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Confucius believed that fifty and knowing the Mandate of Heaven.
Only when people reach the age of fifty can they know what the "Mandate of Heaven" is. Everything is the experience of the years, and everything is the epiphany given to us by time.
What is the "Mandate of Heaven"? In fact, we don't need to think about it too complicated. The so-called "Mandate of Heaven" is just that you know what to do and what not to do, and to understand the nature of this world.
When Zeng Guofan was 47 years old, he suddenly had an epiphany and wrote a letter to Zeng Guoquan. There is a saying that in the great wars and great undertakings of ancient times, human conspiracies accounted for only three-tenths, and Providence always occupied seven-tenths.
In his early years, Zeng Guofan did not believe in any destiny, and only believed that people could change reality, and even transcend reality. However, when others reach middle age and experience countless failures and setbacks, he will see through it.
Everyone's life has his mission. If man's mission can conform to the trend of the world, then he can achieve a great cause after all. On the contrary, he can only get nothing and end up helpless.
People may spend their lives in "endless" experiences. And when you and I reach fifty, we will encounter these four great destinies, and may you be able to understand them.
02
Man reaches the destiny of fifty, and everything is "three or seven points.".
Zhao Yi wrote in the "On Poetry": "When I was young, I learned the language of suffering and suffering, and only half of the Work was not complete. To the old age, it is not easy to take, three points of personnel and seven points of heaven. ”
When we are young, we always can't do something well, then we think we don't work hard enough. When I get old, I understand that everything is not something that "manpower" can change, three points of personnel, seven points of destiny.
In fact, Zhao Yi's "three points of personnel and seven points of heaven" and Zeng Guofan said above that "human conspiracy accounts for only three-tenths of the same." This is a reality that ordinary people cannot change.
However, such a statement is still exaggerated, in fact, "seven points of personnel and three points of heaven" is the best. Because manpower, after all, accounts for a certain proportion. In fact, the decision on the outcome is still in the hands of fate and heaven.
When people reach the age of fifty, we should not be too attached to certain things. You must know that how much food you can eat and how many blessings you can enjoy is predestined by fate.
What we can do is to try our best to achieve "seven points of personnel" with our own diligence and efforts, in order to obtain better results. Believing in the best arrangement, believing in the way of heaven and rewarding hard work, this is a positive concept.
03
Man reaches the destiny of fifty and "lets go" of all attachments.
The so-called "If you don't open it, it will be bitter in the end, and each of them will hold on to the established fame." ”
If you can't put it down, if you can't let it go, then you will eventually live in infinite pain. On the contrary, if you open your hands and leave everything unnecessary, you will be able to achieve something after all.
People, as long as they can "let go", it is very remarkable.
Liu Huan sang in "Starting Again": "If the heart is in the dream, there is true love between heaven and earth, and it is heroic to see success or failure in life, but it is just to start again." ”
What we see is the success or failure of this world, and the choice of honor and disgrace in this life. In fact, what is the point of this? When the great river goes east, it will be nothing more than an emptiness in the end.
Whenever I look at the heavens, I think that for thousands of years, this heaven has not changed at all, but human beings, who have multiplied generation after generation, and returned from generation to generation.
Everything, there is no need to be too persistent, when you look up at the universe, believe that all the emotions will arise spontaneously.
04
Man to fifty destiny, "clean" for a lifetime.
Some celebrities have said that in life, it must be like tofu, square and white, but meat can be vegetarian.
A piece of ordinary tofu, square, while also keeping it clean. It is such a despised ingredient that can be mixed into different dishes and shine.
Man, it is not a piece of tofu. However, we all don't want to become tofu ourselves, and we all hope that we will become the taste of the mountains and the sea, and become the luxurious bird's nest abalone.
But is this really necessary?
First of all, not everyone can have a life of "mountain treasures and seafood". Second, things that are too luxurious are not necessarily things of value. Sometimes, white tofu is a pursuit of life.
Being a clean person, having character and virtue, being worthy of the heavens, being worthy of the earth, and being worthy of our parents and relatives in the middle, then won't our lives be complete?
In the second half of life, the fight is not to have more money and more luxury, but to fight for "clean" character. This is the essence of being a human being.
05
Man reaches the destiny of fifty and submits to his own "cause and effect."
Man comes and cause and effect come, man goes and he passes. There is no avoidance in this life, it is all in cause and effect.
Even if you are rich and powerful, you can't escape cause and effect. Because the laws of cause and effect in this world are always in motion, you and I can only sink and rise in cause and effect.
People who have accumulated good deeds and virtues in their lives seem ordinary and plain, but others have a smooth life and are stable until they are old. This is the blessing of others to accumulate good deeds and virtues.
A person who has done all the bad things in his life seems to be rich and powerful, but what will happen to him in the second half of his life, in fact, no one knows. Maybe he went to jail for breaking the law, or maybe his children and grandchildren lost his family and his family wealth was scattered. This, it is difficult to say.
When a person reaches fifty, he must cultivate his character well. Man, just ask for a "peace of mind". Worthy of one's own conscience, worthy of one's own morality, that is enough.
The so-called pursuit is illusory, and only people's "conscience" will accompany us throughout our lives.
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