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Suffering gives us no permission to humiliate, exploit, or dominate another. We are responsible for the harm we cause, whatever harm we have endured.
READING A · Buddhism
Acharya Buddharakkhita's English translation.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world.
The passage considers hostility, remembered injury, and the ending of hatred. Its surrounding verses give the teaching a context beyond a detached maxim.
Read Dhammapada, verse 5, read with verses 3–6 in the source edition · new tabREADING B · Greco-Roman Stoic philosophy
George Long's English translation.
not to become like the wrong doer
Marcus counsels against becoming like the person who has wronged him. The section gives a concise parallel to the Order's concern about repeating injuries one has suffered.
Read Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.6 in the source edition · new tabWITHIN THE ORDER
Consider how to seek protection and accountability while refusing to make humiliation or exploitation one's own method.
What would protect someone without passing our hurt on to another?