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A fertile source of pain and suffering; Why then be wroth with living beings, Victims too of such conditions? Suffering can result from both animate and inanimate causes. We may curse inanimate things like the weather, but it is with animate beings that we most often get angry. If we further analyze these animate causes that make us unhappy, we find that they are themselves influenced by other conditions. They are not making us angry simply because they want to. In this respect, because they are influenced by other conditions they are in fact powerless; so there is no need to get angry with them. 24. Never thinking: ‘Now I will be angry,’ People are impulsively caught up in anger; Irritation, likewise, comes Though never plans to be experienced! 25. Every injury whatever, The whole variety of evil deeds: All arise induced by circumstances, None are independent and autonomous 26. Yet these causes have no thought Of brining something into being; And that which is produced thereby, Being mindless, has no thought of being so. 47. Those who harm me come against me:
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