Eastern Mom VS Western Mom's apple-splitting mindset creates different children.
Before a criminal died, he was asked why he had come down this path. He said it was all because his mother shared apples when he was a child. How did his mother divide the apples?
When he was young, there were once two apples in the house, one big, red and one small, green. Mom asked him which one he wanted? He immediately said I wanted the big, red one. Then he was scolded by his mother, saying that you should let your brother, how can you ask for it yourself? So this apple can't give it to you, you're too unreasonable.
The next time he learned to be good. Every time my mother asked him which apple he wanted, he said that I wanted a small, green one, because my brother needed a big, red apple, so he gave the big, red apple to my brother, and he wanted the small, green one. Then the mother said, good boy, you are so good! You're awesome! Because you are so well-behaved, so good, so sensible, so mother gave you this big and red apple.
So, later he learned this model. Go all the way with this model, what is the final result? He went to the execution ground. Why?
It just happens to be the misuse of this sentence. What did he turn this sentence into?
Lao Tzu's things are not conspiracies, not plots for the sake of conspiracies, but if someone uses it wrong, they will do it as a conspiracy, which is very unlucky. For example, "want to take the reason", how to do it?
It became a conspiracy. When it becomes a conspiracy, something goes wrong. Because I want to get it, I do it in a hypocritical way - I obviously want to get it, but pretend as if I don't want it. A lot of people think that Lao Tzu thinks like this, and then he does it like this. In doing so, on the surface, it will be a temporary success, but the final result must be a failure.
Another mother, who is Westerner, encountered a similar situation. But her children were successful. It is also necessary to divide into two apples, one large and one small. The mother asked the child which one he wanted, and he said he wanted the big one, and the small one said he wanted the big one. But Mom didn't say who to let whom, Mom suggested a rule: Well, since you both want it, give it your reasons and rights, or use a rule to decide, such as what you do, whoever makes the Big Apple will give it to whomever you want.
So then he learned a rule: If I want to get what I want, I have to work on my own. Therefore, he has developed a positive and enterprising style in his life. In the end, he said that he was able to achieve so much thanks to his mother's way of educating.
How do you divide the apples? [Laughing and crying]
