by Master Tsung-pen
Lung-shu said:
Everyone can be a superior person, a moral person, but they are unwilling to be.
No one needs to be a petty person, a self-seeking person, but they want to be.
To be sincere and faithful and respectful, to be amiable and harmonious and upright, to promote the worthy and praise the good, to benefit beings according to what is appropriate: all such things are the deeds of a superior person, of a moral person. And they are not hard to do. But people are unwilling - why?
To be devious and tricky and arrogant, to be coarse and violent and deceptive, to speak of shortcomings and exhibit evils, to indulgence whims and injure beings: all such things are the deeds of a petty person, of a self-seeking person. What is the benefit in doing them? But people are determined to do them - why?
If you are a superior person, people will be pleased with you, the spirits will help you, and misfortune will not occur. You can seek good fortune and riches and you will gain much.
If you are a petty person, people will hate you, the spirits will be angry with you, and disasters will come to you. Your good fortune and lifespan will be cut short, and you will suffer many losses. . . .
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Source Of Information:
《Pure Land Pure Mind 心净佛土净》, by Master Chu-hung and Tsung-pen, translated by J.C.Cleary, distributed by: Persatuan Penganut Agama Buddha Amitabha Malaysia, 90 & 92, Jalan Pahang, Gombak, 53000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
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