Dear friends, hello everyone! Just now, I mentioned that we should always remember "repay four kinds of kindness and three kinds of aid". Only in this state of mind and state of mind can we live a life without regrets. Because we always have to repay four favors, we won't do anything that makes people complain, and we won't do anything that makes us regret. We just said that the dental industry needs to be very cautious, and it is easy to destroy the harmony of the group. It is mentioned that Confucius said that "a gentleman has evil", that is, we should pay special attention to these four things. The first is that "the wicked call people evil", and the second is that "the wicked live in their dirty places and do it". When we persuade leaders and bosses, we have a mentality, that is, "We had a close relationship and advised them to make them more attractive, please my color and soften my voice", and we must never criticize the boss in public or in private. "If you don't join the remonstrance, you will reply gladly, you will cry with you, and you will not complain." In fact, "if you don't join the remonstrance, you must reply." That is worthy of your heart.
So what should we do when we persuade again and again today and don't listen? What should courtiers do? This is all worth thinking about. In the classics, we are taught that it is a shame to deal with many princes. You have advised your king and your leader many times, but he is tired and you may be humiliated by him, so just advise the leader three times, about three times. If the leader's attitude is that he doesn't listen to exhortation at all, we will not criticize him at this time, but leave the company now. This is the integrity of a scholar. Today, if you don't listen to my words and advice, and I continue to stay, then I am a vegetarian, and I just covet this income; A scholar is absolutely not loyal to others for money, but for that responsibility and obligation. So when what he said was unacceptable to the leaders, it showed that I couldn't do my job well, so I didn't covet this official position.
Fan Chunren was a virtuous prime minister in the Song Dynasty. He once said, "You don't have to say anything, just don't care about me." If the king and leaders don't listen to me, I won't even return my head, even if you give me a salary of several thousand dollars. You see, this scholar's smartness and integrity are definitely not dedicated to his duties here for the sake of fame and fortune. So advise, if this matter concerns the safety of the whole enterprise, even the imperial government, and he doesn't need it after three times of advice, we have to leave. Why? If we don't leave, he is doing something bad, then we will start a business with him, so a reasonable person won't do such a thing. Many people said that my boss asked me to make false accounts, but I didn't do it. I resigned. What if I lose my job? Therefore, it is not easy for people to truly believe in truth and cause and effect. When you are faced with temptation, you can flatly refuse, keep your integrity and honesty, and the future will be endless.
There is a teacher in our company. The boss asked him to do these tricks. He was honest, so he resigned. Although his income was good, he resigned. Later, when I quit, I was immediately connected with the karma of China culture and preaching the teachings of sages. He was our first seed teacher in Lujiang, and now he is in charge of some departments. On the contrary, it is the Buddhist karma of the sages, the karma generated, and the friends who are participating in the Tao, who get together. So you can really give up, you can really resist the temptation and have a bright future. Don't worry. Even if you leave this immoral leader today, you will meet a more ethical leader in the future, because the thicker your blessings, the better your karma. Therefore, people who are really reasonable only want to do good deeds, and there will be no other troubles and complaints.
Everyone said, "You don't have to say anything, and you can't care." Very natural and unrestrained, and then said a few words to the leader, he didn't listen, "hum! Say no and I'll leave. This can't be used indiscriminately, but the leader has completely reversed right and wrong. This is the attitude. When we give advice to the leader, the leader's attitude is also very good, but he is telling us that your point of view is not completely right, and he also seized this opportunity to communicate with us and even taught us to see things in depth and breadth. As a result, we are still stubborn: you don't listen to me. Leaders are sometimes more moral and knowledgeable than we are. When people are generous enough to listen to us and give us some feedback, we should still be open-minded to experience and understand. You can't cut off this communication just because you don't listen to me, or even go out and say that leaders can't accept other people's polite words, which will make more mistakes. Because it is not in its position, it is difficult for us to understand all aspects that should be considered in that position. Therefore, when the boss communicates with us, he is still very generous. At this time, we should be very calm and see that he has considered many angles. At this time, we can't insist, and the boss just won't listen to us. I can't say what Mr. Cai said. It didn't work to persuade us three times, so we left. It is so chic, waving our sleeves. So many times, you have to rely on your own heart to understand. It's not that we learned from a saint today and put a condom on it. The situation is different and individual, and we all observe it by our own calmness.
Then, the third "brave and rude" is that he is brave but does not obey the rules, and often many people's emotions are affected. In fact, it is not difficult to work in a group today. The most important thing is that these exchanges and emotions between people are unbalanced, which is particularly tiring. Tired from work, lying down tomorrow will be a hero, but this kind of human feelings will be emotional because of carelessness and impoliteness. Sometimes it takes three to five days, and there is no emotional retreat, which will hinder the smooth development of the whole thing. This is not good for people who can't be brave but don't know how to speak. So be a little too angry when you speak, and don't be too hasty, it will make people's heart beat faster at once.
Moreover, the "person who dares to kill the consequences" is bold because he seems to make some decisions quickly and is not easy to hesitate. But the problem is that the decisions he makes are often his own cognition, and his cognition kills his cognition, which is unreasonable, but he thinks he is right, so he made a decision immediately without reporting to the leader or boss, and he made it himself, affecting the following group of people. Leadership is also very helpless, you are not careless, you work hard, you will go on at once. However, organization's thoughts and actions are just like driving a train. If you make this decision, it's like going off two tracks. Well, to the right of the track, you drove 200 meters and said, "Wrong, back up!" " what do you think? The train was so heavy that it had to back up slowly and go back to the crossroads. Therefore, leaders often have to help them clean up the mess when they meet subordinates who are good at making decisions but don't understand the truth. Helping him clean up and take care of his face in the group is really tiring, courageous and suffocating. Therefore, when a person has mastered the power and wants to bring people under his control, the most important condition is that his knowledge must be correct, otherwise it is absolutely not easy for people to take power. Being in power is the idea of leading the whole team; It is not easy to lead back if there is a deviation in thinking. This is part of the dental industry we just mentioned.
So Mr. Fan knows his own measure and makes a lot of money, so he is not famous. When our life can be observed from our own heart, we will not blame our own destiny, but will find out the problems and fundamentally change our destiny. Therefore, after believing in the truth, we can always "do wrong and seek wrong", and we can experience things in all the ups and downs. Let go of greed and laziness in adversity, and thank you for making our career. Let go of greed, laziness, infatuation and persistence, and our wisdom, virtue and happiness will appear earlier. Therefore, all people are helping our wisdom, virtue and happiness earlier. Then, everyone is a bodhisattva and a teacher.
So, Lucky Boy's Fifty-three ginseng tells us a straightforward way. The practice of Buddhism, such as a wealthy teenager, is that there is only one student and the rest are teachers, all of which are making up for our shortcomings. Therefore, the master said, "In a threesome, there must be a teacher. It is an achievement for us to choose the good and follow it and change it from the bad. Disciples Rules also said, "Seeing people as good, that is, Si Qi, will be far away and gradually converge. Seeing people is evil, which is introspection. You see, this is also helping us improve. " If there are any mistakes, we will correct them, and there will be no more police. "Therefore, my dear friends, when we immediately see our friend's temper, it is our great man. He pointed out our most serious problem at once. You should correct it at once and temper your habits at once. Those who truly feel everything are the real bodhisattvas and teachers. From now on, everyone is a good person and everything is a good thing. From the look on your friend's face, it seems that not everyone is a good person, and everything is a good thing. You see, sometimes we are listening to Master's lecture, which is very good, but the more we listen, the heavier our mouth gets, and our ears are really listening, but naturally we let it out. Follow the article into the view! " All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of Tathagata. "We can do it, but we can't. Don't be defeated by yourself again, we lack confidence.
Just now we talked about Teacher Fan, and Master Yungu asked him, Do you think you should have these good results? He began to ask for it. It turned out that my bad luck was of my own making. He said that he had no children, and he himself said so, because "there are many creatures in the filth of the earth", and the earth can accommodate all kinds of life, even dirty life. The mother didn't dislike them and even raised them. "People with clear water often have no fish." Look at that clear water, you can't raise fish. Therefore, this also extends to us. "The observer is not a disciple." A person is very harsh and critical of others. In the end, people will deviate from each other and have no friends. The observer is not a disciple. Besides, we should be very calm. The teachings of sages should be "be strict with yourself and be lenient with others", which is strict with yourself, not others. You can't turn it into being strict with yourself. So we often say that others are upside down. Are we upside down? To be strict with self-discipline and lenient with self-discipline is to reverse the practice. Therefore, the inspection should be for yourself, not for others. There is no fish in clear water, and there is no disciple when people look at it.
We often see that many of the teachings of our ancestors were learned from the universe and everything in the world. You see, we look at mountains and rivers, flowers, birds and animals every day, and so do we. It is strange that we haven't realized these principles of being human. Why do our ancestors always become wise in looking at everything? Do you see the gap between us and our ancestors? Ancestors respect everything in the world, how can they cut down trees indiscriminately? And learn from everything with an open mind. Therefore, there is a passage in the Infinite Life Sutra that says, "Its wisdom is far-reaching, such as the vast sea." You see, that kind of ambition is vast, and "Bodhi is lofty and broad, and it seems like sumeru. Its own brilliance transcends the sun and the moon. " Look, when we see the sun and the moon, are we there? "It's too hot! It's so hot just to think about it. Have you ever thought that your bright heart will shine on the darkness of others' hearts like the sun and the moon?
"Its heart is as white as a snowy mountain." You see, these sages always get news between heaven and earth. You see, when we climb mountains in He Huan or Yushan, what we see is snow "I see snow", that's all. Are we going back to our moral character and moral integrity as white as snow? If we think of this sentence, we will lose our temper. Look at the earth. You step on it every day, it doesn't get angry, and then it feeds everything. Everything didn't even say thank you to it, but it still practiced happily and widely. Clean as water washes away all dirt. We should wash away our own dirt and everyone's dirt like water to make people white. Therefore, from these words, we should understand that the sage's mind is modest and cultured, and our future life will always be realized in the universe.
According to Mr. Fan, the first kind, because of being too clean, drives away many ants, and even kills them when cleaning, which may hurt life, so "it is better not to have children." "Harmony without difference gives birth to everything", the sum of heaven and earth, and as a result, he has a big temper, so "it is better not to have children." He "cherishes honor" and often cannot sacrifice himself for others. He is always doing superficial work, and he is really exhausted. He runs faster than anyone else and dares not do it. This is "it is best not to have children." "Talking more consumes gas", loving to talk more consumes gas, "it is appropriate to have four children". "He likes to drink lottery essence", and drinking at night is harmful to his health. "It is wise not to have children." "Sitting for a long night", sitting there without sleeping at night, sitting like this all night, can't keep Yuan Yu's spirit, can't keep his vitality. "It's better not to have children." Then I said, "There are still many evils left", and there are still many, so my life will have these consequences. When a person finds a problem, it is not difficult to solve it. Therefore, Mr. Fan later repented. "In the past, all species died yesterday, but in the future, all species were born today." "There are still a few flesh and blood", meaning, we should all follow the meaning taught by the sages in the future. "Can't the righteous body rule heaven?" Will definitely change our own destiny.
Of course, the radical cure of habits is a gradual process. In the first decade, Mr. Fan completed 3,000 charitable acts, and the second 3,000 charitable acts were completed in a few years, and the whole charity became more and more thorough. So later, no son became a son, and he was successfully admitted without being admitted to Jinshi. Even his life expectancy was originally 53 years old. When Mr. Fan wrote this article, he was 69 years old. Later, he lived to 74 years old, and his life expectancy was extended by 2 1 year. Moreover, Mr. Fan is now in the western paradise. We are giving a lecture now. He must be there watching us. I hope we can also break evil and cultivate good, and become a Buddha, which is worthy of Mr. Yuan Lefan's valuable performance. This is about our belief in truth. Doing good things will inevitably bring a hundred blessings, and doing bad things will inevitably bring a hundred disasters. Dear friends, when we look at this sentence, "One evil is full of profit, and all harm is not beneficial", can we think about "that person will get what he deserves soon" and "that person will get what he deserves soon"? Can we be so deliberate? No, if you don't do well, you must reflect on yourself. When we see others doing evil, we can't give them bad results there quickly. This intention is not very kind.
When people do evil, we should seize some opportunities to lead them astray. It's like a thousand-year-old darkroom. If he can listen to good words, he can break evil and repair good. It's like a Millennium darkroom. Yi Deng can only take pictures, and the Millennium darkness can be removed. Therefore, we have absolutely no idea of making others suffer, no such idea. Many people have a last thought of repenting, turning over a new leaf and dying well. Even the western thoughts of repenting and dying always achieve others' hearts. You see, Zhang Shan has been with him all his life, and no one has advised him. Although he did many evils and killed people for his life, before he died, all the tauren were around him, beating him with horns. He was so scared that he lay in bed and shouted. His wife couldn't bear to see it and wanted help. As a result, she went out and met a monk. Zhang is really blessed. When he died, he happened to pass by their door, so he was invited in. The monk lit a wick to let him take it, saying that you should stop worrying and read Amitabha as soon as possible. As a result, Zhang read a sentence and the cow stopped hitting him. Read one more sentence and the bull's head will be lifted. After reading the third sentence, the cow retreated a step or two. As a result, he was very happy: they didn't hurt me anymore. The mage said, don't think about anything else, concentrate on reading this Buddhist name. As a result, Zhang went on reading sentence by sentence, and died by the ninth sentence. This example tells us never to despise anyone, even if he has done a lot of evil now, he may be able to do it because he is conscious. So we all make promises to people at this stage, and this trust lies in the fact that the evil he created is "unaware", so we can't take it to heart and conflict with it.
Therefore, Lutz said, Master, you said that doing good is a good thing, and doing bad things is a disaster. Why have we had no food for seven days now? The master also said, "Good has no near name, and evil has no near punishment." Good people will not have good results and good reputation in a short time, and evil people do not mean that they will be arrested and brought to justice by the police tomorrow. Otherwise, there is his season. It is very likely that the wicked man has made great blessings in his last life and is now showing off, but when he enjoys all the blessings, his evil consequences are presented. And the master went on to say, we are definitely not asking for affirmation, and we are definitely not asking for good results. So the master said, "Lan Zhi was born in a deep forest, and he is not fragrant until he hears about him." The fragrance of Lan Zhi is not to entice others to smell it, but to emit it naturally. Lan Zhi was born in a deep forest. Without people, there would be no fragrance. As the saying goes, "Xiu De, a gentleman, doesn't change morality for poverty". Xiu De is our duty, and we will never change our attitude of doing good just because we meet any state. Xiu De, a gentleman, will not change his festival for poverty, nor will he change his festival because of these bad circumstances, but will retreat from our differences and solar terms. Lutz was very happy when he heard this. When the master pointed out his wrong mentality, he immediately bowed out. This is where we should learn from Luz. We are very happy to hear that. Master also mentioned Lutz's integrity.
Then Zigong came, and Zigong said, Master, are we a little too moral? If you lower it a little, will many kings accept it? When we didn't eat for seven days, students came and said that if we set the standard lower, we might have food. Dear friends, should the standards be lowered? Then there will be food to eat. Therefore, sages always focus on future generations. If the current masters are lower, then the number of scholars in the Han Dynasty will be lower, and it will be lower in the Tang Dynasty. To what extent will we learn the teachings of sages now? Probably as bad as a bird? Not as good as animals. Therefore, we must never lower the truth of being a man. After listening to Zi Gong, the master didn't answer directly. Masters will seize the opportunity to educate students. He didn't give a definite answer, but asked another student. He said to Yan Hui, Yan Hui, are you thinking the same thing as Zi Gong? Therefore, Yan Hui said that the standard must not be lowered, and the teachings of the sages must be made and spoken out in a down-to-earth manner, so as to have no regrets and be worthy of the world. He can't accept these politicians, that's his problem, not ours, but if we fall, we will be sorry for the whole world and our children and grandchildren.
After hearing this, the host was very happy and said to Yan Hui, Yan Hui, if you have great status and wealth in the future, I will be your housekeeper. In fact, you can hear from this sentence that a good teacher is a good teacher. If a student is willing to be taught, he will try his best to achieve this student, even if he is willing to be a stepping stone. So I can meet the teachings of Master's old man's house in my life. For 48 years, Master has been lecturing on the scriptures. This kind of concentration is to achieve our karma, and the classics are to treat our shortcomings. Therefore, the teacher stressed the need to learn Disciples' Rules, which is similar to the master's clamor to learn from these books, such as Four Instructions on Fan, Induction on Tai Shang and An Shu, so as to have a good life. In the early years of the Republic of China, his ethics of being a man was not lost, so he could still learn directly from the four disciples. Decades have passed, and we don't even understand the truth of filial piety. It is necessary to fundamentally implement filial piety to adoptive parents, and service teachers should follow the Disciples' Rules. Therefore, we must not live up to the sympathy and care of our teachers.
Confucius and his students were deprived of food for seven days, and then they got out of trouble. Chu sent troops to help them. On the way after customs clearance, Zi Gong told Master, Master, these seven days are really the greatest misfortune in our lives, and I really hope that we will never have such unlucky things again in our future lives. The master immediately told Zigong that my opinion is different from yours. All my students and I were lucky enough to meet Cai Chen for seven days without food. Zigong is stupid. I'm starving, or is it a blessing? You see, this is the core of the story chain. Whether there is real morality or knowledge can really be seen here. The master went on to say, "If you are not sleepy, you can't be a king, and if you are not sleepy, you can't be a martyr." We often say that you can't be king unless you can't stand it, so the master said that you can't be king without being sleepy. Which of these sages who have gone down in history has not gone through hardships and achieved his morality and knowledge? Therefore, Master Meng once said: "If Heaven wants to send a great mission to Sri Lanka, it must first suffer its mind, train its bones and muscles, and starve its skin, and do whatever it takes."
Why are you doing this? "Be patient and reap what you can't." Only by improving his wisdom and ability and testing him quickly can he help all beings. Otherwise, I have no desire. I want to help all beings, but the result is that I can't get up. How dare buddhas and bodhisattvas send us to work? Ability, wisdom and determination are not enough. Give us a job when the time comes, halfway through, and then say, Buddha and Bodhisattva, I quit! Then sit down and lie: stop playing! So what do I do? Halfway through, a group of people have been driven away. What will they do? We can't say I don't want to leave halfway, and then a bunch of people in the back say I've been with you for so long. What should I do? It's up to you. That's irresponsible. Therefore, it must be that we have reached a certain level of wisdom and virtue that Buddha and Bodhisattva will send us jobs, so we will have a lot of experience and patience to send us important jobs. If we can't stand the challenge, the fundamental reason is that we are not compassionate enough, unwilling to take responsibility and unwilling to improve our ability, so we flinch when we encounter difficulties. If I look at it at once, where is my compassion? Now we can summon up courage to face difficulties and challenges again. You can't be a king if you are not sleepy, and you can't be a martyr if you are not sleepy.
Zhou Wenwang's interpretation of the Book of Changes during his imprisonment in Zhou Wang is the most profound interpretation of the Book of Changes in China. If Zhou Wenwang complained there when he was locked up, our culture in China might be much worse. Because the master is the ancestor of Yao and Shun, and he has a civil-military agreement (Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang), let's take them as an example. Dear friends, we can't listen to stories for nothing, can we? So now we can withstand hardships and challenges, and this spirit will also affect your generations, and future generations can't live without us. If we can't accept the challenge now, your descendants will be finished. Therefore, this is our reflection on ourselves from the lack of food in Cai Chen. Doing good is what we should do, and it is definitely not for seeking results.
There is another example that can make us think calmly. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a businessman who made a lot of money. Later, on his deathbed, he said to his son, son, I want to tell you how I can make so much money today. I tampered with our scales. After I tampered with it, people sold me goods, and I always bought them again. Everything I sell is light, so I made a lot of huge profits in this re-entry and light exit, so I made so much money. As a result, his son listened, and after his father died, he destroyed this unfair scale. His son is also very kind. Soon after, both his sons died. He didn't want to do such an outrageous thing as his father did, but both his sons died. Dear friends, if it were us, would you complain? I've done good things. Why did my son die? So in the realm, we can test whether we are true or not.
Dear friends, more than three years ago, I planned to re-enter the primary school to teach. When I took the exam, all counties and cities in Kaohsiung were admitted to the retest and finals. Even in the school opposite our home, there were 19 1 person who took the exam, and 2 1 person was admitted to the retest. It is only 200 meters away from our home. I have come up with my wishful thinking. I have taught in that school all my life. Students can come to me anytime after graduation. I worked it out, and then I went for a second interview. Before I walked in, the teachers and staff of that school said that our school lacked male teachers most. Later, as soon as I walked in for an interview, three principals sat there. When they saw me, they said, there are male teachers in this exam! Because of 2 1 individuals, only one is a man, and the other 20 are female teachers. I thought there was a shoo-in. As a result, there are still some exam results. I'm not very sad. Later, in Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County, thousands of people still entered the second interview, but they were not admitted later. In the end, Kaohsiung decided not to accept it, and I didn't feel bad. I just feel that I didn't hand out the magic weapon of the exam during this period of time, so I took the calligraphy textbook Disciples written by Yang Shufen in the afternoon after the exam and went to many Jing Zong societies to hand it out, which made me unable to do these things these days. Therefore, people are tired of seeking fame, so they hurry to deliver books. Finally, we made sure that we didn't get in, and we were very calm, waiting for the arrangement of karma in the future.
Although I don't feel bad, many people feel bad, because many friends take care of me and bless me. They all help me study Buddhism, hoping I can pass the exam. Maybe their ability to recite Buddhism was so strong that they sent me to the mainland, so soon, I went to Haikou in the mainland and began to promote Chinese culture and disciples. Therefore, in the realm, we really have to believe in the truth. As long as you do good, nothing is bad. But you have a heart of likes and dislikes, and you may be troubled now. When we meet the boundary, we will say, why didn't you give me a good result? A lifetime of trouble is a career, and a career will go with the flow. But we are just doing good deeds, not seeking good results, just thinking about how to serve Buddhism and all beings. This is a willingness to help yourself; As long as you are willing to help yourself, everything is arranged by Buddha and Bodhisattva, and there is nothing wrong with it. So, let's think about it, the whole fate is much worse. One is to go with the flow, and the other is that buddhas and bodhisattvas take care of us and cultivate us.
So now he's in trouble. God is also very kind, so he gave him a dream, seeing that he was already troubled and so uncomfortable. He gave him a dream, and then told him in the dream that you still have to stick to your life beliefs and do good deeds. Your two dead sons were originally because your father violated the morality of doing business. Originally, he was destined to be a rich man. Because he made money by dishonest means, in fact, his wealth has been folded by more than half. He doesn't even know, and he's smug. There was bad karma before the discount, so two grandchildren came to cut him off. As a result, now that you have got rid of this bad method, you are doing business with your conscience, so the fate of your family has turned. Two disasters in your family have left, and many filial children and grandchildren will come to your home next. Later, as expected, another child was born, which was quite successful and promising. Therefore, we must strengthen our faith. The Diamond Sutra says: "Pure self-confidence is the birth of reality." .
As we mentioned last time, we will blame others, even others will blame us. In fact, to be honest, we will blame others, and others will certainly blame us. People get along like mirrors. If you cry in the mirror, he will cry in your face. If you complain in the mirror, he will certainly blame us. When we have to do something against ourselves, "I was wrong", the mirror will respond that I was wrong. The mirror is like the realm of everything we face. If we can correct ourselves, we won't blame and blame others. Because we correct ourselves and influence others, people have no complaints and even follow suit.
Last time we mentioned a kindergarten director, she started from herself and the relationship between husband and wife improved. All the children came to the sage's lecture and became very clever. Of course, because she is filial to her parents, her children are kind by nature. And all her colleagues love her very much, even the parents of kindergarten students, and their families have improved because of her. And her friends, former business people, business people. They often drink and socialize with some friends and talk about things that may not be related to their lives. However, after she learned about it, the way she spent time with these friends was different. They talked all over the sky, but she didn't interrupt. My friend talked about some boring things, which didn't help my life. The more they talked, the less she responded. As a result, I asked her what you were doing recently. She said that I was studying China culture and discipleship rules recently. They were all surprised. She said that after I studied, I felt that my wife didn't do well, the director didn't do well, and my mother didn't do well. Everyone was surprised to hear this. How to say this is different from what we said before. They all reflect on themselves and don't criticize others.