Recently, I have swiped a few **, and there is a commentary on the documentary "Fortune Teller". Li Baicheng found a deaf and dumb woman, who did not need his care in daily life, and his explanation was that he did not choose a wife when he was poor, hungry without food, cold without clothes, and panicked without choosing a road.
This statement seems to make a lot of sense.
It is a dogma based on empirical induction, useful, but not exactly, who is in such a situation? If it is a weak-willed person, it will definitely go with the flow, but if it is replaced by a strong-willed person, this will not happen.
Seeing the way and not going is to face these traditional concepts, social consensus, and oppose copying these dogmas.
Do the poor choose their wives, the hungry and the poor, and the cold and their clothes, grasp the essence of things?
Not choosing a wife, this is the result of poverty. Hunger is the cause, and not choosing food is the effect. Cold is the cause, and not choosing food is the effect. Panic is the cause, and not choosing the road is the effect.
This statement seems to have a cause and effect. How do you determine if these are true causes? As long as a counterexample is found, then the proposition is not a true proposition.
Take the first statement as an example, poverty does not choose a wife, in fact, there are many people around who would rather be alone than married, which is not necessarily related to poverty. It is the result of different perceptions, and the economy is only one of the reasons.
The fate of Libaicheng is the result of a combination of reasons. His own disability, the misfortune of his family, he was kicked out by his own brother, and then social assistance did not fall on his head, he had to earn his own life. mixed in society, he could only eat, and he didn't have much savings, but he had all kinds of desires, so he spent money to buy his current woman from his relatives.
We see that Li Baicheng has logical thoughts and behaviors, but also shows prejudice and mystery everywhere. He believed that a woman could bring him good fortune, and that if he combed her woman's hair, it would bring him good luck for the day.
He linked his fortune to the hair of the woman he was looking for, and regarded hair as a cause and money as an effect.
Does this make sense?
This is obviously not in line with the idea of seeing the road and not going down.
Seeing the road without taking it is to seek truth from facts, that is, to see the essence through the phenomenon.
But this is easier said than done.
The education we received from childhood, as well as the social environment in which we live, make it easy for us to get lost in complex phenomena.
The Buddha said that one should give birth to one's mind without dwelling in the world, one should not live in the mind, one should not stop the sound and fragrance touching the Dharma and one should give birth to the mind, and one should not live in the appearance.
He also said, "All appearances are vain, and if you see things that are not like them, you will see them as they are."
What is Nyorai? There is nowhere to come from, and nowhere to go. This is Nyorai. It's the way it is, and if you have to find an origin, it's impossible.
What is Rulai?
It is the law of cause and effect.
It's what kind of conditions and what kind of results are produced. This is Nyorai.
Everything we face is cause and effect, and cause and effect will be generated. What kind of conditions there are, what kind of results will definitely be produced. There must be a reason for the outcome.
Obviously, there was no causal relationship between her woman's hair and his fortune.
If there is any connection between the two, I can probably guess that this is because this woman's disabled body and deaf and dumb stupidity have won people's sympathy, so some people have the mentality of giving alms either directly to give money, or ask him for fortune telling, and then give a few money, which is considered help.
It is very important to dress up a woman cleanly, although she is poor, although she is deaf and dumb, but she does not get dirty. People can endure poverty, but they can't stand squalor. It's clean, and everyone is willing to approach and fund.
This is why Li Baicheng must comb his woman's hair well. However, he himself made the wrong attribution.
But the mysterious cause always needs a mysterious statement, and if you explain it with a truth that everyone understands, then you won't have to eat this bowl of rice.
Just like Tang Xiaoyan came to him to tell her fortune, she felt that she was too unfortunate in this life and wanted to change her life. His suggestion was to change the name, and he drew up three names for Tang Xiaoyan, and Tang Xiaoyan chose one of them.
But then the result was a bit unexpected, Tang Xiaoyan's massage parlor was forced to close because of pornography, and he was also detained, and he was faced with **.
However, Tang Xiaoyan's fate changed in the end, she was released on bail by Xu Tong, who she inadvertently met, and since then she has followed him to start a new life, first helping Xu Tong contact all kinds of nomads, and later becoming a producer and director herself, realizing the counterattack of fate.
As a result, many people believe that Tang Xiaoyan did change his fate by changing his name. However, the real reason should be Tang Xiaoyan's own strong character, coupled with Xu Tong's help, which changed her fate.
Fortune Telling gives us a glimpse of a group of homeless people who live in the cracks of society, and most of them behave in a way that does not conform to mainstream social values.
But the reality is that that's how they survive.
In such an environment, those behavior patterns that do not conform to mainstream values are not their nature, but the result of their forced choices.
What we have to understand is that those aphorisms and aphorisms that come out of his mouth are actually inaccurate and omission. Also, the real reason for the change of Tang Xiaoyan's fate is not because of the name change.