February 25
RIGHT UNDERSTANDING
Perverted knowledge is worse than ignorance. It does havoc all through and creates misery.
All beings are constituted alike. What creates pain to one creates pain to all. What alleviates the suffering in one alleviates the suffering in all. The structural difference between man and other beings is in degree, not in kind. Seeing the sameness in all is right understanding.
Wrong understanding leads to discord. Right understanding leads to harmony and union.
--- Buddha