When someone we have helped and placed our hopes in greatly harms us, this verse teaches us to see them as an excellent spiritual friend. This is an incredibly difficult practice that involves letting go of expectations, hopes, and feelings of betrayal. Rather than retaliate or feel like a victim, we must understand others and see challenging situations as opportunities for spiritual growth and insight into impermanence and interdependence. Forgiving others and life itself is a profound way of renouncing suffering and progressing on the bodhisattva path.