#TheLawOfKarma

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Dharma to Karma

Both 'Karma' and 'Dharma' are Sanskrit terms inherited from Vedic philosophy, India's most incredible wisdom in the field of spiritualism dating back over 5,000 years. According to that concept, 'karma' is a path of activity in thoughts, words,motives and acts, implying that cause equals effect, action equals response, and opposites are equal as one and the same, being two sides of the same coin. 'Dharma' refers to a universal rule of conduct for living in harmony with nature and the universe.

According to the Vedas, there is no need to give up anything in life to progress, transcend, and transform. You don't have to live in a remote location to live a moral life. You can live a righteous life no matter where you are. Our sages established four 'purusharthas' of life - Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha, which interprets as the goals of human existence. These are the four human life goals that everyone must strive to thrive.

Artha means economic success, Kama is for sensual pleasures, Dharma relates to morality and righteousness, and finallyMoksha is to liberate your mind after you are content from the previous three goals of the mind. All four are essential for a wholesome life.  A person is mentally ready for Moksha only after oneexperience and realizes in contentment, the first three purusharthas. A simple comparison may be used to demonstrate this. If you cut the cloth into four pieces, the fourth is automatically ready after you slit the first, second and the third piece.

According to the Vedas, the creator and creation are the same. The four purusharthas are to awaken that divine residing within the soul, which we are unaware of. There is no such thing as duality from which the limited human mind operates. The substratum of all that exists in the Universe is the absolute, eternal, infinite Brahman/energy on which all subset energies superimpose that are interchangeable as solids, liquids, and gases, or we can say as matter and consciousness.From the universal or spiritual point of view,God is that supreme ability of the absolute energy referred to as Parabrahman, Parmashewar or as Paramatma.It is that formless God, which is the absolute, non-dual, everlasting, unlimited, boundless, and unchanging ability of energy, also present within the soul of every individual self.Therefore, physical, chemical, mental, nuclear, and electrical subset energies all arise and vanish into the absolute nothingness of the cosmos.

When the above-mentioned supreme ability enters the individual mind, it settles in the mind's quiet zone, the unconscious mind, which is the mind's thoughtless zone. Spiritually, we refer to this as the superconscious section or the soul.Practicing- the four purusharthas, the mind transforms into higher consciousness to experience and realize it’s limitless potentiality via the soul.However, in today's environment, no one is concerned with the authentic methods provided by spirituality or leading a soulful life. This is most likely why many individuals suffer from rage, anxiety, despair, and stress.

So, how can we put these four purusharthas into practice?

Being aware of your thoughts, words, motives, and actions is the first step. This is because the mind mechanically operates in a subconscious mode (lower consciousness) 98 per cent of the time. It is mostly unaware of what it is doing and thinking. We require the soul to check and guide the mind. This is made possible only if we are constantly alert, attentive, and aware. Further, we require to watch and witness our mind chattering in its thoughts, feelings, and motives. The moment we watch and witness our mind without it responding, justifying or with any prejudice; the mind becomes conscious of all its acts - positive and negative.Thereafter, we leave the mechanical mind to decide what it wishes to select, one out of the two in dual opposites of good/bad, truth/lie or positive/negative. As a result, the mind becomes aware and sensitive to all that is around. This shall assist in reawakening the soul lying dormant within. Hence, once you become a constant witness-er to your own body and mind, life transforms making you more conscious and stable.It will help you discover‘who you actually are’ outside of your body and thoughts.

The soul will lead your mind to discover that truth within. It is that unique inert individual intelligence, which discovers all that we know from the stars to the subatomic particles, which also distinguishes you from the world's other seven and a half billion individuals. The intellect on other hand is borrowed knowledge obtained via every media from others’ experiences.

Therefore, in a dharmic (righteous) manner, earn money (Artha) to satisfy your sensual needs (kama). Only after being content, the mind begins the journey towards emancipation (Moksha). The mind otherwise becomes self-destructive if you do not carry out your goal/responsibilities properly. It is evident seeing the absence of the mind from being spiritual that we see anger, anxiety, and anguish all around.

Let us now discuss Moksha. There are different ways to realize Moksha. The first is about breaking free from the cycle of birth and death. We are not concerned with that. In the life that we exist, our concern should be more towards breaking free from the mind's never-ending chatter. Instead of using our mind, we are being used by it. Liberate our true self from the clutches of our own mind by being alert, attentive and aware – watching and witnessing without the mind responding in any way all that it does.

Learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare your mind for the future. Please keep in mind that dharma and karma are critical aspects of your existence. They educate you on how to live a moral life and save you from going down the path of self-destruction.

[sunmmon8689]

THINGS NEEDED TO BEAR MORE TRAVAIL

We talked a lot about how to get rid of travail: do more work than life asks us. And to do it, we need these four things:

Firstly, the desire to do good deeds (or to help people). Check if we have this desire. If not, quickly have it, or else our life will be unhappy. Everyone must have the desire to do good deeds/to help people, which means volunteering to do more than our responsibilities.

Secondly, the attempt to find good deeds to do. When we have the desire to do good deeds/to help people, we have to manage to find these good deeds but not passively wait for them.

Thirdly, when you’ve found a good thing to do, you can either do it yourself or ask more people to do it with you, or if you see someone doing good deeds, come to help.

Fourthly, when we have done good deeds, just do them without regard for merits, do not complain about our tiredness, and still want to do more.

This is the way of bearing a burden heavier than what life puts on our shoulders. Assume that the burden life puts on our shoulders weighs 100 kg, then we will find another 100 kg burden, and we will gradually rid ourselves of travails.

MAKING GOOD KARMA IS NOT EASY

We can summarize a few things about making good karma or doing good deeds or helping people:

Helping people (or sentient beings in general) is helping them with material things (food, clothing, etc.) or with mental things (= to help them happy, have knowledge, have jobs, have a method to practice spirituality, etc.). Do whatever you can to help others.

When we know the law of karma, we always want to do more and more to help people. But we do not have many opportunities to do it. For example, when we have money, we don’t meet needy people; when people need our help, we don’t have money; when we are free, we don’t see any damaged roads, and when we see damaged roads, we are busy. We have to take every opportunity to do good; we manage to find opportunities to do good.

We often say: “Always finding a way to make others better than yourself is the secret of success and happiness.”

It’s not easy to find the opportunity to do good deeds if we do not have a heart. We should always volunteer to find a thing to help people forever, from the smallest things like bringing chairs for people to sit and listen to the Dharma, to bigger things like giving people a job for a living and helping them have knowledge of the law of Karma for their lives to be comfortable, happy, and virtuous.

Collect.

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. 🌸 🌸 🌸 ЗАКОН КАРМЫ 🌸 🌸 🌸 . 🌿Часть 2. О судьбе.🌿 . . Наша судьба складывается из наших прошлых желаний и поступков. Затем все желания человека осуществляются, и он получает воздаяния за свои поступки. Всё это происходит не сразу после того, как они возникают, а через некоторое время. Кроме того, одной жизни не хватает для того, чтобы осуществилось всё, что должно с нами произойти. . Судьба схожа с дорогой, с которой нельзя свернуть. Она ведёт нас путём наших прошлых поступков и желаний с одной лишь целью, чтобы мы во всём правильно разобрались и, очистившись от эгоизма, посвятили свою жизнь духовной практике. Дорога судьбы никуда не поворачивает на том отрезке, на котором она уже сформирована. Однако, если у Вас поменялся вкус счастья, и изменилась цель в жизни, то, человек может повернуть эту дорогу, но только её край. . . 🌸 1.Если мы продолжаем находиться в страсти, но меняем свой вкус к жизни, то дорога судьбы повернётся в сторону. Возможно мы родимся на какой-то другой планете среднего уровня, подобной Земле, или, оставшись на Земле, родимся в другой культуре с другими национальными особенностями. . . 🌸 2.Если мы решили начать бескорыстную жизнь на благо всех людей и во имя Бога, то край дороги судьбы будет загибаться вверх. И скоро (может, в этой жизни, может, в одной из следующих), в зависимости от длины не пройденного жизненного пути, мы попадём на высшие планеты и будем испытывать состояние счастья много сотен или тысяч земных лет. . . 🌸 3.Если нам захотелось пожить в невежестве, то в результате наша судьба будет направлена на низшие планеты и в этой или одной из следующих жизней мы отправимся в нижние области Вселенной, где жизнь полна невыносимых страданий. . . У нас есть возможность повлиять на ход событий. Но для того, чтобы сделать это действительно правильно, нужно иметь знание о том, как сжигать последствия плохих поступков. Приобрести это знание можно, изучая закон кармы не понаслышке, а непосредственно из Вед, и лучше под руководством опытного наставника. . . На основе лекции Торсунова О.Г. «Закон кармы» . #законкармы #веды #торсунов #карма #знание #thelawofkarma #torsunov #veda #karma #knowledge

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#Repost @chopracenter with @repostapp. ・・・ Tuesday is dedicated to the Law of Karma or Cause and Effect. This ancient spiritual law invites us to tune into our body, mind, and intuition, letting ourselves be gently guided to make the most evolutionary choices as we let go of preconceived notions about what we "should" do. #Namaste #ChopraCenter #TheLawofKarma such a powerful expression❤️ #yasamkocu Baskalarinin yukselmesine yardim ederken biz yukseliriz✨❤️

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“Lo vedi il destino? Tutto è già scritto, ma niente si può leggere.” #karma #destino #thelawofkarma #good #evil #actions #italian #picoftheday #destiny #seethedestiny

[sunmmon8689]

WHY DOES THE PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (PSNS) WEAKEN WHEN WE GET OLDER?

Because through your lives, you have

- Eaten and drunk various substances, some of which damage the brain gradually. Today’s food and chemicals are even more dangerous.

- Enjoyed many pleasurable sensations, and chemicals secreted in the brain to create pleasure also contribute to the destruction of useful nervous regions.

- Worked and acted, physically and mentally, stressing the brain and contributing to the impairment of beneficial nervous regions.

- Had success or failure in moral cultivation. If it is failure, your bad thoughts will contribute to destroying PSNS.

- Done physical exercises, some of which accidentally damage the Yin force (life force/flow of energy), causing the hidden energy to go up to the brain to destroy PSNS.

In general, everyone has gone through the above five things.

The accumulation of unhealthy dietary substances such as meat, alcohol, drugs, tobacco smoke, salty food, sugary food, saturated fat, and hot flavors damages the brain. Therefore, we need to change our dietary habits.

According to Oriental medicine, many medicinal properties support the brain, starting with the Yin force. If you want to strengthen your brain, start with the Yin force in the lower body part but not focus on the brain. This is an excellent discovery of Eastern Philosophy that modern medicine has not fully understood.

If you try to cure your shaking hands (hand tremors) by focusing on your hands, then you will fail. You must focus on the brain instead. However, the brain is not the very right place; it is the Yin force that when it gets better, the brain will recover. Modern medicine hasn’t understood this thing well.

The enjoyment of pleasure is an unstoppable right of living beings, and even the Constitution of many countries protect the right to seek happiness. But you will find its consequences soon. The chemicals secreted in the brain for pleasure are also the ones that harm PSNS.

Work has two types: manual and mental. In fact, one often does both. When he does manual work for a living, the pressure to make money to support himself and his family stresses his brain, damaging his PSNS.

You have to deal with many things in your life, such as emotions, love, relationships, competition, and they cause many emotions to your brain, stressing your brain and damaging your PSNS.

Moral cultivation is related to the concepts of Good and Evil. Good thoughts help to protect PSNS, and evil mind will be confirmed by action. Bad thoughts are somewhat evil. Bad deeds are truly evil.

Physical exercise is a large topic, critical in protecting the brain from high blood pressure. You have to choose a method that can improve your Yin force. This method must be able to put your mind, thoughts, and energy at the lowest point of the abdomen. The Yin force will be strengthened, and the brain will be healthy.

When the Yin force is strengthened, PSNS is protected and thus, able to prevent ANS from commanding the heart to contract absurdly hard and as a result, we don’t have high blood pressure.

Your high blood pressure or Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, hand tremors, insomnia, lethargy, or all of them will go away.

Collected.

#moralitymakesabetterworld

#morality

#meditation

#thelawofkarma

#psns

[elena-zver]

Специально для Тани👸😘❤, цикл публикаций о действии кармы. . 🌸🌸🌸ЗАКОН КАРМЫ🌸🌸🌸 . 🌸Часть 1. Что такое карма?🌸 . . Эта тема сейчас невероятно популярна и о ней говорят многие, хотя не все понимают, что «карма» из себя представляет на самом деле. Тут не нужно ничего изобретать, в этой теме все уже изобретено Ведами. Тем не менее, многие пытаются по-своему трактовать эту тему, что вносит в умы людей полную неразбериху. «Карма» с санскрита переводится как деятельность. Но caнскритское слово «деятельность» имеет более широкое значение. Оно обозначает, что любая деятельность, выраженная в поступках, в словах, и даже в мыслях будет иметь свои последствия. В зависимости от того, сколько пользы или вреда наша деятельность несет, ровно столько мы будем от нее страдать, или наоборот, испытывать счастье. В этом мире нет сил зла, всё существующее в нём предназначено для того, чтобы научить нас быть счастливыми. Существует два основных вида учёбы: . 🌸через осознание как правильно жить; . 🌸через страдание. . Есть ещё один вид учёбы - это беспричинная милость Бога и святых людей, которая проявляется независимо от того, заслужили мы её или нет. Но это уже другая тема, так как в этом случае действует закон божественной милости, а не кармы. Все силы, которые существуют в нашей Вселенной, также поделены на две большие группы. Одни из них предназначены для того, чтобы помочь нам научиться, другие наказывают нас, если мы не хотим учиться. Те люди, которые поняли этот закон, всеми силами стараются изучать, как правильно жить и воплощать эти знания на практике. Все остальные же живут, плывя по течению, и совершают те же поступки, что и все люди вокруг них, искренне думая, что так жить правильно. Однако для закона кармы не имеет значения мнение большинства. Нас будут наказывать в соответствии со справедливость��. . . На основе лекции Торсунова О.Г. «Закон кармы» . #законкармы #веды #торсунов #карма #знание #thelawofkarma #torsunov #veda #karma #knowledge

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[sunmmon8689]

SAINTS HAS ALWAYS PRAISED MEDITATION AS A HARMONIOUS SYSTHESIS OF WISDOM AND MORALITY. When our mind is calm and peaceful, we think clearly about everything. When our mind is clear, we are able to assess the others’ behaviours, and their nature hoslisticly. And also thank to meditation we also can practice to predict our future in more details than those whose minds are not pure. Before practicing meditation, we could only see what the others did to usl, however with the aid of meditation, we cleared our minds and could se things more clearly and in a different way. Or, for some particular issues, we could not analyze or understand why it was the way it was, now with meditation, it helped us understand the issue and helped analyzed it better. Therefore, for those who practice meditation and are good at it, they could be better at seeing and predicting future events than others.

Besides, for those whose minds are pure and calm, they are also very kind and compassionate. Because of this quality, their selfishness is less and they are sensitive and patient. So, meditation itself is a great combination of wisdom and morality. We always wish you to practice meditation throughout your lives. The era is the Information era so it easily makes us stressed.

When our minds are weak, it is difficult to understand and assess all information properly. To strengthen our mind we must meditate.

The last thing is that wise and morality people always find that nothing is permanent in life. Right and wrong, good and evil are only relative. What people consider true somethings wrong; what they think wrong, sometimes true. That is why we do not always judge and assess thing accurately. However, those people, whose minds are calm and pure, could always and see things from right to wrong, from good to evil right but they are not obstinate about those things.

For those young people, you should start doing good deeds from now on. We should help people even with little thing, even just simple as help a kid walk across the street, or pick up an item fall on the street for an elderly person.

The second thing is we need to strengthen our mind.

We need to be smart to judge and assess everything properly and accurately. A strong mind is a result of strong body and spirit. We need to do more exercise, practice martial arts to maintain our physical strength to help clear our mind and make it more powerful. If we are successful at practicing meditation, that power will be many times stronger.

This life is full of difficulties and temptations. Our mind must be strong enough to resist those temptations and overcome those difficulties. From now on, we must do more exercise, practice martial arts to strengthen our mind. When we focus on doing something, our mind should be clear of all other things, and just purely concentrate on one goal. When our mind is clear, pure and focused, it helps us to focus, and enhance our ability to assess things properly.

And last but not least we must continue doing good deeds whenever we could, even little by little because the very basic factor contributing to success is blessing. The more blessings being accumulated, the more chance we have in the life to succeed.

Collected.

#moralitymakesabetterworld

#morality

#meditation

#thelawofkarma

#besuccessful

[sunmmon8689]

SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN LIFE.

Everyone in this world wants to succeed. We learn, practice many things in order to be successful and contribute towards the society. This is most people’s dream.

However, not everyone can achieve their dreams, and in fact, there are very few people that do have their dream come true. Life is ups and downs. Some people claim that their success is due to their talent, wisdom and sometimes a little ruthlessness is needed. The poor always fail because they are weak and no capable.

Sometimes life has a look and think like that. In the philosophers’ eyes, these things appear in a completely different way. We try to understand everything on the basis the law of cause and effect or karma law.

Success or failure is due to the cause of many things that happen across many generations. Maybe you will disagree with this thinking. You may be thinking without talent you would not succeed in life, especially in the competitive market economy, fierce, only those who are very good, very skillful and talented can be talented can be successful.

Let talk a bout s simple thing, wire. There are so many types of wire produced and sole in the market. Whoever has the knowledge about the product and the ability to produce the wire with many superior features with cheap costs and sell it with cheap price will take a lead in the market. But to do so, these people must be talented and also sensitive about the market movements. Therefore, the key factor for success is talent, but it is also critically depends on the law of cause and effect.

A person, who in a previous life had earned many blessings because of his/her many good deeds, would be more talented that the person who did not have much of blessings because he/she did not do many good deeds in their past lives. However, talent is a complicated thing. We will talk about this in another occasion. We know that success or failure in our current live depend on what we did in our previous lives so we should be calm in any event, either a success or a failure. We should not be too proud when we are successful and not depressed when we fail but we should firmly learn from our mistakes and move on. Those, who are too proud about their current success, may not be achievement more success greater in life.

As we strive to do something, let ensure that we put all of our effort to do well, but do not put all our hope to it. If we did, we would be depressed if it failed. So when trying to accomplish a goal, we should only expect for the failure. If it did not work as we expected, the 30-percent component will help us keep us calm, balanced. We should look into those failed scenarios and learn from these mistakes. Only calmness and concentration will help us move and have another goal to reach. That is the attitude of a very wise and virtuous man.

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#moralitymakesabetterworld

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[sunmmon8689]

IT IS NOT LOVE, BUT MORALITY THAT KEEPS MARRIAGE STRONG AND DURABLE.

What will save your love? If each of a couple cares for each other, their own family and the other’s family, etc. then there appears something called gratitude between them. It is this gratitude that will replace their passionate love before and forms glue and something noble to preserve the happiness of marriage.

When the husband loves and takes care of the wife’s family, the wife will be touched, and vice visa. Their gratitude to each other is formed. This invisible gratitude creates strength that helps them be together for the rest of their lives. If one only takes care of their own family but not the other’s, then there is no gratitude between them.

Moreover, the passion of love before marriage is fading, so their marriage is in danger.

They must have ethics to care for each other, the children, the families of both sides, and their gratitude to each other forms. So although according to the principle of love that love is not durable, if you are morally responsible for each other, then your marriage, love, and family will be sustainable.

So when choosing a boyfriend/girlfriend, let choose moral one but not one who always pampers you, or because he/she is romantic or talented since these characters don’t exist forever. But often, when being young, people do not pay attention to morality. What are they concerned?

- Appearance, like these lines of poems: “dressed in brown, you are walking in the moonlight,” “The wind will be glad for your hair to fly,” “You are like a rose that I’m still shy. You like a dream day.” People always focus on the appearance but not the morality.

For those who say they love you, let judge their morals first. What does it mean?

- Do not emphasize how they treat you, because they are trying to win your affections, so they are treating you with consideration, and it’s not really honest. You should notice how they treat people around them, such as their parents, siblings, friends, neighbors. If they are kind to those people, then you can believe that they are virtuous. On the contrary, if because they love you, they don’t care/ignore their parents, brothers, and sisters, etc. then one day when loving someone else, they will ignore you. If you marry an unethical person, they won’t be responsible for you; hence, you won’t feel grateful to him. The love before marriage went away, and there is no gratitude between you two, so how can your marriage exist?

Why today’s marriages are easily broken than ones in the past? Because now young people hastily love, selfishly live and desires enjoyments. This lifestyle makes people tired and fed up with others very fast, faster than usual. We have said according to psychological principles, normally, after three years of marriage, the love will fade. But with people who are selfish and love enjoyments, this period is only a few months.

Collected.

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[sunmmon8689]

HUMAN BEINGS LIVE BY THEIR INSTINCT, MEANING THEY ALSO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR PAST KARMA.

From the time we are born until we grow up, we would have many relationships such as family relationship, friend relationship, colleague relationship…Friend relationship is not as binding as family relationship, but we’d rather being with our friends than staying at home with our parents.

Sometimes, we disobey our parents’ advice, but listen to our friends’ instead. Talking or playing with them is fun: natural instinct.

Living instinctively always makes people feel comfortable and happy, but the consequences are often virtual or cannot be foreseen. Therefore, we must resist that temptation and live with our conscious mind. This could though make us fired, frustrated and annoyed. If we choose fun and temptation, it is like we are riding a bike downhill.

We do not need to try hard, the bike just run faster and faster, and the sensational feeling about it will make us happy. On the contrary, if we try to ride a bike uphill, we must use a lot of energy, we can easily get tired. However, when we reach the top, the feeling would be incredible, the view from the top would be spectacular.

All of us, either living a religious life or not, need to choose one way to live: either live a fun/enjoyable life without worrying about consequences; or live a life with a conscious mind to gain good outcomes and results. This is a constant struggle throughout everyone’s life, even throughout many next lives. Whoever can win over their natural instinct to live a holy life would become Saints. Whoever surrenders to instinct will be re-born in animal realms, or human realms but live a poor and miserable life.

If we want to win over ourselves, then understanding morality is just the beginning. The important thing is strong willpower to practice, being resilient and the main secret is your own blessings.

Thanks to the power of blessings, we could overcome many obstacles, avoid committing many sins to live a pure and moral life. Do not ever think that we are so talented and strong and would be able to overcome every temptation!

We have read articles from the press, which wrote about a woman who taught her children: “Listen to your heart, you would make less mistakes.” Listening to our heart means that we act with our emotion, by instincts. We would do whatever we like to do. Many people think this is a fashionable and popular lifestyle. They do not know that this lifestyle would bring them into the deep hole of abyss. Only those, who can win over their heart to live wisely, can have a truly moral life.

Collected.

#moralitymakesabetterworld

#morality

#meditation

#thelawofkarma

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TALENTS ARE SOMETHING EASY TO RECOGNIZE THAT NOT VIRTUES.

Virtue is something boundless and extremely precious but very hard to identify. Human wisdom is limited because when you grow old, your brain doesn’t work well. However, talents are easier to be discovered than virtues. Because virtue is not easy to be recognize, people rarely pay attention to it but often praise talents, successful careers, skills and so on since they show quite clearly. Nevertheless, what is clear to be seen/realized is fragile and precarious. Virtue is invisible but sustainable and will help us on the road to supreme enlightenment.

Most of us appreciate talents but not virtues, our careers but not our spiritual cultivation. Usually, we admire a doctor, a millionaire or a person who get promoted to a higher position. However, we seldom respect someone who no longer has anger. It is because virtue is something very broad and abstract. That’s why most of us do not aim to be virtuous but talented and successful. We make so much effort to achieve a doctorate and how to build a large house or how to gain a higher position. So, if someone says, “I do not have anger anymore,” or “I do not have greed anymore,” that person hardly wins respect and admiration from others since people pay scant attention to virtue.

However, it didn’t occur that when you no longer have greed, anger, hatred, selfishness, jealousy, etc. you will contribute so many beautiful things to this life. If there were not Masters who were quite but very virtuous, then most of us would commit so many sins and fight with others for our benefits, which would make this life worse and more chaotic. Thanks to those who have given up worldly pleasures, we can constrain ourselves to be less angry, greedy and commit less sin. So, virtue, though invisible, makes this world nobler, while what can easily be seen, for example, a Ph.D. degree, money, social positions, etc. are very uncertain.

VIRTUE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF TALENTS.

If we compare virtues and talents to a house, then virtues are the base/foundation and talents are the house. When you enter a house, you will notice its door, floor, walls, tables, chairs, etc. and you may like them. However, you hardly see its base. In fact, if the house doesn’t have a firm base, it will collapse some day.

People will recognize and admire scientists who have well-known inventions or writers who have famous works. However, if they only have talents but not great souls, they cannot create great masterpieces. We often praise their talents, but we don’t know that they must have corresponding virtues to make their talents promoted. None who only has talents can create magnificent masterpieces. Looking at a high – rise, you must know that there must be a very firm and sound basis before. So, when you admire someone’s success, you should be aware that they must have a high virtue that you may not recognize for now.

Collected.

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