細講[弟子規] 第一集 蔡禮旭老師 Dizigui by Teacher Tsai Li-Xu.
The Traditional Chinese Life Lesson of Becoming More Happy #Howtobemorehappy
Have you ever felt so blissful? Bliss is what everyone is seeking. How should allow the feeling of bliss increase in our lives? What kind of things would make you feel blissful as soon as you thought of it?
"To give is more meritable than to receive." 「施比受更有福」
There is an ancient saying that says, "A man is afraid of picking the wrong job, and a woman is afraid of picking the wrong husband." 「男怕入錯行,女怕嫁錯郎」
If you have a righteous boss, then your life will be smooth. What other decisions would you have to make in your life? Did you have breakfast today? Please raise your hand. Picking the right food and the right friends are both very important.
"When you're out there in the society, you need to rely on your friends." 「出外靠朋友」You need to pick the right friends for your family to be happy.
"Life is about handling matters the right way. You need to know when to handle things light, heavy, slow, fast." 「人生也要抉擇輕、重、緩、急」
Whether a person has enough merit or not, and whether he or she will have a happy elder life or not, depends on whether his or her children are filial pious or not. How should we teach our children? Dear audience, how should we teach our children?
身教 - our children should be taught according to how we manage ourselves. "Our behaviors" Is having good grades more important, or having adequate and meritable characteristics or behavior more important?「做人要言行一至」 - As people we need to act as how we speak
How and to where are we pushing our children towards? To have good grades? Or to have good manners? We are pushing our children towards desiring fame and gain...fame and wealth... 「名利」
Are more doctorates unemployed or more high school graduates more unemployed? (In Asia) More doctorates and people with masters degrees are unemployed, because high school graduates are willing to do labor-related jobs, and the people with higher education levels always think that certain jobs are not good enough. Therefore there are a lot of highly-educated people with no jobs.
A child that is filial pious is always trying to let his or her parents feel at ease, and is always trying to better his or her manners and characteristics. If a company couldn't find suitable employees, then what kind of employees is the company seeking after? This answer need not ask the smart ones. What kind of characteristics do you think a successful person has?
Honesty, patience, loyalty, humility...etc. People with characteristics like these will be successful. Then are we teaching our children these characteristics? We think that honesty is key, but we also feel that if our child is too honest then he or she might be bullied.
People from the west for decades have been focused on quality management. But art of management had always been about product quality. But these past one or two decades, in 1995, a bank in England that has two hundred years of history went broke because a Singaporean banker was accused of embezzlement. Therefore the West started to focus on the mannerisms of employees.
「症狀解」- curing the symptoms. People these days like to only cure the symptoms. If this girlfriend isn't good enough, then he switches. If this boyfriend isn't good enough, then she switches. But whose problem is it really? Ourselves. We didn't work on having enough tolerance to care for the other person. To solve a problem, we need to start from the root.
TEM - [全面道德倫理管理] - Nowadays people have a wrong concept in mind. As long as we have money, we can teach our kids well. As long as we have money, we can handle matters well. But that is wrong.
Your visions need to be high for you to have a great future. If it's the other way around, you will always be too engrossed in mourning for the things that you don't have or the things that you've lost. 「所以格局要大,人生才會走得寬廣; 格局小,一輩子都活在患得患失當中」