PureInsight | February 3, 2008
[PureInsight.org] I've been at
my new job for three months. Due to management problems, I found myself
complaining about things without knowing it and talking about things
that I shouldn't have without much consideration. I looked inside for
my attachments. Is it showing off, pride, or a short temper? Yes, I
have them all, but they're not the fundamental problem. I continued
looking inside and found that the fundamental problem was my lack of
knowledge of human ethics. I realized many difficulties in my
truth-clarification and three-withdrawals persuasion were all caused by
it.
Now I understand that a major principle of human ethics is that, from
the King to the common folks, people in every social class are faithful
to their duties, take their own ways to do their jobs, and do not say
or do things that are beyond their class or job scope. At home, either
being a parent, a child or a relative, amidst all the relationships
with others, one does not say or do things beyond one's status. Only
upon these can a stable ethical system can be built.
In my humble understanding, as a practitioner, during the course of
truth-clarification or normal interaction, we should truly cherish the
other being and listen to him or her carefully. At the same time we
should be measuring things with the Fa and not saying things that do
not conform to a practitioner's xinxing. If it is an elderly person
that we're speaking to, then he will think we are respectful. If it is
a peer, then he will think we are reasonable and trustworthy. If it is
a youngster, then he will think we are dear and respectable. Reflected
in the principles of the human level, we are laying the groundwork for
the human ethics of the future.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2008/1/28/50702.html
