HOW TO ELIMINATE THE UNHEALTHY MENTALITY OF BEING SAD WHEN SEEING OTHERS SUCCEED?
Caller: Master Lu has mentioned multiple times that nowadays people have a bad mentality: they feel sad when seeing others do better than them, and feel happy when others are worse than them. How can one eradicate this kind of unhealthy mentality?
Master Jun Hong Lu: Be compassionate. When you see others succeed, you must feel that it must not have been easy to be where they are. After all, fame, status or wealth does not come easy. If you are able to rejoice and celebrate the success of others, you have attained a particularly high level of spiritual cultivation.
When a mother gives birth to a son, many people would envy her and exclaim, ‘Wow! You are blessed to have a son in your family’. Why can’t their family give birth to a son? Those who can’t give birth to a son would then be jealous. Should they even be jealous? Think about it, besides having to endure 10 months of pregnancy, this mother might have suffered even more severe vomiting during the second or third month of her pregnancy with a son, right? This is how you put things into perspective.
Source: Wenda20160501A 13:54, Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program
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