Buddhism: "a gentleman is willing to be a gentleman, and a villain is wronged as a villain." What does this mean?

In fact, these two sentences are very simple. The first sentence: a gentleman is willing to be a gentleman, which means that a virtuous person will want to be a gentleman. The second half of the sentence-the villain is wronged to be a villain, which means that narrow-minded people want to be a villain!

Gao De is a gentleman.

China's feudal traditional thought for thousands of years takes morality as the standard to measure people's quality. A gentleman with high morality is a villain with low morality. People with high morality usually have a very good character, that is, they can show their noble character in ordinary daily life and when they encounter special difficulties. Of course, people with high morality, let's take Kong Rong as an example, because we all heard the story of Kong Rong making pears when we were young. Kong Rong's pear making highlights a kind of fraternity and a kind of love for everyone and people around him, so his virtue is considered to be very high. So we can call people like Kong Rong gentlemen!

Virtue is a villain.

People with low virtue and bad conduct are naturally called villains, so villains are relative to gentlemen. Without a clear concept of a gentleman, it is impossible to identify others as villains. That is to say, if you think a person is a villain, then he is first of all a person with low virtue and poor conduct, and at the same time he must be a dishonest person in his behavior. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mi Fang was originally Liu Bei's brother-in-law, but later betrayed Liu Bei, killed Zhang Fei and gave Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao. Therefore, such people are considered to have poor conduct, so they have no virtue and can be regarded as villains!

The boundary between a gentleman and a villain is blurred.

In fact, the boundary between a gentleman and a villain is very blurred. There is no absolute gentleman, and there is no absolute villain, which is like a person. He did a good thing today, but he did a bad thing tomorrow. You can't tell whether he is a good person or a bad person, a gentleman or a villain. Because time is too short, it is absolutely unfair to him not to give him an effective cycle! Therefore, the only criterion for judging gentlemen and villains is social practice and long-term test!