Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association)
Venerable Shravasti Dhammika
The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom
There are these five ways of overcoming malice which ought to be overcome when it arises. What five?
- In whoever malice arises, in him should love be developed.
- In whoever malice arises, in him compassion should be developed.
- In whoever malice arises, in him equanimity should be developed.
- In whoever malice arises, he should forget about it, pay it no attention.
- In whoever malice arises, in him the facts that it is of his own making should be fixed in his mind and he should think: “This is of my own making, the heir of actions; actions are its matrix, actions are its kin and foundation. And whoever one does, good and bad, one will become heir to that.”
In these five ways malice should be put away.
