Envy
and Jealousy are
a Mix of Greed & Hate!
How to cure these
agonizing mental states of Envy & Jealousy:
1: Review the Dangers in Envy
and Jealousy like this:
This Acid is eating
up my mind from within! All joy & happiness is destroyed!
2: Know that Envy arises because one
craves for something, that others have!
The aversion towards these persons arises due to greed for a desired object.
Wanting=greed is craving towards
an object, while aversion=hate is craving
away from an object. All forms of Craving
cause Suffering!
Know that Envy
and Jealousy is the proximate cause of Discontent
and Dissatisfaction!
3: Envy is cured by rejoicing in
others' success = Mutual Joy! (Mudita)
like:
How
good that this being, having done good in the past, now earns the well
deserved fruit!!!
Thus one substitutes a disadvantageous mental state with
an advantageous
mental state.
Know that this subtle Mutual Joy! (Mudita) is
the proximate cause of Contentment! Contentment is the highest
Treasure...
4: Begin and Cultivate meditation on
Infinite Mutual Joy:
Sit down a silent & empty place with eyes closed and beam from the
heart:
May I be successful, rich, beautiful, famous, intelligent,
popular & praised!
May my friends be successful, rich, beautiful, famous,
intelligent, & praised!
May my enemies be successful, rich, beautiful,
famous, intelligent, & praised!
May all in this village be successful,
beautiful, famous, intelligent, & praised!
May all in this country be
successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, & praised!
May all on this earth be
successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
May all in this galaxy
be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
May all in the
universe be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
Beam-out this tender sympathy from the heart first out in front, the
right,
left, back, above as below, thereby gradually expanding beyond the limitations
of
space and into
the infinitude! When a cause is infinite, so will be the effect!
5: Keep on doing that 15-45 min every day. Note the
difference in day joy!
May all beings rejoice in
Mutual Joy
celebrating all beings success & progress!
The Blessed Buddha said
One should not despise any giving.
One should not envy others.
One who envies others cannot attain absorption
and will never enter any
concentrated trance.
Dhammapada
365
Neither nice speech, nor serene behaviour
Makes one accomplished, if one is still
Possessed of envy, miserliness or deceit.
Dhammapada
262
Absorbed in distractions,
Not paying appropriate attention,
Giving up the goal, following after the pleasant,
One comes to envy those, who enjoy right effort!
Dhammapada
209
How to cure envy and jealousy by substitution with
the opposite see:
Rejoicing Bliss = Mudita,
Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness,
Mutual_Joy,
What_is_Wrong,
Safe_Medicine,
Rejoicing_Joy,
Mudita: Unselfish Joy
