People who truly believe in Buddhism and can become Buddhists are not interested in any interests. Understand?
You have the idea of hiding. So I want to believe in Buddhism, and then I want to get some benefits.
Your reactions are called a little world-weary, but if you can recognize them, you will become better.
Section 1 Positive Mentality PMA Golden Rule
The first sign of a successful person is his mentality. If a person is positive, optimistic about life, optimistic about accepting challenges and coping with difficulties, then he is half successful.
We must face the fact that in this world, there are few outstanding people who succeed and many mediocre people who fail. Successful people are full, comfortable and chic, while unsuccessful people are empty, difficult and obscene.
Why is this happening?
Careful observation and comparison of the mentality of winners and losers, especially at critical moments, will find that mentality leads to amazing differences in life.
Among salesmen, there is a story that two Europeans go to Africa to sell leather shoes because hot Africans are always barefoot. The first salesman was disappointed when he saw that all Africans were barefoot. These people are barefoot. Why do they want my shoes? So I gave up my efforts and returned in frustration after failure; Another salesman was surprised to see that all Africans were barefoot: "These people have no shoes to wear. The leather shoes market is very big. " So I tried my best to guide people in Europe to buy leather shoes and finally made a fortune.
This is the difference between one idea and another. It is also the African market, and it is also facing barefoot Africans. Because of the differences in thoughts, a person is discouraged and loses without fighting; The other man was full of confidence and won a great victory.
Napoleon Hill once told such a story, which inspired us all.
Selma accompanied her husband at a military base in the desert. Her husband was ordered to go to the desert to exercise, and she stayed alone in the small tin house of the army. The weather is unbearable-in the shadow of cactus, the temperature is as high as Fahrenheit 125 degrees. She has no one to talk to, only Mexicans and Indians. They can't speak English. She was very sad, so she wrote to her parents and said that she would leave everything behind and go home. Her father's reply was only two lines, but these two lines remained in her heart forever, completely changing her life: two people looked out of the prison bars, one saw the dirt and the other saw the stars.
When Selma read this letter again, she felt very ashamed. She decided to look for stars in the desert. Selma began to make friends with local people, and their reaction surprised her very much. She expressed interest in their textiles and pottery, so they gave her their favorite textiles and pottery, and they were reluctant to sell them to tourists. Selma studied the fascinating cactus, various desert plants and physical conditions, and also learned about the groundhog. She watched the sunset in the desert, looking for conch shells, which were left tens of thousands of years ago when the desert was still an ocean-the unbearable environment became an exciting and unforgettable spectacle.
What made this lady's heart change so much?
The desert hasn't changed, nor have the Indians, but the lady's thoughts and mentality have changed. Different ideas made her turn what she thought was a bad situation into the most meaningful adventure in her life. She was so excited about discovering the new continent that she wrote a book and published it under the title of Happy Castle. She looked out of her prison and finally saw the stars.
In life, mediocre failure is mainly a matter of mentality. When they encounter difficulties, they just choose the easy way back. "I can't do that. I'd better give in. " As a result, I fell into the abyss of failure. Successful people still maintain a positive attitude when encountering difficulties, using "I want it!" I can! "Positive thoughts such as" There must be a way "encourage yourself, so that you can try your best to keep moving forward until you succeed. Edison failed thousands of experiments, never backed down, and finally succeeded in creating electric lights to illuminate the world.
So Napoleon Hill, the originator of successful science, said that the key to a person's success lies in his mentality. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people have a positive attitude, that is, PMA (positive attitude). Losers face life with a negative attitude. Negative mentality, that is, NMA (negative mentality) (PMA and NMA have become proper terms to replace positive mentality and negative mentality in the field of American success). Successful people use the golden rule of PMA to control their lives. They always use positive thinking, optimistic spirit and brilliant experience to control and control their lives. People who fail are guided and controlled by all kinds of failures and doubts in the past. They are empty, wretched, pessimistic, negative and decadent, and finally go to failure.
People who use PMA to control their own lives are positive and optimistic, and can handle all kinds of difficulties, contradictions and problems in life optimistically and correctly. People who use NMA to dominate their lives are pessimistic, negative and decadent, and dare not and will not actively solve all kinds of problems, contradictions and difficulties faced by life.
Some people always like to say that their current situation is caused by others, and the environment determines their life orientation. These people often say that their ideas cannot be changed. However, our situation is not caused by the surrounding environment. In the final analysis, how to look at life depends on ourselves. Victor frankl, a survivor of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, said, "In any given environment, people still have the last freedom, and that is to choose their own attitude."
Marby D. Mabcock said: "The most common and costly mistake is to think that success depends on some kind of genius, some kind of magic, something we don't have." But the key to success is actually in our own hands. Success is the result of using PMA. How high a person can fly is not restricted by other factors, but by his own mentality. Napoleon Hill told us that our mentality largely determines the success or failure of our life:
1. Life treats us as we treat life.
As we treat others, others will treat us.
Our mentality at the beginning of a task determines how successful we will eventually be, which is more important than any other factor.
The higher a person's position in any important organization, the more he can find the best mentality.
No wonder some people say that our environment-psychological, emotional and spiritual-is entirely created by our own attitude. Of course, with PMA, there is no guarantee that everything will be successful, but PMA will certainly improve a person's daily life, but there is no guarantee that he will get everything he wants. Only when PMA is closely combined with other laws in the Sixteen Laws of Success will he reach the other side of success. On the contrary, people who practice NMA will definitely not succeed. Napoleon Hill said that people with negative attitudes have never seen sustained success. Even if luck can achieve temporary success, that success is short-lived and fleeting.
Section 2 Know Your Invisible Amulet
We can't predict all kinds of situations in life, but we can adapt. Correct psychological attitude and good habits will have positive gains. Never accept the garbage inside you.
All people in the world are eager to realize their own value, get rich and succeed. However, how to capture success and where is the starting point of the road to success? People are looking for it silently. Napoleon Hill told people that if they want to succeed, they must first know their own invisible amulet. Each of us wears an invisible amulet. One side of the amulet is engraved with PMA (positive attitude) and the other side is engraved with NMA (negative attitude).
This invisible amulet has two amazing powers; It can not only attract wealth, success, happiness and health, but also repel these things and take away everything in life. The first of these two forces is PMA, which can make people climb to the top, and the second force is NMA, which makes people trapped in the bottom of the valley for life, even if they climb to the top, they will be dragged down by it.
So, how does mentality affect people? According to behavioral psychology, when you have a belief or mentality, you can strengthen and encourage it by putting it into action.
For example, if you have a belief, you can finish your work well and you will be full of confidence in your work. You often think like this. If you practice hard, your confidence will be stronger. This is your behavior that deepens your mentality. For example, if you admire a person like this, you will take the initiative to communicate with him, and then you will continue to discover the advantages of this person and like this person better. This is a reflection of emotion and behavior. Similarly, for yourself, you like yourself very much, or you don't like yourself very much. When a state of mind exists, your behavior will deepen it. So sometimes girls or women cry more and more sadly, that is, the act of crying urges her to vent her emotions and confuse each other's cause and effect. So a person, when you think you have the ability, you will feel that all aspects can be successful through your own efforts. Because no one in this world can change you, only you can change yourself, no one can beat you, only you. Therefore, no matter how bad your own conditions are, as long as you use PMA well and combine other laws of the law of success, you may reach the other side of success. On the contrary, no matter how superior your own conditions and rare opportunities are, as long as you use NMA, your failure is inevitable. American President franklin roosevelt is a typical example of using PMA to achieve his career.
Franklin roosevelt, an 8-year-old boy, is fragile and timid, with a fearful expression on his face. He was panting. If asked to recite, his legs will tremble, his lips will tremble, his answers will be vague and incoherent, and then he will sit down decadent. If he had a good-looking face, he might be better, but he has teeth.
A child like him must have a keen sense of self, avoid any activities, dislike making friends, and become a person who only knows self-pity. But this is not the case. Although he has some defects, he has a PMA (positive attitude) and a positive, energetic, optimistic and enterprising attitude. This PMA inspired his spirit of struggle. His shortcomings prompted him to work harder. He didn't lose heart because his peers laughed at him. His panting habit turned into a firm hiss. With a strong will, he clenched his gums to prevent his lips from trembling and overcome his fear. It was with this spirit of struggle and this PMA that he finally became the president of the United States.
He was not discouraged by his shortcomings. He even used them to turn them into capital and escalators and climbed to the peak of success. In his later years, few people knew that he had serious defects. The American people all love him, and he became the first and most popular president of the United States, which is unprecedented. How amazing and great his success is, but how serious his birth defects are, but he can persist in his work without losing heart until the day of success comes. It is natural and common for people like him to stop fighting and indulge in depravity! But he didn't do it. If there is any pity, he will make his friends pity him. He never falls into the trap of self-pity, which harms many people who are much lighter than him. No one could have imagined that this beloved president would have such a sad childhood and such great confidence.
If he pays great attention to his physical defects, maybe he will spend a lot of time washing "hot springs", drinking "mineral water", eating "vitamins", spending time sailing and sitting on the deck lounge chair, hoping to recover. He doesn't treat himself as a baby, but wants to make himself a real person. When he saw other strong children playing games, swimming, riding horses and doing all kinds of extremely difficult sports activities, he also forced himself to take part in hunting, riding horses or other intense activities, making himself the most diligent model. When he saw other children coping with difficulties and overcoming fears with a firm attitude, he also responded to the terrible environment he encountered with an adventurous spirit. In this way, he also feels brave. When he is with others, he feels that he likes them and is unwilling to avoid them. Because he is interested in people, the feeling of inferiority can't happen.
He feels that when he uses the word "happiness" to receive others, he doesn't feel afraid of others.
Before he entered the university, through continuous efforts, systematic exercise and life, his health and energy have recovered very well. He used his vacation to drive cattle in Arizona; Hunting bears in the Rocky Mountains; Playing lions in Africa makes you strong. Will anyone doubt the energy of Roosevelt, the cavalry leader in the Spanish War? Or has anyone ever questioned his bravery? However, Roosevelt was indeed the child who was once weak and afraid.
How simple it was for Roosevelt to make himself successful, but how effective it was! This is something that everyone can do. The main factor of Roosevelt's success lies in his mentality and his efforts, but more importantly, his mentality. It was his positive attitude that inspired him to work hard and finally found the secret of success from the unfortunate environment. He pasted PMA's face with an invisible amulet, and finally attracted success.
"I am the master of my own destiny. I am the leader of my own soul. " This poem tells us that because we are the masters of our attitude, we naturally become the masters of our destiny. It is a universal law that attitude will determine our future opportunities. The poem also emphasizes that this law will be fully fulfilled no matter whether the attitude is destructive or constructive.
By applying the golden rule of PMA, we can turn our thoughts and attitudes into facts, and we can also turn rich or poor thoughts into facts. There is a man named Al Allen in the business department of United Insurance Company of America. He is bent on becoming a first-class salesman in the company. He applied the PMA principle introduced in the inspirational books and magazines he read. In a magazine called Infinite Success, he read an editorial entitled "Turning Discontent into Inspiration", and soon he had an opportunity to apply it.
One cold winter, Al braved the cold in downtown Wisconsin and bought insurance in every store. I didn't pull any of them. Of course he was very dissatisfied, but his PMA turned his dissatisfaction into "inspiration". He suddenly remembered the editorial he had read and decided to give it a try. Before leaving the office the next day, he told other salespeople about his failure the day before. He said; Wait and see! I'm going to visit those customers again today, and I sell more insurance than you.
Strangely enough, Al did it. He returned to the old city and visited everyone he talked to the day before again. As a result, he sold 66 new accident insurance.
It is a common feature of many outstanding people to turn the invisible amulet upside down instead of the NMA side and use the power of the PMA side. Most people think that success comes suddenly through the advantages we don't have, or that we have these advantages but turn a blind eye. In fact, the most obvious is often the least easy to see. It is no mystery that everyone's advantage is his own PMA.
A positive attitude (PMA) is a correct attitude, and a correct attitude is composed of "positive" characteristics. For example, self-confidence, honesty, hope, optimism, courage, enterprising, generosity, tolerance, wit, sincerity and rich common sense are all positive. As for negative mentality (NMA), its characteristics are all negative, and it is a negative, pessimistic, decadent and incorrect psychological attitude. After studying successful people for many years, Napoleon Hill finally came to a conclusion that a positive attitude is a simple secret they have.
If you are right, then the world is right.
If you think you can, you can.
Napoleon Hill told such a story: One Saturday morning, a priest was worried about preaching, and his wife went shopping, and it was raining outside; The youngest son is restless and has nothing to do. Later, he picked up an old magazine and leafed through it, and saw a huge photo with bright colors. This is a map of the world. So he tore off the page, cut it into small pieces, threw it on the living room floor and said, "Johnny, if you put it together, I'll give you 25 cents." The priest thinks he will be busy for at least half a day. Unexpectedly, ten minutes later, there was a knock at the door in his study. His son has made arrangements. The priest was really surprised that Johnny finished it so quickly. Every piece of paper was neatly arranged together, and the whole map was restored to its original state. "Son, how did you get well so soon?" The priest asked. "Oh," said Jonah, "it's very simple! There is a picture of a man on the back of this map. I put a piece of paper under it, put a photo of a person on it together, then put a piece of paper on top of the photo and turn it over. I think that if people spell correctly, the map should also be spelled correctly. " The priest couldn't help laughing and gave him a quarter. "You also gave me the topic of tomorrow's sermon." He said: "If a person is right, his world is right."
This story is profound: if you are dissatisfied with your environment and want to change, you must first change yourself. That is, "If you are right, your world is right". If you have a positive attitude, all the problems around you will be solved.
Ivan Cooper is one of the most respected judges in America, but he was a cowardly child when he was a child. Cooper grew up in a quasi-slum in St. Joseph, Missouri. His father is an immigrant, making a living as a tailor with a meager income. In order to keep warm at home, Cooper often takes a coal bucket and goes to the nearby railway to pick up coal. Cooper was embarrassed. He had to do it. He often sneaks in and out of the back street to avoid being seen by the children after school. But those children often try to see him. In particular, a group of children often ambush Cooper on his way home from the railway for fun. They often scattered his cinders all over the street, making him cry all the time when he came home. In this way, Cooper has been living in a state of more or less fear and inferiority. One thing happened, which always happens when we break the failed lifestyle. Cooper was inspired by a book. So as to take positive actions in life. This book is Horatio Alger's Struggle for Robert. In this book, Cooper read a story about the struggle of a teenager like him.
The young man suffered great misfortune, but he overcame them with courage and moral strength. Cooper also hopes to have this kind of courage and strength. The child has read every Horatio book he can borrow. When he was studying, he entered the role of the hero. All winter, he sat in the cold kitchen reading stories about courage and success, and unconsciously accepted a positive attitude. A few months after Cooper finished reading Horatio's first book, he went to pick coal on the railway. In the distance, he saw three figures galloping behind a house. His initial idea was to turn and run. But soon he remembered the brave spirit of the hero he admired in the book, so he held the coal bucket tighter and strode forward as if he were a hero in Horatio's book. This is a fierce battle. Three boys rushed to Cooper together. Cooper threw away the iron bucket and waved his arms vigorously to resist, which surprised the three bullied children. Cooper slammed his right hand on a child's lips and nose, and his left hand on the child's stomach. The boy stopped fighting and turned and ran away, which also surprised Cooper. At the same time, two other children are kicking and punching him. Cooper managed to infer that one child knocked down the other and hit him with his knee. Hit him in the stomach crazily. Now there's only one left. He is the head of the child and has jumped on Cooper. Cooper pushed him aside and stood up. For about a second, two people stood face to face, staring at each other mercilessly, to outdo each other. Later, the little head retreated bit by bit, and then began to run. Perhaps out of anger, Cooper picked up another piece of coal and threw it at him. At this time, Cooper found that his nose was dirty and his body was black and blue. This battle is really great. This is an important day in his life, on which he overcame his fear.
Ben Cooper is not much better than last year, and the fierceness of those bad guys has not subsided much. The difference is that his mentality has changed. He learned to overcome fear, not afraid of danger, and will never be bullied by bad people again. From now on. He wanted to change the environment by himself, and he did. By using PMA, Ben Cooper overcame cowardice and fear and eventually became one of the most respected judges in the United States. By using PMA, Cooper has made greater achievements than this, that is, turning the invisible amulet to the side of PMA, and finally obtaining the secret of success.
I hope the above rules can have a good influence on you, rediscover the meaning of life, be happy, fly and find your lovely friends. They are all waiting for you in front.