Liaozhai Taoist Fortune Telling _ Who is Liaozhai Taoist Fortune Telling?
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio once said: Ordinary people can only live and watch for a lifetime. Fortune tellers can see at most two lives, while immortals can basically see three lives. So this causal cycle is unknown to most people, so they will go to fortune telling. Then someone will definitely ask: Why do you have to go to fortune telling? Because in real life, people see that some good people encounter many frustrations, go through hardships and even die young, while some evil people are prosperous and live a long life, so they doubt the cause and effect of good and evil. I even doubt my fate, so I ask questions to get psychological comfort.
Tell a strange story
It is said that in the Song Dynasty, there was a young man whose parents died and he was physically disabled. He begs for a living, but he is kind-hearted and often likes to help others. He wandered to a small town and found that there was no bridge on a rushing river there. It is very dangerous for people to wade across the river all the time, and it is impossible to cross it when the riverbed is flooded on rainy days. Seeing this, the boy wanted to build a stone bridge, so he picked up stones and piled them by the river every day, regardless of the ridicule of others. Over time, year after year, stones piled up into mountains. The local villagers were deeply moved and began to build stone bridges together. The boy was blinded by a stone chisel, and the villagers lamented God's injustice. But the teenager didn't complain at all and still tried his best to help others. When the bridge was first built, everyone was celebrating. The boy was killed by lightning, which was very bitter.
This matter soon spread to Lord Bao, who was filled with indignation and wrote "Better be good than evil" on the youth's elegy. Not long after, the prince was born, but strangely, he cried and cried, and many doctors could not cure him. So please ask Lord Bao to do something. Bao Zheng saw that the baby's skin was like snow, and there were a few words in his tender little hand. When he distinguished them carefully, he was surprised and wiped them quickly. The handwriting disappeared instantly, and the baby stopped crying when he saw Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng learned about the cause and effect of the teenager through the dream fairy pillow. The first one is lonely and disabled; The second one was blind, but survived. The third world was struck by lightning and buried in the wilderness. But the child was born poor and disabled for the first time, but he repented and just wanted to do good for others. So fate made him pay back the career of two generations and made him blind. But children don't complain, just silently do good things for others. The god of fate rewrote it again, with the karma of the third life, and repaid it with the rest of his life, so he was killed by lightning. Finally, the suffering of the third world will be rewarded in the first world, and he will be arranged to support the emperor's home in the afterlife. Through this incident, Bao Zheng is also enlightened, and we can't just look at the surface. Karma is not bad.
Liaozhai said: In this world, no one can transcend karma. But fate can be chosen. If you choose it right, you can change it naturally. And ordinary people can't see through past lives, and most people are blinded by lard.
Tell another story.
At the end of the Qing dynasty, there was an old gentleman named Zhao, who was rich and well-fed. The old couple have three sons, all of whom have married daughters-in-law. On his 60th birthday, the old man told his three sons that he used a lead-filled scale. Many people got caught up in the small scale, made money in dirty business, calculated and killed a cotton seller and a medicinal material seller, and countless others were cheated. Now, my conscience finds that the thought of those cheated businessmen makes me restless. He decided to abandon evil and do good. Since then, he has been charitable and has done many good things.
Despite abandoning evil and doing good, unfortunate things followed. In the first year, the eldest son died of a sudden illness and the eldest daughter-in-law remarried. Then the next year, the second son died of a sudden illness and the second daughter-in-law remarried; Finally, the third son died of sudden illness, and the third daughter-in-law failed to remarry because of pregnancy, crying all day. Even the funeral at home made the old members particularly puzzled. He didn't understand why he had done bad things before and his children and grandchildren had become rich. Now that he has accumulated virtue and done good deeds, he has sent white-haired people to black-haired people, and he has begun to doubt the theory of karma.
While the old man was struggling, the third daughter-in-law was in labor, but she couldn't give birth for three days and nights in a row. Many midwives were invited, but they were all helpless. Just then, a monk who is proficient in traveling in clouds came to beg alms. When I heard about it, I told you that there is a good medicine for giving birth. If I take it, I will give birth immediately. Mr. Zhao quickly invited the monk in. The third daughter-in-law took the monk's medicine and gave birth to a boy. When I heard that I had a grandson, I was ecstatic. I am so grateful that I gave a banquet to thank the monk. During the dinner, I asked the monk why he abandoned evil and did good, but he was rewarded again and again.
The enlightened monk said: don't think about it. The karma between good and evil is really inseparable. Your eldest son is the businessman who sells medicinal materials, and you killed him. He went to your house to ask for your account. Your second son, a cotton merchant you killed, was reincarnated in your home and sent you away. Your third son is also the result of your industrial debt, doomed love. He will cause you a catastrophe, and you will eventually starve to death due to illness. It's all because you did something bad and did something good that changed your destiny. God has mercy on you and has taken away all your three sons who have lost their families. Only in this way can you turn evil into good and die a fair death. Now your karma is back. Your grandson will honor your ancestors and change your family in the future. This is a blessing for your good deeds.
After listening to the dream, the old man woke up, and he was more aware of the justice of good and evil. The monk said again, do you know why the scale uses sixteen taels? These sixteen Liang represent the Big Dipper, the Southern Six Stars and the Three Stars of Fu Lushou. Therefore, if you give one or two less to others, you will lose happiness, two or three less. The less you give to others, the more you will lose yourself. Think about it, how many crimes has a black-hearted scale caused?
therefore
Everything you do, good or bad, is not for others, but for yourself. Just like eating, whoever eats is full. Cause and effect are the same, whoever does it gets it. As long as you plant your career, you will enjoy the fruits of the future, whether it is good or evil, good or bad. So no one makes us suffer, but we make ourselves suffer; No one hurt us, but we hurt ourselves.