“When you and I met, happiness arose.” That leaves the happiness uncontaminated by his ego and yours. Neither of you can take the credit for it. And that makes it possible for the two of you to part with no attachment to each other, or to the experience which your meeting generated, for you have enjoyed, not each other, but the symphony that arose in your meeting. And when you move on to the next situation, or person, or work, you do so without any emotional carryover. And then you make the joyful discovery that the symphony arises there too, playing a different melody in the next situation,
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