Master Jun Hong Lu’s
Buddhism In Plain Terms
Volume 9 Chapter 18
(An Excerpt)
OVERCOMING THE NOTIONS OF RIGHT AND WRONG WITH OUR INNATE NATURE
Master Jun Hong Lu: When you suspect another person, you will develop a sense of right and wrong in your mind. If you trust a person, such notions will not arise, am I right? Speaking from the perspective of your innate nature, when a person does something which arouses your suspicion, how do you overcome such a feeling? It is simple.
When he is in the wrong, I will forgive him; when he is doing it right, I should not doubt him too. In other words, I do not judge the person – and that is precisely how it is like to be natural.
Just regard it as a natural phenomenon regardless of whether a person has any shortcoming; it is natural for him to have shortcomings, it is also natural for him not to have any shortcoming, simply because he is just a human being.
If you do not suspect others, you will not easily arouse others’ suspicion towards you. Conversely, if you often harbour suspicious thoughts about others, you will invite a corresponding response from others as well.
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