in listening to these instructions, and many of you have experience with this practice, how many of you find it easier to take in the suffering than give out the happiness? okay. how many find it easier to send out the happiness than take in the suffering? okay. well, both kinds of people exist. it’s very important to do both. [laughter] okay?
those who are used to taking in suffering in their lives, they get really into taking in the suffering you see. and they get heavier, and heavier, and heavier. they get, “oh, i’m really getting into the practice,” and they’re getting heavier, and heavier, and more and more depressed. 