As always, the Kadampa website has a beautiful description of this important holiday:
Buddha’s Enlightenment Day
For everyone who took Mahayana Precepts and is engaging in the traditional Fasting and Purification Retreat, I rejoice.
In Eight Steps to Happiness Geshe-la says "'Self' and 'other' are relative terms, rather like 'this mountain' and 'that mountain ... 'This' and 'that' therefore depend upon our point of reference. This is also true of self and other. By climbing down the mountain of self, it is possible to ascend the mountain of other, and thereby cherish others as much as we presently cherish ourself."
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