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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 98 - Rejoicing Versus Jealousy
Description: When we're jealous, there's a wish that another would not have the happiness or good fortune we're observing. It is the opposite of a bodhisattva wish for others to be happy, for jealousy actually wishes that others not have happiness. This is why jealousy is such a hindrance on the path to enlightenment because it conjures a very different intention than the compassionate, bodhicitta intention were trying to cultivate.  A Buddhist definition of jealousy: A disturbing state of mind that involves an inability to bear another's fortune due to being attached to something someone else ha...