An obvious example of this is a tattoo. It is pretty painful when it happens, it is inflicted by someone else because of your desire, and it injects you with a permanent scar that usually makes you bleed. Sound similar to anything else? A relationship, perhaps?
What's cool about both kinds of wounds is that despite all of the pain and scarring, they always turns into something beautiful.
I feel like this is a lesson that we all need to learn and apply to every aspect of our lives. I know it's one that I have been learning for my entire life, but it makes a lot more sense to me now.
(It says "om mani padme hum" - look it up - on the top
and "live so that you may live" on the bottom
with a design of four numbers in the middle
that my wonderful mother put together)
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