Old Tianjin Painting Chronicle

Author: Lin Xi
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: "The body and hair are given by parents and cannot be harmed." This is an interpretation of life from the perspective of self-love. If it is extended to treating others equally well, showing the same kindness to their bodies and lives, then the day of a harmonious world might not be far off. Last year's "9·11" tragedy and the recent frequent "suicide bomb" attacks demonstrate the extreme indifference and cruelty toward one's own and others' lives, which has transcended borders and first achieved "world harmony." For the sake of achieving certain goals, people are willing to cause suffering to living beings, treating the people like grass. When will these tragic human disasters continue to commit wrongs? "The Master said, 'The past flows like this—day and night without stopping.'" I hope that more people can redirect the turbulent waters in your life's journey that move you deeply, channeling them into "The Beginning of Man," so that the great rivers and streams will be even more abundant and magnificent due to your generosity. Naming this series of books with the opening of "The Three-Character Classic" is to follow the path of governing with virtue and dig out from the virtue of our ancestors what can be applied to the present. At the beginning of life, a person is like a naked infant, unable to speak or think, pure and flawless, causing every adult to admire them and evoke a deep longing for their golden childhood. That little person has no high demands—just warmth and food—but receives all-out care and excessive affection. Why, then, do they encounter so many joys and sorrows later in life? Why can't the warmth and harmony surrounding them at the beginning of life stay with them for life, forever?