25. Don’t talk about others’ weak points

• This is the Third Slogan/Instruction of Point Six, which consists of sixteen instructions.
• Point Six is “The Disciplines of Mind Training”

This states that you should never speak of others’ defects— neither their worldly defects, for instance by calling them “That blind person,” nor their spiritual defects, for instance by calling them “That morally degenerate person.”

from “A Commentary on the “Seven-Point Mind Training” by Sé Chilbu Chökyi Gyaltsen, in  Mind Training translated by Thupten Jinpa

Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara, 700s. Northern India, Kashmir. Ivory with gold and polychrome; overall: 13 x 8.9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art