“It does not touch one who does not touch,
But then will touch the one who touches.
Therefore it touches the one who touches,
The one who wrongs an innocent man.”“If one wrongs an innocent man,
A pure person without blemish,
The evil falls back on the fool himself
Like fine dust thrown against the wind.”
sn.1.22 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
It Touches
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh
Impact
“It doesn’t impact a person who doesn’t impact others.It impacts a person because they impact others.
That’s why it impacts one who impacts,
who wrongs one who’s done no wrong.”
“Whoever wrongs a man who’s done no wrong,
a pure man who has not a blemish,
the evil backfires on the fool,
like fine dust thrown upwind.”