Most of the good persons could not fight for their right, because their brains are washed to be ignorant by ridiculous ideology.

 

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

 

 

The tangible and invisible class system is still existed in the family, workplace, society and country. Under the circumstance, how could it be possible for the people to feel the freedom and equality in heart?

 

In the history and in the modern time, some evil persons occupy the political resource. They steal the financial of country and bully the good person. Even though this, they still live well, have longevity and have many wealth. Most of the good persons could not fight for their right, because their brains are washed to be ignorant by ridiculous ideology. They are even to be died by ridiculous reasons. In other word, the inequality has still been there.

 

Even though the outer situation and phenomenon might make us feel unhappy and unbalanced in heart, the concept of Buddha’s teaching offers us another choice to let our heart in peace and to feel balanced and equal.

Why wide learning and extensive researching are difficult for us?

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

There are two main reasons. One is coming from own mind. The other is coming from the control and restrain from the outside, such as family, government or the religion.

 

According to my personal observation from the world, there is more than half of the population in the world, whose thought or mind is controlled and restrained by their family, government or religion. Under the circumstance, it is really difficult for them to do the wide learning and extensive researching. And they also have no self-perceiving that their mind is shortage and narrow.

 

In the year of 1988, when I am 17 years old, Taiwan goes into the free and democratic society, and thus opens the publishing industry and the freedom of comment. In other words, before that time, I have experienced that our thought and mind is controlled and restrained by the government.

 

Even though, we have the freedom to choose our belief in religion, however, the relative books, magazines, articles or videos are few. Therefore, in that time, we have misunderstood the Buddhism a lot and have shortage knowledge about Buddhism.

 

Secondly, some of what I have learned about the history from the school is different from the fact. A lot of fact is gradually disclosed in the society of democracy and freedom. Then, I went back to understand the historical background of Taiwan, where are many scars, most people choose to be tolerant and forgiving, however, unfortunately, there are still a few people who choose to be hatred.

 

After the year of 1988, we also have a lot of chance to know the world, due to the freedom of information flow. I have found that there are a lot of countries also have the similar scars as Taiwan. That is the scourge of war.

 

The Buddhism flourish in Taiwan is since 1988, because most people finally have chance to know it from the free medium. But, unfortunately, there is still many countries reject it in the world and try to conceal the people. In a word, that is why learning widely and researching extensively about Buddhism are difficult, let alone the other knowledge, such as the history.  

Chapter 16: Abandon the love and gain the Dao (added explanation)

(Chapter 16) A Brief Talk about The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha 

Co-translators in the time of Eastern Han Dynasty, China(A.D. 25 - 200) : 

Kasyapa Matanga and Zhu Falan (Who translated the said Scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese. )

Translator in modern time (A.D.2018: Tao Qing Hsu (Who translated the said Scripture from Chinese into English.)

Teacher and writer for explaining the said Scripture: Tao Qing Hsu

Chapter 16: Abandon the love and gain the Dao (added explanation) 

The Buddha said,” People hold the love and desire, and cannot see the Dao. It is such as the clear water is stirred by hand; the public reach and approach this water together; there is no one who can see its own image. People interlace the love with desire. The turbidity is thrived in heart. That is why they cannot see the Dao. All of you Sramanas should abandon the love and desire. The filth of love and desire ending, the Dao could be seen. “

 

There is no-condition and no-demanding in the grand love. That is, there is no-desire in the grand love. However, the most people don’t have such grand character. Generally, the love in their mind means yearning for and controlling something in order to get some kind of selfish purpose. In this situation, many people have the behavior of the extortion with some kind of emotion to their relative friends or their family members in the name of love. This kind of love contains the selfish desire. In the research of psychology, there can be extended various negative characters on the basis of this kind of love and desire as mentioned, for example, the manipulative personality.

 

Dao is transliterated from Chinese. The Dao means the path, the way or any system of education or theory. Here, we can give the Dao the various explanations and teachings according to the different intelligence of humans and to the different classes of learning Buddha. Generally, there are two kinds of Dao in Buddhism. One is the Dao of Bodhisattva and the other is the Dao of Buddha. What is the difference between them is according to the different extent of realization and practicing about Buddhism. The Dao explained by Buddha in the Chapter 2 also means the clear and pure heart, which is the basis realization and practicing for entering to the Dao of Bodhisattva. And, the Dao of Bodhisattva is the basis realization and practicing for entering to the Dao of Buddha.

 

No matter what the Dao is, the basis of the Dao in Buddhism is the clear and pure mind. The basis of the clear and pure mind is under the no-condition, no-desire and no-demanding to others when one person faces any person and anything and doing anything. Secondly, the clear and pure mind is also to realize and practice the true equality in the mind when facing any situation. This kind of ideas is more difficult for ordinary people to understand and practice. However, if we have the will to understand and practice it, it may not be difficult for us.

 

"There is no good or bad under any circumstance. The good or bad under any circumstance is in our mind." This is the famous sentence said by Zen master in the Tang Dynasty of China (A.D. 618-907). If you could understand and practice this sentence, you would be free and easy when you face any situation. Why? The environment itself is objective. However, our thought itself is subjective. That is why poor people complain a lot to their situation and cannot change their fate, and thus feel suffering. Learning Buddha can change our subjective and negative thought and thus change our fate. Regarding how to understand and practice the true equality in the mind, we will explain it in the following chapters.

 

The Buddha said,” People hold the love and desire, and cannot see the Dao.” That is, when people are in the selfish love and desire, they cannot understand and practice the clear and pure in the mind. The Buddha explained in a metaphorical way why people cannot see the Tao. “It is such as the clear water is stirred by hand; the public reach and approach this water together; there is no one who can see its own image.” The clear water is as our clear and pure heart. In the clear water, the sand is in the bottom. When the clear water is stirred by hand, a lot of float sand makes it become turbid. Meanwhile, the whirlpool of the water also makes the water no longer clear. A generated thought of selfish love and desire is as the hand to stir the clear water. A lot of float sand and the whirlpool of the water are like the complicated situation in the outside and inside. “The public reach and approach this water together; there is no one who can see its own image.” The public means the self and the others persons. “Approach this water together” means both of them are involved in this situation caused by the selfish love and desire. “There is no one who can see their own image”. It means no one can see their clear and pure heart.  The clear and pure heart is the true self.  

 

The Buddha said, “People interlace the love with desire. The turbidity is thrived in heart. That is why they cannot see the Dao.” It means those people who contact each other with the mind of the love and desire. It makes them appear any unreasonable conditions, harsh demanding and fantasy expectation to each other from their mind. Under the circumstance, there is the selfish and self-interested purpose, and there is no treatment of equality to each other. It means the turbidity is thrived in heart. That is also means those people have mean and scheming minds. These dirty things with greed would make them blind their heart-eye and make them cannot see their clear and pure heart. That is why they cannot see the Dao.

                                                                                           

The Buddha said, “All of you Sramanas should abandon the love and desire. The filth of love and desire ending, the Dao could be seen.“ Therefore, the Buddha advised their disciples, the Sramanas, the Buddhist monk, to abandon this kind of love and desire. Those dirty things with greed are the filth of love and desire. Once this filth of love and desire is ended, the clear and pure heart can be seen. This is to remove the filth of love and desire and the brightness of heart is appeared. Even though we are not Buddhist monk, the Buddha’s teaching as mentioned is also very helpful for our life. It can increase our wisdom and help our mood to be steady and help our life to be good.

 

When we deeply understand and practice the Buddha’s teaching as mentioned above, we come back to observe the situation of the world, we can find that a lot of crime and war, and any dirty things are caused by the selfish love and desire. That is, the selfish love and desire is the root of evil. In the past thirty years, there is the good economic and democratic development in Taiwan. Some of the girls from the poor country come to Taiwan in order to look for the better life for themselves and their family. However, they use the wrong way. What they use is the filth of love and desire as mentioned. When Taiwanese men are confused and trapped by the lie of love from these women, the belongings of Taiwanese men are gradually gone and transferred to the name of these women. Then, the Taiwanese men die. Finally, the families of these Taiwanese men have found something wrong and then sue these women--the deceiver of love. In the end, the truth is revealed.

 

According to the research in England, the average intelligence of men is about 103. This is the normal intelligence. However, once these men are fall in love, their intelligence will decrease. According to my personal observation, men not only decrease their IQ when they are in love, but even decrease their IQ after getting married, but when they have an affair after marriage, their IQ drops even lower. Decreasing intelligence means their moral principle, thinking ability and judgment are not as good as the men who have the normal intelligence. According to the research, the men who have the lower intelligence will have the more rates to have an affair after marriage, comparing with the men who have the higher intelligence. Usually, the men who have the lower intelligence harm the family members more than those who have the higher intelligence.  

 

When we deeply observe the problem of a family and we are wise, we can find that the root of the problem of a family is the dispute of their love and desire. This dispute of love and desire is full of the filth as mentioned above. It is full of greedy and dark thought in their mind. Therefore, it is meaningless to judge who is right and who is wrong. If we are wise, it is better for us to pull ourselves away this situation of turbidity. If you are a party to this kind of dispute, when you see the teachings of the Buddha, you should have wisdom on how to deal with it. In chapter 23, it is mentioned that the wife is more than a prison. The root of the problem is the love and desire which come from the husband and wife. This problem makes the family become an invisible jail to bind the mind of husband and wife.

 

The love and desire as said above is not only about affairs of the erotic and family, but also about the dispute and the affairs in politics, enterprises, and organizations. It is also about the relationship of friends. When we insight the problem caused by love and desire, we would have the better thinking and judgment to face any problem, and then to deal with it.   

 

No matter we are Sramana or not, the Buddha’s teaching gives us a good teaching and inspires ourselves wisdom. This is the invisible fortune which cannot be measured. There is the doing and there is the no-doing. To abandon the love and desire as mentioned is the doing and no-doing. Not to have the mean and scheming minds is also the doing and no-doing. How to do and how not to do, there is a choice in our mind, if we are wise. 

Supplementary note: Dao is transliterated from Chinese, meaning way and method, deeper meaning as a system of learning or religion. Dao is Tao, which is transliterated from Chinese. The original meaning of Dao is the way and path, and it is extended to be the truth of life that we can learn and practice in our lives.

Chapter 29: Right perception can resist the erotic.

(Chapter 29) A Brief Talk about The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha 

Co-translators in the time of Eastern Han Dynasty, China(A.D. 25 - 200) : 

Kasyapa Matanga and Zhu Falan (Who translated the said Scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese. )

Translator in modern time (A.D.2018: Tao Qing Hsu (Who translated the said Scripture from Chinese into English.)

Teacher and writer for explaining the said Scripture: Tao Qing Hsu

Chapter 29: Right perception can resist the erotic.     

The Buddha said,” Be cautious not look at the women nor speak with them, if speaking with them, the heart and thought should be right: I am a Sramaṇa, being in the turbid world, should be as a lotus, not contaminated by the mud. Think those elderly as mother; those older than me as elder sister; those younger than me as younger sister and those children as daughter. Have the heart for saving and liberating them, and eliminate my own vicious thought. “ 

Why the Buddhist monk has to be cautious not look at the women nor speak with them? It is one of the methods to curb the inner erotic desire.

 

As we have said before, the object for The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha is Buddhist Monk. In Buddhism, when the Buddhist monk has the certain basic practicing, he is also called the Sramana. Sramana is transliterated from Sanskrit. We have to know that the stance of this Chapter 29 is for the Buddhist Monk, who has to practice the seriously required religious discipline in daily life. The content of this Chapter 29 is one of them. Even though we are not the Buddhist monk, the content of this Chapter 29 is also worth for us to know and learn.   

 

The Buddha said,” Be cautious not look at the women nor speak with them.” This religious discipline is seriously obeyed by the practicing Buddhist Monk. No matter we are male or female, if we meet the Buddhist monk on the road and find that he doesn’t not look at us and nor speak with us, we don’t need to think that he despise us or he doesn’t respect us. We now understand that his behavior is due to his obeying the religious discipline. Today, there is also the problem of homosexuality. This point should be reminded and careful.

 

Why the Buddhist monk has to be cautious not look at the women nor speak with them? It is one of the methods to curb the inner erotic desire. If we are male, when our eyes look at the woman, her appearance, behavior and voice will stimulate our inner erotic desire and hormones. Through such cause and condition, we might take any action and lead to any effect so as to affect our life and fall into the circle of fate. For example, we might do some harmful thing to the woman and make the woman’s body and mentality seriously damaged by us. Or, we might thus have children and work hard to raise them. Or, for raising the woman and children, we might violate our good nature to harm others people. 

We might be trapped in a jail of woman, wife or family and might have no freedom in personal body and mentality.

 

In the concept of Buddhism, it means that we might be trapped in a jail of woman, wife or family and might have no freedom in personal body and mentality. Our personal body and mentality are attached and stick on the woman or family. However, some people could not bear the pressure caused by the woman, wife or family. They might thus bully others in order to achieve their greedy goal, go to the astray and commit a serious crime.

 

The erotic desire and hormones inside the male is the serious cause to result in the turbid of the world.

When we quietly perceive and observe the human nature, we could find that the erotic desire and hormones inside the male is the serious cause to result in the turbid of the world. In the history, do you have ever seen any authoritarian and cruel king or emperor is a pure single man? Even the gangster, do you have seen that he is a single man? Generally, the consequence of such man is very sad and tragic. That is because they are easily turned according to their erotic desire and controlled by their own selfish desire.

 

When any scheming man profoundly knows about this point, he will use it to control and threaten the other man so as to achieve his evil goal. All the scheming and greedy men use it to control and threaten each other. Any woman becomes the victim in such evil thing. From this point, it will extend to control and threaten the whole society and the world, just because those scheming men form a evil group and their selfish desire is grown largely. It is not only appears in the evil politic, but also in the evil religion.

 

The inner erotic desire is the basic cause of suffering to self and others. 

The Buddha has perceived that the inner erotic desire is the basic cause of suffering to self and others. The outer environment is over there. Mostly, it is hard for us to change it. However, we can change self. The Buddha thus said to the Sramana that if you have to speak with the woman, your heart and thought should be right. And you should have a right thought that is: I am a Sramaṇa, being in the turbid world, I should be as a lotus which is not contaminated by the mud.

 

So, the turbid world is like the mud. We live there. However, our heart and thought should be right and pure and not be contaminated by the turbid world, just like a lotus which is growing from the mud. The lotus is so pure and beautiful and not contaminated by the mud. It means that we should not be affected by the turbid world. Our heart and thought should be kept pure and right and not be turned by any outer condition or outer environment. 

 

Our heart and thought should be kept pure and right and not be turned by any outer condition or outer environment. 

What is the righteous heart and thought for a Sramana? Think those elderly as mother; those older than me as elder sister; those younger than me as younger sister and those children as daughter. Have the heart for saving and liberating them, and eliminate my own vicious thought.  

 

As a man, no matter we are a Sramana or not, it is good for us to have such righteous heart and thought to all women. Even the women, especially the young women, they also have the strong erotic and selfish desire. Such desire is the cause of suffering. Women are also needed to be saved and liberated from the suffering.

 

The ignorant, scheming and evil men always have the vicious thought and treat women badly.

Women need to rely on man so that they can survive in the world. Those who have more scheming, and more selfish desire, know how to use the man who have power and money, and know how to compete with the other woman so as to achieve their goal. It is especially appeared in the family that a man has many wives. No matter which kind of women in such situation, they all suffer in the family.

     

In the ancient time of India, women generally have no chance to learn any knowledge, not to mention to listen to the teaching of Buddha. Even today, the women who are well educated from school are few. In some country and religion, women are even not allowed to be educated from the school. Such poor women are controlled by the ignorant, scheming and evil men, who treat women as a tool to generate food and children, even as a tool for their playing and enjoying. Such men even think that to harm women doesn’t make any crime. Women should not live like that. So, we know that the ignorant, scheming and evil men always have the vicious thought and treat women badly.

An enlightened man should have to eliminate the vicious thought, have the righteous thought, treat women well and regard them as the member of family.

 

Therefore, an enlightened man should have to eliminate the vicious thought, have the righteous thought, treat women well and regard them as the member of family, as if they are mother, sister or daughter, encourage them to learn knowledge and go to school, and let them live independently, at the same time, save and liberate them from suffering as capable as you can.

 

Of course, an enlightened woman should also eliminate the vicious thought, regard men as the member of family, as if they are father, brother, or son, help self to learn any knowledge and go to school, and be independent in life and work, and not rely on men to survive. It is better to save and liberate self from suffering so as not to controlled and harmed by any men any more.

Supplementary note: Dao is transliterated from Chinese, meaning way and method, deeper meaning as a system of learning or religion. Dao is Tao, which is transliterated from Chinese. The original meaning of Dao is the way and path, and it is extended to be the truth of life that we can learn and practice in our lives.

Chapter 23: Wife is more than a prison

(Chapter 23) A Brief Talk about The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha 

Co-translators in the time of Eastern Han Dynasty, China(A.D. 25 - 200) : 

Kasyapa Matanga and Zhu Falan (Who translated the said Scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese. )

Translator in modern time (A.D.2018: Tao Qing Hsu (Who translated the said Scripture from Chinese into English.)

Teacher and writer for explaining the said Scripture: Tao Qing Hsu

Chapter 23: Wife is more than a prison

The Buddha said, ”People are tied by wife and house, which is more than a prison. There is a date of the release for the jail. There is no thought of departure from the wife. Emotion and love about the erotic, how would they scare to offer the services? Even though the worry about the mouth of tiger exists, the heart is willing to be conquered. Throwing self into the mud and drowning self, that is why those people are called ordinary people. Those who can see through such door are the out-of-dust Arhat.

To have a wife is what a wonderful dream for each man. Many men are lost self in such dream. However, they awake in the suffering of marriage.

For the young man, that he thinks to have a wife is a normal thing. No one would question it. Even the old man, he also hopes to have a wife so that the wife can company with him and take care of him. To have a wife is what a wonderful dream for each man. Many men are lost self in such dream. However, they awake in the suffering of marriage. For the women, it is also the same. Marriage is like a siege. Those who are outside the siege hope to go into the siege. However, those who are inside the siege expect to escape from it.  

No matter man or woman, they hope to survive by relying on the marriage. Especially in the unfair society and the society of despising woman, if the women want to survive well, they have to depend on the capability, power and wealth of husband and his family. In other word, the women obtain the wealth and what she needs in life through marriage.

This is the controlled society by the males in order to maintain their power of control to the society. However, what they don’t know is that, they are also restraint by their own greed and desire, and to put them in the “jail” of marriage.

What urging men into the marriage are not their personal responsibility, but are their erotic desire.

   

Mostly, what urging men into the marriage are not their personal responsibility, but are their erotic desire. In the Asia, it is even the responsibility of their parents. That is because their parents want their son to increase the family's population, especially to have a boy, so that they can inherit the big family's interests.

Under such bias thought, the man is tied by the personal erotic desire and is led away and turned by his wife. The female knows how to use her advantage to control the man and to survive under such circumstance. It is thus formed as the shapeless jail for the man. 

Unfortunately, many people do not want to bear the big family’s responsibilities and the generated obligations, but want to enjoy the big family’s interests. So, we find a problem. In the family, the erotic desire and the greedy for fortune are existed in the husband and wife.

The husband would be conquered by his erotic desire and eager for his wife, and is thus willing to be a servant and slaver of his wife, even to be a “prisoner” in the siege of marriage.

If the wife focuses on money and values her own property too over, she would use her erotic to tie her husband so as to obtain any money and property. Then, the situation would become the arguing and fighting for her interests in the big family or in their own marriage. That is because that the wife wants to content her own greedy heart.

The husband would be thus conquered by his erotic desire and eager for his wife, and is thus willing to be a servant and slaver of his wife, even to be a “prisoner” in the siege of marriage. When the husband is in such situation, he even doesn’t care about his responsibility and obligations to his parents and his big family, even to the society and country. Then, the husband is lost self in his marriage, even to weaken his own intelligence. 

In the traditional society, the wife has no chance to work outside the family and earn her own money. How she survives is to get the money and property from his marriage. Even today, in the modern society, the wife who has the low ability to earn money would also use the way to control her husband so as to get the money and her property.

From a small prison (the marriage and family) to be a big prison (the unfair society)

And this also extends a problem. How a small house and the small property could content the husband’s and his wife’s desire? In the society, the husband is thus earning the more money to content his own and his wife’s desire. He occupies the important and special resources of the country and society, and even creates the unfair society or system through the decorated ideology, and even thus bullies others with the ridiculous reasons to make others people to be his servant and slaver.

Then, it becomes from a small prison (the marriage and family) to be a big prison (the unfair society). Many husbands want to content their own emotion and love to the erotic desire in the marriage. They have to thus become the “prisoners” in the unfair society, and to survive in the evil situation. Even to risk in life, to die, to go into the jail, they just only desire to earn more money.

That is why the Buddha said,” Even though the worry about the mouth of tiger exists, the heart is willing to be conquered.” That is, even though the erotic desire in the marriage and the evil in working environment are so dangerous as if the husbands are almost eaten by the mouth of tiger, they are also willing to risk it and to be the servant to offer any services for his wife.

What we have done and what we have thought would result in what the consequence which we have to bear.

How they scare about it? They don't scare it. The erotic desire is really to weaken those husbands’ intelligence and judgment. In other word, the erotic desire covers their natural wisdom, and affects their ability of thinking and reasoning. 

So the Buddha said that they are as throwing self into the mud and drowning self. What their erotic desire is the case to put them in danger, even to make them to die. What they have done and what they have thought would result in what the consequence which they have to bear. Thanks to they could not understand the reasons and the dangers as said above, that is why those people are called ordinary people.

However, once they could understand the reasons and dangers as said above, and could leave their erotic desire and such wife, they could get rid of any troubles and liberate self from any suffering, thus are the out-of-dust Arhat.

The dust here means troubles or suffering. Out-of-dust here means to get rid of or without of troubles and sufferings. Arhat is Sanskrit. It means one of the grades of learning Buddha.   

The most phenomena about emotion and love to the erotic in the marriage are belonged to and are concerned to the desire and the three poisons.

In Buddhism, we don't look at superficial phenomena. We also don’t look at the decorative and impermanent phenomenon. That is because that, behind of any phenomena, such as any negative phenomena in the marriage, is hidden the desire and the three poisons, even the five toxins. The three poisons are the invisible poisons, which is the heart of greed, hatred or resentment, and the stupid obsession.

The most phenomena about emotion and love to the erotic in the marriage are belonged to and are concerned to the desire and the three poisons. Such negative energy may be used to incur a lot of harm to self and others. The Buddha had carefully perceived it and always advised us to understand what the harm it would bring to us, and advised us not to indulge in the erotic desire and better to abandon it as possible as we can.

Only when we can reduce or abandon the self erotic desire, we can be a no-selfish person and think about others needs or troubles. When we help others people, it is also to help us at the same time. 

In Buddhism, no matter male or female, there are scholars or learners who not only have a marriage, but also learn Buddha well.

42 Chapters Said by Buddha is to teach the Buddhist monk how to liberate self from the suffering. The concept of chapter 23 is therefore on the stand of Buddhist monk and of the male. Even though we are not Buddhist monk, it is still valuable for us to understand and learn it.

The Buddha actually said a lot of concept to enlighten the wisdom of human beings. Chapter 23 is only one of them. Therefore, I hope that you do not be limited by the concept of this chapter. In Buddhism, there is also the scholar or learner who is not Buddhist monk. Those scholars or learners not only have a marriage, but also learn Buddha well. They are Bodhisattva, too. Such concept is also mentioned in many Buddhist Scripture.

Any concept in Buddhism, it is still applied to gender role substitutes. If the wife is more than a jail, the husband is too, which means the bad family makes people not free in mind and body. Of course, it is only the one concept from the many concepts. As a woman, I have to say, there is also a lot of virtue woman and wife who create a good family and make a good contribution to the society and country. They are deserved to discuss the issue of the society and country and to participate in politics. They would bring the society and country the more equal and peaceful social environment. 

Good advice to the smart people

      1.      Be an open-minded person

2.     Honesty to self and others

3.     Have compassion to others

4.     Giving is more blessed than accepting

5.     No greedy in heart

6.     Forgiving others let us be free in heart

7.     No resentment and no hatred to others

8.     No infatuation with any thing and any person

9.     No jealous to others

10.  No arrogance in heart

11.  No suspicions to others without evidence

12.  Let us to be pure, clear and peaceful in heart

13.  Abandon any binary opposition

14.  No matter they are our relatives, friends or our enemies, treat everyone with equal heart

15.  Let us be like the universe to contain the all

16.  To endure any humiliation

17.  To respect others is to respect ourselves

18.  be grateful for all sentient beings in heart at every moment and do our best to feedback

19.  Be cheerful to good things done by people

20.  Be generous to others

21.  Help ourselves and others

22.  No expectation to others, the heart would be free

23.  Treat parents and others well

24.  Abandon any obsession to anything

25.  Wisdom is always more important than knowledge

26.  Meditate or do exercise every day

27.  Be independent in economic and in life

28.  Have no fear about any threaten.

29.  Refuse any lure

30.  Have the benevolence and mercy to all sentient beings.

Chapter 6: Endure the evil without hatred

(Chapter 6) A Brief Talk about The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha 

Co-translators in the time of Eastern Han Dynasty, China(A.D. 25 - 200) : Kasyapa Matanga and Zhu Falan (Who translated the said Scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese. )

Translator in modern time (A.D.2018: Tao Qing Hsu (Who translated the said Scripture from Chinese into English.)

Teacher and writer for explaining the said Scripture: Tao Qing Hsu

Chapter 6: Endure the evil without hatred

The Buddha said,” When the evil person heard the good deeds and came to disturb you purposely, you should refrain by yourself and have no hatred and blame. He came to do the evils, yet do the evils by oneself to itself.”  

Spoiling people to do the good thing seems rarely being happened in our society in the modern time, because the information in internet is developed well and there are no conflicts of interest in those strangers. Mostly, we praise and support people who are doing the good thing.

However, when there are conflicts of interest in a group, such as a group of religion, those who are greedy for the fame, power and interest, that is, who have the more heart of selfishness, might purposely attack the person of good will, or spoil any good thing which will be done by the good person.

So, to understand the history of Buddhism and to image the situation in the time of Buddha Sakyamuni, we would realize why the Buddha Sakyamuni had said that. What he had said and taught is exactly what he had real experienced.

I tell a story about the history in a brief. The Buddha Sakyamuni had a cousin, whose name was Devadatta. He followed the Buddha Sakyamuni to be a Buddhist monk, a disciple of Buddha Sakyamuni. After the practice in Buddhism for many years, Devadatta had some achievements in the realm, and planed to replace the Buddha Sakyamuni to be a leader of the group. Then, he began to argue with the Buddha Sakyamuni. He always had the different opinions in the group. And finally, he brought some of the disciples to form another group.

Devadatta envied and hatred the Buddha Sakyamuni, and planed to harm him. There is one time, on the higher mountain, Devadatta and his disciples pushed a big stone, let the stone roll down the mountain, and would plan to kill the Buddha Sakyamuni, when the Buddha Sakyamuni walked on the road with his disciples and passed by there. Fortunately, only the feet of Buddha Sakyamuni is hurt.

Even though Devadatta planed to harm the Buddha Sakyamuni for many times, and went into the hell after his death of drowning, the Buddha Sakyamuni still granted Devadatta that he could attain the Buddhahood after his suffering in the hell through his many lives in many eons. Devadatta went into the hell, because he spoiled the harmony of the group of monk and would kill the Buddha.

From the aforesaid story, we know that Devadatta is the person who spoils the good thing which has done by the Buddha Sakyamuni. Does the Buddha Sakyamuni be angry with him? No. He doesn't. Does the Buddha Sakyamuni have the thought of revenge to Devadatta? No. He doesn't.

Remember the verse said by Buddha:

Even if through the hundred eons,

The evil karma does not be disappeared.

When the cause is met by the condition,

The person still has to bear its own retribution by oneself.

That is why the Buddha said,” He came to do the evils, yet do the evils by oneself to itself.”

The heart and mind of Buddha Sakyamuni is wide and unlimited. In the scripture of Buddhism, the Buddha Sakyamuni had said that he would save the Devadatta to liberate from the suffering and help him to attain the Buddhahood, when the retribution to Devadatta had been ended from the hell, and Devadatta was reborn to be human and the human of heaven.

We know that it is not worth for us to be angry, blame, or revenge to the person who has done the evil thing. If we do so, it is really waste our vigor. So, that is why we should refrain by ourselves when the evil person to spoil the good thing which has done by us.  

From the above mentioned, we realize the wisdom and compassion of Buddha Sakyamuni, and that is why it is worth for us to learn Buddha. The wisdom and compassion is really the immeasurable treasures.