Princess Su Bo Suo Sha was pregnant for seven years and had a dystocia for seven days. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy at last because of her worship of Buddha. Later the Buddha asked Princess Su Bo Suo Sha if she still wanted a child like this. Princess Su Bo Suo Sha said that she still wants seven such children. So the Buddha said: "Those who indulge themselves think that unpleasant suffering is pleasant and unlovable suffering is loveable. “-"Su Bo Suo Sha Sutra"
Confucius Playing the Qin and Meet Zhou Wenwang: The Seventeenth of the Confucius Family in "Shi Ji Historical Records": "Confucius learned to play the hepticord from Shi Xiangzi, and he didn't learn new tunes for ten days. Shi Xiangzi said:'You can learn new tunes.' Confucius said:'I I'm already familiar with the tunes, but I haven't mastered the essentials of playing.' After a while, Shi Xiangzi said:'You have mastered the essentials of playing, and you can change to a new song.' Confucius said:'I haven't experienced it yet, I want to know what kind of person is the composer.” After a while, Confucius thought solemnly and deeply, and then he was at ease, showing a broad vision and lofty ambition, and said:'I have realized what kind of person the composer is. : He is dark-skinned, tall, with bright eyes, looking far and wide, like the king who rules the world, except for King Zhou Wen, who can do this!" Shi Xiangzi left his seat and bowed to Confucius twice, saying:' My teacher originally said that this song is called "Wen Wang Cao". ’
Zhong Li, a man of the Han Dynasty, passed his alchemy method to Lv Dongbin. Using alchemy on iron, it can be turned into gold, which can be used to help the poor in the world. Lv Dongbin asked Zhong Li: "If you change gold, will it turn back to iron?"
Zhong Li replied: "Five hundred years later, the gold will change back to the original iron."
Lv Dongbin said: "So it will be a problem for the people 500 years later, I don't want to do such a thing."
Zhong Li taught Lv Dongbin to turn iron into gold, just to test his heart. Now he knows that Lv Dongbin is kind-hearted, so he said to Lv Dongbin: "If a human want to become an immortal, he needs to accumulate 3,000 merits. Listening to your words, I think your 3,000 merits have been completed."
Zhuangzi said: "Those who are deeply addicted to their cravings, their spirituality bestowed by heaven is shallow." If a person desires too much, his spirituality and wisdom will decrease.
A person must know that he is at fault every day in order to correct it every day. If you don't know your faults, you can count yourself as having no faults at ease. If there is nothing to change every day, there is no improvement every day. There are a lot of smart and handsome people in the world, but they are morally unwilling to work hard, and they can’t work hard to do their careers. They just want to "follow the way". They can get by and do not want to move forward, so they waste their lives. -"Liao-Fan's Four Lessons”
During the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, officials from various countries had frequent exchanges with each other and were rich in knowledge and experience. Therefore, just by observing a person's speech and behavior, one can infer his bad and good fortune. This kind of thing can be seen in "Zuo Zhuan", "Guo Yu" and other books that record historical facts.
Roughly speaking, the good or bad fortune that a person reveals before something happens are all from his heart, but manifested in his external behavior. Those who are more stable and kind in dealing with others can often get blessings; and those who behave in a manner that is not solemn and overly mean can often cause disaster. Ordinary people, who are not knowledgeable, can not see this clearly as if they have eye disease, and they just say, "Fortune and happiness are not certain, and they cannot be guessed."-Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic began its voyage from Britain to the United States. 1,500 people on board were buried on the bottom of the sea, and only 600 survived. This is undoubtedly a disaster. But behind this disaster, there are still 7 people who survived for various reasons and ultimately did not board the huge ship.
The first two are the American chocolate king Milton Snavely Hershey who had prepared for this luxurious voyage for a long time. It turned out that the ticket was missing when he boarded the ship. After searching for a long time to no avail, he could only get off the ship in grief. Unexpectedly, after the launch of the Titanic, the lost ticket magically appeared in the bags of the two. The two who escaped the catastrophe were also quite scared, so far, they have become loyal supporters of fatalism.
The other two are the American steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick and his wife. Why did they fail to board the ship? It turned out that when the two were heading to the dock, Mrs. Clay Frick unfortunately sprained her foot and her joints swelled. Clay Frick had no choice but to accompany his wife to the hospital.
The two also rescued another person, namely JP Morgan, who was about to board the ship to discuss business with Clay Frick. Since Clay Frick did not board the ship, he naturally had no need to board the ship. Up.
Incidentally, this JP Morgan, who did not board the ship, later became the founder of JPMorgan Chase in the United States, and is now the 55th largest group in the world's top 500. Of course, if he got on the Titanic, there might be no such thing as JPMorgan Chase.
Of the last two, one of them is Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser, who is a novelist. Regarding why he didn't board the ship, according to Dreiser's own words, facing such a huge hull, he felt a deep sense of something wrong. So instead of boarding the ship, he stayed in the UK for a few more days. It turns out that Dreiser's intuition did not deceive him. As for why he has such a precise intuition, only God knows.
The last one was John Raleigh Mott, a Christian. He actually boarded the Titanic, but because of the mother and son sitting beside him, the child has been crying since he got on the ship. This made John Mott feel very strange and decided to abandon the voyage. Before disembarking, he suggested that the mother and son come down with him, but was refused. As a result, John Mott escaped, and the mother and son finally sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It is worth mentioning that John Mott also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
There was a farmer. During the three-year difficult period that began in 1960, his family often couldn't find food. He would put down hunting traps, and occasionally caught foxes and weasels.
One morning, he went to collect the clip and saw a weasel caught. He was surprised when he picked it up. There was only a piece of skin in his hand, and the weasel escaped. He thought that the skinless weasel must have died somewhere not far away.
So, he followed the bloodstains and found a hole in the ditch where the weasel was hiding. After digging it, he was stunned by the scene in front of him: a litter of little weasels, whose eyes had not yet opened, were lying on the skinless female weasel and were constantly sucking. He stayed for a long time, put the skin on the female weasel, and left with sorrow. From then on, the farmer never put down the trap clips again. There will be no war in this world only if all beings do not eat meat.
If a person can conquer desire, conquer vulgar language, do not kill life, and can not be constrained by things, then this person is unshakable like a mountain, and this person will not be shaken by suffering or pleasure.-《Ye Shu She Sutra 》
Zhou Hu, the servant of Zhou's family in Xian County, Hebei, was fascinated by the fox girl. He and the fox girl loved each other so that they have lived a happy husband and wife together for more than 20 years.
The fox girl once said to Zhou Hu: "I have been cultivating human form for more than four hundred years. In my previous life, I still had a period of time with you. I should make up for it. Because of God’s will, as long as there is one day need to be together, I will stay in this world and could not go to heaven. Once the fate is over, I will naturally leave."
One day, the fox girl looked very happy on her face, and suddenly she burst into tears, showing a very sad look. She said to Zhou Hu: "On the nineteenth of this month, our fate is over and we are about to leave you. I have already dated a spouse for you, and you can settle this marriage with a gift." So she took out platinum. Give it to Zhou Hu for the bride price. Since then, the fox girl and Zhou Hu have been intimate, more affectionate, and often inseparable.
On the morning of the 15th, the fox girl hurriedly got up to say goodbye to Zhou Hu. Zhou Hu blamed her for leaving early, and the fox girl shed tears and said, "The destined fate cannot be reduced or increased in a day. It is just that sooner or later can be arranged by myself. I want to leave three days in this world, so that I can get back in the future to see you again."
A few years later, the fox girl came to meet Zhou Hu again, and left after three days of happy gatherings. Before leaving, she cried and said, "From then on, we will break up forever."
Mr. Chen Yinde said: "This fox is good at leaving room, and people who cherish their happiness should do the same."
Liu Jizhen said: "After three days, we will finally be separated. If this is the case, why should we stay for another three days? This fox has been training for four hundred years and has not reached the point of letting go. Things should not be handled like this."
I (Ji Xiaolan) think that what the two men said all explained one truth, and each had its own truth.
At the end of the 19th century, there was a bad boy in Missouri in the western United States. He secretly threw stones at the neighbor's window, and put dead rabbits in buckets and put them in the school stove for barbecue, making it stinky. This kid is really naughty. When he was 9 years old, his father married a stepmother, and his father told her to pay attention to this child because he was very naughty.
The stepmother approached the child curiously. When she got to know the child, she said to him: "You are wrong, he is not bad, and very clever, but his cleverness has not been used, and his cleverness is not used for the right things." Appreciating this child, under her guidance and encouragement, this child's intelligence found the right way to play, and later this child became a famous contemporary American entrepreneur and thinker. Who is this person? Have you guessed it? This person is Dale Carnegie.
Taiwanese writer Lin Qingxuan went to a mutton restaurant for dinner. The boss said to him: "Do you remember me?" Lin Qingxuan said, "I can't remember." The boss brought an old newspaper from 20 years ago. There was an article by Lin Qingxuan. At that time, Lin Qingxuan was a reporter for a newspaper. The article was a report about a thief: the thief has superb tactics, committed hundreds of crimes, and succeeded every time. In the end, he fell into the hands of an anti-picking master.
At the end of the article, Lin Qingxuan sighed: "Like a thief with such a careful mind and skillful technique, if he does anything else, he will succeed!" The boss told Lin Qingxuan: "I am the thief! Twenty years ago, it was your encourage in this article that led me to the right path later."
-Appreciation makes people beautiful
Confucius said: "We should restrain our own faults and do not attack the faults of others." He also said: "We must be strict with ourselves and treat others with lenientness." The sage said a thousand words and hoped that people would ask for their own faults. If you can ask yourself, you will inevitably reflect on yourself from time to time. How can there be time to blame others?
◎People have both intentional and unintentional faults. Unintentional mistakes are easily forgiven, while intentional mistakes are often intolerable. However, since scholars have the ambition to tolerate others, they must start from the heart. Those who have committed sins intentionally can still be tolerant, let alone those who have no intentions?
◎It's hard to tolerate things, and it's really hard to tolerate it. However, it must be tolerated. How to endure it? One is to forgive the ignorance of the wrongdoer. Because after all, the mediocre people are in the majority in the world, how can they be demanded by the standards of sages? It was me who was unwise! The second is the short life span of poor people who make mistakes. Living in the world for decades is like a white horse passing through a gap, human’s life is short, everyone approaching the end of his life day by day just like a death prisoner being taken to the execution ground, step by step, why not have compassion for his life? Third, the wrongdoer is like a medicine to me. I don’t know where I live and I don’t know my own fault. I can only reflect on myself when I see others who are not good. The fault of others is my teacher. How can I care about the fault of my teacher? If I think this way, they can be tolerant.
Therefore, the heart is often anxious before being tolerant. After being tolerant, it calms down. Anxious, there are thorns in front of you, even insects and ants can get in the way. If you are calm, you will be open-minded, and even the enemy can work together. If you can't tolerate people, you will definitely fight with them. I wanted to stop him from making mistakes, but instead, he has more mistakes. If you can tolerate him, he will definitely feel ashamed, don't need to be exacting, and his faults will be reduced. Therefore, we say: "Seeing the fault of others is the door of all evil. Seeing the fault of yourself is the door of all goodness."
Excerpted from “An Shiquan Book-Wenchang Emperor Silently Doing Good Virtue" : Tolerance