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that you are a happy person. You have killed not our enemy. You cannot hate man, you
him.” And after he said that, the guard was cannot kill man, you cannot reduce man to
also very angry at him, and he used his fork, nothingness, because if you kill man, with
and planted the fork in the stomach of the whom will you live? He made a vow that if
second man, who also died right away, and he had to take care of other people in Hell,
was reborn as a human being on earth. he would learn how to deal with them in a
nicer way, and a transformation took place
Both of them escaped Hell, and had a chance in his heart. In fact, he did have a heart.
to begin anew on earth, as full human beings. To believe that he did not have a heart is
wrong -- everyone has a heart. We need
What happened to the guard, the one who something or someone to touch that heart,
had no heart? He felt very lonely, because in to transform it into a human heart. So this
that Hell there were only three people and time the feeling of loneliness, the desire to
now the other two were dead. He began to be with other humans, was born in him. That
see that these two were not very kind, or is why he decided that if he had to guard
very nice, but to have people living with us is other people in Hell, he would know how to
a wonderful thing. Now the two other people deal with them with more compassion. At
were dead, and he was alone, utterly alone that time, the door of Hell opened, and a
there. bodhisattva appeared, with all the radiance
of a bodhisattva. The bodhisattva said, “
He could not bear that kind of loneliness, Goodness has been born in you, so you don’t
and Hell became very difficult for him. Out have to endure Hell very long. You will die
of that suffering he learned something: he quickly and be reborn as a human very soon.”
learned that you cannot live alone. Man is

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