Tao Thay Shang Men – English

There was a boat which is sailing in the middle of a very wide river, the boat carried a few passengers and of course one of them is the ship’s captain.

All passengers were sleeping, suddenly came very big wind which blew the boat, the river’s waves kept rolling in, and the boat was adrift and buffeted following the rolls of the wave.

The captain was trying to control the steering wheel so that the boat would not be sunk.
All of the passengers were panic and prepared to face up against all the possibilities.
A while later, the wind was subsides, the waves became smaller, but the boat has already leaked in many places.
Then the captain was forced to ask all passengers to jump into the water and swam towards the river-bank to save their own life.
So, the passenger jumped into the water and swam with all their power to save their own life.
When most of them had reached the river-bank, there was someone still in the middle of the river, and apparently he was burdened with a bag of gold plates which was very heavy. The others shouted and told him to throw away the gold he carried, in order to save his life.
However, he didn’t want to be separated with his wealth, and at the end he sank with his gold.

A lot of people emphasizes in materials, so that they often neglect the morality side, even their own lives will not be held anymore.
People who are Xiu Dao should be able to harmonize their living, should able to control their wealth and not being controlled by the wealth People who are Xiu Dao should be able to love their life’s , because by doing so it will get the chances and the time which is longer for revising themselves.
Wealth is an accessory to our life, however, it does not mean everything.

We ought to get wealth by the right way and able to enjoy it in a good way, and uses their wealth for the useful deeds for humanity.
If only by working hard to get wealth, what is the point?
Just being embraced with the greed of wealth, the inner self will be covered with greediness.

Only with the right understanding toward the meaning of life, only with the inner self that is full of values of the truth, human being will able to live without being embraced with the greediness of the wealth.
Only by doing so, human will live more meaningful, and find the eternity of happiness.