Q. The Buddha said, “Rancour will never be done away with through rancour. It disappears only when we discard it.” How can we discard it?

A. This doesn’t mean that we should discard rancour just like throwing away rubbish. It is impossible to treat rancour in that way, even though we may wish to. There is a saying ‘Everything is the Buddha’ in Buddhism.

According to this, rancour is the Buddha as well. ‘Discarding it’ here doesn’t mean to discard rancour just like throwing away rubbish but means to see rancour as the function of the Buddha.

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