How to treat fate in ancient times
In ancient times, "man" was respected, and a large number of thinkers and philosophers were not superstitious about the so-called "fate". Unfortunately, later generations often go into misunderstanding because of biased understanding, resulting in superstitious ideas about fate.
Human efforts are the decisive factor.
The ancients said that "Man proposes, God disposes" and emphasized "Listen to destiny as much as you can". Since "man proposes", we should give full play to man's subjective initiative, that is, man is the first factor, man is the internal cause of the development and change of world things, and "Heaven" of "God disposes" is various external conditions, and the external environment includes opportunities and so on. This understanding is a positive attitude towards life. The same is true of the principle of "doing our best to listen to destiny": when we have tried our best to do something, we still can't figure out the situation and can't do anything about it, we can seek prediction as a reference, otherwise, we are stupid. Listening to the so-called "providence" before the completion of personnel is bound to be a negative and failed attitude towards life.
For example, it is concluded that someone's life is good or he will have a fortune, which means that he has the possibility or opportunity in this respect. This doesn't mean that he can succeed without hard work. He must also "try his best" first, that is, this "person" must actively "seek" this "thing" in order to turn the possibility (that is, God's help) into reality. If he lies still, the sky will never fall. As the saying goes, "money falls from the sky, you have to get up early to pick it up." This is a fact. Of course, there is no denying the phenomenon of "spontaneous coming", but it is accidental and extremely rare.
Do your best first, then listen to God's will.
"Do your best" is used for prediction, and it can also be understood as investigation and study according to modern parlance. After investigation and study, analysis and judgment are certainly much stronger than all so-called predictions, and they are also practical, practical and accurate.
For example, in the ancient battlefield surrounded by the enemy, knowing that there is a certain direction or path to break through, but not taking action and calculating a time and direction with Taoist magic, then this nerd commander is not only stupid, but also delays the fighter plane-because he is incompetent and only listens to "God's will", and the obvious fact is a kind of "God's will", which is ignored and reversed. How can it be accurate?
Another example is that you know that you can accomplish something through hard work (such as getting good grades in exams, etc.). ), but not to fight for it, but to use predictions to measure whether you can do it. This is also a stupid act of incompetence and resignation, and it is also against reason. The Book of Changes has also emphasized that you should not deliberately ask repeated questions about obvious things, otherwise it is disrespectful or not serious, and the swearing person does not answer and the measurement is not accurate.
People can change their own destiny.
In ancient times, it was also summarized as: one life, two fortunes, three geomantic omen, four virtues and five studies. According to modern understanding, it should be: fate refers to the innate quality of people, the virtue and ignorance of temperament and ambition, etc., which is the internal cause; Luck is a person's acquired conditions, life path, opportunities and disasters, social relations and so on. And it is an external cause; Geomantic omen can be regarded as the root cause of people's growth environment, family background and upbringing customs. In ancient times, feng shui could be chosen by people. In this factor, "people" are not powerless. As for Xiu De, doing more good deeds and helping others will naturally bring good social relations, reputation and status, as well as corresponding auspicious rewards and subsidies. Fifth, it also emphasizes reading-reading. "Man" can not only choose the road and environment, but also change his destiny by improving his moral cultivation, doing more good deeds and studying hard to master knowledge and skills! It can be seen that the ancients still attached great importance to the day after tomorrow, and the "human" factor was not blindly doomed. As for Buddhists, they don't believe in life at all, but pay attention to the cause of doing good and abstaining from evil. As the saying goes, "As you sow, you reap what you sow", which is also the "big arithmetic" in Buddhist words. If you want to be based on the world, conform to heaven, be natural and auspicious, and act against reason, it will be fierce. The so-called "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil."
To this end, the calculation of a person's life can also be based on the reasoning of not telling fortune, or it can be roughly accurately inferred: for example, a young person has good internal qualities-intelligence, ambition (this ambition is not arrogance, but also hardship and struggle), good looks (appearance is conducive to social interaction, which is an objective existence) and good health, then we will comply. " If his external conditions are good, there is nothing to say-as long as he can stick to his own advantages. Some wise ancients had a profound discussion on fate. The ancient road is that "man can conquer nature" and "life is born from the heart", but it is more obvious that man is more important than life, and the ancient book also says-and as an important, principled and reserved formulation in the opening paragraph, it is called "the heart has no phase, and the heart is the same; If you have no intention, you will die, if you have a heart, you will die! "The ancients said how wonderful, hit the nail on the head!
"phase is born of heart"
"Life is born from the heart" and "Heart is born from the heart". Heart is a person's ideal. Pursuing ambition can not only change a person's appearance, but also change a person's fate!
The phase and lifetime fields can be changed. Of course, this change is not achieved overnight, and it is often based on years and is slow. For example, a person who has worked in a certain industry for many years will naturally have the temperament and demeanor of that industry. People will know that he is a scholar, a businessman or a soldier by observing his appearance. If the same person is interested in literature or business, or in the army or agriculture, he will definitely take this with him in 20 years.
This shows how important human factors are, and how can we put aside people's innate qualities, acquired functions, people's wishes, knowledge and skills, good and evil and so on. Predicting to judge whether they are good or bad?