Theft and snatching are the causes of personal poverty.

                                        

Author: Tao Qing Hsu

Watching American news reports in Taiwan since I was a child, there are often black racial discrimination and black groups destroying stores and arbitrarily snatching goods. Just recently, the same thing happened. I don't know whether this situation is a frequent social problem in the United States. I see similar news every once in a while.

Everything has cause and effect. The Freud incident in the United States was caused by the black people's consumption with counterfeit money, which led to police investigations, and improper law enforcement caused the black people to agitate. In the name of racial discrimination, black people incited hatred among the masses, rationalized their behavior and arbitrarily vandalized shops and robbed them. They therefore think that they are justified in destroying the shops opened by the white people and robbing the shops. I see this kind of behavior of black people, I really find it hard to sympathize with them, let alone support and respect them. If a person uses counterfeit money to consume, it is misbehaving first, how can he be respected by others? This is a very basic truth.

Secondly, the masses deliberately incited racial discrimination and hated the white man by using police improper law enforcement to cause the death of the black man, thereby intentionally causing social riots. As if they were the messengers of justice and rationalized their behavior, they began to destroy the shops opened by the white people and rob the objects. This is actually inciting others to exercise unrighteous acts, and these incitements themselves are exercise of unrighteous acts. In the Buddha's view, this is the cause and effect of entering the three evil ways. Which three evil ways? Hungry ghost road, hell road and animal road. In other words, their souls will suffer in these three evil realms, and they will not be able to leave these three evil realms until they can improve themselves. Where are these three evil ways? Just in the life of the present life is the retribution of the present life.

I was even more surprised that the white police officer thought that he had done something wrong, and apologized to the black people on their knees. When the black people rationalized their improper behavior and robbed the store’s goods, the white police officer actually did something wrong, not to enforce the law nor to carry out illegal actions to ban these blacks, and at the same time, to give up maintaining social order. So, what is the justice of this to the robbed store and this law-abiding businessman? We must discern the right and wrong of everything.

Don’t take things that others don’t give you, because stealing and snatching are greed, and the causes of personal poverty. This is what the Buddha taught to sentient beings. It is impossible for a person to steal and snatch, but hope that others will respect him. One must first correct one's own behavior, this is to respect oneself first, after that, other people may respect this person. In other words, if a person expects others to not discriminate against him, then this person must first correct his behavior and respect himself.

As far as I know about American society, black people's social status in the United States is not high, and their income is not good. I often see from the media that black Americans use racial discrimination as a reason to rationalize their unjust behaviors, and destroy and rob stores. When this group of blacks was in the process of sabotage and snatching, I did not see the police coming out to maintain social order.

Remember, don’t take things that others haven’t given you, because stealing and snatching are the causes of personal poverty. I haven't seen anyone who can get rich forever because of stealing and snatching. Don't do unjust acts. Don’t justify your improper behavior for any reason.