..续本文上一页 selfishness, wanting personal benefit, and telling lies), you will always be young, innocent and pure in appearance. Just like a mischievous old "boy" - although he lives to be eight hundred years ago, he is still like a child, not losing that pure heavenly true nature. Although we grow old, we still want to become children, and have the nature and behavior of a baby, in the sense that we don”t fight to be number one, or scheme to become rich. What”s the point of being number one

　　 What”s the use of being filthy rich

　　It”s said,

　　Fish jump in the water;

　　People stir up trouble in the world.

　　They don”t know enough to do virtuous deeds,

　　But create bad karma with a callous heart.

　　Pile up gold and silver as high as a mountain,

　　But when you close your eyes, it”s all gone.

　　Empty-handed you go see King Yama,

　　And with a regretful heart, your tears fall.

　　"Fish jump in the water": These fish live in the water, jumping and swimming about happily and freely, unaware that they will be caught by the fisherman and eaten for dinner. "People stir up trouble in the world": People in the world! Now we run off to the south, and now we come back to the north. We go up, we go down, and we don”t even know when we will die. Wouldn”t you call this stirring up trouble

　　 People cause trouble in the world.

　　"They don”t know enough to do virtuous deeds": They don”t know to do deeds of wholesome virtue. Actually, in our life we should work for the benefit of others, not for ourselves. One person”s strength is limited, but the strength of the assembly is boundless. If you can benefit other people with your work, this is what”s known as the Buddha”s light shining everywhere, and the rain moistening everything equally. "But create bad karma with a callous heart.": We do all kinds of callous things, such as deceiving, bullying, and harming people, and breaking the law. Isn”t this creating trouble in the world

　　"Pile up gold and silver as high as a mountain.": We may heap up mountains of gold and silver. "But when you close your eyes, it”s all gone.": When we close our eyes and stretch our arms and legs out to rest, everything is gone.

　　"Empty-handed you go see King Yama": With two empty hands we go off to see King Yama. "And with a regretful heart, your tears fall": Only when we get there do we say regretfully, "King Yama, please forgive me. When I was in the world, I didn”t understand how to be a person, so I did a lot of wrong things. Now I know better and regret it, so please don”t punish me." But King Yama says, "No way! No way! You still have to be punished."

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