[1011]
The Buddhadharma is
the only full solution
to the problem of
how to fully overcome
the suffering of one and all.
[1012]
The only fault with fault-finding
is when there is only fault-finding,
thus not seeing any virtues in others at all.
[1013]
Those who see no virtues
in others personally
lack the virtue of appreciation.
[1013]
While we can only offer others
what we have,
we should also aspire to offer
what we should.
[1014]
Claiming truth to be slander,
and slander to be truth
is the most evil slander –
against the truth and the truthful.
[1015]
The severely deluded see
poor rationalisations of mistakes as truths and
proper admonishments on them as slander.
[1016]
To awaken those very deluded,
those more awake must
kindly ‘risk’ being disdained,
by sharing the truth with them.
[1017]
To speak lies with ill will
to delude is slander.
To speak truths with good will
to awaken is compassion.
[1018]
TRUTHS shared about those
NOT true to the Dharma
in teaching and conduct
to awaken others
is NOT slander.
[1019]
If saying ‘offensive’ truths is ‘slander’,
the fully awakened who say full truths
would be the greatest ‘offenders’.
[1020]
The most insufferable
have so much suffering
that it spills over
to give others suffering.