对骗子短暂的慈悲可能会助长他们不劳而获的习气,如果拒绝施舍可以促使他们改变,从而走上正道不是更好么? Temporary compassion for deceivers may reinforce their habit of getting something for nothing. Wouldn’t it be better if refusal to give could prompt them to change and get on the right path?
First of all, we must develop compassion for all sentient beings, and then we can think about how to benefit them all. Compassion is an internal instead of external behavior. With compassion softening our own hearts, we can flexibly adjust our extrinsic actions according to causes and conditions. For most of us, it is precisely the lack of compassion within that makes us blindly focus on differentiation among external appearances.
Some trafficking groups often cripple children and then leave them begging on the streets. Even if we give alms to those children with loving-kindness and compassion in order to make good connections, the trafficking groups may find it profitable in abducting, selling, harming, and forcing more children to beg for profit. People on the street have different opinions on it, sticking to their own arguments regarding whether to give or not in such situations. How should we look at this problem?
Under the imperfect set of causes and conditions, it is very difficult to get an immediate, ultimate, and all-around satisfactory result no matter what you do. There are different points of view from different perspective. This is true of everything. If you always consider problems this way, you are liable to be in contradiction and confusion. Whatever you do, you have to understand what you are doing for. With clear purpose, your action can be powerful.
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