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Do not boast
Once students have come to the teacher and asked him:
- Why bad inclinations easily beset man, and good - it's hard and it remains fragile.
- And what would happen if a healthy seed left in the sun, and the patient buried in the ground? - The teacher asked in response.
- The good seed that is left without soil, dies, and poor seed will germinate, sprout and give the patient a thin fruit, - answered the disciples.
- So do people instead to do good deeds in secret and deep down, raise the good germs, they parade them and thus destroy. A disadvantages that they can not see other people hiding deep inside. There they grow and destroy the man at the very heart of ...
- Why bad inclinations easily beset man, and good - it's hard and it remains fragile.
- And what would happen if a healthy seed left in the sun, and the patient buried in the ground? - The teacher asked in response.
- The good seed that is left without soil, dies, and poor seed will germinate, sprout and give the patient a thin fruit, - answered the disciples.
- So do people instead to do good deeds in secret and deep down, raise the good germs, they parade them and thus destroy. A disadvantages that they can not see other people hiding deep inside. There they grow and destroy the man at the very heart of ...
