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Joy in the joy of others regardless of one’s own circumstances or suffering. Considered an element of the Buddha nature. An extreme example occurred in ancient times when a Buddhist monastery was overrun, pillaged and ransacked by a horde of hostile barbarians and one legendary monk is said to have maintained a state of Mudita for his tormentors even as he was drawn and quartered. The opposite of schadenfreude (perverse pleasure in the misery or failure of others)
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