◎ Anonymous
Q. If a wrong is done, how can it be reversed or undone?
問:如果我們犯了錯(cuò),要怎樣才能補(bǔ)救或消除?
A. Do the opposite. Try to make up for it. Not only stop doing wrong, but you continue doing right, or start doing right. Not only do we not steal from other people, but we also help the people who are poor and truly in need. That’s the true correction for what we did. For example, you have a husband and you have an affair with another man. For example, for example, please. (Laughter) Now you feel sorry about it. It is not only that you have already stopped the affair because your husband doesn’t like it, but you also have to love your husband more. Take care of him more. Let him feel better. Let your family relationship become more solid and happier for you, your husband, and your children. That’s the positive way of repenting our wrong deed. Not only we stop doing wrong, but we have to do right.
答:試著做相反的事去補(bǔ)償。不但停止犯錯(cuò),還要開始做或繼續(xù)做對(duì)的事。不但不偷別人的東西,還要幫助窮人、幫助真正需要的人,那才是真正地改正錯(cuò)誤。例如說,你已經(jīng)有了一個(gè)丈夫,結(jié)果又和另一個(gè)男人有染。比如,這只是比如而已?,F(xiàn)在你感到很后悔,已經(jīng)中止了那種關(guān)系,不再和對(duì)方做那樣的事,因?yàn)槟愕恼煞虿幌矚g這樣。這種情況下,你不但要停止外遇,還要多愛你的先生,多照顧他,讓他感覺好一些,讓你的家庭關(guān)系變得更穩(wěn)固,讓你自己、你的先生和孩子更快樂。這才是悔改自己錯(cuò)誤行為的積極的態(tài)度和行為——不但不再犯錯(cuò),還必須做對(duì)的事。
Once Gandhi heard a Hindu person say, “I am going to hell. I killed a Moslem, because another Moslem killed my child. “ Then he asked, “What can I do now? I will go to hell anyhow.”
有一次甘地聽到一個(gè)印度教徒說:“我要下地獄了!我殺了一個(gè)回教徒,因?yàn)橛袀€(gè)回教徒殺了我的孩子?!比缓笏麊枺骸艾F(xiàn)在我該怎么辦?無(wú)論如何我一定會(huì)下地獄的。”
So Gandhi said to him, “I know a way out of hell. If you raise an orphan to become a Moslem, you can make up for that. Maybe you will still go to hell, but at least your conscience will be clear. You’ll know you have done the best to make up for the wrong you have done and also made someone else happy. At least when you go to hell, you will go happily.”
甘地對(duì)他說:“我知道一條通往地獄出口的路。你去認(rèn)養(yǎng)一個(gè)孤兒,讓他變成一名回教徒,彌補(bǔ)你以前所做的事。也許你還是會(huì)下地獄,但至少你的良心沒有愧疚。你就會(huì)知道,你自己已經(jīng)盡最大的努力去彌補(bǔ)這個(gè)錯(cuò)誤了,而且你的一切所行,也讓別人快樂。這樣至少你去地獄時(shí),會(huì)快快樂樂地去。