A Cynics Reward

If we are conceited, callous, cynical, and find it easy to use others, this attitude will come to fruition, just like a prayer of the gentle and compassionate to be reborn in the pure land or heaven. Becoming adept at spontaneous ignorant prayer will result in being immersed in a future life where the cynic will be a minor note, suffering in a vastly cynical world. This is a type of preta realm.
We must watch our thoughts now and repair how we think about and treat others so that we will not weep later, caught up in illusory dramas and not finding virtue anywhere. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~

"Wenn wir eingebildet, herzlos, zynisch sind und es uns leicht fällt andere zu benutzen, wird diese Einstellung Früchte tragen, genau so wie das Gebet eines sanftmütigen, mitfühlenden Menschen, der im reinen Bereich oder im Himmel wiedergeboren werden möchte. Wenn man geübt im spontanen, unverständigen Gebet ist wird daraus ein zukünftiges Leben resultieren, in dem der Zynische eine untergeordnete Rolle in einer ungeheuer zynischen Welt spielt. Dies ist eine Art Hungergeist Bereich.
Wir müssen unsere Gedanken jetzt bewachen und verändern wie wir andere behandeln oder über sie denken, um nicht später zu weinen, wenn wir in illusorischen Dramen gefangen sind und Tugend nirgendwo zu finden ist." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche ---

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