Small wealth depends on luck, and great wealth depends on morality.
Author: Insight Yimo
The ancients said: "Sometimes there must be a fate, and there is no time to demand it in fate." ”
How much money a person has in his life is actually a fixed number.
Down-to-earth, accumulation of virtue and blessings, more and more wealth in life.
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Hit ten dollars, hard to ask for a hundred gold.
Zhuangzi said: "Those who have reached the love of life are helpless if they do not take care of their fate." ”
This means that if one truly understands fate, one will not count on anything other than one's destiny.
Everything is fate, half a point is not up to man.
Many times, personal calculations are not worth mentioning in the face of destiny.
Li Shiheng of the Northern Song Dynasty sent an envoy to Goryeo, and when he returned, the king of Goryeo gave them a lot of silk gold and silver.
Li Shiheng didn't care at all, and all of them were left to the deputy envoys to take care of.
On the way back, because he was worried about the water leakage in the cabin, the deputy envoy put all of Li Shiheng's things underneath to waterproof, and put his own on the top.
As a result, on the way back, there was a storm and people were forced to throw things away to reduce the weight of the ship.
Halfway through the throw, the storm stopped.
Only then did people find that all that was thrown away were the things of the deputy envoy, and Li Shiheng's things were all intact in the cabin.
It is better to calculate than to calculate in heaven. No matter how shrewd a person is, he can't compete with the Heavenly Dao.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Wang Xifeng is good at calculation.
She withheld everyone's monthly money to generate interest, and accepted bribes to help people settle the lawsuit.
In the affairs of the government, those who can fish for oil and water will not be spared.
Jia Fu's silver that went in and out of the house a year was more than 100,000 taels in her hand, but she could even calculate a few taels of silver.
Forcing Second Sister You to die, she also took Jia Lian and second sister's belongings.
Calculating half a life, the shrewd Feng Sister can be described as the great wealth of Jia Province.
But in the end, Jia Fu raided the house, the family wealth was scattered, and Sister Feng could not even save her own daughter.
The verdict said: "The organs are too clever in their calculations, and they have mistaken Qingqing's life." ”
It's that you can't run, it's not that you can't come.
A person who constantly calculates others for retribution is actually laying the foundation for himself.
Not only will it ruin its own blessings, but it will even bring misfortune to future generations.
All blessings, not centrifugal.
Instead of being shrewd and calculating, it is better to accumulate virtue and do good.
Only by planting good causes can we bear good results.
The more good a person does, the more blessings and fortunes will naturally come.
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Virtue is not worthy of wealth, and there will be calamities.
The ancients said: "Officials are not virtuous, and they are as expensive as the dew; rich but unjust, rich as clear snow." ”
If a person has no moral character as an official, then his official position is like dew in the morning, and it will soon dissipate.
If you are rich and noble, but you have no benevolence, then wealth is like snow under the sun, and it will soon disappear.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng was the first official to start the Wanli reform, which can be described as benefiting all the people.
But he was desperate in his life.
He invented a palanquin that included a bedroom, a hallway, and a bathroom.
There are even two children in the palanquin.
When his father died, Zhang Ju was returning home for mourning, and thirty-two sedans carried him all the way from Beijing to Jiangling, Hubei Province.
Officials on the road were extremely flattering, and there were no less than a hundred dishes at each meal, and he felt that the taste was not good.
It was not until in Jiangsu that the prefect invited a chef from Suzhou that Zhang Juzheng was satisfied.
When other officials found out, chefs who specialized in Su cuisine were immediately sold out.
The extravagant lifestyle surprised the emperor, and the respect and trust for him disappeared little by little.
Zhang Juzheng was impeached after his death, and soon his home was raided, stripped of his palace rank and commandments, and even almost whipped in a coffin.
There is a cloud in the Four Precepts of The Great Fan: "Those who enjoy the property of a hundred gold must be a hundred gold figures, and those who enjoy the property of a thousand gold must be a thousand gold figures." ”
A person's character is thick enough to carry the wealth of the body, and if the virtue is not worthy, it can only bring disaster.
Later Jin Zhao served as an emissary in Song Prefecture during which he was violent and violent, and was regarded as a thorn in the side of the people.
He liked business, and with the help of the power in his hands to fight with the people for profit, he quickly accumulated a huge fortune.
At the end of his term of office, the people said happily: the nails in the eyes have finally been removed.
After he heard the rumors, he wrote to the imperial court and stayed for another year to collect a thousand nail tax from the people under his command.
Under his rule, popular resentment boiled over, and SongZhou gradually declined.
Later, after the fall of the Khitans, Zhao Zaili was captured and sent to the Khitan military camp to suffer humiliation, and was forced to commit suicide in fear.
The ancients said: "Those who are virtuous and rich take advantage of the power of wealth and wealth; those who are rich and noble without virtue take advantage of the power of wealth and perish." ”
Virtuous people have wealth that benefits heaven and earth, and those who do not have virtue have wealth and can only harm themselves.
Wealth is the blade of wounds, and toku is the amulet.
When wealth is growing, constantly practicing oneself and improving one's virtues can one harness wealth and avoid disasters.
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Accumulate goodness and virtue, and wealth is self-reliant.
Small wealth can depend on luck, and great wealth depends on virtue.
Only by constantly doing good deeds and accumulating virtue can we truly obtain wealth and blessings.
The Buddhists have a story of spider silk.
There was a murderous and arsonist who went to hell after his death.
The Buddha took pity on him, thinking that in his previous life he had spared a spider because of a momentary pity.
So he dropped a spider silk and went to save him.
The robber was overjoyed and grabbed the spider silk and climbed up.
Others also climbed up along the spider silk.
The robber was worried that the spider silk would break, so he began to kick others.
With this kick, the spider silk immediately broke, and the robber could no longer climb up.
The Buddha exclaimed:
"The more a person gives for others, the more he can gain."
I only know how to love myself, but I don't know how to love others, which is why sentient beings have fallen into the six realms and suffered unspeakably! ”
One thought of heaven, one thought of hell.
If the robber is willing to share this silk, he will certainly be able to escape from the sea of suffering.
If a person is willing to share his wealth, he will inevitably reap more blessings.
When Yang Rong was young, his father died and he returned to his hometown to keep filial piety.
The townspeople are embarrassed, and the Yang family has been borrowing grain for help.
After Yang Rong finished the funeral, he burned all the IOUs.
He paid for the marriages and funerals of poor people.
The children who lived on the streets, he adopted at home.
When others fought a lawsuit for the family property, he would give up part of his family property to calm the dispute between the two sides.
Three years later, he returned to Beijing to resume his duties, and people heard about his virtues and recommended him.
Yang Rong's lifelong official fortune was prosperous, he has always been a university scholar, and after his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Taishi, which can be described as a profound merit.
The ancient Chinese god of wealth was Fan Li, and the ancients believed that he was a model of wealth and morality.
After Fan Ligong became famous, he resigned from the government and engaged in business.
He became extremely rich three times in his life and scattered his family wealth three times.
Every time he got money in business, he gave his fortune to the poor.
But soon he was able to amass a great deal of wealth.
Virtue lies in accumulation, and goodness lies in deeds.
The higher the level, the better they know how to use wealth to do good things and accumulate merit for themselves.
Such a person has a deep merit, and the heavens will naturally not treat him badly.
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The Buddhists believe, "There are two kinds of forces in this life, one is karma and the other is wish. ”
Karma is the cause and effect of past lives, and wishing is the good deeds accumulated in this lifetime.
The money in life is fixed.
This fixed number is the karma of previous lives.
Only by constantly accumulating virtue and doing good deeds can a person break through the shackles of karma and break the fixed number in life.
Only in this way can we have the blessings of this world.