Question

How do we work with fear of blame? How to resist blame from family, friends, and colleagues when inside you know you acted beneficially, nevertheless they blame you.

Answer

I was talking yesterday about how to look at our intention. If it's beneficial then to take joy with our beneficial intention. And if we have a good intention but we lack wisdom, then to look at it as an opportunity to develop more understanding. If we have both - wisdom and a good intention - then to reflect: They are the owner of their own Kamma, so that we develop more Equanimity. "Intention I say is Kamma"- this is what the Buddha is recorded to have said about it - Kamma. So it's our intention that creates Kamma. They don't create our Kamma by blaming us. We create our own Kamma from our intention.

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