I read an interesting article today in daily newspaper today. The article is written by a monk. (Something similar with “the secrets”)
The article is written in chinese, so I hope the meaning will not loss in my translation.
Long story short, he says that everything (wealth, happiness, problems) is abundance and there is no a set limit of how many of these exists in this world. If you are happy, you do not rob it from other people and others will still have their share of happiness. If you have problems, it does not mean that others will have fewer problems because you took it away. And it won’t help if you give the problems away to others people, it will only cause more frustrations. You will realize that you will be happy because your problems are solved when you help others to solve their problems.
When you help to lighten up others candles, your candles will not become less bright. On the other hand, the brightness in the room become even clearer because more candles have been lightens up.
After I read this article, I wrote a long email to
this guy on how I feel about him and hope to seek understanding and gain trust again between us. I feel bad if I make his life “miserable” (if I did).
Although I’m still in doubt whether I did the right thing, (there is still some uneasiness in my heart), but I just follow this “When in doubt, just do it!”