..续本文上一页ast time I went to Yunnan, Sichuan, and other places, I found that some entrepreneurs were educating their staff about love on a long-term basis. For example, they formed a group to study Standards for Being a Good Student and Child (Di Zi Gui) and other texts together. This is definitely beneficial for people”s minds.
Question: When I was engaged in biomedical engineering work, I came across some especially dark aspects of it. For example, if your car breaks down and you send it to a garage to be repaired, often your car may have only a small problem, but the mechanic will replace the good parts in your car with old or ineffective parts. Also, even if your brakes are in good condition, the mechanic will pour alcohol into your brake fluid, since changing the whole system is quite profitable work for them. They hope that by doing this your brakes will break down, then they can change them for you and earn a lot of money. At the moment, many of the accidents on the highways are actually due to this problem. However, for outsiders, it is not easy to know what goes on behind the scenes.
Another example is when we start working in biomedical engineering, we have a lot of exposure to cancer, and always discuss how to diagnose and cure it. But gradually, we slowly come to understand that many diseases cannot be cured by doctors because the food that we consume in everyday life contains a large amount of carcinogens. Besides that, some raw chemical materials that can lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or cause liver and kidney failure are being used to produce them. I am sad to say that we cannot control this at the moment. Let me share a statistic so that you can all see it clearly: according to statistics from Beijing Hospital, of all the children diagnosed with leukemia, almost 80% of them have had their house renovated within six months before they contracted the disease. I am aware that, to pass the national standard on interior building materials, as long as the material will not cause serious illness within a few years” time, it is considered to meet the standards. However, human life is not only for a few years.
Therefore, nowadays, it seems that people simply seek economic and material benefit, even at the expense of other people”s lives. In this kind of environment, most people cannot act in other than a worldly way, and so a worldly method must be used for them. For the sake of spreading Dharma, making society more familiar with Buddhism, making society better and nicer, I have established a nonprofit community organization, the Food Safety Association. We try our best to provide bulk buying services and at the same time give free examinations for things such as pesticides and other relevant goods, so that the harm caused can be reduced. However, during this process, we face many hardships, and so would like to seek advice from you. How should we ensure that these activities can continue for a long time, be sustainable, and not be aborted half way through
Answer: Very good. You are very thoughtful, and have considerable understanding in this matter.
Most of us here, especially those who have experience, are certainly aware of the dark side of today”s society. What is the cause of these problems
It is because people do not have correct faith, just as it says in the Nirvana Sutra: “Not knowing that there will be a next life, you will create negative karma.” Many people don”t believe in rebirth, and so they only seek immediate benefit in order to make more money. Hospitals may supply fake medicines, educational institutions neglect the future of their students, and, including what you have mentioned just now, what goes on behind the scenes in garages, food factories, and building material factories is very …
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