禪林寶訓 3.26

3.26

Sixin said to Caotang: "My late master Huitang said: 'A person's tolerance and generosity are derived from their natural disposition. If one forces them with severity, it will certainly not last. If severity does not last, they will conversely be insulted and slighted by petty men. Yet crookedness and uprightness, goodness and evil, are also derived from natural disposition; none of them can be altered. Only the disposition of the average person easily ascends and easily descends, and can be followed and transformed.'" (Veritable Record)