The attitude of forbearance is to refuse
to be affected or pained when inflicted
with sorrow, loss, and the ingratitude and
wickedness of others.
In fact, you should be happy and calm,
for you should know that these are the
results of your own actions now recoiling on you,
and you should view those who caused the misery
as friends and well-wishers.
You should not retaliate or wish them ill.
You must bear all blows patiently and gladly.
The natural reactions of people,
whoever they may be, when someone injures them
is to injure in return; when someone causes harm,
to do harm; and when someone insults them,
to insult back by some means or other.
This is the characteristic of the worldly path-
the path of objective involvement.
If you seek the inner path of sublimation and purification
you must avoid such reaction and exhibit forbearance .
