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The Book of Shang has a saying: "Heaven is difficult, and fate is always good." ”
A person's fate is never set in stone.
Therefore, the strong change their lives, and the weak accept their fate.
The Ming Dynasty thinker Yuan Yifan, born in a poor family, later through hard work, became an official of the imperial court and wrote many articles. In the "Study of Destiny" in the "Four Precepts of The Four Precepts", he recorded his own growth experience, which has a good guiding significance for us to change our destiny.
Taking the ancient metaphor to the present, it is not difficult for us to find that when a person's life is getting better and better, he will most likely do the following points.
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First, insist on reading so that people can see their destiny.
When Yuan Was very young, his father passed away. The mother pulls several children alone, and life is difficult.
In order to let her children find employment as soon as possible, her mother arranged for Yuan Fan to study medicine. So he read a lot of medical books.
By chance, he met Mr. Kong at Ciyun Temple, and after some exchanges, he decided to take the road of reading and scientific examination. From then on, I walked into the academy.
The Han Dynasty literary scholar Liu Xiang said: "Books are medicines, and good reading can cure stupidity." ”
When everyone is born, it is a blank piece of paper. In the beginning, it was our parents who taught us to talk, to talk, to etiquette, and so on. So there is simple text on the white paper. Later, we read books by ourselves, improved our understanding of society, and found our ideals step by step, and the white paper became a page.
When you are freed from ignorance, you will be able to see your destiny clearly, rather than being arranged by your parents and will not be followed by others.
Therefore, the basis for changing fate is to read books. When you enter the society, continuing to read is to change your destiny in depth. Those who are confused are because they have lost their direction and cannot see themselves clearly. Or rather, he didn't have a skill, he could only live at the bottom, and didn't dare to look up at the white clouds and the sun in the sky.
"Know what it is, and know why it is so", if you can do this, life can move forward with determination.
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Second, change your thinking and break the pattern of destiny.
Under the guidance of Mr. Kong, Yuan Yifan has taken many consecutive examinations and achieved good results. And Mr. Kong deduced that Yuan Yifan could live for more than fifty years, what position was the official position, and whether he had a wife or children.
Everything in the future has become a "known number", so Yuan Yifan does not have much fighting spirit.
When he was in Beijing, he went to Qixia Mountain to visit The Zen Master of Yungu and confide in his true thoughts. Zen Master Yungu said, "I will do my destiny, and I will ask for blessings myself." ”
"A word to wake up the dreamer", Yuan Yifan no longer sets limits on life, and dares not to play cards according to the routine.
There is a way, not to break, not to stand, not to stand and not to break.
How can a person's fate always rely on his own efforts? The first step to changing your destiny is to break the pattern of thinking and don't let some "solidified truths" control yourself.
A person who is afraid of his hands and feet and follows his steps is not much of a success. Therefore, the ancient masters liked to "travel in all directions". For example, Confucius traveled around the world, learned more knowledge, and also understood the true meaning of life.
People who can take a step and go to a distant place, the first step is not to walk, but to "break the situation" and change themselves from the mind.
Thinking, in a way, is a room. If you don't want to go out of the house, you're frozen; when you go out, you can open the sea and the sky.
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Third, do more good deeds and accumulate the power to change fate.
After being ordered by Master Yungu Zen, Yuan Yufan decided to do three thousand good deeds. Later, in the East Pagoda Meditation Hall, he made a wish to have children and decided to do another three thousand good deeds; after being admitted to the jinshi, he decided to do ten thousand good deeds.
He also used a notebook to write down the good deeds he had done. Usually, the mother will also participate in good deeds.
The ancients said, "There will be a lot of celebration in the house of goodness." ”
Everyone wants their fate to be good, but who is left with "fate"? Therefore, people who really want to change their destiny not only know how to bear the suffering of others, but also share their happiness with others.
To understand, a person to change their fate, need to use internal and external forces. The internal force is one's own knowledge and moral quality, and the external force is the family environment, the help of outsiders, and the image of society.
We often say, but do good deeds, do not ask about the future. Because there are enough good deeds to do, the future is naturally full of flowers, ask or not, it is such an ending, it is better not to ask.
Many people complain about why God doesn't love himself. In fact, complaining is wrong in itself. Because the people who complained, they did not love "God". If you don't love others, why do you get the love of others?
Do well and have well. When you can help others every day, everything will end with a temperature.
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Fourth, self-reflection, adjustment, correction of the direction of fate.
When Yuan Analyzed himself, he found that he had six shortcomings: easy to get angry, too much love for cleanliness, not enough benevolence, like reputation and discipline, talk too much, like to drink, and often stay up late.
Therefore, he prescribed the medicine and actively changed himself.
Mencius said, "If you cultivate, you will have evil in your body, and you should cure it." ”
Everyone has a mistake, just get rid of it, and that's it. This is the practice.
When people mix in society, they will inevitably encounter vicious people, and they will also trigger their own temper because of something, and even induce evil thoughts. There are also some people who have really done things that hurt others.
Knowing mistakes can be corrected, and it is also a good deed. At least you have guided the positive energy of society and made a demonstration action for the villain.
A thief can become a person who persuades others not to steal; a person who does not learn can tear off the "label" by studying; a person who betrays his marriage can still return to the family, love the family seriously, and be accepted by everyone.
Every day I will reflect on myself, I will not be wrong again and again, I will understand what I have done and what I want to do, so that my fate will always start towards the sun.
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Fifth, let go of your worries and return your life to peace.
Master Yungu told Yuan Yifan, "First put down the Ten Thousand Edges, and you can't afford to be dusty; if you get the thoughts and don't move, then the spirit will be fulfilled." ”
Everything is thought of in the good, and all distractions are left alone; there are thoughts, but the heart does not move. In this way, you can be at peace of mind, and when you are at peace, you can be at peace.
Because he lived peacefully, Yuan Yifan lived for more than seventy years. At that time, it should be a relatively long life.
There is a poem that says it well: "Some people are alive and he is dead; some people are dead, and he is still alive." ”
We can't live ten thousand years, but we can expand the breadth of life and raise the height, so that the spirit becomes rich and becomes a model for future generations.
Annoyance is the most useless thing, but many people have no way to get rid of it. Let's say the family has a house, money, children have jobs, but the old people are very melancholy. The old man felt that the next-door neighbor was better off.
Changing our destiny is to let us enjoy every day of our lives, not to "panic forever". The quality of life is not obtained because of the high-ranking official Houlu, but because of the calm heart and the good nature.
Live quietly, live a cleaner life, and you will feel blessed.
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In the Four Precepts of The Great Fan, it is written: "There are many wise and handsome people in the world, so those who do not cultivate virtue and do not add habits to karma only delay their lives for the sake of the word 'following'." ”
Everyone is intelligent and useful, but the day after tomorrow is not cultivated, and the career has not been raised to a new height, so they have become people who do nothing.
"There are causes and effects", and those who can be good are created by their own hands.
There is a way that those who love to come out love to return, and those who are blessed are blessed.
You have created blessings for society, you are blessed people, the truth is as simple as that.
May you and I, thick and thin, accumulate blessings for adults.
Author: Cloth coarse food.
Follow my words and go into your heart.
The illustrations in this article come from the Internet.