Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
Oh Wow! I wasn't expecting you to put God as our business partner at the end. I was too busy getting mad at the man in the story who kept the 100%.
Great story plot, btw. You certainly zeroed in on the man's ingratitude effectively. I guess, we all experience a bit of that ingratitude at one time or another in our lives. A big Ooops!
A truly religious person wishes and prays that those who curse and harass his religion be the first to go to heaven or paradise.
Genuinely religious people do not claim that only followers of their faith go someplace wonderful while nonbelievers all go someplace horrible.
The more a person curses and harms you, the more you should respect him. The Buddha always said that we should strive most to help and serve our enemies and that we should always put them ahead of ourselves.
Once you begin to cleanse your heart, you develop such attitudes naturally.
How did the Buddha treat his wicked, evil scheming cousin Devadatta?
With eventual supreme enlightenment.
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