Guy Newland, Introduction to Emptiness: as Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise Upon the Stages of the Path, 2nd. ed. (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2009) ("Why is it hard to distinguish between a person who happens to be acting rudely toward me and a person who is my enemy because of being fundamentally, essentially, permanently one who is there to harm me? Wisdom teaches us that our real enemies are never other living beings. They are ignorance and its minions, including greed, hated, anger, pride, and envy." Id. at 12.).
Jeffrey Hopkins, The Tantric Distinction: A Buddhist's Reflection on Compassion and Emptiness, rev'd ed., edited by Anne C. Klein (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1999) ("It is important to consider any religious system as a challenge to one's own thought, rather than take the culturally deterministic viewpoint that we are confined to the system that is currently prevalent in the culture of our birth." Id. at vii.).
