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The Eight Things Need To Be Reduced
Author: The Sie Bien & Lie Ming Sen
Translated by: D. Wijaya
The eight things that have to be reduced when you want to have a better result in practicing Taoism are:
- Lessen envious / jealousy.
Envy is a burden for oneself and usually would lead to a destructive conduct. This character has to be eliminated.
- Lessen criticizing others.
Lots of people does not like to be criticized, moreover, the critics are said in front of the public in attacking manners. Hold down and find a wiser way out is a way to compensate those criticizing.
- Not to show off.
Showing off will lead to arrogant. It seems like "only I who exist, but you aren't".
- Reduced revenge action.
Revenge is also a burden towards oneself. Especially when it is applied to small matters. We will be exiled from our community, not having any friends and destroy ourselves.
- Lessen the action of taking anything into account.
In our conduct, if we always calculate on benefits and losses up to small matters, then how are we going to learn and practice Taoism? Learning and practicing Taoism needs an open mind, simplicity of attitudes and conducts / behaviors in life, but still have principles.
- Not to make any trouble, not being a nuisance or annoying others.
Those are often become a disaster, which caused a broken friendship and inharmonious life.
- Reducing the desire of winning over.
Generally, one is still tight to wealth and fame. If he always wants to win, this means seeking for fame and as if he is the best, actually, he is still at beginner-level of learning Taoism, that is "There is only me, but no one else".
- Reducing the feeling of being right.
Usually if considering oneself being the most righteous, meaning he is the cleverest and others are wrong and stupid. A person that feels being the most righteous or the cleverest, really is the most stupid person, or in other words; that is his stupidity by showing off being the most cleverest. This person is still at the stage of "There is only me, but no one else".
By reducing your bad characters bit by bit, so it will change your attitude from the stage of "There is only me, but no one else" to "I'm the first one and you are next", until then reach the stage of "You are the first one, I'm the next".
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