Was showing on TV where an old monk was trying to teach a young monk about morals.
They saw a scene where a husband and wife was in the same room. The husband’s face was all blackened with soot, while the wife’s face was without. The wife saw the husband’s face and started cleaning her face, while the husband just laughed at her. The old monk asked the young monk if he understood what was happening. The young monk replied eagerly that the wife, after looking at the husband’s blackened face, thought that her face was blackened too, and started to clean hers. The husband saw the wife’s clean face and thought that his face was cleaned, and thus did not clean his. The old monk nodded his head and asked if the young monk knows what was the moral behind this scene. The young monk shook his head.
The old monk replied in his sagely voice and said that we are too often influenced by others that we failed to tell the difference between what is good, and what is bad, and that we should not let others influence what we believe is right, and what is wrong.
And I thought to myself, if only it is so easy to differentiate between what is right, and what is wrong. Sometimes, there is no clear defined line.