“Whatever calamities there are, and whatever sorrows and fears come to the world, they are all

“Whatever calamities there are, and whatever sorrows and fears come to the world, they are all the result of attachment to “self.” Why is that attachment mine?

Not having extinguished “self,” one is not able to extinguish sorrow; just as one who has not extinguished a fire is not able to extinguish the burning. 

It follows that for the sake of tranquilizing my own sorrow, and for the tranquilizing of the other’s sorrow, I give myself to others and I accept others like myself.”

— Śāntideva, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra

Continued @ https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/extinguishing-fire.html