There was once this cobra practising loving-kindness in the forest saying "may all being be well, may all being be happy, may all beings be peaceful." An old women who was collecting firewood saw this cobra mistaking it to be a rope she used the cobra to bundle the firewood that she was carrying. As the cobra was doing loving-kindness, it allowed this women to do anything and the women carried the bundle of firewood home and the cobra escaped with lot of physical pain and wounds.
It went to meet its teacher and said: "See what happened to me. I was practicing your loving-kindness and see all the wounds and all the pain I am experiencing in my body.
The teacher said calmly: you have not been practising loving-kindness: you have been practising "idiotic compassion" because you should have shown that you were a cobra. You should of at leased hissed.
It went to meet its teacher and said: "See what happened to me. I was practicing your loving-kindness and see all the wounds and all the pain I am experiencing in my body.
The teacher said calmly: you have not been practising loving-kindness: you have been practising "idiotic compassion" because you should have shown that you were a cobra. You should of at leased hissed.
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