Zeng Guofan can tell a fortune _ Can Zeng Guofan tell a fortune?
All wealth and fame are predestined, half by human efforts and half by heaven. For fame and fortune, blind pursuit will lose its nature.
Therefore, in this letter, Zeng Guofan hopes that his son can be a saint and read more books, because this matter is entirely up to him, as Mencius said: "If you ask, you will get it, but if you give up, you will lose it." With the goal of becoming a saint, we won't go astray.
Gains and losses such as wealth and fame are all fate, half by manpower and half by fate. Only by learning to be a saint depends on your own efforts and has nothing to do with fate.
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There are gains and losses in life, which can make people happy, and loss can make people beat their chests. This is a common phenomenon in life. Some people get carried away and go to the other extreme; Some people are completely desperate because of disappointment. A person should not be secretly pleased with a little achievement in his life. You should know that there are bigger goals waiting for you to pursue.
At the same time, don't blame others for a little setback. You should know how many people have come out of adversity and achieved success. In ancient times, those people with high morality were not affected by objective environment and things, nor did they change because of personal gains and losses. Instead, they were so-called "gains and losses follow fate" and "not happy enough and not worried enough".