Jeremiah 5:3 · World English Bible
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Sacca: Truth Sacca is truthfulness held as a practice, in speech and in dealing. Eyes that search a whole city for it want something plain: a market scale that reads the same whether or not the buyer is watching.
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Sacca: Truth Sacca is truthfulness held as a practice, in speech and in dealing. Eyes that search a whole city for it want something plain: a market scale that reads the same whether or not the buyer is watching. Walking those lanes, Jeremiah finds people who can still say correct things about God, because honest speech about oneself is the first thing a hard face gives up.
Saṁvega: Urgency Saṁvega is the jolt of shock that turns a person toward practice. Blows have already fallen on Judah, drought and famine and sword, and none of it has reached past the skin. Struck without grieving is a sleeper who hears the alarm and rolls over; the loss only earns its keep when it makes someone sit up and count what they are doing.
Hiri and Ottappa: Conscience and caution Hiri is the inward flinch at doing harm, ottappa the wariness of what it will bring. Called the two guardians of the world, they are the watchmen who have walked off the gate here, so the city inside does as it likes and feels nothing when the blow lands. Grieving under correction is the sound those watchmen make, and a house where no one flinches takes a ruined harvest as bad weather and nothing more.
Thambha: Stiffness Thambha is rigidity of heart, counted among the mind's stains. A face set harder than rock can no longer take an impression: warm wax receives the stamp of a seal, and the same wax gone cold turns the seal aside. From the inside the hardness feels like strength, and it costs nothing to hold until the day something has to get in.
Sovacassatā: Openness to correction Sovacassatā is the quality of being easy to speak to about one's faults, counted among the great blessings. Refusing correction and refusing to return are one motion: a traveler who knows the road is wrong keeps walking, because turning around means admitting the miles. Correction shortens that walk, which is why those who take it well have the least ground to cover.
Buddhism lens
Who has told you the same true thing more than once, and what have you done with it?
What is soft and supple lives, what is stiff and hard is already on the way to breaking. The green branch bends in the storm, the dry one snaps.
If someone shows you that you were wrong, change gladly. You are after the truth, and nobody was ever harmed by having it handed to them.
Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone. The wise are known not by how much they can say but by how easily they can be told.
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