During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a person in kingdom Wu whose name was Zhuo Shu. Zhuo Shu is very trustworthy, and his words are not countless. One day, he would go back to his hometown of Kuaiji (Shaoxing, Zhejiang) from Jianye (Nanjing), and bid farewell to the Tai Fu Zhuge Ke, who asked him when he would return. Zhuo Shu said "someday".
On that day, Zhuge Ke hosted a banquet to entertain the guests, but he stopped eating or drinking himself. Guests asked him why? He said that he did this to wait for Zhuo Shu's arrival. The guests thought that the distance from Kuaiji to Jianye is thousands of miles (about 359 kilometers), and there are rivers and lakes obstructing the road, and it is impossible to guarantee Zhuo Shu’s arrival on this day. After a while, Zhuo Shu really arrived, and the crowds of guests were surprised. -"A Thousand Miles of Appointments" from "Shi Lin"
Those who believe in cause and effect often fear retribution, so they dare not do evil; those who do not believe in cause and effect often indulge their minds, and indulge them without fear. If one person fears retribution and does one good, ten thousand people can do ten thousand good deeds; if one person acts indulgence and creates one evil deed, ten thousand people will do ten thousand evil deeds. Therefore: "Everyone knows cause and effect, there will be a stable world; everyone does not believe in cause and effect, there will be chaos in the world."-"An Shi Quanshu"
The mind should not arise because of staying in color, sound, smell, taste, touch, and thinking. Should keep the mind not stagnating in any realm.
In the last years of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, a family named Shen raised a goose. When this goose was dying, her gosling screamed in grief and stopped eating, and covered her mother's body with a straw mat with her beak, and then brought a blade of grass and placed it in front of her mother, as if to mourn, and then screamed towards the sky for a long time with extreme sadness and died. The Shen family was moved by the gosling's love for her mother, and buried the gosling in the soil as the tomb of the filial gosling. -"The Filial gosling"
In Qinggu County, Yanzhou, a family named Wang raised a bitch and gave birth to a puppy. One day, the owner killed the bitch and cooked half of it to entertain the guests. During the dinner, the owner threw the leftover bones under the table, and every time a piece was dropped, the puppy grabbed a piece and ran outside the house. The owner said: "Everyone says that dogs don't recognize bones. I believe it this time." After a meal, the owner and the guests went to the garden together, and found that the puppy had piled the bitch’s bones together and buried it in a layer of soil. He died next to it. The owner was shocked, so he buried the other half of the bitch and the puppy, and wrote an essay "Memorial to the Filial Puppies", and never eat dog meat ever since. This article is titled "The Filial Puppy Died for its Mother" and was included in Chen Jingyi's "Transformation Between Human and Beast" in the Qing Dynasty
On July 23, the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Emperor Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng was making sacrifices in Fenyin and saw an ewe hit and killed herself by the road. Song Zhenzong thought it was strange, so he asked people about it. The inquirer replied: "The lamb killed by the chef of the Imperial Dining Room today was born of this ewe, so this happened." Song Zhenzong felt miserable after hearing this, and decreed that the chef would never be allowed to kill the lamb for the royal meal in the future.
Sun Shuao of Chu State went out in the wild when he was very young and saw a double-headed snake, so he killed the snake and buried it. After returning home, Sun Shuao was worried and couldn't eat. The mother asked him what the reason was. He cried and said, "I heard that people who see double-headed snakes will definitely die. Today your son saw a double-headed snake. I'm afraid I will abandon you and die soon!" The mother said: " Where is the snake now?" Sun Shuao said: "I am afraid that other people will die because of seeing the double-headed snake. I have killed and buried the snake." Mother said, "Don't worry. I heard that people who silently doing good virtue definitely get good retribution, and you will surely achieve success in Chu State." Later, Sun Shuao really became Ling Yin (the prime minister) and took charge of Chu government. "Historical Records" records: Chu State Prime Minister Sun Shuao organized the excavation of water conservancy projects for the benefit of the people. He served as prime minister three times without joy, and was fired three times without regret. "An Shi Quan Shu" note: People with poison in their hearts are mostly snakes, scorpions and centipedes. Only those who are compassionate cannot be poisoned. Otherwise, he used poison to harm me, and I returned him with poison. This is to add a poisonous snake to the existing one. Since I can't transform the poisonous snake, can I be transformed by the poisonous snake instead?