We easily find other people’s mistakes.

Normally, we easily find other people’s mistakes and hurry to criticize them. There is something very strange in our mind that makes us keep thinking about others’ mistakes then criticize cruelly. Something secret makes us feel that everyone is bad, and only one person is not, who is, of course, ourselves.
Criticizing hurts others. Hurting makes social relations worse. Worse relations means love gradually fades away. Less love makes our society less happy. So, criticizing makes life gloomy. Criticizing also creates hostility. Due to our criticism, the victim will be hated and lonely. Finally, we make bad karma by criticizing.
Regular criticism is cruel because it dishonors people. Then, with the law of karma, those who often criticize will be hurt in return.

However, criticizing can become addictive. He who gets used to criticizing will find it hard to stop, because a secret pleasure appears in his mind when he criticizes others. This pleasure creates an addictive feeling which makes him quickly find somebody to criticize while talking. The more he criticizes, the more sins he makes, and the more addicted he gets and thus, the more criticizing he will keep making. Sins keep piling up.

Only the mouth usually criticises, but all our blessings go away.
While criticism worsens human relationships, compliments bring everybody together. Criticizing is a sin, while compliments bring blessings. Yet, it is not always easy for us to praise someone else.
We must see the strengths of others before we can praise them. This is very difficult, because something secret covers our eyes from others’ strengths. We must have a high level of wisdom and morality to perceive others’ good points.

Compliments have at least three good outcomes. First, it strengthens humans’ relationships. Second, it creates good karma. Third, it encourages the one who is complimented to strive more for the better.
Of course there are some compliments that make people conceited, complacent, and try no more. But there are also timely compliments that help people resume their strength and step forward.
He who can usually praise must be a kind person. That is why when being praised, the Birtish and American often reply, “Thanks, you’re very kind.” An unsular person will not give a compliment even when he sees good points in others. He is stingy with compliments. On the contrary, a generous person will quickly praise when seeing others’ strengths.

Sometimes there is no need to praise someone directly. We can praise him to everybody else, and that can make life nicer. Criticizing paints a gloomy picture of life, but compliments paint a beautiful one.
According to the law of karma, if we praise someone for his good points, we will acquire such strength as well. If we criticize someone for any of his deficiencies, we will stumble the same mistake. So, why do we not praise very often and avoid criticizing?

However, in this world, there are many people who are not good, do evil things, cause harm to others and appropriate things for themselves. Sometimes, we do not have enough virtue to correct them, not enough words to advise them, not enough strength to punish them. But if we keep silent, we become an accessory to them, and this is a sin too. Those evil people still have many past blessings so no one can defeat them. It is hard to solve this situation.

Janna