Chapter 10: Lesson 10: The Law of Cause and Effect
Any TV series is a story that is a cause and effect, whether it is a tragedy or a comedy. In fact, everything in the world has a cause and effect. This cause and effect does not refer to what people often call karma, but to the law of the development of things. A seed rooted in fertile soil, coupled with rain and sunshine, will grow into a towering tree; The other seed fell on the barren cliff, ravaged by wind and rain, and could only grow into twists and turns, branches and branches, and never became a fruit, and different fruits were all because they survived in different growing places.
The duality of the spirit.
In a company, two young people who were not working well went together to meet a temple monk in a very bad mood. They asked the monk and said, "* We are terrible, we are not happy at work every day, although we work hard, we are often scolded by our bosses and bullied by our colleagues, do you think we should resign!" ”
I saw that the old ** ignored them, still closed his eyes to recuperate, and after a long time, he slowly spit out five words: "It's just a bowl of rice." Then he waved his hand and signaled that the young man could go back.
Both seemed to have a sudden realization, so they returned to the company, and one resigned and went home to farm. And the other person hasn't changed anything, still working hard in that company.
A few years later, the young man who returned home to farm became an expert in agriculture with his expertise and modern management methods. Another young man who stayed in the company became the manager of the company through his own hard work. One day, the two met. "Strange, that day, ** said to us the words 'just a bowl of rice', and I understood it as soon as I heard it, isn't it just a bowl of rice? Why should I stay at the company, so I went back immediately. The agricultural expert asked another person, "Why didn't you understand what ** said in the first place?" ”
Haha, I just stayed because I listened to the words of **," the young man who became the manager said with a smile, ":* said, 'It's just a bowl of rice', which means that we are tired and angry, but for a bowl of rice, what the boss says, just let him go, less angry, less care, isn't it?" It's not worth it to bother for a bowl of rice, isn't that what you mean? So, the two of them made an appointment to go to the temple to meet **, and wanted to ask what was going on, but after listening to their statement, they still closed their eyes and said five words: "But a thought." Then, with a wave of his hand, he motioned for the two young men to leave ......
There was such a description in the Qing Dynasty** "Mirror Flowers", "The sons of the world, lonely ministers, righteous husbands, and women are often only in one thought." "Just because of a single thought, people make mistakes and go to prison. But in our real life, many people will always say this sentence when they repent: I only blame me for the difference in my thoughts at that time, ......
But have you thought about it carefully, is this really a thought? In fact, it is not, "freezing three feet, not a day's cold", the difference of one thought is only a superficial phenomenon, because before this difference of one thought, there are already many "one thought difference" in your heart, sometimes you know that you are wrong and you have to indulge yourself, just like running a red light, the accumulation of quantitative changes has caused qualitative changes, and then finally there is a car accident. The Chinese have an old saying called "stealing needles from a young age, stealing gold when you grow up", which means that habit becomes a natural truth.
Just like the ebb and flow of the tide and the day and night cycle, there is a good side to everything and a bad side, including your brain. There is an angel and a devil living in your brain, and they are fighting fiercely all the time. You'll need to fight side by side with the angels so that the devil won't take over your spiritual territory. But if you are weak-willed, you will fall into the devil's scheme, and in the face of the devil's attack and impregnation, you can only be "one thought", bow down to your subordinates, and be vulnerable.
This is the duality of the spirit, which is both practical and dangerous. You have to understand the spirit, just as an electrician understands electricity, if you can properly control and use this invisible power so that it serves our happiness and comfort and illuminates our whole world. But if you don't understand it, you can't control it, you intentionally or unintentionally violate the rules, and you touch the line of fire without being insulated, and the consequences are likely to be destruction. For many people, this is where their suffering comes from. Always remind yourself to be in tune with the laws of the spiritual world, provided that you must understand what this law is, otherwise you can't be consistent with this law.
Establish the foundation of cause and effect.
Any seed has an incubation or hatching period. You are now planting the seed of the mind, and soon it will become a material form or a material fruit.
On a bus, a man leans against the window, he leisurely smokes a cigarette, then with a wave of his hand, he throws the cigarette butt out of the window in a dashing manner. Two seconds later, a taxi rushed into the green belt. Half a month later, a fire broke out in a factory, and the factory closed down. The young man who threw cigarette butts couldn't be dashing anymore because he was unemployed, and the reason he lost his job was that the factory he worked in went bankrupt. The reason for the bankruptcy of the factory was that a fire half a month ago burned the factory to the ground; The cause of the fire at the factory was that the engineer in charge of the fire protection facilities at the factory was hospitalized in a car accident; The cause of the engineer's accident was that the taxi he was in suddenly crashed into the green belt. So why do taxis crash into the green belt? Answer: It was because someone threw a cigarette butt "chicly" while taking the bus.
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In a certain prison, there was a young man who had just reached adulthood and was imprisoned for robbery. A young man in his twenties, whose life has just begun, what caused him to embark on the path of crime?
It turned out that this young man did not go to work after graduation, but fantasized about getting rich overnight all day long. Under the introduction of a "friend", he found a "job" that earned money without contribution, that is, to help guide the trucks that came to the city. However, this kind of guidance is paid, and this kind of repayment is "expensive", because if these non-local drivers do not give money or give little, they will call a group of "friends" to surround and beat them until the non-local driver pays the "asking for directions." He also gave this paid way of guidance a name called "fairy guidance". After many experiences of "immortals guiding the way", the young man became more and more emboldened, and finally embarked on a more "rich" path - robbery. As the so-called ***, this young man was finally arrested for robbery and was severely punished by the law.
Plant melons and get melons, sow beans and get beans, this is the most basic causal cyclical relationship. It's like a closed circuit, where cause and effect are the poles and thoughts are the circuit. Everything we do now will have a fruit, and no one will be spared. Fortunately, what we can do is to manage our thoughts and cause before we see the results.
Harmony increases efficiency, while confrontation produces attrition.
After the death of a great man who had done good all his life, an angel came to take him to heaven, and the great good man said to the angel, "Angel, I am about to ascend to heaven, and I am very grateful to you, but I have heard that hell is very miserable, can you take me to see it first?" The angel replied, "No problem, for you are a great good man, and I can fulfill your request." ”
So the great good man followed the angel to hell, and he saw a large table in hell filled with sumptuous delicacies. "Is this hell? Life looks pretty good! It's not miserable at all! The great good man asked the angel in confusion.
Don't worry, you can read on. The angel said.
After a while, when it was time to eat, I saw a group of skinny hungry ghosts running to the table quickly, and I saw that each of them was holding a pair of chopsticks more than ten feet long. In order to be able to eat more food, they pushed each other and scrambled to use the chopsticks in their hands to pick up the vegetables. However, because the chopsticks were so long, everyone couldn't eat in the end.
It's so miserable, how can you treat these people like this? Give them food, but don't give them food. "Do you really think it's miserable? I'll take you to heaven again. ”
When I arrived in heaven, the same scene, the same table full of delicacies, and everyone used a pair of long chopsticks more than ten feet long. The difference is that around the table are a group of laughing and chubby, cute people. They also use chopsticks to pick up vegetables, but the difference is that they hold long chopsticks and feed each other the vegetables to the people on the other side. Therefore, the people of heaven have a good time.
The so-called heaven is nothing but harmony.
We need a harmonious environment to survive and develop, and the harmony of this environment is divided into harmony between man and nature, between man and society, and between man and man. But this is only external harmony, and if there is no inner harmony, external harmony is destined to be only superficial, formal, or inferior.
Human greed and plunder inevitably lead to the constant occurrence of wars, disasters, diseases, etc., which are all caused by disharmony in people's hearts. Inner harmony is the ultimate harmony of human beings, as long as a person can face difficulties, setbacks, and honors correctly, he can easily achieve it, that is to say, harmony is actually very simple, just an ordinary heart.
Harmony can improve efficiency and achieve common progress, while confrontation produces internal friction, which is a very simple truth. Just as a harmonious piece of music can make people feel good, but a discordant note is extremely harsh. Constructive ideas must be creative, and creative ideas must be harmonious, and these will replace destructive or competitive thoughts.
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