Dungdanji

 Practicing love is never an easy task.  Whether my words or actions toward another person constitute love is determined by their outcome—whether they actually bring about a positive change in that person or not.  Compassion, affection, or good intentions may serve as motivation for practicing love, but they do not themselves exert real, practical influence in the act of loving.  The essence of practicing love lies in knowing the precise way to bring about beneficial change in the other person.

 It is a very sad reality when wisdom cannot be passed on to those who earnestly seek it. But what would it be like if there were no one who desired wisdom at all?

 Goodness is what is natural.  When phenomena that ought to occur as a result of existing things do occur, or when phenomena that ought not to occur do not occur, it is natural — and that is what is good.  When what ought to occur does not occur, or what ought not to occur does occur, that is what is bad.