Seven Points of Mind Training

Point 6 : Disciplines of Mind Training

33: Don't bring things to a painful point.

Point Six : Don't bring things to a painful point.

Commentary :

Don't blame your sense of dissatisfaction, pain, and misery on somebody else, and do not try to lay your trips on others. Whatever power you have - domestic power, literary power, or political power - don't impose it on somebody else.

This slogan also means not to humiliate people. An important point of the bodhisattva idea altogether is to encourage people on their path. However, you could relate with people in such a way that you progress much faster on the path than they do. There are ways of slowing down other people's journeys so that you can stay ahead of them. But in this slogan, instead of doing that, you develop the other way around - you come along behind the others.