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201. One should not marry someone who has no world of their own, apart from trailing after you. Everyone must have their own world. When immersed in that world, one doesn’t notice many unnecessary things, doesn’t invite needless complications into life. Most of the troubles people get into, they create for themselves. When one stays busy, there’s no time left to create problems over trivial matters. If your partner’s entire world revolves around you, you’ll find yourself in grave danger someday. That’s why it’s good for everyone to have their own sphere to stay occupied. In marriages where husband and wife interfere less in each other’s worlds, there’s much greater mutual respect.
202. It’s not as if calling piglets ‘boar cubs’ instead of piglets increases their worth or makes them reform themselves. Rather, calling them boar cubs simply takes some simple-minded people a bit longer to recognize them. What someone deserves should be met with appropriate treatment. ‘I hate’ and ‘I’m disgusted by’ are not the same expressions. Though the meaning may be similar, the intensity of expression reveals much about the situation. You’ll constantly see people of whom, when speaking, the word ‘disgust’ automatically slips from your mouth instead of ‘hate.’ Just uttering the word ‘disgust’ unconsciously causes saliva to gather in one’s mouth—which doesn’t happen when saying ‘hate.’
203. Whether or not you can appreciate someone’s effort, never undervalue it. Better to remain silent instead. How many more days will you live anyway? Why go out of your way to invite someone’s hatred, irritation, and sighs? Let me teach you a simple wisdom: Don’t try to evaluate what you don’t understand. You don’t have to give opinions about everything in the world. Accept by force if necessary that you have other work to do.
204. If the condition for loving me is receiving love or time back from me, then I don’t need your love. This isn’t called love—it’s called calculation. Suppose someone loves you. The person who loves or likes you does so from their own feelings of affection, right? What obligation do you have in this? Why should they have expectations of you?
205. There’s no point in trying to forget the past; rather, one should focus more rigorously on present work. The present stands upon the past. How can you forget it? Based on what the past teaches, it’s possible to reduce many present mistakes.
206. If someone asks you about another person, it’s better not to make a single comment about that person unless you know for certain. This way, the person asking won’t be misled by wrong information, and the person you’d speak about unknowingly won’t be unnecessarily embarrassed. Most importantly, there are few people more despicable than those who speak about matters based on assumptions or hearsay without clear knowledge. By staying quiet or saying “I don’t know,” you can very easily save yourself from joining that group of wretched people.
207. Our mistakes become apparent to us only when we hold ourselves accountable for all our actions. Someone who isn’t transparent with themselves cannot go very far.
208. If you gain nothing from your relationship with me, or if no good aspect is born within you, then don’t keep me as a needless good person in your life. Know that being hateful or unnecessary to someone in life is also an invisible qualification. With the strength of that qualification, a person can decide whether to stay or leave.
209. You don’t always need a confrontational attitude to meet your needs. You must consider whether your need is truly your due. If it’s not your due, then you can’t have expectations about it—on what logic would you protest? And if it is your due, then it’s better to be strategic rather than confrontational from the start.
210. People remain foolish only until they understand the necessity of their needs. Once they understand, they begin doing whatever is necessary to fulfill those needs. And those who don’t act even after understanding—one must assume they have no objection to living with whatever troubles might arise from not meeting those needs.
211. Never go about giving unsolicited advice. When you go somewhere and distribute counsel or suggestions uninvited, no matter how much you think inwardly that you know a lot and that everyone thinks the way you do, everyone actually thinks of you as nothing but a fool. Especially going to someone who wouldn’t have approached you for advice even if they had a relationship with you and needed counsel—offering unsolicited advice to such a person is utterly ridiculous!
212. Being good, living as a good person, remaining good is very important—but that’s entirely for oneself. Trying to prove your goodness to others is pure foolishness. Whether you’re good or bad, noble or base, honest or dishonest—none of this matters to anyone unless they have some self-interest connected with you.
213. Among the things that, once carelessly lost, can never be recovered and for which there’s no time to make amends, the first are our parents. Let us never neglect these two people for anything else, never behave unjustly toward them. Even after becoming husbands or wives, let us remain, first and foremost, our parents’ children.
214. Sometimes our parents become the cheapest objects of our neglect in this world. I’ve even seen a son who doesn’t feed his mother and still calls her a thief because she once opened a tin and ate a handful of puffed rice. I look at such people and think, God must be on vacation!
215. Often, we cannot become better parents than our own parents were. When we look at ourselves, we understand this very clearly. Why can’t we? Because our lives have complexities that didn’t exist even one-tenth as much in their lives. Since we ourselves haven’t kept life simple, it’s natural that we must pay dearly for some things!
216. What you think from your position may be true for you but may not be true for many others. What won’t create trouble in your life might ruin someone else’s entirely. So let whoever’s life it is live it in their own way. Don’t try to play master there. If you do, that person will be annoyed with you and consider you a busybody. Always remember that beyond your world of thoughts exist countless other worlds, none of which you’ve ever lived in, never knowing what must be followed to survive there. Since you haven’t lived there, don’t comment on it either. Besides, who are you to decide what someone should or shouldn’t think about? If they make mistakes, you won’t face the consequences. What’s your problem then?
217. Even when not actually angry, it’s sometimes good to show anger to avoid trouble. Most people lack sense and judgment. So one must show feigned anger to stop them or keep them restrained. Without showing it, various busybodies will come and make life unbearable. Senseless people are irritating even when good-natured. They unknowingly put people in trouble.
218. Just as learning to swim is essential before floating in a river, one must have a grasp of reality before fully enjoying life. Most people, holding some unrealistic notions in their heads, lose everything while trying to enjoy life.
219. What exists among the elite class is the boundless courage and cunning to drag others down and firmly place them a couple of lines below. Every individual in the elite class is a devil’s nest! Their smiles, external behavior, fountain of words—all are merely parts of their machinations. If possible, it’s better to stay away from them; if nothing else, at least one’s peace of mind won’t be destroyed.
220. Whatever else may be possible, one simply cannot have a family with a short-tempered person. It’s very difficult to live with someone whose mood turns sour at the slightest provocation. They don’t even realize when they create scenes. For them, stubbornness and obstinacy are greater than love. It’s often seen that they have psychopathic tendencies and cannot easily forgive anyone. They keep harping on the same old issues year after year. How can one have a family with someone who doesn’t know how to forget their partner’s faults, who doesn’t know how to forgive their partner!
221. The mental unrest created by internal conflict cannot be cured even by love. Peace is far, far more important than love. One can live without love, but when mental peace is destroyed, no matter how much love exists, one doesn’t want to live anymore! People commit suicide or think of doing so not from lack of love, but from lack of peace.
222. It’s more important for a wife to be virtuous and intelligent than beautiful. Men take at least two years after marriage to understand this truth! How long can one keep looking at beauty! Both the peace and prosperity of the household are destroyed by the lack of virtue and intelligence in both husband and wife.
223. There’s no such thing as equal rights between men and women. Neither women nor men have ever given each other freedom, so the question of giving rights doesn’t arise! What men have done is forcibly impose certain things upon women, and women have accepted this blind compliance as their obligatory duty. On the other hand, trying to live according to women’s wishes, men have been forced to act for ages upon ages. You’d be hard-pressed to find even one woman in a million who accepts a man’s naturalness and frankness and makes a home with him. Women themselves force men to become hypocrites. The moment truth is revealed at home, mental unrest begins for the man. Therefore, both women and men are guilty in their respective places.
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Help others, but be careful they don’t start treating you like tissue paper. The moment you see they’ve assumed you’re obligated to help them, that they can use you whenever they please, that’s precisely when you should withdraw your helping hand. Those who don’t know how to value your presence properly must certainly be made to understand the troubles of your absence.
**225.** How badly things have happened to us isn’t the main issue. We must become stronger and maintain good conduct. While it takes many excuses not to be a good person, it takes not a single excuse to be one. If something very bad happens to you, what you can do is spread what that bad experience taught you among everyone, so that all can become alert before bad things happen to them.
**226.** People remain as they are. No one changes even a bit for anyone else—at most they perform for appearances’ sake or keep telling elaborate lies. We must recognize people through our own discernment and judgment. If we fail to understand someone, that responsibility is ours alone. If we cannot accept someone exactly as they are, we should certainly abandon their company. If circumstances make this impossible, there’s nothing left to do but endure suffering.
**227.** Landlords too should understand how to command respect from their tenants. The first party possesses property, a small portion of which the second party enjoys in exchange for specific payment. Therefore, if the first party’s commitment and self-respect aren’t crystal clear, it’s natural that proper respect won’t be received from the second party. Again, if the second party doesn’t always carefully maintain their sense of self-respect, their position will naturally become quite shaky before the first party. Mutual respect arises from the behavior of both sides.
**228.** Humans aren’t very convenient creatures. Keep in mind that without any clear reason or logic, people will always want to finish me off; maintaining myself with dignity is my own duty. And if this requires throwing some people out of my life, so be it. Staying alive is more important than human companionship.
**229.** One who stands on others’ feet isn’t really standing at all. One who survives by depending on others has both hands and feet immobilized—they are actually disabled. A person who eats others’ food and wears others’ clothes has no difference from a slave. They have no freedom, no dignity.
**230.** Physical suffering is greater than mental anguish. More people die from physical illness than from mental distress. Therefore, there’s no greater fortune than physical health.
**231.** Sometimes, emotion alone prevents people from being happy. The more emotional someone is, the greater their sorrow. An emotional person feels happiness only when someone behaves according to their emotions. Is this even possible? Whose emotions are valuable except to the person who feels them? If they’re very lucky, they might find one or two people who value their emotions. Placing just anyone in the position of their emotions makes sorrow inevitable!
**232.** When feelings of happiness or sorrow no longer remain within a person—that is, when someone begins to live completely without emotion—everything in this world becomes happiness for them. Living without such emotion is much better than receiving sorrow. Most happy people have little emotion. The more emotion someone has, the more sorrow they experience.
**233.** Extreme wounds teach people about life. An injured person then gains a kind of control over their life that doesn’t happen much with others. If you want to live your life by your own rules, such wounds are necessary. A wound that doesn’t destroy a person makes them nearly invincible. Therefore, whenever the opportunity to be wounded comes in life, one must learn from it with a very calm and peaceful heart.
**234.** To someone who finds you worthless, everything about you is unsafe. If you must live with such a person due to circumstances or temporal necessity, you should always remain very cautious. Hide everything valuable you possess very consciously from that person. It would be good if you could quickly arrange to move away from them.
**235.** When you fall down, there’s no point looking for people to extend a hand and lift you up. People feel joy when they see others fall. And when they see someone lying down, they come running to throw stones. Therefore, you must keep enough strength stored within yourself to get up on your own after falling. If you don’t, you’ll lie there on that very road, and if your luck is bad and your endurance low, you might even die from people’s stone-throwing!
**236.** Being able to tolerate everything about your beloved person—that is love. One who has never loved won’t quite understand this feeling. But if after tolerating, you cannot keep your beloved at peace, that person almost always disappears from life. People lose their loved ones much more due to failing to let them live in peace than due to failing to love them enough. Remember, just because you’re tolerating someone doesn’t mean you’ve gained all rights to disturb their peace!
**237.** People without conscience are always hypocrites. Whatever bad situation may arise in life, never maintain any kind of relationship with someone who lacks conscience. No matter how talented, how wealthy, whatever else such a person might be, they won’t think for a second about harming you if the need ever arises!
**238.** Only when praise from anyone near or far means nothing to us can we do the necessary work. And when we learn to remain equally indifferent to criticism, we acquire the power to truly conquer the world! Truth be told, doing your own work properly is a thousand times more important than caring about anyone’s praise or blame.
**239.** In darkness, no form is visible to the eye, which is why only mental flaws are felt then. One whose mental flaws are greater isn’t comfortable or safe even in darkness!
**240.** The more responsible someone is, the more responsibility piles onto their shoulders. The reward for work is simply more work! If any mistake occurs while bearing the burden of additional responsibility, criticism may follow, but if no mistakes are made, rewards almost never materialize.
**241.** If you dislike a certain food, yet when it comes to giving to others, only that food opens your hands generously, then you’re neither noble nor generous—you’re just petty! When people feed leftover food to dogs and cats, it’s not a sign of animal love but economic savings on animal food.
**242.** Never engage in arguments about subjects people know nothing about. This keeps the relationship between you two healthy. Most people are so foolish that far from refraining from talking about things they don’t know, they actually get into arguments about them! It’s better not to lower your position by arguing with such fools.
**243.** When you see the utterly filthy mentality within a person, all the respect you held for them vanishes instantly, even trust! People with filthy mentalities never do good deeds secretly—they always do them for show.
**244.** The respect a person shows toward a relationship is what fundamentally sustains that relationship. Relationships survive not on love but because of mutual respect. Where honor and respect don’t exist, even intense love cannot sustain a relationship.
**245.** For many, being able to cry is also extremely valuable, because even when they desperately want to, tears simply won’t come to their eyes—only their insides burn. If they could cry, such people would feel as if they’d come back to life! If you have such a friend or close person, create enough trust in them so they can cry in front of you. This is a very virtuous act.
**246.** When you don’t find someone worthy of love, all the love in your heart lies fallen uselessly. The great tragedy of the world is this: those who don’t know how to love have no shortage of people to love them. And those who know how to love cannot find even one person worthy of love.
**247.** That person alone is successful on whom some people can place their trust without hesitation. One on whom no one can place trust—their human birth itself is futile! Being able to create spaces for others’ trust within yourself is a very great achievement.
**248.** Never respect narrow-minded people, because they consider it their due and become arrogant about it. Pride brings destruction in two cases: when people take pride in something that isn’t even their achievement. When people become proud beyond their capabilities.
**249.** The time has come for women to abandon the lifelong mentality of living off others like parasites, adding salt and pepper to make it palatable. The more women delay understanding this, the more they’ll suffer insults and oppression. A woman who doesn’t earn has both her self-respect and social-familial position fall very low.
**250.** Boys don’t feel much need to show respect to girls who don’t know how to command proper respect from them. Whether boy or girl, anyone who lacks rational moderation about their position, instead harboring false pride, deserves disrespect and humiliation.