An idea from The Way of the Bodhisattva

The wish even offers your own body, to be mocked or beaten if that helps others. But there is a limit: while your compassion is not yet pure, you don’t give your body up. You start by giving a handful of greens and grow from there.

From The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

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