As the saying goes, "Blessings are incomparable, but disasters are not singular." ”
At any time, blessing and misfortune are twin brothers, the positive and negative sides of the same thing.
Moreover, they still live and restrain each other, and they never exist alone.
Sadly, too many people are accustomed to seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and desperately try to avoid disasters.
When you reach a certain age, you will find that you can live a better life by taking the initiative to face disasters, which reflects people's responsibility and can also find blessings from disasters.
In the Book of Changes, it is said: "If you don't have the pole, the pole of things will be reversed." ”
Don't be afraid of evil at all, and on the other hand, it is a sign of good fortune.
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The trough is the beginning of the rise.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a man named Li Guang, who studied for many years, and then went to Changshu to become a magistrate.
There is a local merchant Zhu Chong who sells medicines, relying on gifts, and befriended the traitor Cai Jing. After Zhu Chong's son became an official, he curryed favor with Song Huizong and rose step by step.
Zhu Chong was domineering at home. Li Guang acted impartially, arrested his servants, and punished him.
Now, he stabbed the hornet's nest, and his career was always not smooth.
He was relegated to the remote Guilin as a magistrate.
For a while, Song Qinzong used Li Guang to make suggestions.
As the Jin soldiers headed south, a comet appeared in the sky. Everyone flattered them, saying that the comet was a disaster for the Jin soldiers, and for the Great Song Dynasty, it was a sign of good luck.
Li Guang said: "Confucius did not record auspiciousness in the Spring and Autumn Period, because he wanted to make people always fearful and repair provincial political affairs. ”
At this time, he angered the emperor and was demoted to Tingzhou.
Next, the Northern Song Dynasty ushered in the shame of Jingkang. And he was relegated to a place and happened to escape.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong enabled Li Guang and became the governor of Xuanzhou.
We all know the truth that "a gun shoots a bird in the head". Only in the trough can people practice the truth.
When a person reaches a low place, the wind cannot hurt him, and the wind is blocked by the people in the high place, and if a person is in a low place, if he takes root downward, he absorbs more nutrients.
Guiguzi said: "If you want to be high, you will be lower." ”
Falling into the trough is a disaster, but you take advantage of the trough to read slowly, and you are also happy that you have escaped the wind and rain. It won't be long before you will appear in front of the world with a positive outlook.
The novelist Balzac told the truth: "We can climb higher than others, and people are perfectly permissible, but if we do not lower our personality to theirs, they will never forgive." ”
It is very dangerous for people to be in high places, to be envied, to be used as targets. Even if you are really strong, you have to show weakness and make your posture low, so that you can be tolerated by everyone.
You have to believe that the thorns that crawl humbly, at some point, will bloom a flower.
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Poverty is the beginning of wealth.
Let's talk about Li Guang again, when he was an official in Xuanzhou, he was besieged several times.
Xuanzhou is close to the Yangtze River, very close to the Jin soldiers, and a large number of Song soldiers were scattered, like bandits, rampant and domineering, asking for money and goods.
The Southern Song Dynasty could not control the turbulent situation for a while, so it could only order: "Either guard or avoid, and let it be convenient." ”
At one point, Xuanzhou was besieged, and many officials had to flee.
Li Guang said: "My family has been whole, and there are no living beings in the city." ”
In other words, his family is all in the city, and he cannot lose the people of the city because of his family.
The soldiers were so encouraged that they immediately organized resistance, and a month later, Xuanzhou was relieved.
In the eyes of the Southern Song Dynasty, there are still people who can win a small battle, which is undoubtedly put to death and then born.
Then, Li Guang attracted much attention and was promoted to the bachelor of Zhilong Tuge, and his life ushered in a highlight.
People are afraid of poverty, and they are even more afraid of the end of the road.
But when you think about it, there is no way out, no money is available, no one to help, and you are forced to find a way to improve your experience.
Mencius said: "Therefore, the heavens will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act disorderly. ”
Where you look like there is no road, there is actually a road. When you are so poor that you have nothing to eat, you will be cheeky and look for a bowl of rice. This can open up the situation very quickly.
When the water reaches the cliff, it becomes a waterfall, and when a man reaches a desperate situation, he fights hard.
If you are penniless, then you get a penny and you are rich, and when you reach a dead end, you find a window, and there is a way out of life. Different thinking allows you to switch between good and bad.
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Suppression is the beginning of bravery.
When Li Guang was a senior official in the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Hui was his boss.
Since ancient times, good and evil have not been incompatible.
Li Guang couldn't see that Qin Hui could compromise with Jin Bing indefinitely, so he repeatedly made suggestions. Qin Hui quickly beat Li Guang back to his hometown, and then relegated him to Hainan and other places.
Then, Qin Hui eliminated dissidents and demoted Zhao Ding, Zhang Jun and other famous ministers to other places.
When Zhao Ding went to Lingnan to take up his post, he cried. When Li Guang heard this, he said: "If I am on the road easily, how can I cry and cry on the road?"
After Zhao Ding was liquidated again and again, he chose to commit suicide. It's embarrassing.
Li Guang was in a remote place, focusing on writing books and annotating the Book of Changes. Anyway, wherever you go, you can be at peace with what happens. A good attitude made him a brave man and lived for more than 80 years, but Qin Hui died a few years earlier.
In his later years, he called himself a "naturalist", and he talked about Zhou Yi and a hexagram every day, because he wrote ten volumes of Yi Chuan.
Under heavy pressure, if you have the "ability", it is like pressing a gourd into the water, the further down, the stronger the power of floating.
But whoever can't hold you down will eventually achieve a better you. Setbacks are disasters, but the more setbacks you are, the more courageous you are, which is a great blessing.
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What is a blessing in our lifetime?
Making money, starting a family, having a good job, and living in a big house are all blessings.
Being humiliated, being at a low point, being crushed by others, feeling ignorant, going astray, and being destitute...... It's still a blessing.
People who have not experienced disasters do not feel blessings, and often do not know blessings when they are in the midst of blessings.
The greatest blessing of a person is that after encountering a calamity, he can carry it through and be light.
Friends, if you encounter a disaster, don't panic, don't avoid it, don't fall down, look for the blessing behind it.
Winter is coming, spring is behind, you have lost your job, and there is a new job waiting for you, divorce, that is the beginning of another love, parents are gone, but the home is still there, when you are sick, there are surprises of recovering from a serious illness, and when you are old, you enjoy retirement......
To be a man, if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing.
Do things, build bridges when encountering water, and open roads in the mountains.
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