That others mock us doesn't mean we need
to mock them, and, in fact, we are better off if we don't -- both from a
karmic viewpoint and from how the world sees us. (Karmic viewpoint = how our behavior affects or changes us.)
Mockery, though, is much in the eye of the beholder. Usually the one
handing it out doesn't see it as such, and is insensitive -- or the
opposite may be the case and the person who thinks they are being mocked
is too eager to assume it.
Criticism is not mockery. Nor is humor. Not even both of them together
is mockery. I would make my feeble effort to define mockery as
requiring a malicious element in it.
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