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| To avoid pitfalls one has be religiously driven to do good |
Pitfalls arise when one is not spiritually driven but has personal motive for fame in trying to be pure and good. One is then no longer doing good from the heart but for face value (fame, praise and award), some call this gut value.
Do not do good for face value so that others could praise you. Do so from the heart. Love life and bear no distaste for self or for others.
Often goodness done are undeniably for personal gain and not done primarily for others benefit. Be mindful and you can learn this from lessons of life, from one's own life and from the lives of others as taught by all saints including Lord Bo Tien.
Charity must be out of love for life and not for greatness of face value to win award and recognition such as knighthood or for socio-political mileage.
For instance, charity for aged and handicap must part of and be out of the love for all lives.
It would be difficult to reconcile how one could run aged home, nursing home and community care scheme and yet not respect an elder or parent even if that elder is not a saint and may have erred. This behaviour is driven by face value and not by conviction of need to be good and pure.
Respect for elder is a precept or tenet of many religions and sects. Abide by precepts as in any religious book and for followers of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien, the precepts are found in two books.
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