WeR1FamilyThe Knight on The Roof
January 29th 2008 08:28
In the time of East Han Dynasty (25-220) there was a very honest person named Chen Shi. As a civil worker for the government, he was respected by his co-workers and his subordinates. He was as well strict in educating his children, especially when it comes to moral education.
One day, when he was going to sleep, he noticed a thief on top of his roof. But he didn’t shout ‘thief!’ neither asked help from his neighbors and his grandchildren to catch the thief. In the contrary, he pretended not to know and called his grandchildren to gather up; then give them moral education.
The thief hiding on top of the roof could not understand what were the old man trying to do gathering his family down there, but he kept quite so that they would not be aware of his presence.
When all the children had gathered up, Chen started lecturing them about moral education. Hearing those wise words so abundant with life advice, the thief was touched. Before ending his lecture, Chen said, “In their very essence, nobody is born as a thief, but they were influenced by the bad behaviors of the bad people around them, thus they too became a thief. Those kind of people, their moral should be cleansed, just like knight on top of roof.”
Upon those words, the thief realized that his presence had long been known by the old man. As he saw that the old man was kind and forgiving, he jumped down and kneeled before the old man apologizing.
Chen requested the young thief to leave his bad habit of stealing, throwing away very far, and started a new page of his life with all that is positive. Then he let the thief leave the place peacefully.
Source: 50 Classic Chinese Wisdom -
ImageSource: ninja-weapons
The thief hiding on top of the roof could not understand what were the old man trying to do gathering his family down there, but he kept quite so that they would not be aware of his presence.
When all the children had gathered up, Chen started lecturing them about moral education. Hearing those wise words so abundant with life advice, the thief was touched. Before ending his lecture, Chen said, “In their very essence, nobody is born as a thief, but they were influenced by the bad behaviors of the bad people around them, thus they too became a thief. Those kind of people, their moral should be cleansed, just like knight on top of roof.”
Upon those words, the thief realized that his presence had long been known by the old man. As he saw that the old man was kind and forgiving, he jumped down and kneeled before the old man apologizing.
Chen requested the young thief to leave his bad habit of stealing, throwing away very far, and started a new page of his life with all that is positive. Then he let the thief leave the place peacefully.
Source: 50 Classic Chinese Wisdom -
ImageSource: ninja-weapons
Violence is not the way, love is the only way.
Moral advices although soft, but may reverberate through the deepest of heart. What Chen did was correct. Just catching the thief would only stop or postpone him from his bad acts at that time only.
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