Jeremiah 36:3 · World English Bible
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Paratoghosa: The Voice of Another Right view can begin with a sound coming in from outside a person. So the words go onto a scroll: they are written down in order to be read aloud in the temple court, to people who would never arrive at them by their own thinking.
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Paratoghosa: The Voice of Another Right view can begin with a sound coming in from outside a person. So the words go onto a scroll: they are written down in order to be read aloud in the temple court, to people who would never arrive at them by their own thinking. Judah stands on a road it cannot see the shape of, and someone else has to say what it looks like, the way a person standing behind you can describe your own back.
Kamma: Deed and Fruit Deeds ripen into results that match them. The evil intended toward the house of Judah and the evil way each man walks are named with the same word, so the harm arriving has the shape of the harm already being done. No foreign punishment is being imported here; a road walked long enough delivers you where it goes.
Saṃvega: The Urgency of Seeing Danger Hearing can land as a shock that will not let a person sit still. "It may be that the house of Judah will hear" hangs on that: the reading has to strike, the way a sleeper wakes at the smell of smoke and is on his feet before he has worked out why. Words taken as news about somebody else leave the scroll useless.
Āyatiṃ saṃvara: Restraint From Here On Once a fault is seen as a fault, one takes up the guard against repeating it. "That they may each return from his evil way" places the turn on one man at a time, even with the whole house listening. Such a turn is made of small refusals: what was done yesterday is left undone today, and again tomorrow, until the road is behind him.
Khamati: Pardon The one who was wronged releases the offense. "That I may forgive their iniquity and their sin" comes last in the chain and waits on the turning, yet the pardon is already extended, resting only on whether the old way is left. A lender stands ready to cancel the debt, and the borrower has to come as far as the door.
Buddhism lens
What have you already heard about yourself and quietly filed away as being about somebody else?
You cannot learn what you already think you know. The one who tells you plainly where you are going wrong does you a service your own thinking could not.
Get yourself a teacher and acquire a friend, because a person cannot see their own faults clearly. And when you have wronged someone, the door back is open: the turning has to come from you.
To know others is knowledge; to know yourself is clear sight. Mastery begins where a person stops managing the world and starts guarding their own conduct.
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