雙語散文:彌補錯誤的方法

彌補錯誤的方法

Q. If a wrong is done , how can it be reversed or undone?
　
A. Do the opposite. Try to make up for it. Not only stop doing wrong, but you continue doing right, or start doing right. Not only do we not steal from other people, but we also help the people who are poor and truly in need. That's the true correction for what we example, you have a husband and you have an affair with another man. For example, for example, please. (Laughter) Now you feel sorry about it. It is not only that you have already stopped the affair because your husband doesn't like it, but you also have to love your husband more. Take care of him more. Let him feel better. Let your family relationshi become more solid and happier for you, your husband, and your children. That's the positive way of repenting our wrong deed. Not only we stop doing wrong, but we have to do right.

Once Ghandi heard a Hindu person say, "I am going to hell. I killed a Moslem, because another Moslem killed my child."Then he asked, "What can I do now?

I will go to hell anyhow."So Ghandi said to him, "I know a way out of hell. If you raise an orphan to become a Moslem,you can make up for that. Maybe you will still go to hell, but at least your conscience will be clear. You'll know you have done the best to make up for the wrong you have done and also made someone else happy. At least when you go to hell, you will go happily."

　
問：如果我們犯了錯，要怎樣才能補救或消除？

答：試着做相反的事去補償。不但停止犯錯，還要開始或繼續做對的事；不但不偷別人的東西，還幫助窮人、 幫助真正需要的人，那纔是真正改正錯誤。比方說，你已經有先生，結果又和另一個男人有關係，這只是比如而已。 現在你很後悔，已經中止了那種關係，不再和對方做那樣的事， 因爲你先生不喜歡。這種情況下，你不但要停止外遇，還要多愛你的先生、多照顧他，讓他好過一些，讓你的家庭關係更穩固，使你自己、你的先生和孩子更快樂， 這纔是比較肯定的悔改方式——不但不再犯錯，還必須做對的事。

有一次甘地聽到一個印度教徒跟他說：“我要下地獄了！因爲有個回教徒殺了我的小孩，所以我也殺了一個回教徒。”

他問說：“現在我該怎麼辦？我一定會下地獄的。”

甘地對他說：“我知道一條出地獄的路。你去認養一個孤兒，讓他變成回教徒，彌補你以前所做的事。也許你還是會下地獄，但至少良心沒有愧疚，你知道自己已經盡力去彌補了，而且還讓別人快樂，這樣至少你去地獄時會快快樂樂地去。”