Choice : Help or Harm?

If you are invulnerable to harm,
seemingly able to live forever,
what would you do?

Would you become a great villain [e.g. Octopus]
who goes all out exploit and harm others?
Since there are no apparent consequences?

The ultimate harm has to be the harming of others –
that which does not lead others or oneself to lasting happiness,
that which leads to unhappiness of others and oneself.

Would you become a great hero [e.g. The Spirit]
who sticks one’s neck out to help others?
But how much can you help the countless vulnerable and mortal?

The ultimate help has to be the giving of the Dharma –
that which leads to true invulnerability from all suffering,
that which leads to true immortality of timeless Nirvana.

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