..续本文上一页 the text, but that was the core of the point. There is also more detail on being conscientious by contemplating the precious opportunity of having a human birth in the book.

　　The third point in this chapter deals with developing conscientiousness and attention by contemplating what is to be abandoned and eliminated, which is not to react with emotions, neurotic emotions.

　　Called klesha in Sanskrit, the acts of emotions, such as anger, hatred, passion, desire, pride, and jealousy are neurotic afflictions and need to be regarded as our enemies. You think, "I am like a servant to those emotions. When I am angry, then I just do what anger dictates. If it”s jealousy, I am a servant to that emotion. I am a prey to my own neurotic emotions.” How is this

　　 Normally, one follows a great leader or hero. Those emotions aren”t heroic; they aren”t courageous, clever, or smart. They aren”t anything you would actually decide to follow and yet you go on just doing whatever they tell you to do. Not only that, they only cause suffering and pain. Ask yourself, “Why am I following after these

　　" Just think about it and decide, “These enemies just have to go.”

　　Contemplate about this and ask yourself: "Why is it that, although these afflictive emotions cause so much damage and harm, I am so patient with them

　　 It is like I am meditating on patience. I think that forbearance is my big virtue and yet I am so patient with the emotions. This is meaningless patience. This is a meaningless confirmation of patience. It is bad for me. It is wrong patience. Why be patient with something so harmful

　　 If I can”t be really patient and develop patience for a human worldly enemy, who will be able to handle a slight fault

　　” A human being can”t cause you rebirth in hell, can”t be your enemy, but your emotions have that power to really cause you pain and suffering at the worst time. So, don”t be patient and nourish those neurotic emotions. Fight them. Please contemplate in this way.

　　Not only that. If you think about this, a human enemy, a regular enemy, can be your enemy and cause you trouble for maybe a year or two to five years, to ten years, but these reactive emotions aren”t like that. These reactive emotions have been with us since beginningless time, have been our enemies up and until the present time, and they will be our enemies until enlightenment. They are long-term enemies.

　　Not only that. As to a human enemy, maybe you have some disagreement or disharmony with others for a while, but after a while you can talk about it a little bit, maybe give some gifts or apologize. You can make friends with human enemies, you can reverse animosity and explain the story, that you made a mistake, and so on. Slowly you can change that situation of having an enemy in the human realm and become friends. But this doesn”t happen with reactive emotions. The more you try to befriend reactive emotions, the worse they become. You can”t make friends with neurotic emotions.

　　As long as you are together and live with neurotic emotions, you are not happy. You will never be happy living with neurotic emotions. You definitely have to exert yourself, pay attention, and be conscientious about eliminating destructive emotions. So, that was the third part, which is to develop conscientiousness by thinking about the neurotic emotions.

　　Those three subjects - conscientiousness with regard to what is to be accomplished, conscientiousness with regard to thinking about the precious human birth, and conscientiousness with regard to thinking about that which is to be eliminated (the neurotic emotions) – make up the entire fourth chapter of The Way of the Bodhisattva. The third point is very detailed and discusses much more than I explained, but this is an outline. In the future you can read t…

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