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Taishang Ganying Pian 10: Not profiting from another’s loss
English rendering of the Japanese reader’s section 10. The 24 divisions are this site’s editorial divisions, not original chapters.
English rendering
Wishing that others fail and destroying their achievements. Endangering others for one’s own safety and reducing their share for one’s own gain. Substituting bad goods for good, sacrificing fairness to private interest, stealing others’ abilities or credit and concealing their goodness. Exposing their faults and private affairs. Wasting their wealth and separating families. Violating what others cherish and assisting wrongdoing. Exerting arbitrary power and humiliating others to win. Ruining seedlings and crops and breaking marriages. Growing arrogant through ill-gotten wealth and feeling no shame on escaping responsibility.
Reading note from this site
A useful question is whether distress at comparison is being turned into a wish to harm another person.
Chinese source passage
願人有失，毀人成功；危人自安，減人自益；以惡易好，以私廢公，竊人之能，蔽人之善；形人之醜，訐人之私；耗人貨財，離人骨肉；侵人所愛，助人為非；逞志作威，辱人求勝；敗人苗稼，破人婚姻；苟富而驕，苟免無恥；
Based on the classical text and this site’s independently prepared Japanese rendering. Classical source edition