“We should work diligently to eliminate suffering simply because it is suffering, not because it is our suffering or their suffering. Similarly, we should determine to increase happiness in ourselves as well as in others simply because it is happiness, and not on the basis of who it belongs to.”
Geshe Tashi Tsering, The Awakening Mind, p.60
Geshe Tashi says this should be the goal of our spiritual quest, to work equally toward the happiness of ourselves as well as others. Do you agree? Why do you agree, or what are your reservations?