Concept

Enemies

The people who have hurt you, or who want something that costs you something, and what you do about them.

8 passages · 7 traditions

Astrology

DivinationA divination practice
On Mars and the oppositionAn opposition is not a wound. It is a sightline. Two planets a hundred and eighty degrees apart can only see each other, and the tradition reads that geometry as a subject a person keeps mee…

Buddhist

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Dhammapada 3–6"They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For those who bear such a grudge, hatred is never laid to rest. "They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For…

Christian

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Matthew 5:43–48"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray fo…

Confucian

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Analects XV.20–21The Master said, "What the superior man seeks, is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others." The Master said, "The superior man is dignified, but does not wrangle. He is sociable, b…

Secular reflection

ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: the account I am keepingThere is an account open in your name, and you are the only one making entries in it. That is the strange part. The person who wronged you has, in all likelihood, stopped thinking about it.…

Stoic

Taoist

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Tao Teh King, ch. 63(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small a…

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