We're given negative thoughts and emotions that benefit ourselves and/or harm others. We're also given positive thoughts and emotions that benefit others instead of ourselves. When it comes to these internal tests, how are you doing?
Start paying attention to your thoughts and emotions and see how often you put others down, how often you seek to benefit yourself and how often you seek to benefit others. Judge yourself and be honest with yourself. How are you doing?
Also, be mindful of the influence of your social environment. Does your social environment put others down? Is it obsessed with personal selfishness? Does it seek to benefit others?
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In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. We have to rise above our egos, stop seeking to benefit ourselves, stop harming others and adopt other people's desires as our own. In this way, we'll connect in mutual bestowal.
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