Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing)
The another definition for the good-knowledge person in Buddha's teaching is meant to those persons who became the “evil person” to teach and punish the true evil persons, and to adjust them to be good persons.
Even though it seems "evil person", its essence is still based on the
benevolence and empathy to all sentient beings. Just he used another means
which we think it might be not normal and not corresponding with our logical thinking.
Evil people ride and tame the evil horse.
For example, one of the
good-knowledge persons is a king, and he might be not a good king according to
our common sense. On the contrary, according to the public's common sense, they
think the king is “evil and brutal”. Due to there are more evil people in his
country, such evil people are full of greedy and hatred in mind, and always to
bully and cheat the good persons, that is why the king becomes “the evil
person” and uses the cruel punishment to punish such evil people.
There is a Chinese saying, “Evil people ride the evil horse.” It means that the true evil people are like the evil horse and there would be the more-evil people to tame such evil people. Do not worry. If we are not the true evil people, we would absolutely not meet the “more-evil person”.
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