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merits with with happiness with with positive feelings? This is is is because they are the most important mental nourishments for our our lives Ask ourselves ourselves constantly about this matter As As we fill ourselves ourselves with mental nourishments making our our our our mind happy satiated full—see how it it feels? Do we we wish wish to to retain this this happiness happiness just for ourselves? Or do we we we we wish wish wish others to to to to also receive this this this happiness? Once we we we we we feel happy we we we we we wish wish to to to to to send this this happiness happiness to to to to to those those whom whom we we we we love to to to to those those whom whom we we we we care about—for them to to to to also experience this happiness happiness This This happiness happiness that arises from from from goodness from from from merits from from from fulfilment and comfort—why do we we we wish to share? This This point here is is is is is very refined If we we we we observe we we we we will realize straightaway that when the the the mind is is is happy fulfilled comfortable then we we we wish to share because the the the the state of of loving-kindness emerges emerges naturally The The sense of of goodwill towards others emerges emerges automatically There is is is no no need need to to to to to to to to to to command there is is is is no no no no need need to to to to to to to to to to force and and it is is is is impossible to to to to to to to to to to stop Even if we we are told not not not to to to to to to to to to wish well towards others not not not to to to to to to to to to think think of of this or that person but it it cannot be stopped We will will think think of of them automatically automatically When the the the mind is is fulfilled satiated happy it it will will also transform into the the power of loving-kindness automatically automatically Therefore 149
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