Records of the Words and Deeds of Wang Fengyi: 11. Enduring Humiliation

王凤仪⾔⾏录 Records of the Words and Deeds of Wang Fengyi

十一、忍辱
11. Enduring Humiliation

The following is chapter 11 of Wang Fengyi’s magnum opus; ‘The Record of the Words and Deeds of Wang Fengyi’ 王凤仪⾔⾏录, containing more than 200 chapters. Wang Fengyi is considered a Confucian sage, as part of the Shan Ren Dao movement, he also cured many people, often from the poor countryside, with his healing system that based the root of all illness and disease within one’s emotions.

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我扛活时，打头的（领工）和东家，对我都很好，就是伙计（雇工）里，有一个人常欺负我，我不理他。有一天另外一个伙计同情我，抱不平，在休息的时候，当着众人对我说：“王老二，你太老实了！象你这样，怎能在外边闯呢？你不用怕他，谁再欺负你，就和他斗一斗，我帮着你。”我说：“我哪是怕他呢？我离开家一百多里，在这扛活。我好好地做活，我妈还天天挂念我呢！若再和人打架，万一传到我妈耳朵里，不就更不放心了么？我是怕我妈惦念我，着急上火，才学老实，我哪是怕他呢？”欺负我的人听了，当时就面红耳赤的，以后也不再欺负我了。

When I toiled very hard as long-term labourer, the foreman (supervisor) and the landowner were very good to me. It was precisely a eighbourhood of servants (hired workers), where there was a man, who frequently bullied me, but I ignored him. One day another servant sympathized with me, and was outraged by this injustice . At the time of rest, he said to me in front of the whole crowd of people:

“Wang, the second eldest, you are too well behaved! If you are like this, how could you temper yourself [through hardships] away [from your home]? You need not fear him. Whoever is bullying you again, you will fight with excaty with that person. And I will help you.”

I said:

“In what respect am I afraid of him? I am separated from home by more than one hundred Chinese miles. I am doing toilsome labour here, and I am doing my work properly. My mother is still concerned about me every day! If I moreover come to blows with people, and if by any chance it is passed on to my mother’s ears, would this not then mean she would be less able to ease her heart-mind? I am afraid that my mother constantly has me on her mind. Anxiousness and worry raise fire, thus I learnt to be well-behaved. In what respect am I afraid of him?”
When people, who bully me, have listened to me, though at the timethey are exacltly flushed with anger, afterwards they also do not bully me again.

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