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That is what is going on in our mind most of the time. Most of the time, what are we thinking about? Ourselves and how we can have pleasure ASAP.

This process of enlarging our motivation is a very important one and we can see that it takes some energy to do it, doesn’t it? It doesn’t come naturally to us. Let’s expand our motivation so it has space for everybody and aspire to obtain full enlightenment so that we can be of the greatest benefit to all living beings to contemplate and generate that motivation. And then, recalling it’s not only us in this situation, that every other living being is as well, and that we are interrelated and interconnected with each and every other living being. Let’s develop the aspiration to attain liberation to be free of the ignorance, afflictions, and karma that keep us bound in a cycle of misery. Open Heart, Clear Mind 02c: Meditation on attachment ( download)īefore we do the teachings, let’s reflect on our motivation and look at our lives from a large perspective that goes beyond simply our temporal happiness at this moment and let’s consider ourselves as beings caught in cyclic existence under the control of ignorance, mental afflictions, and karma and wanting ourselves to have lasting happiness and actual freedom.