儘管人人與生俱有無緣大悲的功德，但我們的佛性卻暫時 有如凍結的冰塊一般。它的本質一直都如清淨的水，既沒 有變成石頭，也沒有受到染污；然而，由於受到冷風冷雨 般的我執所影響，凍結而成了冰塊。冰具有水的特性（功德），但此特性必須在融化之後才能顯露。我們可以藉由 培養悲心的溫暖，來融化我執的冰塊。當冰塊融化為潺潺 流水時，我們就會發現水的真正特性，也就是總攝諸佛於 一的廣大如海法身。

我們都擁有愛，但是由於我執，它顯現為貪執。我們愛、 戀那些令我們愉悅的人。由於愛，我們便對他們懷有悲心。 但因為我們對自己的執著，這份愛並非無所不包，而是出 於我執的選擇而有所偏頗。不過，我們可以將這份偏頗的愛用來思維：一切有情眾生都曾是我們慈愛的母親。試想，當這份偏頗的限制崩解時，這份愛的感覺會是如何？它是 非常自然的。每個人都一樣，都對一切眾生懷有悲心，即使他們不在你的視線之內亦然。當你能夠對此串習之後，它就會變得毫不費力。但如果我們允許自己受到我執的干 擾，變得嫉妒和憤怒，心就會再次變得狹隘。如果你真的 愛一個人，不論他為你帶來多少麻煩，你還是會愛他，並且容忍他一時的情緒。當你愛人時，心會顯得相當輕鬆而 快樂；當你憤怒時，心則變得悶悶不樂且狹隘，有如冰塊 一般。

愛的真正本質就是快樂。愛正是如此。以自我為中心的情 緒，其本質則是痛苦。

Although the quality of unconditioned compassion is inborn to our nature, temporarily our buddha nature is like a frozen block of ice. Its nature is always like pure water; it has neither turned into a rock nor has it ever become defiled. Nevertheless, due to the condition of self-grasping - which is like cold weather - it has frozen into a block of ice. Ice has the quality of water, but it must be actualized by melting. We melt the ice of self-grasping by cultivating the warmth of compassion. When the ice is melted and becomes flowing water, we realize the actual quality of water, the vast oceanic dharmakaya within which all buddhas are one.

We all have love, but due to self-grasping, it manifests as attachment. We love, or are attached to, those beings that are pleasing to us. We feel compassion for them because we love them. But because we cling to a self, this love is not all embracive, but is biased through the ego's wishes. However, we can utilize this biased love and consider that all sentient beings have been our kind mothers. How does this love feel as the limitation of bias collapses? It is very natural. Everyone is the same; there is a compassion for all beings, even if they are not in your field of vision. When this is eventually habituated, it will become effortless. However, if we allow it to be interrupted by the ego, if we get jealous and angry, then the mind becomes narrow again. If you really love someone, no matter how troublesome they are, you will always love them and thus will tolerate their temporary moods. When you love others, your mind is very relaxed and happy. When you get angry, your mind becomes unhappy and narrow like a block of ice.

The very nature of love is happiness. That is what it is. The very nature of self-centered emotions is suffering.