“Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism.
Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason.
Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking.
Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.
Choose your friends and living situation carefully, for they will influence you. Find a mentor you can trust, one who can answer your every question, but never give up responsibility for your own life. No one lives your life for you.
A good education is always an asset.
Emotions are transitory and are not a good way to make decisions.
Every day, you must make decisions. Everything you do will have irrevocable effects upon your life. Before you go down any path, consider carefully. Rivers very rarely reverse course.
Know evil, but do not do evil yourself. Remember, there is a way out of the delusions of life.”
From Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao: Daily meditations (1992) 239 – Youth – Nian Qin
What do you think after you read this? =)
3 comments:
ya, agree. we need mentors to guide us, but in the end still depends on individual's effort to srtive for ur goal. no one will feed you and no free-lunch in this world :-p
try to grasp any opportunities availble when we are young, learn as much as we can. This will become great asset in the future. Education should be employed as a mean to acquire knowledge, to learn independently, to behave well, to encouter challenges steadily, etc apart from the way to earn money and gain reputation.
No doubt, we are constantly facing various challenges and we have to make decision everytime. Education, socialisation, communication wil serve as good guidance in decision made. Also, positive, rational etc behaviours / attitude are essential too.
cheers
thank for the nice post, cheers :-p
i like this one. river rarely reverses its course
i like this one: "Know evil, but do not do evil".. ^^ reminds me of "lazy is just so evil, i shouldn't be that lazy anymore".. grrrgh, must hardworking in my lab works dy, or else will be very lag behind
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