Episode 76 - What The World Needs Now Is Love

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By making cherishing others our main daily practice, we will discover a real source of happiness in our lives. Cherishing others means acting to make others happy. It opposes selfishness. As we deal with the challenges coming from the Coronavirus pandemic, practicing cherishing others will give us some immediate relief from our problems. Below are the some of the results of cherishing others, but we should discover them ourselves!  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The Benefits of Cherishing Others</strong></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is the cause of happiness. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solves all problems </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makes relationships harmonious and stable</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is the cause of success and happiness in this life</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leads to all good qualities.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leads to the lasting peace and bliss of full enlightenment</span></li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><strong>How is cherishing others the cause of our own happiness?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When an action is motivated by the intention to cherishing others, to make them happy or help them, it creates good karma. Good karma is the root cause of every moment of pleasure or happiness, from health and harmony in relationships to a moment of joy. For example, we gave to others in the past and that created the karma for us to have enough resources in this life. Why did we give to others in the past? Because we cherished them and felt their happiness was important. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the past, we gave to others to alleviate some need they had--like hunger--or to give them pleasure. Later we experience a similar result: we have delicious, plentiful food or we have a mind predisposed to happiness. Every positive action we undertook in the past was motivated by cherishing