01/04/2022
"Self-centeredness does not vanish by itself. We will continue to suffer because of the mental distortions and unwholesome behavior that it spawns. It is not difficult to understand how self-centeredness harms us. And yet, if we look around us, we can ask in the quiet of our mind, how many people out there - let alone other kinds of sentient beings - have really recognized the extent to which self-centeredness and its resulting distortions bring them harm, discontent, anxiety, grief, and pain? How many, on the contrary, base their lives firmly upon the priority of self-centeredness and identify with attachment, confusion, and hostility, as if this were the only natural and proper way to live? Very few people have even a glimmering of the profound disadvantages that these mental distortions hold for us."
~ B. Alan Wallace. The Seven-Point Mind Training
Pic from the video by Ravi Verma - Bodhgaya Feb 2015. Link to the complete teaching:
https://youtu.be/YyqwFudImH8
