12.09.25 : Progress Without Regression | Above & Overboard | Never Gloss Over Or Conceal Faults | King Bearing Stools | How To Be Remembered | 10 Lessons From 'Monster Island' [PREVIEW]

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 THOUGHT 

Progression Without Retrogression

Since progression
might have retrogression,
true progression
must have non-retrogression.

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 QUOTE 

Be Open And Aboveboard 光明磊落

省察以后,若知是过,即力改之。…… 改过之事,乃是十分光明磊落,足以表示伟大之人格。故子贡云:「君子之过也,如日月之食焉;过也人皆见之,更也人皆仰之。」又古人云:「过而能知,可以谓明。知而能改,可以即圣。」

弘一大师
《改过实验谈》

After self-examination, if knowing there is a fault, immediately diligently correct it… The practice of correcting faults, thus is being open and aboveboard, enough for expressing the greatness of human character. Thus, Zǐ Gòng said, 'A fault of a noble person, is like an eclipse of the sun or moon. Having a fault, also with others all seeing it, having an amendment, also with others all admiring it.' Also, an ancient person said, 'Those who have faults and are able to know them, can be called to be clear. Those who know and are able to correct them, can then be noble persons.'

Great Master Hóngyī
(Discussion On Experiments For Correcting Faults)

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 FEATURE 

Never Gloss Over Or Conceal Your Faults 不文不覆自己的过失
Pointer [7] Above: The transgressions of small-(minded) persons (小人) will surely be glossed over, since they are the direct opposites of noble persons (君子). For understanding the scope of ‘glossing over’, synonyms include the following, from those milder to the more serious — ‘shrugging off, making light of, downplaying, self-rationalising, explaining away, whitewashing, brushing aside, evading…’ [...]
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 EXCERPT 

[79] The Parable Of For The King Bearing Low Stools From The Sūtra Of A Hundred Parables《百喻经》之为王负机喻
昔有一王,欲入无忧园中欢娱受乐,敕一臣言:「汝捉一机,持至彼园我用坐息。」In the past, there was a King, desiring to enter Sorrowless Garden within for amusement to receive joy, who ordered a minister, saying, ‘You should for me clutch a low stool, hold it until reaching that garden, for me to use, for sitting and resting.’ [...]
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 LETTER 

How Should I Be Remembered (Or Not)?
Question: How should our family members and friends, and even strangers now and beyond remember us after our deaths? Answer: We should strive to be remembered, not out of egotism for ourselves, but out of compassion for others. [...]
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 MOVIE 

10 Lessons (With 15 Questions) From ‘Monster Island’ (Orang Ikan)
Amity: When two enemies are stranded in a strange world interdependently, will they further their enmity or transform it to amity? Humanity: When humans do not discover their humanity in extreme and even neutral situations, do they have any hope left? [...]
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