The phoenix can only be reborn by fire, the eagle can only spread its wings and fly high again after a long and painful transformation, and the kindness also needs to go through hardships to be stronger...
In real life, we may find that if the good thoughts are strong to a certain extent, they will naturally inspire people with strong jealousy, and they will be unreasonably ridiculed or even hit.
There is a story: there is a rich old man who likes to give charity to help the poor without reservation, he has accumulated so much merit that it shakes the heavens, and the gods are afraid that his merit has surpassed himself, so he goes to the netherworld to the old man and says, "Uncle, do you know that you are going to hell to be tortured by giving alms to the poor?" Stop! Don't believe you look! After saying this, he showed the horrors of hell and asked the suffering beings in hell, "Why did you go to hell?" The gods colluded with them, so all the beings in hell swore, "We go to hell because we always do good deeds!" The old man said, "I do good things for everyone, I am very happy!" Go to hell and go down, I am satisfied to see so many people have received my help! The god of heaven was ashamed to hear this, explained his true intentions and let the old man accumulate more merits to ascend to the heavenly realm as the king of heaven.
The kindness of the old man has accumulated to a certain extent. It attracted the attention of the gods and aroused the jealousy of the gods, so he tried to stop the old man's progress, and the old man was not moved, which strengthened the old man's kindness, and then a qualitative leap occurred. In the process of quantitative change to qualitative change, there will always be a painful turn, and only by not forgetting the original intention can we always.
In real life, many good people will doubt whether the good in their hearts will continue because they have been bullied repeatedly, many people may give up their original selves, many people even "abandon good and follow evil", it is possible that a good seed will be snuffed out. When kindness reaches a kind of entanglement and contradiction, the heart will continue to struggle and struggle, but please persevere, and at the same time learn to be flexible, and pass through what will be a perfect transformation. Kindness, then, requires wisdom and must learn to be flexible. For example, life needs our goodness, but if goodness becomes a kind of weakness, then the bad people around you will run to bully you, others will bully you, that is, to guide others to evil, and the good at this time is not necessarily good. Flexibility is a kind of wisdom, and when goodness becomes a kind of wisdom, the original goodness or the original goodness does not change, but it becomes wiser.
There is also a story: there is a village, and there is a road in the village that is the only way for convoys to come and go in that area. Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft water, the villagers also began to set up roadblocks and rob the convoys, and after the robbery, the villagers scattered, so the government could not do anything. One day a young driver passed by carrying a lot of white chemicals, and he was naturally robbed. The villagers had no culture and could not understand the name of the chemical, believing it to be flour. When the young driver knew the villagers' intentions, he said, "I recognize those things for you, but don't eat them!" If you eat it, you will be poisoned! The villagers did not believe it, and then the young man was anxious, and prostrated to the villagers, begging them to give them something, but not to eat. The villagers hesitated, and they fed the thing to the chickens, and the chickens died in a moment. The villagers were ashamed, released the young man and returned all the chemicals. Since then, they have never done robbery again.
The young driver knows how to be flexible, uses wisdom to resolve the crisis, save the lives of the villagers, and resolve a disaster, thanks to the kindness of his original heart, because in his eyes there is only the life of the villagers, and there is no loss of his own.
Kindness, like us people, need to grow, is a long and lonely process of waiting, do not give up because you can't see hope, the opportunity will be sublimated at that moment.
In one village, there is a popular legend that in the process of animal cultivation into gods, there is a kind of spirit cat. Its whole body is transparent, the size of a small lion, and every time it reaches a stage of cultivation, it will have one more tail, and as long as it reaches nine tails, it can reach the heavenly court and become a cat god. However, this ninth tail is extremely difficult to cultivate, and this spirit cat needs to grant a human wish, and when this human wish is fulfilled, it can grow a ninth tail. And precisely because it promises the human desire, at the same time, it will lose a tail. That is to say, the cat kept fulfilling human wishes, and it kept losing its ninth tail that could become a fairy. For hundreds or thousands of years, the spirit cat has been cultivating non-stop, constantly fulfilling wishes, and constantly losing its tail. In the cycle of gain and loss, the eight-tailed cat is extremely miserable, and it asks for the Buddha's help with tears. I hope to get God's understanding and help him to remove the karmic obstacles of the world.
In this way, the eight-tailed cat continued its arduous practice, with the other spirit cats giving up. One day, on a stormy night, the eight-tailed cat ran into a boy in the village. The boy took the eight-tailed cat home and played and slept with it every day. The eight-tailed cat was in a hurry, and it hoped that he would make a wish quickly so that he could fall into the next cultivation cycle. The boy was speechless, and his heart was churning like a sea, and the eight-tailed cat playing together might bring him a lifetime of wealth, beauty and opportunity. But he looked into its agile eyes, faintly permeated with the sadness of the world, immersed in a little helplessness. It is precisely because the eight-tailed cat wants to unconditionally satisfy man's greedy desires that he will lose the nine-tailed cat that is within reach.
The boy hugged the eight tails and said softly, "My wish is that you have that ninth tail!" Its almond eyes were filled with tears, and it finally knew why the Buddha said " The opportunity has not yet arrived " . It turned out that it had been cultivating for hundreds of years, thousands of years, and fulfilling the wishes of others was to wait for such a person to fulfill its wishes. The nine-tailed cat licked the boy's hand and left silently.
If there is no grinding, no needle, if it is good, it will be grinded, and the endless waiting is only for the moment when the flower blooms...