Our study of the Dharma makes us well familiar with the idea that the kleshas can control us, and that this causes us suffering. Yet this awareness too often stays on the intellectual level. We may not feel this in our heart and therefore put it fully into practice. If we could truly integrate this awareness into our emotional experience, we would readily be able to give rise to compassion, understanding and love when we see others struggling and behaving unwisely because they have fallen into the grip of a strong afflictive emotion. We would see that it was completely inappropriate to respond to their harm with aggression or aversion. His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa // To read the rest: http://tinyurl.com/lqhvmse