then gratitude for the kindness wished to repay it. Here we reflect on how we want to repay all these mother beings' kindness. And that is therefore the fourth step of gratitude in repaying their kindness. This then leads to the fifth step in this system, the equal exchange of self and other. What do all beings want? We go back to the equality in a way of self and others. I think that they want happiness just as I want happiness. We're just the same. We don't want to suffer. Whether they're my enemy or they're my unknown person or my friend, they simply don't

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