When someone is suffering and you
find yourself at a loss to know how to help, put yourself unflinchingly in his
or her place. Imagine as vividly as possible what you would be going through if
you were suffering the same pain. Ask yourself: “How would I feel? How would I
want my friends to treat me? What would I most want from
them?”
When you exchange yourself for others
in this way, you are directly transferring your cherishing from its usual
object, yourself, to other beings. So exchanging yourself for
others is a very powerful way of loosening
the hold on you of the self-cherishing and the self-grasping of ego, and so of
releasing the heart of your compassion. ---Rigpa
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