To forgive others
Is to be good to yourself.
Be lenient when you are in the right;
Be calm when you have sound reasons.
Be modest and magnanimous
You shall be happy.
Getting angry is to use others' mistakes
To punish yourself.
If people are considerate,
They can pardon each other.
Don't look to see who is afraid of whom,
Look to see whom could love whom more.
by Shi Cheng Yen
Translated by Ping Chen
from Tzu Chi Magazine - Fall / Winter 1995