Bad circumstances offer particularly juicy objects and experiences for
transformation. If an object or experience is labelled bad, there is
energy there – there is an acuteness of dissatisfaction that is tangible
and can be embraced as practice.
In the unusual circumstance of
malice actually being personally directed, practitioners recognise the
confusion and delusion behind such behaviour. Harmful actions are not
perpetrated by happy people nor create happiness. Bad actions are
harmful all round. If harm can be responded to with kindness, this
offers the possibility of a change of view. But if harm is responded to
with reciprocal harm, things just get worse and worse.
Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8, Part II - the slogans, p. 77+78
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