Insight into emptiness makes us flexible, open, soft, and forgiving when we practice the perfection of ethical conduct. We know we can never condemn anyone, ourselves or anyone else. Everyone is doing what they can, as are we. Yes, sometimes restraint is necessary, self-restraint or restraining another. But such restraint is an act of kindness, not of punishment based on moral superiority. In the practice of the perfection of ethical conduct, there is no hint of intolerance or arrogance, no sense of ethical purity or impurity. There is only love, forgiveness, and appreciation.
