Yesterday, a friend asked me: Teacher, how do you stay away from villains? I can't stand it anymore. I replied: Why do you have to stay away from villains? You know, the villain is here to temper you. Committing a villain may be an opportunity for you to grow up, and it also shows that your practice is not good enough. Friends seem to have realized something.
However, this kind of statement may be very confusing, because in the eyes of many people, for the villain, we avoid it, how big a mind do we have to tolerate the villain?
The so-called villain is a kind of person who is opposed to a gentleman. The ancients said: Gentlemen are frank, and villains are often related. No matter what he does, he puts his conscience first, so that when a gentleman does things, he will be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, and he will be able to cherish the conscience of heaven and earth.
Therefore, a gentleman becomes the highest criterion for judging a person's virtue. Therefore, gentlemen have principles, bottom lines, ethics, understand etiquette, and know honesty and shame, so we often see some upright gentlemen who are repeatedly discouraged and easy to be played with between the palms of their hands. In fact, it is not that gentlemen do not understand the art of power, but they just disdain to use it.
Villains are different, scheming, good at playing with scheming and power, taking themselves as their ability, paying more attention to their own interests, using various means in order to achieve a certain purpose, only profit is the goal, two sides and three knives, try their best to seek advantages and avoid harm.
In the eyes of the ancients, this kind of person is a "non-conformist" unworthy person, short-sighted, and does not care about the cost. This kind of person is a real villain, who can often see the wind and make the rudder, and see profit and forget righteousness, so he is despised by gentlemen.
True villains have almost no personality to speak of, and can even be said to have never formed an independent personality, nodding their heads everywhere, contributing to their hearts, and being brazen, so they have been criticized by many people. In addition, the villain has no heart to speak of, so many times may play a clown role in a group, very able to read the boss's mind and do what he likes, so the villain will also be appreciated by the boss, of course, the leader who reuses the villain is not necessarily a good leader. For example, the King of Shang reused Fei Zhong and Evil Lai, and Emperor Huizong of Song reused Qin Jun, etc., and the ending was not very good.
Villains belong to yin, so there are many words that express the behavior of villains, such as sinister and poisonous, yang and yin violations, etc. The gentleman on the other hand is yang. From this point of view, the villain seems to be specially designed for gentlemen, and it is the harmony of yin and yang in a group that can live endlessly. Therefore, as a leader, we must use both good gentlemen and villains, which are two opposing forces, and only the mutual balance of yin and yang can make the enterprise grow healthily. The Qianlong Emperor had villains such as He Yan and gentlemen such as Ji Yun, Ah Gui, and Liu Yong at his side to balance each other, so the more fiercely they fought, the more stable Qianlong's country and mountains became. This may be what Qianlong called "the art of emperors."
Seems to have pulled away, now back to the question just now. Villains cannot be destroyed, no matter in any kind of environment, as long as there is a gentleman," there will be villains who are opposed to them, but some villains look like gentlemen, but in their bones they are villains, and this kind of person is called "hypocrites".
Some people say that real villains are easy to deal with, and they are afraid of hypocrites. Therefore, what pains most people is actually a "hypocrite", who is full of benevolence and morality, wrong mouth, and a set of backs in front of the face, so it is elusive, you know that so-and-so is a villain, but you have nothing to do with him.
However, from the perspective of cultivation, the villain was specially arranged by heaven to test the practitioner by his side. When there are villains around us, it means that our cultivation is really not diligent enough, we have not yet let go of what we should put down, there is still a dark side in our hearts, and we have not yet achieved "bright and clear", these situations may not be understood by others, but as long as we seriously examine ourselves and take our feelings, we will find the problem.
Therefore, instead of using various tricks against villains, it is better to clean up your heart and let the sun shine in; try to let go of resentment and let go of troubles; try not to care and ignore many things that may not belong to us in the first place, and the situation may change.
Therefore, when a practitioner solves the problem of the villain, he must look at himself through reflection, knowing that everything is inspired by himself, otherwise the villain with the negative energy will not come for no reason. Therefore, it is necessary to abandon those formal practices and then return to self-nature, so that the villain automatically turns away.
Of course, some people have asked me if the Taoists have any spells and spells to dissolve villains. Of course, Taoists have ways to dissolve villains, but these are only the yin energies that they have inspired to expel them with spell power, and they also have miraculous effects, but I personally believe that all our daily encounters and fates are inspired by ourselves, so internal cultivation of the mind is the key to solving the problem of villains. To truly eliminate the villains around you, you must first clean up your own heart, look away, look down on some things, and then the villains will leave themselves.
Remember: villains come to temper you. If you don't believe me, just try it. mercy.