Sweet&Sour

			Sweet and Sour
			Master JiGong said, "Everyone of us must go through The sweet, sour, bitter and spicy parts of life A cultivator of TAO is not different from an ordinary person Thus, cultivation is in the daily life And what the Teacher passed on to you is but a common TAO A simple and constant Truth and Principle Common sense and common courtesy Cultivation demands concentration Don’t be affected by the external influences And let oneself gets lost in them It is only when you dedicate more effort to TAO Will the light of your Self-Nature get brighter and brighter If you wish to become a Carefree, Immortal Being and a Buddha You must cultivate and practise TAO with one-mindedness Not repeating the same mistakes, humble the mind and subdue arrogance Treat people with gentle words and a cheerful face And be responsible to oneself and to Buddha And to achieve the following After carrying oneself across the bitter sea of life One should help carry others across Having oneself corrected, one must help others to correct themselves." In the ordinary course of life First is to be filial to our parents If one is not filial, then every other thing is false Even in the family there are sweet and sour part of it It is even worse if a man has many wives and many children First is the internal sweet and sour Some even find it difficult to eat together It can be bitter if there are money and properties to share Filial piety could be false Court cases among siblings fighting over properties are common As cultivation of TAO is in the normal course of life First is to perfect the Way of Man It is in the ordinary daily life From young to old In actions and in words Common sense and common courtesy tell our hearts What to do and what not to do If we deviate from it we will invite trouble to ourselves Then there will be sweet, sour and bitterness to give us lessons in life Once we have overcome it Then we will understand better The Way of Heaven Why there is such a practice called ‘The Way of Heaven’