Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Watching the swans glide, some herons grew jealous and tried to copy them.
But jealousy tires us out — better to grow your own goodness than to envy someone else's.
The swan-and-heron image completes: "seeing the swans swimming, the herons became envious" — and, straining in envy, "the poor herons drowned." The qMonk voice, per the wellbeing rules, turns the drowning-image into the gentle truth that envy wears us out and pulls us under — it's exhausting and self-defeating to resent others' goodness. The better path is to grow your own. For a child: being jealous of someone else's goodness only tires you out — it's better to grow your own.
When you feel jealous of someone, how could you turn that into growing your own good instead?
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