Let the ugliness of unkindness in others impel you to make yourself beautiful with loving-kindness. May harsh speech from your companions remind you to use sweet words always. If stones from evil minds are cast at you, may you send in return only missiles of goodwill. As a jasmine vine sheds its flowers over the hands delivering ax blows at its roots, so, on all who act inimically toward you may you shower the blossoms of forgiveness