Humility is the quality of being modest, reverential, politely submissive, without arrogance.

Training the Mind: Verse 2: Whenever I interact with someone, May I view myself as the lowest amongst all, And, from the very depths of my heart, Respectfully hold others as superior.

Philippians 2:3-5:  Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Care about them as much as you care about yourselves and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought.

Matthew 23:12:  Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Many Buddhists believe humility be the most important universal virtue.  Because pride is counterproductive to mental cultivation, humility is considered essential to spiritual development. Pride is an impediment to enlightenment because only a humble mind is open to the rigors of self discipline or able to fully appreciate others.

Humility is one of the ten sacred qualities attributed to the Buddha of Compassion apparently as a natural element of supreme spiritual attainment. Furthermore, real humility allows for the true appreciation of others.  It enables gratefulness.  Both are key elements of happiness.

Finally, Real Humility Is Genuineness.      Chögyam Trungpa, the Buddhist teacher, writes, “Humility, very simply, is the absence of arrogance. Where there is no arrogance, you relate with your world as an eye-level situation, without one-upmanship. Because of that, there can be a genuine interchange. Nobody is using their message to put anybody else down, and nobody has to come down or up to the other person’s level. Everything is eye-level. Humility in the Shambhala tradition also involves some kind of playfulness, which is a sense of humor….In most religious traditions, you feel humble because of a fear of punishment, pain, and sin. In the Shambhala world you feel full of it. You feel healthy and good. In fact, you feel proud. Therefore, you feel humility. That’s one of the Shambhala contradictions or, we could say, dichotomies. Real humility is genuineness.”