#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-glimpses  The the four unlimited minds are kindness, compassion, joy and equinimity. They are kindness is these are the four limitless minds in Mahayana. The mindset of the persons the people who practice Mahayana who follow Mahayana should have this kind of those should have these four attributes. Hinayana they don't need to do this but Mayayana this is what we are about first of all kindness kindness by definition is to give joy you kind when you give joy to others so you give joy to others number two compassion compassion is is to feel the pain of others you others are suffering and you feel for them in Mayana is not words. It's not a mental concept. It actually means you need to feel that pain, you know, say, "Yeah, I feel for you." No, it's not. I really know how you're feeling. That's what Mayana is about. It's not words. It's not intellectual concepts. They know how much it hurts because they have been through it or they can know they know your your your suffering but it's not simply compassion but it's great compassion that Mayana stresses hinayana definition hinayana compassion is yes you feel the suffering and because you feel the suffering you try to relieve it right? If you know then you should try to relieve it. People are suffering, people are in pain. So the human thing to do, the decent thing to do is to try to relieve it. In particular, I give you an example. It's so mahayana. When people are in pain, they will bite you. They will hurt you because that's all they know. They need to let out the pressure. Okay? They'll do something to hurt you. And if you stand there and you take the hurt, you take the beating, you actually are helping them, they have a place, they have a means of release of their suffering that builds up the pressure inside of them. If they don't release it to you, they release it to someone else. It will hurt someone else. So in Mayana, we know that we say, "Okay, no problem. Here I am." Because a typical person when they say like this person like manic person you know they you know you see that person you know that that coming towards you of course the natural reaction will be to run away right you don't want to be near such people are you crazy I'm not going near that but in Mahayana we don't run away we take it and that requires the ability to recover because these People are crazy. They're doing stupid things. They're not themselves. And therefore, in Mahayana, you can't simply talk. I know how you feel. You have to take the pain yourself. They're going to hurt you. And that's why you develop the ability to recover. That's part of compassion. It's not talk. So, you you have kindness is the giving of joy. You see, you practice giving of joy. the compassion as you practice the taking of pain the enduring of pain that's this is very mahayana it's not you know when I hear about hinana talk about compassion they said oh I feel for you I have compassion for you and they walk their own way and you know and so forth actually the compassion you go into the same trench and and and and endure the suffering with them the bodhic sattvas would them themselves become an animal, you know, a beast of burden to bear the same pain and a burden as the animal they're trying to save themselves. Okay? They don't just stand there and say talk talk and say, "Oh, I have compassion for you." This Okay. In Mayana we actually compassion means you have to bear the pain, help bear the pain, help bear the burden. Otherwise, it's cannot be called compassion. Because when you're willing to help bear the pain right there, it brings you to your own limitations. How much suffering can you take yourself? Because every time you bear the someone's burden, it saps your strength and then the next person comes along and asks you to share the burden again. Okay? So that's why it forces us to recover very quickly or to bear the burden much better and recover much better. This is so mana. I know the academia and the people and the Chinese people treat this is like a like a if you read the definition of this is more like intellectual definition. We talking about actual practice. This is not theory. The kindness keep giving and giving and giving until you're so tired and you still have to give and give and give. If you say so much I'm willing to give you go away then it's it's a measured kindness. is not unlimited kindness. So that's why the actual translation that I want to use in the future for our material should be the mind of limitless kindness. That is this mind you have here. You practice this mind where you kind you give you give joy to people. Okay? You bring joy to people's life and you keep on bringing more and more to them to this person and to the next person the next person to the next person to the next person the next living being. That's the kind of mind you have. You don't only choose to give kindness to the people you like. You give and give without discrimination. You give with equinimity endlessly. You don't stop. There is no measured. There's no measured in your mind. You you give joy to people. You give more and more and more and more. Okay? Compassion is the same thing. You take more take on more pain and more suffering more and more and more. If you do that then limitlessly you never you never have a limit to that then eventually you it becomes great compassion because then their pain becomes your pain. There's no more differentiation. That's called great compassion. You're the same. Oto me.