吾人處事接物，必須有責任感，克盡職守，切勿因循敷衍了事，苟且塞責，自誤前程，遺憾無窮焉。
忠，盡己之謂忠。盡到自己的這種責任就叫忠；你沒盡到自己的責任就不叫忠。好像你看門口，你不看了，你跑了，這就叫沒盡責任，不忠了。好像叫你做飯，你到時候不做了，大家都餓了，這也叫不忠了。總而言之，叫你做什麼，你也答應了，然後你不做，這就是不忠心。忠心就是你把事情做得很好的，這就叫忠心，忠於職守。職就是職務。你做什麼事情，這是個職。好像職業，這個職業就是你所做的事情。你做生意的，就是商業；那做工的就叫工業，這都是你的職。做官的，這是你的職；你做官，在政府，這也是你的職守。你既然有職了，你就要守著你這個職。你不要不守；不守，這就是懶惰，所謂躲懶偷安。
所以說吾人，就是我們這個人。處事就是處理這個事情；接物，接手這一切的物件。「吾人處事接物，必須有責任感」：你一定要盡你的責任。你是做什麼的，好好地做，這叫有責任感。這感就是感想，你要有一種責任的感想。「克盡職守」：你能盡你自己的這種職守，你自己應該做什麼你就做什麼，這叫職守。「切勿因循」：你不要因循，就是拖。天天好像拖泥帶水地樣子，要等一等，慢慢來啦！這是因循，就是不去做去。「敷衍了事」：因循是沒有去做去；敷衍就是做一點點。譬如掃地，掃這一下、兩下，算了！不掃了，這叫敷衍了事。敷衍，把這個事情就算了。本來掃地應該全掃的，可是只用掃把掃了三下，那就算了，這叫敷衍了事。「苟且塞責」：苟且塞責和這敷衍了事差不多的意思，就是不認真，做事馬馬虎虎地，苟苟且且地。「哦！算了吧！就這麼樣子就可以啦！」塞責，就把這個責任塞住了。「自誤前程」：你要這樣子，就自誤前程。
故待人以忠，人待己亦必以忠；待人以偽，人待己亦必以偽。所謂「欺人者自欺也，害人者自害也。」貨悖而出，亦悖而入也，豈可不慎之哉。
（．．．缺漏）我不需要人來利用我的，這個就是見到自己忠心了，沒有虛偽。你要用假的，好像本來你對這個人不很好，你對他就在面上表示很好的，這是虛偽，放一個假面具在自己的面上。「人待己亦必以偽」：你這麼對人假的，旁人對你也是假的。好像現在果地，你對人家外交不忠實，人家對你也是很小心地要防備你，這一樣的。所以人待己亦必以偽，假的，這也就是什麼因就結什麼果，還是這個因果的關係。「所謂欺人者」：你要是欺壓人；暫時你是欺人，久而久之你還是自己欺騙自己，你自己對自己不好。為什麼呢？你欺人，將來人知道了一定對你也不好了。所以這叫「欺人者自欺也」，自己欺自己。「害人者自害也」：所謂殺人父，人亦殺其父，這就害人者自害也－－自己害自己。
「貨悖而出」：這貨，或者東西，或者錢財；悖，不正當，違背你自己的良心。就拿走私賣鴉片煙來講，你賣鴉片煙給人家，將來人也賣給你。「亦悖而入也」：你賣給人，人也會賣給你，這是互相循環的。「豈可不慎之哉」？你怎麼可以不小心謹慎呢？不要害人，不要欺人哪！意思就在這裡。 |
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We should have a sense of responsibility in everything we do. We should carry out our duties to the utmost of our responsibility. We should never procrastinate, conduct affairs in a slack or negligent manner, or be remiss in fulfilling commitments. Otherwise we will only undermine our own future and experience unbounded regret.
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Being loyal means doing our best to fulfill our responsibilities. If you don’t do your best, then you can’t be considered loyal. For example, if your job is to watch the door and you go away and don’t watch it, then you haven’t fulfilled your responsibility; you aren’t loyal. Or if you are told to prepare the meal and you don’t do it and everyone goes hungry, then you haven’t been loyal. In general, if you are told to do something and you agree to do it, but in the end you don’t do it, then you aren’t being loyal. Being loyal means doing your job well. Your job might be running a business, doing labor, holding a government position, and so on. In whatever job you have, you have to fulfill your duties. You cannot be lazy and take breaks on the sly.
We should have a sense of responsibility in everything we do. A responsible person will diligently go about doing whatever he’s supposed to do. We should carry out our duties to the utmost of our responsibility. We should know what our duties are, and try our best to fulfill them. We should never procrastinate, saying, “Wait a little longer, take it slowly,” and keep putting things off. We should not conduct affairs in a slack or negligent manner, just doing a little bit. If your job is to sweep the whole floor, but you just whisk the broom back and forth a few times and then quit, that would be an example of negligence. We should not be negligent like that or be remiss in fulfilling commitments. We shouldn’t be casual and sloppy and say, “Oh, let’s leave it at that; it’s good enough!” We shouldn’t block ourselves from fulfilling our commitments. Otherwise we will only undermine our own future and experience unbounded regret.
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Those who deal loyally with others will be dealt with loyally, whereas those who deal falsely with others will be dealt with falsely. The cheater cheats himself; he who harms, harms himself. If one sends out counterfeit goods, the same returns to him. How could we be anything but careful!
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Those who deal loyally with others will be dealt with loyally, whereas those who deal falsely with others will be dealt with falsely. [Some commentary missing] If you don’t need others to benefit you, then you have seen your own true mind and you aren’t false or hypocritical. If you are good to someone on the surface but don’t harbor good feelings toward him in your heart, you are being hypocritical. It’s as if you’re wearing a mask. If you are phony toward others, they will be phony with you. For example, in international relations, if we do not deal honestly with other nations, they will be very cautious in dealing with us. They will take precautions against us. This is the relation of cause and effect: whatever cause you plant, you will receive the corresponding result. The cheater cheats himself. You might be cheating others right now, but in the long run you’re just cheating yourself. You’re not treating yourself well. Why? Because if you cheat others, they will eventually find out and then they will treat you badly. He who harms, harms himself. If you kill someone’s father, your father will also be killed. When you harm others, you are simply harming yourself.
If one sends out counterfeit goods or money that is obtained in an improper way, in a way that goes against your conscience, the same returns to him. For example, if you smuggle opium and sell it to people, in the future people will sell that stuff to you. It’s a mutual exchange. How could we be anything but careful! How could you not be cautious? The meaning of this statement is: You’d better not harm or cheat others.
吾人處事接物，必須有責任感。
We should have a sense of responsibility in everything we do.
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