Disciples

Chapter 60

Original
Inadvertently wrong, called wrong;
If you have a wrong heart, you are called evil.

Translation
It is a mistake to do bad things unintentionally; if you do bad things knowingly and intentionally, it is a very bad behavior and you will be severely punished.

allusion
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there lived a man named Chen Ding in Xu County, Yingchuan County. He was upright and fair.

One year, there was a severe drought in Henan, and the lives of the people were very difficult.One night, a thief sneaked into Chen Ding's house to steal something.Chen Ding heard the noise at that time, so he got up to check.Seeing this, the thief quickly climbed to the central beam of the main room and hid.Chen Ding had already seen all this, but he did not bluff.He called all his children and grandchildren into the main room as if nothing had happened, and then taught them seriously: "As a human being, you should always strive to improve yourself and be strict with yourself. The so-called bad people are not inherently bad, but if they are contaminated Bad habits, if things go on like this, will get worse little by little. Isn't this the gentleman on Liang in front of us?"

The thief on the beam was very inspired after hearing this, and immediately jumped down from the roof beam, kowtowed and pleaded guilty.Chen Dingruo sympathized with the thief's situation, and asked his family to fetch two bolts of white silk and give them to the thief.After this incident was spread, there were very few things like theft in this area.

(End of this chapter)