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Firmly Believing in the Good
Update: 18/03/2015
Wrong awareness
In any time once the culture and ethics of a society\r\nhave declined, the citizens are easy to loose their belief in the good or what\r\nis good. Having seen or heard too many evils in a society, too many unjust or\r\ngroundless things makes people neither believe in the just and common\r\nsense nor in morality and consciousness. In such a circumstance, life\r\nconception is summarised in the following sayings : ‘Survival of the fittest’,\r\n‘Money is first and foremost’, ‘Money yields authority’ or ‘Money answers all\r\nthings’, etc. Such conceptions lead
people to a wrong or passive way of\r\nlife. The saying ‘Money makes the mare go’ really enslaves the users of money\r\nwhich often actuates the owner (of money) in buying and selling good fames . It\r\nalso leads people to a selfish way of life as a saying ever describes, ‘Ones who\r\ndo not usefully think of myself will be punished by both heaven and\r\nearth’, . . .
Once the more the ethical quality of a society is declined,\r\nthe more wrongly the citizens judge their life values and from which evils and\r\nnegativeness abound more and more. New grown ups see by their own eyes that\r\nsocial position, wealth, fame are true values leading to peacefulness,\r\nhappiness for both themselves and their family whether the nature of these is\r\nimmaculate or good, and whether behind these ‘good things’ there are\r\nprospective, suffering and ever-lasting unstabilities or not.
Observing their present social existence, young and\r\ninexperiened people who do not have deep thoughts may think that dishonest and\r\ndeception are wisdom, righteousness while righteousness and honesty are\r\nfoolishness. These youngsters also only think of anything that is beneficial to\r\nthem regardless of any tricks. To them, only these are brave people who dare\r\nthink and dare act, who have skill and spirit. Accordingly, these people\r\ndeserve to be praised; in other words, these people know how to live on, for\r\nthey know how to think of themselves first and foremost. Such an opinion is\r\nformed from reality in front of their own eyes. Otherwise, good and talented\r\npeople who lead a meek and honest life and live for everybody usually\r\nsuffer a loss, are bullied and clipped their wings, ...
Sometimes good people, good action, ethics, conscience,\r\nresponsibility are praised in form; theories on well-living and real-human\r\nvalues are qualified in speech, but those are useless in reality. New-grown are\r\nunexpectedly taught living bi-facially, mask wearing to live. When coming in\r\nlife, they would be rotten brick that would collapse the common house\r\nconsidered the society, the country they have been living. They would ruin it\r\ninstead of construction.
\r\n\r\n Does the Law ‘Cause and Effect’ Exist?
Observing human life, human beings often ask\r\nthemselves, “Is there the law called ‘Cause and effect’ in thÃs lìfe? And ‘Is\r\nthere the law called ‘social justice’? The answers must be yes. The quick\r\ncollapses and destructions of many constructions causing countless damage have\r\nproved the consequences of less-quality constructions. The advantage- taken-of\r\nprojects as well as those made by unsconsciable engineers and constructors who\r\nare less of responsibility and false physicians are the real\r\nanswers. False physicians who often kill patients are the consequences of the\r\nnegative actions known as buying and selling diplomas or certificates,\r\nfunctions, outdated education, and being in a pother òf family affairs, etc.\r\nPoor citizens, poor country are due to corruption and seeking good reputation\r\nand fishing for praise, irresponsibility in management and neglecting educating\r\nidea and ethics, etc. Cause and effect is the law that is very clear to be seen\r\nin every walks of human life.
\r\n\r\nIndividually, although the living value of an active life or\r\nhuman dignity does not bring any excellence to a person, it does give him the\r\npeace to his life and leisure of his mind - he has no qualms of\r\nconscience. Instead, there is a full joy in the heart of those who lead a\r\ngood-will life or who live for others. Those who do wrong things or lead a\r\ndishonest life will not have a peaceful life and mind, even they are having a\r\nhigh and rich life or in excellence, for their conscience always bears\r\nrestlessness, fear for unfounded worries, because of offence complex, of being\r\nashamed. These types of people always have the fear for others’ glint, the fear\r\nfor the discovery of their wrong doings and being punished and their sibling’s\r\nfuture and silent repentance what has caused by their parents.
\r\n\r\nThe offspring of these types of people will lack their\r\nself-confidence when facing other people. They will neither feel any comfort\r\nnor tranquility in their mind even though they are leading a luxurious life. On\r\nthe contrary, those with a willingness life will leave to their offspring a\r\npride, good sentiments and self-confidence which make them walk with their high\r\nhead throughout their life.
There are some cases in which wicked people can live with a\r\ndeliberate attitude. They deliberately perform actions and are not punished.\r\nThis is thanked to their blessings gathered from their previous lives and their\r\nwicked karma they perform in their present life has not opened into flower or\r\nfruit. If we follow up their wicked karma(s), we will see that they can be exempted\r\nfrom being judged; they will pay for their offences in any form in the future.\r\nSuch a payment may be in the case of a husband/wife’s complete property\r\nfailure, having traffic accidents, illness, lack of health, loss of life or\r\nless quality of life, family happiness fallen to pieces due to family members’\r\nsuch bad habits as narcotics, card playing, alcoholic drinks, indulging in\r\ndissipation, committing adultery, etc. Such things are cause and effects, or\r\nsocial justice. Any action or living attitude leads to its consequences.
\r\n\r\nConsistently Believing in the Good
Obviously attaining the cause and effect, fairness law, we\r\nfirmly confide in the good, in better ideal living with happiness for self and\r\nfor others at present and in the future. In difficult process of being ethical\r\ncultivation or doing good, causing rough, trouble, obstacle living, we\r\ncertainly persist on our will.
The society needs active values of life to stably develop\r\nand long exist for lessening suffering and grief. If life were lack of the\r\nwell-being, virtuous prototype, and human beings had no longer moral senses,\r\nscruples, highly excellence, it would be collapse and its citizens would fall\r\ninto dark hell, in extreme torment.
Translated into English by Hoang Huan.