Faults

There is a story that once Man visited God and said, "Lord, I am very unhappy. Please show me how to have peace of mind." God replied, "I'm giving you two packages. One contains your faults and the other contains your neighbor's. When you return to earth, hold your package in front of you so that you see only your own shortcomings and keep your neighbor's behind you." But when he returned to the mortal world, what did Man do? He put his own shortcomings behind him and opened his neighbor's package and held it up in front of him, so that day and night all he saw were his neighbor's faults. The result was that he started gossiping and slandering others. He wasted his time finding fault with others, forgetting about his own faults, his own vanity and his own arrogance. When you point your finger to accuse someone, three fingers automatically point back at you.. In other words, for every fault you find in others, three are found in you. We have to get rid of the vanity, delusion and attachment in ourselves and then our life will have meaning.
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