【中英双语】将心比心

我们中国人很朴素的一个人生观，就是将心比心；己所不欲，勿施于人，把自己喜欢的给别人。 很多人说佛教是劝人为善，那什么是善？能替别人想，能把自己喜欢的，分享给别人，这就是善。什么是恶呢？以自我为中心，索取自己快乐的，不顾别人感受，就种下恶的因。

A simple, traditional Chinese value is empathy. We try not to impose anything that we don’t like on others, whilst trying to offer what we like to others. It is said that a principal doctrine of Buddhism is to encourage people to perform virtuous deeds. But what does this mean exactly? It means being empathetic. What does ‘evil’ mean? It means being selfish and trying to acquire happiness at the expense of other sentient beings. Sowing the seeds of evil will certainly have bad effects.​​​