Ask the Feng Shui master, is there a saying that graves should be buried in the southeast direction?
According to what you say, everyone just needs to work hard at the graves of their ancestors! Why should I go to school or read a book?
So Master Yin Guang told us to know our own life. He has a four-material slip, which talks about the relationship between fate and heart.
The first sentence is "A good heart and a good life will keep you rich until you grow old." If your destiny is good, your heart must also be good. The heart is your mind and your thoughts. If our thoughts are good, our behavior and language will be good, and if our destiny is good, we will be rich until we grow old.
The second sentence is "If your heart is good but your life is bad, misfortunes turn into blessings." If a person has a good heart and a miserable life, his disaster will turn into blessing
. The ancients said, "A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise." Although some people live in poverty and encounter more disasters, Mencius tells us: "When heaven is about to entrust a great task to this person, he must first strain his mind, work his muscles and bones, and starve his body
, His body is depleted, his actions are chaotic, so he is tempted to endure and gain what he cannot. "Between heaven and earth, in life, there are tests everywhere, and you can improve yourself everywhere. If our mental strength is very weak and we cannot improve ourselves or experience ourselves, life will be just life. .
An important characteristic of good-hearted people is their ability to persevere. The most important thing in practicing good Dharma is persistence. There is a layman who is a vegetarian. He doesn't eat cakes because they contain eggs. On the surface, he seems very stubborn. A stubborn person has one advantage - it is easy to persevere, and he will stick to it until the end when he does good deeds. However, he also has a disadvantage, that is, it is difficult to change, and he can't delay it like an old scalper. People who mean well and do good deeds will have a very hard time if they don't have the strength to persevere. If you don't do good deeds, your life will be easy; if you want to do good deeds, it will be like climbing a mountain, which is difficult to climb. So the most important thing is to persist. Anyone who can persevere will have very strong strength throughout his life.
Fortune tellers generally do not tell fortunes for three types of people: the first is practitioners, especially monks. If we go to a fortune teller who sets up a street stall and ask him to tell us our fortune, almost no one dares to tell us the fortune of his family members.
It is inaccurate. Why can't it be calculated accurately? Because the whole outlook on life of monks is different from that of lay people. Don't think that we eat the same food every day, live in the same house, walk the same road, and recite the same sutras. The whole concept is different
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To give a simple example, if a layman goes out on the first day of the first lunar month and walks on the road wearing tattered clothes and shoes, we think this person is poor, very unlucky and shameful; but if a monk wears tattered clothes and shoes, If you have torn clothes and shoes and recite "Amitabha, Amitabha...", people will say that this is old practice. He himself would also think: "If I don't wear good clothes, I am cultivating and cherishing my blessings." Which lay person would say, "I am wearing ragged clothes,
I am cherishing my blessings"? Very few, the concepts are different.
If a family member’s fortune is calculated and he or she will be locked up in a room for three years and asked to have food delivered to him, then it would be no other place than a prison; but if a monk is locked up for three years, In the year, people would bring him meals, and he would be there every day to do the teachings with peace of mind. When he came out, everyone would say: "This master has come out of seclusion!" You see, the whole concept of monks and lay people is completely different. Same. Because the concepts are different, the destiny becomes different, so it is said that the concepts can change the destiny.
In order to cater to all sentient beings, or to save all sentient beings and to arouse the admiration of the public, most of the current monks are neatly dressed and look very free and easy. In fact, the ancients said: If you can wear hundreds of clothes, you will have countless blessings. Why worship Buddha? Paying homage to the Four Famous Mountains in three steps is to convince "I'm conceited"; dressing in rags and letting others look down on me is the best way to convince "I'm conceited".
As long as the "self-arrogance" is subdued, the fate will change immediately; if the "self-arrogance" is not subdued, the fate will be difficult to change! When we become monks and practice Mahayana Buddhism, our body and mind will be settled and solemn, which will make lay people happy
and at the same time we can conduct the Tao with peace of mind and not be distracted by thoughts. This is a way to benefit ourselves and others. Therefore, we monks or Buddhist practitioners should do things better and more solemnly, because this is to set an example for all sentient beings and let them see how free and at ease we are; if we are greedy for the external, we will be Fate has changed.
The second type is a soldier, whose fate is uncertain. Why? Because being a soldier requires a strong willpower, a good soldier must have a very strong willpower, and he must go through various trainings. So when he encounters something bad, he treats it as a way to train himself, and his life will be changed by himself.
The third type is people who practice martial arts. They also have strong willpower and cannot predict their fate accurately.
So destiny may not be accurate. "If your heart is good but your life is bad, misfortune turns into blessing." When we encounter disaster, it teaches us a lesson and makes us understand life better.
The third sentence of the Four Materials Slip is "If you have a good destiny but a bad intention, your good fortune will turn into a bad omen." A person with a bad heart may have a good destiny. For example, if a person has a high status and a lot of money, but has no kindness or compassion and wants to harm others every day, the richer he is, the easier it is for him to do bad things.
, he could not control his own destiny, but instead harmed his life because of his wealth and power. Some people end up as prisoners because they fail to use their power properly. Therefore, if a person with a good destiny has a bad heart, this is the most dangerous thing.
The fourth sentence is "My heart and fate are not good, I suffer disaster and die young." If your life is not good and your heart is not good, you will suffer disaster, not only poverty, but also a short life.
The above is what Master Yinguang told us about how to understand destiny. For more articles, please read Master Yin Guang's notes and Master Yin Guang's books such as "The Four Trainings of Liao Fan", "Shou Kang Bao Jian", "An Shi Quanshu", etc.!