A short story about laughing at the shortcomings of others without realizing your own shortcomings

The story of laughter at fifty steps and laughter at a hundred steps

King Hui of Liang often drove his people to fight against neighboring countries. Once, King Hui of Liang summoned Mencius and asked: "I govern the country with all my heart and soul. In some places where famines occur all the year round, I move some of the people there to places with better harvests and plant crops with better harvests." Part of the food in the region is transported to the disaster-stricken areas, so that the people in the disaster-stricken areas will not starve to death. However, look at the leaders of neighboring countries, who can think of their own people as wholeheartedly as I do. However, the people of neighboring countries. There has been no decrease, and my people have not increased. What is the reason for this?" Mencius replied: "The king likes to fight. Let me use the analogy of fighting. On the battlefield, when the battle starts, their soldiers rush to each other. After a fierce fight, the victorious party pursued them fiercely, while the defeated soldiers fled as fast as they could, and some stopped after running a hundred steps. The soldiers who ran slowly stopped after running fifty steps. At this time, the soldiers who ran slower mocked those who ran a hundred steps as cowards. Do you think this mocking is right? " said King Hui of Liang. "No, there is no difference between running fifty steps and running a hundred steps. They are both running away from the battle." Mencius said: "Although you love the people, your Majesty, don't you also like to fight? How can the people not suffer? Understand this truth , then stop hoping that your people will be more numerous than those of your neighboring countries. "The king of a neighboring country does not care about the lives of his people in times of disaster. He is a king who does not love his people. King Hui of Liang often mobilized the people to fight, causing the people to live in dire straits. He was also a king who did not love the people. They laugh at each other, just like "laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps". There is no difference!

The story of the crow laughing at the black pig

A group of crows often fly around the pig farm, making fun of the black pigs in the pig farm: "Pig! Pig!" What a black pig! What an ugly pig! "Because the pigs can't run fast and can't fly, they can only endure when they are teased by the crows. However, a yellow dog next to him defended the pig, and said to the pig: "Next time when the crow comes to make fun of you, you can ask it back: Why don't you look at yourselves?"

This paragraph The words show that a person often only sees the shortcomings of others and does not see himself. For example: If you laugh at others for not speaking fluently, will your own speech become fluent? If you find others too wordy and not concise, why should you be concise and to the point? If you look down on the inability of others, do you think you are very capable? All I see in my eyes are this person's shortcomings and that person's shortcomings, but how often have I thought about it, don't I have any shortcomings?

"Horses don't know how long their faces are, and monkeys don't know how red their buttocks are." People who don't have the ability to "reflect on themselves" often make the mistake of not knowing how to "reflect on themselves." "The Zhang family is short, the Li family is short", they talked a lot of gossip, but in fact, all those long and short stories were about their own behavior. "Those who talk about right and wrong are right and wrong." What does right and wrong, good or bad, have to do with others? Aren’t you all responsible for the consequences?

The ancients said: "You only talk about right and wrong just because you talk too much, and you only cause trouble by talking about right and wrong." Laughing at the shortcomings of others without seeing your own shortcomings is actually a "half-weight" and a "fifty-step smile" A hundred steps".

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