Keep Good Relationships

We should work at having good relationships with those we have promised to save; all living beings. People can be uninformed, selfish, and more, but if we do not believe that they can be separated from their dysfunctions, we err. When we apply the emotional strength of anger, indignation or superiority to our judgments (whether correct or incorrect), we bond our attitude of others to our storehouse of poor perceptions. This prevents us from feeling good enough about them to be capable of caring for them in the future. We might even try to harm them! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~


"Wir sollten daran arbeiten, gute Beziehungen zu jenen zu haben, die versprochen haben alle lebenden Wesen zu retten. Die Leute können unwissend, selbstsüchtig und mehr sein. Aber wenn wir nicht glauben, dass sie von ihren Fehlern getrennt werden können, liegen wir falsch. Wenn wir die emotionale Kraft des Ärgers, der Empörung oder der Überheblichkeit in unseren Urteilen zur Anwendung bringen (egal ob wir recht haben oder nicht), verbindet sich unsere Haltung anderen gegenüber mit unserem Vorratslager an mangelhaften Wahrnehmungen. Dies hindert uns daran, uns gut genug ihnen gegenüber zu fühlen, um in der Zukunft dazu fähig zu sein, uns um sie zu kümmern. Es kann sogar sein, dass wir versuchen werden, ihnen zu schaden!" -Domo Geshe Rinpoche---

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