It’s because you acquired your belief that all words are illusionary not by honestly earning it through patient practice, but by stifling your doubts, although you say you know that all words are not real but illusionary. To present evidence that all words are illusionary, no matter how malicious and spiteful the words are which someone may reproach you with, they are nothing to you and can’t influence you at all unless you accept the words as names.
This is the evidence that all words are illusionary. If they were not illusionary but real, they should influence you regardless of whether you are conscious of the fact. This is why ancient masters said that losing one’s head during a conversation is an example of being deluded by words.
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