Poison of Resentment

Our goal is to be a happy and content person.

YOU MUST LET GO OF ALL YOUR RESENTMENTS towards your parents, teachers...

Even if you think your resentment might improve your parent's life, DROP IT ANYWAY.

You have better things to think about.

If someone stepped on your foot and you resented it, do you want to spend the rest of your life hating that person and remembering getting your foot stepped on, and feeling that resentment again...and again...?

You have better things to think about and remember.

Every second you spend hating or resenting someone is like sipping a poison.

You sip enough hatred and it will kill you.

So, FOR YOUR SAKE, forgive your parents for everything "you think" they did wrong.

Buddha Zhen
Patriarch, shaolinZEN.org