[MD] Taoism

[Khoo Hock Aun]

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of
groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you
fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground.

As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice,
you are ready to shout out, "You idiot! What's wrong with
you? Are you blind?" But just before you can catch your
breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped you is
actually blind.

He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an
instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: "Are you hurt? Can I
help you up?"

Our situation is like that. *When we clearly realize that the source of
disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of
wisdom and compassion. Then we are in a position to heal ourselves and
others. *
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*- B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground *Up"
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