The Eastern Dharma Protector symbolizes responsibility and
safeguards the territory, which means that all of us are
responsible for ourselves, our family, society and the country as a
whole. How do we fulfill this responsibility? If each of us
performs our duties well, fulfilling our obligations, we support
each other and ourselves as well. In this way, society will be
harmonious and the country will be prosperous and powerful.
The Eastern Dharma Protector of Managing the Nation holds a lute,
which symbolizes the principle that we need to refrain from acting
with undue haste but should keep to the middle path. It is like
playing a lute, if the strings are too loose, it will not play. If
they are too tight, they will break. We need to be responsible in
our duties and do things in a proper, balanced way.
