Tolerance is great, from Shangshu. No desire is just, from The Analects.
"Shang Shu Jun Chen": I am not angry with stubbornness. There is nothing to be prepared for. There must be forbearance, and it is helpful. Tolerance makes virtue great.
"The Analects of Confucius, Gongye Chang V": Confucius said, "I have never seen an upright person." Or say, "Shen." Confucius said, "If you want it, how can you be just?"
There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures that "no desire is just", which means that if a person has no desire, he is not afraid of anything, and he is not afraid of anything. Monks have been practicing in monasteries all their lives, and in the end there is no one who doesn't want to go to the west; Taoist priests closed their doors and meditated all day long, and in the end, no one didn't want to soar in the daytime. This shows how difficult it is to achieve "no desire" although "no desire is rigid". Desire is actually a life goal and an ideal. The ancients often said: "There are hundreds of rivers in the sea, and tolerance is great; The wall stands a thousand blades, and it is just without desire ",which is a magnificent compliment to the mountains and rivers, indicating that the sea is big and the mountains are quite impressive." It can also be compared to a person's broad-minded and generous mind, that is, to have a tolerant character, to be honest, not to have any selfish desires, to be selfless, to stand firm and do right, and to be selfless and fearless.
I know an allusion. When Zuo Zongtang was sent to Xinjiang, he passed by the home of Lin Zexu (who had been removed from office). Lin sent a pair of couplets to show his encouragement: There is tolerance in a hundred rivers, and there is strength without desire.
Mr. Qian Mu explained in A New Interpretation of the Analects that "if you want to do it, how can you be just?" It is said that "many people are addicted to lust, so they will bend their minds to favor things, and they will not be strong." "In this chapter, you can't just talk too much, or you can't just say that you don't want to. For example, Daojiazhuang always insists on judo without desire, and it is not a virtue. " I think Lin Zexu's meaning is closer to that of the Analects of Confucius. It is Confucian, and it is a kind of ethics of being an official, which is not the same as explaining and saying "no desire".
"tolerance is great", that is to say, to be open-minded and broad-minded, which is also a manifestation of a person's cultivation. There used to be a saying in China that "a prime minister can sail in his stomach". Regardless of whether the prime ministers are generous people or not, people regard those who have a broad mind like the sea as respectable people.