Spring Seminar 2025 - Roots of Virtue: How to Respect and Love Yourself
Demo Rinpoche
What is the value of virtue? It might be better to start with understanding the cost of non-virtue. Ill-will and harmful actions toward others come at the expense of our own happiness and well-being. It may not seem so in a world driven by self-interest because there is a gap for many of us between self and others, as if their interests were separate and opposite from our own. But true self-interest comes in realizing that respecting and caring for others is the same as respecting and caring for ourselves. That is the meaning and value of virtue.