Shantideva · Theology

Exchanging Self and Other

The great meditations of chapter 8: all beings are equal in wanting happiness and fearing pain, self-cherishing is the root of every misery, and the exchange of self and other is the heart of the path.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Shantideva equalizes self and other - all beings alike want happiness and shun pain, so my pain has no special claim - that suffering is to be prevented simply because it is suffering (the 'I' that owns it being a habit, not a fact), that self-cherishing is diagnosed as the source of all misery, and t…

Leads to Tsongkhapa.

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