If someone hits you with a stick, who are you angry at: the stick or the person holding it? In the same way, the person who hurts you is blindly controlled by his anger.

If someone hits you with a stick, who are you angry at: the stick or the person holding it? In the same way, the person who hurts you is blindly controlled by his anger.

So why are you angry at the person, and not at the anger that took over him?

Shantideva

😖 Mindfulness of Buddha