him with all the prejudices associated with that label in our mind.
Y e t he may be completely free from those attributes which we
have put on him.
People are so fond of discriminative labels that they even go
to the length of putting them on human qualities and emotions
common to all. So they talk of different 'brands' of charity, as for
example, of Buddhist charity or Christian charity, and look down
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Rock Edict, XII.
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upon
other 'brands' of charity. But charity cannot be sectarian;
it is neither Christian, Buddhist, Hindu nor Moslem. T h e love of
a mother for her child is neither Buddhist nor Christian: it is
mother love. Human qualities and emotions like love, charity,
compassion, tolerance, patience, friendship, desire, hatred, ill-will,
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