Thread:Stezie95/@comment-5481445-20160320105833/@comment-25308539-20160322132018

I found the full quote of something my mum used to tell me when I was younger:

"For the sake of all beings I have made this body pleasureless. Let them continually beat it, revile it, and cover it with filth. Let them play with my body. Let them laugh at it and ridicule it. What does it matter to me? I have given my body to them."

However, my interpretation of this quote is probably far different from the original meaning intended by the buddhist scholar who originall said it. To me, it means that when you dedicate yourself to something you love, you have to stop caring about what everyone else thinks or does. Just by being here and doing work on this wiki, we've essentially announced to the world that it's something we love. And a declaration like that puts us all in a state of vulnerability; a state where it's easy for people to hurt us or make us upset. But that's just the price of loving something isn't it?