They say if you have too much affection you can be swept away. If you think others?work is your own, even though at times it may be a good thing to share your emotions towards others, if you go to the extreme, you will be swept into the current. Of course you must have care for others, but you must be able to be like water. If you pour water in a cup it can be drunk, and if you place it in a sink it can be used for washing your face, and then it flows into a river and becomes the sea.... It never insists on itself.

You have to become water, and others or things become fish in the water, swim, play around, and then if they get bored, they go away. Water never insists on anything. Like this, if something comes in, just let it in, and if it goes out, just let it go. Let it come as it comes, and let it go as it goes. Water never concerns itself in whether it comes and goes. The host is you. Just think "Ah, a visitor comes," "Ah, he goes." While always holding on to your position...