Not seeing yourself is like walking with your eyes closed.

 Not seeing yourself is like walking with your eyes closed.


'If someone doesn't straighten their ring finger, even if it doesn't hurt and doesn't interfere with their work, they don't hesitate to look for someone from far away to stretch their finger. Even if one finger is different from others, they hate it like this, and they don't know how to hate things that are different from others. - Mencius


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Mencius says that the most important thing for people is not their fingers, but their hearts. And they lament the situation in which people feel pain when their fingers are different from others, but not at all when they have a different heart. To have a different heart here refers to a state in which heaven-given nature is lost. In other words, they are people who do not feel that they are wrong, even though they do not live a good life that comes from Satan.


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There are many people in the world whose body is different from others. There is a small disability such as the ring finger is not straightened, and there is a large disability that makes it difficult to live a normal life. Some of these people are born with it, but there are also those who experience discomfort while living. In particular, these days, there are many cases of disability due to accidents and accidents. They are just a little different from the others in appearance. You may experience relatively more discomfort in your life, but it won't ruin your life. However, there are many people around us who ruin their own lives and do not realize it. They have good looks, abundant knowledge, high status, and abundant wealth, but they do not know that their hearts and roots are diseased.


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It's easy to criticize someone's shortcomings. However, it is difficult to look back on one's own shortcomings in the light of others.


In everyday life, it is necessary to examine whether the poor, people with disabilities, or people suffering from social prejudice have been either unknowingly or unknowingly ignored. Even if I didn't ignore them, if I left them alone, it's because my heart is also crippled.


A person who is harsh on others' shortcomings and is generous to himself is the one who lacks.

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