““Wonderful-Voice is told not to think less of this world, our world, just because it is full of mud, stones, and impurities. I think this is an important reminder for us. We should not think that we are somehow inferior, or that our faults are something to be ashamed of. There is much in society that seeks to have us believe that we are somehow inferior. Think about advertisements for example, the whole purpose of advertisements is to convince you that you are incomplete, or lacking, or inferior to some ideal because you don’t use a particular product. You may have even received messages in school or growing up, which you carry around, that make you feel you are not worthy of being happy. The message of this chapter is that there is not one among us who is disqualified from attaining enlightenment or of being happy. We are not missing anything, nor are we short of anything, nor are we not good enough to become Buddhas.””
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