TAOIST VIRTUES WHICH ALL HUMAN BEING SHALL KNOW
Taoist way of explaining virtues is direct, straightforward and most importantly of all - it's practical and not mind-controlling or even stressful. If you are a good person, you should already have all these with you naturally. Here are the virtues we always emphasize on in Tin Yat Lineage of Taoism.* Honesty
* Truthfulness
* Trust and Faith
* Loyalty
* Zero-Evils
Many people think that virtues is only about how you behave or act as a human being in the society. That is not true. Virtues should be two way, it doesn't only apply to how you act to others, but also to yourself as well. Here we will explain how these virtues works.
HONESTY
Being honest to yourself mean that you should not have a poker face kind of way to run your life when you are facing normal people. Yes, evil people are different, because you don't need to talk virtues with those who doesn't talk virtues with you as well. Just like if a robber come to you with a gun, don't be silly to preach them virtues, they just want the money. Beat them up and save yourself. Wisdom teaches you to be also logical and so we don't do stupid things such as trying to preach the bad guys virtues.
Honesty means to be speaking, acting and thinking as one. Your speech shall not contradict what you think and your action shall also be the same as your mind and speech as well. If you are like that with your friends, they will never have misunderstandings with you and they will always know how to get along with you well. If you are lack of honesty, your friends feel shaky and unstable around you, they will think you are lying all the time, then you lose your reputation and even may get bad mouth by your friends as well. Soon, you lose your friends and even your loved ones. Be honest with yourself and others!
TRUTHFULNESS
Truthfulness is like honesty but then this means that you are being truthful to yourself as well and so you won't say that you like something while you don't. There are some people who just want to lie and lie all the time. When people ask them "Do you like the food?" They tend to think, oh we just say yes because we don't want to hurt their feelings. It sounds logical but it is not a way to go for the long run. As time goes on, your way to speak will turn to a very untruthful manner and you will develop the way to lie or hide your feelings and so people will misunderstand you for sure plus you will not get what you want at the end.
Instead of saying you like the food (which you don't), you can say something like "It's not really my style, I prefer it less herbal and spicy instead, but I am okay this time." Saying so, your friend will know your taste better and next time they know what to give you instead of giving you the same thing over and over again which you have to eat it with a smile while your mind say "yuck!".
TRUST AND FAITH
Trust and faith is very important but only toward those who have virtues and act with virtues. Blindly trusting and having faith in virtueless people is just nothing but pure stupidity. Just like love, it won't work if it is only a one-way relationship. Many people think that you should possess virtues and have trust and faith in anybody and the world will go perfect. No, that's not right.
If your parents don't speak virtues with you and they use you as a money making machine rather than caring you as a child, they are not one you should give the trust and faith to them blindly as well. The problem with "blind love" is that you only think the world will turn out good if you are doing good, turns out it all lead to nothing but disappointment. That's the problem. You can't have love if only one side is loving. If your parents are bad to you and you just always giving them your trust and faith, what you are doing is to make them even more virtueless by telling them that their action of using you as a machine is good, working and so they shall do it forever. That's not a virtue you are doing, you are being stupid.
Instead of going to have trust and faith in the bad parents blindly, you should awaken them earlier instead and make them know what they are doing is wrong. By doing so, you are also being honest to yourself and showing your truthfulness to them, showing your true feelings, which lead them to understand it is wrong to do so to you. Trust and faith must be only given to those who deserve it and also have trust and faith with you. You should also have trust and faith in yourself as well!
LOYALTY
Being loyal to your spouse, your family and even your friends. This is very important only if they are also treating you with virtues. Remember, virtue is a two-way thing, you cannot only have one side that speaks virtues and one side is a gangster, it won't work. For those that are good to you, be loyal to them and stay close with them. It will benefit you in the long run. For those who are bad to you and creating bad influences for you, stay away and get out of their circles. Being loyal means you don't betray them, and so men shall not betray their wives by cheating on them, lying to them, whatever. Friends shall not betray each others as well or else the friendship is broken. It's very logical, but somehow people cannot do it right in real life and there are so many mothers and father who lies to their kids all the time, wives lie to their husband, friends lie to each others and they are all lying with an excuse of "I am just being considerate and don't want to hurt them". Yeah right, but you lied.
ZERO-EVILS
The zero-evils means we shall never fall into evil paths, evil religions, do evil magic, and so on. To keep our energy and mind clean, this shall be done. By what we mean here is also to stay away from the evil people as well. If you find your friends are doing evil magic at the back to you, it's a signal for you to leave them as well. The wise and successful one always make sharp, stunning but good decision to cut the rope sharp and fast. If you don't cut those evil friends out of your life, it will drag and harm you more in the long run, just like a contagious virus in your body that can spread or even affect other places as well. This is very the hardest part among all virtues because sometimes even you know a friend for so long, they can still end up doing evil magic and cast the magic on you to "test" their skills. What can you do now? Forgive them and let them do it? If you do, you are just asking for more troubles in the long run.
With wisdom, we learn to stay away from them as soon as we find out. That is what we mean by zero-evils. It not only prevent you from getting more harm from them but also make your life better in the long run because you made a sharp decision to clean up your social circle.
VIRTUES CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER!
With virtues, you gain wisdom and with wisdom your life improves dramatically because you now avoided many problems that can happen to you in your life such as having a bad friend around that can betray you and get you into troubles or even being dragged into a bad situation where your bad friends went crazy and got caught by the cops and said you gave them the pills. Having virtues and wisdom together changes your life. Not only for Taoist but also for all human beings as well - virtues is not for show or talk, it's really a working method that changes your life.
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