Quoting Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Envy: That Guy Goes Past Yet Again in His Mercedes-Benz, p. 137, 2016

Envy doesn’t leave room for joy. The Tibetan word for envy is trakdok, which means “heavy or constricted shoulders,” and indeed the feeling of envy leaves one with a pinched feeling of discontent and resentment, tinged with guilt. Buddhism sees envy as so corrosive that it compares it to a venomous snake that poisons us.

— Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Envy: That Guy Goes Past Yet Again in His Mercedes-Benz, p. 137, 2016

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