"When a person’s offense is minor, admonishment is sometimes called for, but at other times it may be unnecessary, for there are those who may correct themselves without being told. Reprove a person for slander when necessary, so that you can forestall for both of you the consequences of an offense. Then, you should forgive that person. The point is that even minor slanders may lead to serious ones, and then the effects one must suffer would be far worse. This is [what Chang-an means when he writes], “One who rids the offender of evil is acting as his parent.”
Life to life through civil discourse based on mutual respect ….
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You "may be compared to dogs that eat the excrement of persons of the Mahayana teaching. They are like apes or monkeys, broken tiles and shards."
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