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How Can a Buddhist Strive to “Save All Beings” Without Inflating Their Ego?

By Myokei Caine-Barrett, Rebecca Li, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde — 2018

Instead of believing we are such great people for helping others, we can thank all beings for allowing us to be of service.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Gratitude

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

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