A Sunday to remember.
Ahh. I love Sundays and so does everyone. They are a day of relaxation. A time to restart and refresh. It is the day before the work week grind for many. Even though my conventional job does not start until Wednesday I have the same feeling as everyone else does. The energy that others have parlay onto me whether I want it to or not. And this is why it is so important for people to try and make not only their own lives better with less suffering, but the lives of everyone else around them better with less suffering. Because it will affect you no matter what. That is why itis vital that you rejoice and celebrate when your friends succeed because you succeed when they do. It is also vital when they are suffering and in misery to find a way for them to get out of that. If they aren’t able to with all the help you give them then you simply need to leave because anything more will enable them to be worse. That is a time for a whole different story.
For example, my coworker recently passed a very hard exam of certification. I and everyone else benefit greatly. Not just because we all get to eat cake, but because the level of satisfaction, fulfillment, and accomplishment the individual has succeeds onto us. We also feel satisfied, fulfilled, and accomplished, unless, you are such a greedy and self-serving person who doesn’t like to see people progress, then all those feelings are bestowed upon us. By the way, there are people who do not like to see others’ succeed because they are just so miserable and resentful in their lives that they are incabable of feeling genuine happiness for others.
Shantideva, an Indian buddhist monk in the 8th century, said the following:
Whatever happiness there is in the world
Comes from wishing for others’ happiness.
Whatever problems there are in this world
Comes from self-centered desire.
