Writer: Tao Qing Hsu
There is a Chinese saying, ”There is the
justice in the heaven and land. ” Since the ancient time of China, no matter
the emperor or the citizen, once they can obey the justice of heaven and land
to treat people, they believe that the god of heaven and land would not bring
disaster to them. But, if they cannot obey the justice of heaven and land, it
is impossible for them to avoid any disaster and punishment from the god of
heaven and land.
Therefore, most people believe that, when we
do the good thing, we will get the good repay from the heaven and land.
However, if we do the evil thing, we will have the evil retribution. Even the
nobility, the emperor, the officer, the boss and the businessman, they don’t
dare to bully people. Once they own the evil heart to bully people, it is also
the time to close their wealth, even to close their life.
The most Chinese people respect the heaven
and land. That is because they believe that the gods of heaven and land
represent the sentient beings. Meanwhile, the Chinese traditional virtue is the
mercifulness. The Chinese people also believe that the gods of heaven and land
are unified with human beings. Therefore, to respect the heaven and land is to
respect the sentient beings. It is also meant to respect self. Such virtue is
corresponding to the Buddhism. That is also one of the reasons that Buddhism
can be developed well in the history of China.
Some people complain that why the god treats
them unfairly or why they cannot get rid of the poverty. If we observe these
people carefully, we can find that there is the self-injustice existed in their
heart. Even though they use a lot of methods or words to cover it, or they
decorate any phenomenon happened by the self-injustice, what they have done by
self-injustice existed in their heart still can't escape heaven's eyes. To
close the path of wealth is not from the god, but from the self. That is, to
close the path of self-wealth is the result of self-injustice. We should be
alert to this.
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