Tzu-Ssu

“Thus, in dealing with people, we already have the perfect model of behavior inside us. Just act sincerely, in accordance with your true nature. Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you.”

There were two main points in this reading. One, be sincere. Two, follow the golden rule. Being sincere and treating others as you wish to be treated is such a basic concept and yet so profound. Imagine how much simpler things would be if people were just sincere all the time instead of acting phony. The sincerity talked about in this reading touches all areas of a person’s life. One needs to be sincere at work, in social situations, etc. I cannot think of anything more frustrating in all types of relationships than when people are insincere. If you’re not being sincere, what’s the point? It’s always been strange to me how people will devote so much time and energy into being phony when they could just simply be themselves. I think that YOU are a lot more interesting than the person you’re pretending to be. What a novel idea. Treat others as you wish to be treated. It would seem that this would just be a basic part of common sense and common decency in human nature, but sometimes it seems as though human beings enjoy treating other people like crap and then wonder why people treat them like crap. It’s not complicated folks. We reap what we sow. If we all just stopped and thought about what we were doing or saying and asked ourselves how we would feel if someone did or said that to us, the world would be a much more peaceful place.