A commentary on the slogan: When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.

In our ordinary life, our immediate surroundings are not necessarily hospitable. There are always problems and difficulties. There are difficulties even for those who proclaim that their lives are very successful, those who have become the president of their country, or the richest millionaires, or the most famous poets or movie stars or surfers or bullfighters. Even if our lives go right, according to our expectations, there are still difficulties. Obstacles always arise. That is something everybody experiences.

And when obstacles happen, any mishaps connected with those obstacles–poverty mentality, fixating on loss and gain, or any kind of competitiveness–should be transformed into the path of wakefulness, the path of bodhi.

From Training the Mind: and Cultivating Loving Kindness, page 39.

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