The another meaning of the good-knowledge person in Buddha's teaching.

 

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”.

It is possible for us to experience the impermanent friendship.

 

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

 

For the teenage, friendship is the very important in their life. Maybe you are experiencing the wonderful friendship or the worst relationship with friends. Whatever it is, it is the experience in life. As we work after graduating from school, any friendship seems to be diluted gradually. We have found that many friends are disappeared from our life, and we don’t contact to each other for a long time.

 

Then, we establish the new relationship with new friends in work. However, we have found that such friendship is no longer pure like what we owned in the time of school. The worst is that we may meet the villain. Don’t worry. The best is that we may meet the noble friends who support and help us a lot in many ways by his sincerely heart and ability.

 

Sometimes, we may do many things for our friends, but to receive the complaining from them. If we are cheated or betrayed by our friends, it may cause us angry and distrust them. Whatever it is, we find that the friendship is temporary. It seems hardly to keep the long term friendship, unless we cherish it very much.

 

So, the friendship is also impermanent. When it comes in life, we welcome it. When it goes away, we don’t keep it. At the moment, there will be no burden in our heart.