"Kotama Okada taught us that to save others we need to learn to see things from the other person’s point of view. This spirit has enabled human beings to continue to exist, to form groups, cooperate with each other, and establish social order. If people placed more emphasis on the spirit of cooperation, the seeds of conflict that have been sown throughout the world would disappear. This indeed is what it means to practice humility, the complete opposite to ego and conceit."
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November 2002. Quoted in Chang (2007), p. 89.
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