Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

"concrete realization."
6. If one recognizes all these meditations very well; that
is, if one only gets some knowledge, some good right
view, even apart from accomplishment, then just this
alone is a very rare thing, very precious.
But one must hold these teachings in the mind so that
the balancing forces of mercy and wisdom are identified.
Most people are one-sided: if they lack wisdom, they
may be merciful; whereas the wise may be weak in
compassion. In our meditations on the bodhicitta good
nature or compassion is balanced with the clever or wise
aspect.
Elizabeth Wordsworth has a little poem to illustrate our
point.
The writer here disentangled the following lines of
this English jingle from amid the complexities of a
page of Mr. Chen's notebook packed with Chinese
characters:
"If all the good people were clever,
And all the clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow 'tis seldom or never,
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
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