Never Despising Anyone
I deeply respect you and dare not look down on you.
Among the people I met today, whom did I quietly look down on inside?
📝Reflection
In the Lotus Sutra there is a figure who bowed to everyone he met, greeting them: "I do not look down on you; you hold precious possibility." People mocked him and sometimes threw stones, yet he never withdrew that greeting to the end. The resonance of this story goes beyond religion. Knowingly or not, we rank people — that one is of no account, this one is useless to me. That belittling mind leaks out in expression and tone and finally dries up the relationship. The stance of never despising anyone is not hypocrisy but a kind of training: to assume there is something in every person I have not yet seen. That single gaze makes me a wider human being.
🌱Apply It Today
Recall one person you looked down on inside today, and deliberately seek "what side of him have I not yet seen?" Your gaze widens by a hand.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
