No Resentment Even When Cut
Even as the body was cut, no anger or resentment arose — because there was no clinging to a mark of self. The thinner the hard self, the thinner the anger.
Is the thing that angers me most really the feeling that "I" was hurt?
📝Reflection
The scripture tells of one who, falsely accused and cut, bore no resentment. How is that possible? The secret is that the "mark of self" was thin. Look closely at anger, and at its floor there is always the ego's cry, "how dare you, to me." That "me" who was slighted, who lost out, whose pride was wounded. The harder the self, the deeper a small jab cuts. Conversely, when the lump of "me" thins, the same blow pierces shallowly. This differs from enduring: enduring presses anger down, while this is anger arising less to begin with. The more we set the self down, the less the world can hurt us.
🌱Apply It Today
When a flare of anger comes today, pause one breath: "what got hurt just now — was it real, or my pride?"
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
