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Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:31 pm
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Di Zi Gui (弟子規), in English, means
standards for being a good student and child. It is an ancient
Chinese book handed down to us from ancient Chinese Saints and
sages. The source for the outline of this book was selected from
Analects of Confucius.
The book is based on the ancient teaching of the Chinese
philosopher Confucius that emphasises the basic requisites for
being a good person and guidelines for living in harmony with
others.
You can download and share with your family & friends the
bi-language (Chinese and English) Di Zi Gui e-book at the link
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:32 pm
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Introduction to “Di-Zi-Gui”
“Di-Zi-Gui” teaches us 7 moral principles
1. Be dutiful to our parents.
2. Be respectful and loving towards others.
3. Be cautious with all people, matters, and issues we engage in
our daily lives.
4. Be a trustworthy person.
5. To love all equally.
6. Be close and learn from people of virtue and compassion.
7. Improve the quality of our cultural and spiritual lives.
• Virtues are standards and principles of one’s conduct, there
are 5 moral conduct:
Kind-heartedness; Personal loyalty; Proper etiquette; Wisdom;
and Trustworthy.
• There are 8 Core Values
Duty to parents; respect for elders; loyalty; credibility;
proper etiquette (good manner), sense of personal loyalty; sense
of honour (appreciative) and sense of shamefulness (regretful)
• The teaching of Confucius had greatly influenced the Chinese
culture, the moral principles, virtues and disciplines should be
adopted as our basic human character foundation of well-being,
quality and standard of a human being, otherwise whatever we
learnt and gain in life could be futile.
• To respect living things, respect and value all things around
us, including materials and issues, to build a good relationship
with others and cultivate good conducts, live harmoniously
without fear, no violation to the society and abide the required
rules, (law and orders) protect the environment and not to hurt
others.
• Integrating the family members with loves, with affection to
benefit humanity with sincere fraternal loves for others.
• To be a trustworthy person doing worthy things, with
self-consciousness, be committed to comprehend life with
continuation and being contented.
• Have compassion, understand each other’s roles and
responsibilities within the family, workplace, in the
organisation and the society we live in and improve the quality
of interaction in human social life.
• Di-zi-Gui guide us to be a person of high ideas and high
consciousness, with good ability in maintaining humility and
stay humble, nobility with good aspiration and sense of
direction, with good profound knowledge, be committed with good
moral standards and virtue in order to be successful in life.
• A person with this good noble character can make connection
with the universe easily to gain the everlasting blessing with
positive energy and eternal love from the universe. The conduct,
the thinking and behaviours is synchronised with the natural law
and the truth of the Universe.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:33 pm
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Di-Zi-Gui
Chapter 1
Be Dutiful to Our Parents
1. When Parents call, answer them right away and answer
politely. When Parents ask to do something, we need to action
quickly and do it willingly and do well with completeness.
2. Listen to Parents instructions with a respectful attitude.
3. When we made a mistake, Parents reproach us, we must obey and
accept any given advice, accept any lecturing or scolding. Do a
self-reflection, be ready to change and improve ourselves to
minimise any future mistake. (be regretted for our mistakes, way
to repentant)
4. Always be mindful to care for our parents: always keep our
parents in a comfortable situation, greet them in the morning to
let them feel our care and concern for them. Care for their
safety when we go out with them, get for them the necessary and
essential things they really need. Also, be mindful of buying
them the healthy food that are suitable for their consumption.
At night do make sure they rest well. (Have love and gratitude
for our parents)
5. Parents are always concerned and worry about their children,
before going out and come home, it is our virtue manner and
habits to inform them, do not let them worry unnecessary. When
at home, do maintain a proper place to stay, to rest and lead a
routine life to do our works, persist in whatever we do and will
not anyhow change our aspirations at will. (worries can drain
off positive energy, create negative energy, minimise any
negative energy development)
6. Parents would not want to see children doing irrational or
illegal things, a matter or an act might be trivial, but if it
is wrong to do it or could cause unfair or harm to ourselves or
to others, we must not do even it bear little or no consequence.
Even though an act or issue might be small, we must not keep it
a secret from our parents so as not to hurt our parents’
feelings. (do not induce any negative energy for our parents or
others)
7. We should try our best to fulfil our parent’s wishes, if
whatever pleases them is fair and reasonable within our ability.
If we do something that might displeases them, we need to think
it over and if it is within reasonable situation, logical, we
ought to be cautious and not to repeat such mistake of acts. (be
filial to our parent with wisdom and do it intelligently)
8. When we are sick or our body is hurt, our parents will be
worried. Similarly, if our virtues are compromised, they will
feel ashamed and dishearten. We need to maintain a morally
attitude and do things that are of virtue values. (standard of
being a dutiful and successful person)
9. When we love our parents, it is not difficult to be dutiful
to them even to parents who careless of us, this should be the
standards for being a dutiful child. (equality of love without
prerequisite or prejudice)
10. When our parents do wrong, we must try to make them
understand, genteelly and carefully urge them to change, do it
with a loving kindness expression and with warm gentle voice,
explaining with a suitable convincing manner. If they do not
accept any advice, be patience, give them the blessing, wait
until they are in a happier mood before attempt to dissuade them
again. If they end up not accepting, we must not hold any
grudges against them or feel any disappointment. (Apply Love and
Gratitude practices in blessing them).
11. When parents are sick or ill, we must take good care of
them, accompany them, let them feel the love and warm. (Be
responsible, do our best to keep our parents in good health,
there are parents who drain off their health due to hard works
in earning a living to feed us and family, to take care of our
needs, we need to be very grateful to our parents).
12. For those parents who had passed away, (we do not have any
opportunity to pay back their kindness and love) do remember
them with gratitude and feel their kindness in raising us and
previously fulfilling us with all our needs to growth. We must
continue to live a virtue life, do some meritorious deeds to
repay them and commemorate parents’ anniversaries with utmost
sincerity
(Apply the above practices to other people in our life that had
ever benefited us before, like our spouse, senior or junior then
us, build up strong cohesiveness, integrate loving and
togetherness, harmonious and enabling a happier family).
1. We must realise the logical human aspects and be grateful to
our parent for nurturing us since the day we came to this world,
brought us up and given us the opportunity of education, give us
the needs in life, kept us warn with loves and companion.
Parental love is infinite love. Hence, when parent get old, it
is our turn to repay them the kindness by taking care of them,
it is the human being virtuous cycle and the truth of the
Universe.
2. If we do not have an opportunity to be dutiful to our
parents, or partially complied, or has not been taking care of
our parent accordingly, we can make use of “repentance
practices’ to make up our lacking in any or all these areas.
With our affordable means create the meritorious deeds and
transform the merits to our parents.
a. Distributes SLSC related free distribution books like
Fountain of Healing, or the thousand years of convergence.
b. If financially affordable we could also sponsor the printing
of free distribution books or any other SLSC books.
3. When practicing the ‘Love & Gratitude’ be grateful for
whatever our parents had benefitted us in this life, we can
recall and list down all the good things and love parents had
given to us since childhood day.
4. If we remember anything, we had done which had caused hurt or
harmful to our parents before, like not respecting our parents,
argue with our parents with disagreements, disappointed them,
caused them felt hurt before ... etc, we can make use of
repentant practices to remove the unhealthy negative events that
stored in our soul memory.
5. Treat our spouse and family member as if we are treating our
parents and loving our parents, this could influence or children
and family members with virtue attitude.
6. Similarly, we can apply these to our bosses, seniors, and
co-workers to certain extend creating harmonisation with care
and love.
7. After learning this chapter, I wish I could also apply those
mentioned virtues in treating my negative energy (entities), my
negative energy entities should have some form of connection
with me, could be my previous relatives, or past beneficiary.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:34 pm
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Chapter 2
Care and Concerns, Respect for Others
1. Respect others. As an older sibling, we must be friendly,
care and love for our younger ones. Similarly, as a younger
sibling, we must respect and love our older ones. Only when we
can maintain harmonious relationships with our siblings, we can
then consider being dutiful to our parents. (similarly, we can
apply this to our love one, to relative, our colleague,
friends).
2. Always treasure and value our family ties more than then
anything else in our possession, no resentment will come between
us. Always be careful with words, without hurtful comments,
never get angry with any family members.
3. Remember to be respectfully serve the elderly (with drinks,
food, or offer a seat) before entertaining others. (The western
concept of lady first may not applicable in Di-Zi-Que). When
elderly request for someone, get that person for him right away.
If unable to find that person, immediately report back and offer
our help instead. (React responsively)
4. Well manner with politeness. Respect the Elderly, when
addressing him, we should not call him by his given name and
never show off in front of an elderly. Be polite in addressing
others.
5. On the street, when we meet an elderly we know, promptly pay
our respect with a warm greeting. If he does not acknowledge, do
step back and respectfully stand aside. (Apply ‘Love and
gratitude in blessing him).
6. Always pay respect to the elderly, when taking public
transport, allow the elderly to alight or move up first, give
him enough space to walk, assist as required, offer your seat
immediately.
7. In the family, if any elderly is standing, we will not sit
before the elderly take his seat. During conversation, be
mindful to speak appropriately, gently and softly when
communicating with elderly. When answering a question, look at
the elderly who is asking the question and answer back politely.
8. Treating others: Serve your uncles or other elderly as if we
are serving our parent. Treat them as if they are our own
siblings. (treat elderly as parent or relatives, treat men as
brothers, ladies as sisters, other’s children like our children
or our relatives’ children).
9. Attitudes and perspective: In our workplace, organisation or
society, we should also have the habits to treat our friends and
colleagues / members as if they are our brothers and sisters.
Have love, care and concerns for each other. Whenever possible
we should also serve the elderly with respect, as if we are
serving our relative. Do adopt the similar practices and
maintain the similar virtue of kindness, accommodate everyone
with the correct attitudes and similar perspective like a
family.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:35 pm
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Chapter 3
Be Cautious in our Daily Life
1. Align our action, speech and thinking: A person’s speech,
action and thinking represent his personal values in life, when
we speak politely with good manners and do things in an orderly
and morally way, other will felt pleasant communicating with us
and we gain the respect and trust of others.
2. Appearance: Keep our appearance need and clean, dress in
proper manner at least smart casual, when attending certain
occasion or functions, including coming for a study group, be
mindful to dress accordingly to the required dress code, do not
be too casual with loosely dress. (cultivating a good habit with
our appearance)
3. It is more important that our clothes are clean, rather than
how extravagant they are. We will wear only what is simple and
proper, suitable and requirement for the difference occasion. At
home, we will also need to wear clothes appropriately, inducing
our children into the correct perspective.
4. When it comes to eating and drinking, let us not pick and
choose the food. Cultivate a habit to share proportionally, eat
only the right amount and not to over-eat. Avoid alcohol
drinking if possible or take only a limited amount (for certain
celebration), best to avoid it, so as not to encourage or
influence our children with alcohol drinking. (alcohol drinking
does not benefit our health)
5. Always maintain in a good posture, while walking, standing or
communicating with others, when greeting others, pay respect
with gentle bows, do not step on doorsills or stand leaning on
one leg. Do not sit with legs apart or sprawled out. Do not rock
the lower part your body while standing or sitting down.
6. Avoid the habits of doing things in a hurry, be mindful of
doing things in haste will lead to many mistakes. Do not be
afraid of difficult tasks, but also not to become careless when
a job is too easy. Keep away from rowdy places, observe for any
abnormal or unusual things, be prepare and avoid any unsafe
situation.
7. Request and acknowledge: When about to enter a main entrance
of the house or office belongs to others, do knock the door and
first ask if someone is inside, so that those inside know
someone is approaching. Do answer politely and appropriately
when someone is asking.
8. Seeking permission. Do not take anything without asking
permission or borrowing things from others. When borrowing
things from others, do remember to return them promptly.
9. In any situation we must always maintain a good morally
behaviours, in speech, action and reactions. Always stay healthy
and maintain in hygiene condition.
10. Handling people: Avoid any challenging, arguing or
quarrelling with other, even though the other person is very
unreasonable, we should only approach him again to explain the
case and clarify the issue when he or she is in a stable
condition, otherwise wait till there is a good opportunity to do
so. If he does not accept my explanation or take advise, do not
keep the issue in heart. (Apply ‘love and gratitude’ practices
in blessing him).
11. While we are learning to be a morally person in perfecting
our virtues, we also must learn to have a good judgement of
people. Simply because in this society, all the human beings are
of
difference character and behaviours, not all people are
kind-hearted person with compassion. Be cautious of those who
are not sincere, no honest to avoid being cheating. People with
greed and crude or evil minded will take advantage of our
weakness and kindness.
12. When our moral and virtue foundation is not strong, we could
also be bad influence by many others encounters in life, when
our will power is not strong, we could be induced and be
attracted into negativities due to our human nature of
greediness. Especially advertisement of those with discounted
prices, free gifts, good profit transaction. There are also
situations that, we could attract to be involved with other’s
problems and issues that could bring us unnecessary troubles in
life. Hence, we ought to be cautious in our daily life, with the
ability to differential what is right and wrong, with correct
approach doing the right things and act intelligently without
hurting other people, things or issues.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:35 pm
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Chapter 4:
Be Trustworthy
1. Our speech, action and our thinking should be delivered in an
honesty manner with kindness, it is important not to hurt other
or arouse other into confusion. Do not speak with deceitful
words or lies to other, do not speak with foul language, speak
only the truth. Do not be talkative, speak only what is
necessary to avoid any unhappiness.
2. Unless we had saw the happening event, we will not tell
others the story we had heard. We need to clarify the truth of
what we know for sure, do not pass comment or remarks that is
not in good favour to others.
3. Differential what is right and wrong, when asked to do
something that is inappropriate or could lead to hurting other,
or against the regulation and rules, reject it appropriately,
take a good opportunity to explain and guide other into correct
doing.
4. Learn to have an art of speaking, utter words clearly and say
it to the point, don’t go around the bush. Talk gently not too
fast or mumble. Talk about the good points of others avoid
talking the faults of others. Do not involved in unfriendly and
non-virtue communication.
5. When we see others doing good deeds, we must think about
following the example. Even though our own achievements are
still far behind others, we should believe we are getting
closer. When others do something wrongly, we must immediately
reflect upon ourselves ensure we do not make the similar
mistakes. If we have made the similar mistake before, correct it
immediately and learn from our mistake, take extra caution not
to repeat the similar mistake. (Make use of the repentance
practices to remove our past mistakes, do not let this negative
energy accumulated in our soul memory).
6. We must sensitive to realise our morals behaviours, our
conduct, our knowledge and skills, if its not as good as others,
we must encourage ourselves to learn and practice to be better
in enhancing our morality behaviours.
7. Learn to accept criticism and not to be angry, learn to be
appreciative of criticism from others, review our physical
action, speech and our ideas presented to others, make necessary
correction and we will be respected by other and virtuous people
will gradually come close to us.
8. Sometime mistake made is inadvertent, it is merely a mistake.
If it is done on purpose, it is considered an evil act. If we
can correct our mistake and do not repeat it again, we no longer
own that mistake. It is wise not to cover up, because it will
finally re-appear again with more troubles.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:36 pm
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Chapter 5
Love All Equally
1. Human beings, regardless of nationality, race or religion,
everyone should be loved equally. We are all sheltered by the
same sky and we all live on the same planet Earth.
2. A person of high ideals and morals is highly respected. We
don’t judge a person’s value based on outside appearance; his
outstanding abilities will naturally endow him with a good
reputation. Similarly, admiration from others does not come from
our boasting or praising oneself.
3. Make use of our capabilities for the benefit of others, give
a helpful hand to others who needs our helps. (Transmit love and
gratitude to others)
4. We learnt from others competency and abilities, be
appreciative and feel grateful of his achievement, do not be
jealous and make slandered of his ability and competency.
5. Do not flatter the rich, or despise the poor, do not ignore
old friends when we have opportunity to make more new friends.
Be appreciated and be grateful to all friends, whether old
friend or newly equitant.
6. Care and concern for others. When a person is busy, we should
not bother him with matters. When a person’s mind is not at
ease, we will not bother him with words.
7. Do not expose other people’s shortcoming, praised and
approved of others ability and capabilities with encouragement.
Do not spreading rumours about the wrongdoings of others, when
the harm done has reached the extreme, misfortunes will surely
follow. Encourage others to do good and virtues, take an
appropriate opportunity to highlight his faults.
8. Know the difference between ‘give and take’, It is better to
give more and take less. When we asked others to do, we must
first ask ourselves if we would be willing to do so. We must
first be able to do it before asking others to do. Remember to
repay the kindness of others and let go personal resentments and
not holding any grudges with others.
9. When directing subordinate do it honourably with proper
respect. Treat them kindly and generously. Do not use our
position to influence and make them submissive, demonstrate our
virtue, win them with our kindness, care and concerns. Give them
the love and concerns.
(Apply love and gratitude in every moment to improve the
environment with positive energy)
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:36 pm
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Chapter 6
Be close to and learn from people of virtue and compassion
1. We are all human, but we are not the same. Most of us are
ordinary people, only a very few have great virtues and high
moral principles. A truly virtuous person is greatly respected
by others. He will not be afraid to speak the truth and he will
not fawn on others.
2. If we can be close to and learn from people of great virtue
and compassion, we will benefit immensely. Our virtues will grow
daily, and our wrongdoings will lessen day by day.
3. If we choose not to be close to and learn from people of
great virtue, we will suffer a great loss. We will not gain the
appropriate knowledge in handling the daily life issues
correctly.
4. Unintentionally we can be easily attracted with those people
without virtue, and whatever our attempt in handling the daily
live issues and encounters will not be successfully resolved and
may bring us with many areas of problems preventing the path to
success in life.
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Re: Di Zi Gui (弟子規)
By: Alwayshumble Date: September 4, 2019, 9:37 pm
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Chapter 7
Self-Improvement
Improve ourselves through reading and further study to cultivate
a morally virtuous person with improvement in our spiritual life
1. If we do not actively practice what we have learned from the
true and valuable concepts of human philosophy that can benefit
us in our daily life and growth our virtue and wisdom, whatever
we learn or study is merely acquiring some superficial
knowledge, even though we thought we had gained the knowledge.
We will not be able to make use of what we had learnt, hence if
we can apply the knowledge diligently in any related field of
interest, transform the knowledge we gained into a useful tool,
we will have the enthusiasm to further our learning process.
Otherwise, we will only do things based on our own opinion,
thinking it is correct. In fact, resulted in what we know may
not be the truth due to no proper application of the useful
guidelines.
2. There are correct methods and efficient means of learning,
which involve the concentration in three mean areas:
a. The attitude of learning (the mind), be mindful, be
open-minded, analyse each paragraph sentence to understand the
value in it, convince ourselves to believe what we read is
equally important and beneficial to us.
b. Vision (the eyes), be focus, concentrate on completing one
chapter at a time and finish it before moving to other books.
devote enough time and effort to thoroughly understand each
chapter of learning, make notes for reference of important
points.
c. Questioning (the mouth), ask a question to get the correct
logical answers, note down that area you have doubt and seek
advice from those who know, ask for clarification or
explanation.
3. Read only those books of great value which contain the moral
standards and virtue. For those books that are not of the
teachings of the saints and sages, it should be discarded and
not even looked at. Such books can mislead us or block our
intelligence and wisdom and will undermine our aspirations and
sense of direction.
4. Keep our study room or area of study neat and clean, tidy the
desk, to create a conducive environment with a clear state of
mind. Write notes and words clearly with respect is a well state
of mind. Arrange books properly on the bookshelves and treasure
them. After finishing reading a book, put it back where it
belongs. Even if in a hurry, we still need to cultivate a good
habit.
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