Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 73 Cultivating the Mind of Wisdom with the Buddha’s Mind——Great Enlightenment, Infinite Wisdom (2)
For the time being, we will not discuss how the recipients should express their gratitude.What I want to say is that Chinese charity should have a return to morality, get rid of the too strong stench of copper in charitable donations, and return to the essence of charity - to express your love and kindness.

Don't repay kindness, give a little love, express a little kindness, this is the essence of charity.In fact, there are many people in society who are full of genuine kindness. They have been helping others for decades without asking for anything in return. Such people are true philanthropists, embodying the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. They It is the backbone of China.I really hope that those "entrepreneurs" who use the banner of "charity" will not get out of the money, and treat those in need kindly, and you will get inner peace.

Morality is like the sea, wisdom is boundless

Lao Tzu said: "Kong De's appearance, only the way is followed." "Kong De" means great virtue.According to the Buddhist custom, those who write letters to the elders are honored as so-and-so "Great Virtue".The synonym of ancient Buddhism translated from Sanskrit to Chinese originally had "Kongde", but because Confucius was surnamed Kong, "Kongde" was changed to "Great Virtue" later.Kong is big, and virtue represents the behavior of a truly righteous person. It is a kind of tolerance, a kind of grandeur, and a kind of tolerance that dares to give up. In fact, it is also a kind of non-controversial mentality. "Tolerance" refers to the inclusive function of connotation.A person who is truly cultivated in morality has only one thing in his connotation - "Tao". "Only the Tao is to follow", anytime, anywhere, every minute and every second, you are asking yourself to conform to the principles of the Tao, every thought, every word and action, without any violation of the Tao. "It's as light as the sea", always tolerant of everything, tolerant of the trickle, will return to one, and there will be no outrageous and out-of-shape situations.This is the major principle of being a human being put forward in this section, and it also explains the attitude of a person born in this world.

To be a human being is to follow the belief of the inner spirit, which is to be considerate.Appreciation of Dao is the highest state of social life and the magic weapon for people to settle down.

"Self-cultivation, family harmony, state governance, and world peace" is the ideal state for our sages to conduct themselves in the world.Modern society does not necessarily require us to govern the country and the world, but no matter what you do, if you want to succeed in your career, you must have the concept of "following the way".

The world has changed, electronics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, the world is developing rapidly.However, since ancient times, the basic rules that people have been able to establish - honesty, credit, professionalism, responsibility, etc., have not fundamentally changed with the ever-changing contemporary life.They haven't swayed wildly with popular fashions, tweaked a little at most, and most of them haven't changed at all.

Only after passing the level of being a human being can you talk about doing things. Being a human being requires principles, and these principles are invisible, and they are all reflected in the process of doing things.This is like the law of value in economics. Everyone knows the law of value exists, but people cannot see the law of value with the naked eye, and it can only be reflected in the fluctuation of commodity prices.

Fleming was a poor Scottish farmer.One day while he was working in the fields, he heard someone crying for help in the nearby mud.He hastily put down the farm tools and ran to the edge of the swamp, only to find a child fell into the cesspit.Fleming quickly rescued the child from death.

The next day, a novel carriage stopped at the door of the farmer's house, and an elegant gentleman stepped out of the carriage, and introduced himself as the father of the rescued child.The gentleman said, "I will repay you for saving my child's life." The farmer said, "I cannot accept payment for saving your child." At that moment, the farmer's son came out from the door of the hut, and the gentleman asked : "Is that your son?" You can do things again if you fail, but you can't do it again if you fail in life.The farmer replied proudly: "Yes." The gentleman said: "Let's make an agreement, let me take him away, and let him receive a good education. If this child is like his father, he will definitely become a famous man in the future." You proud man."

The farmer agreed.Later, with the patronage of a gentleman, the farmer's boy graduated from St. Mary's School of Medicine and became world-famous as Sir Fleming Alexander, the inventor of penicillin. In [-], he was knighted and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

This is a story of giving without expecting something in return and being rewarded unexpectedly.The reason why they have won these rewards is that they inadvertently present their integrity and charisma in interpersonal communication.Yes, in this world, the people who people admire the most and are eager to repay are those who have noble character and good reputation, no matter he is a great man or a farmer.

The power of character is everywhere.

A man wanted to become a millionaire, so he begged God.In a moment of enthusiasm, God gave him a basket of virtues.The man said distressedly: God, what I want is money!God said: That's right, what I give you is character, because character can make you get money!The man returned to the world puzzled and spread widely what God had given him.A few years later, he really became a millionaire.

This fable illustrates a truth that character can create wealth.The same is true in real life.The power of character is everywhere, and all successful people are ultimately successful in life.

Six years ago, a cornerstone was buried in a wasteland, a marching map was drawn on a piece of white paper, and a century-old wish was made before a glass of milk, and Mengniu burst forth!

In six years, Mengniu's sales revenue soared from 1999 million yuan in 0.37 to 2003 billion yuan in 40.7. The latter is 110 times that of the former, and the average annual growth rate is as high as 323%!Its ranking among Chinese dairy companies rose from No. 1116 to No. 2, creating a marketing miracle that surpassed one dairy company per day on average in the first 1000 days of its birth! "Mengniu Speed" has become a banner of Chinese enterprises.

"Mengniu speed" is one of the most eye-catching economic terms in recent years.

In the first 1000 days of its birth, it surpassed a dairy company on average every day!
What is the secret of Mengniu's rapid growth?
Where is the mystery of Niu Gensheng's personal charm?
Modern psychology believes that life is actually repeating and confirming childhood experience. In other words, childhood experience determines a person's destiny.Because the theory holds that a person's intelligence and character are basically finalized before the age of seven.

Therefore, to understand why there is Mengniu today, one has to dig into Niu Gensheng's childhood memories.

Niu Gensheng still doesn't know who his biological father and mother are, let alone what his last name is.I only know that in 1958, less than a month after I was born, I sold it to a family surnamed Niu for 50 yuan.The father's surname Niu's occupation is to raise cattle, and his life has been indissoluble with cattle since then.

Since he did not have a child, the adoptive father hoped to establish roots through adoption, and named him "Gensheng".This is a special family: the adoptive father was a "sheriff" of the Kuomintang before raising cattle; the adoptive mother was the concubine of a senior Kuomintang official.During the War of Liberation, the adoptive mother, who was an official wife, distributed her property widely, some of which were given to the poor, and some of which were deposited in various families.Later life became difficult, and the adoptive mother led Xiao Niu Gensheng to try to retrieve the deposited property. Not only did the family deny it, but they also threw the mother and son out.Friends in the past turned into enemies in the end.If you don't have money, you won't have so many enemies.Yours and mine, whether you have money or not, east and west, human relationships are warm and cold, which has had a profound impact on Niu Gensheng's view of wealth.

Niu Gensheng has "three parents and four mothers": biological father and mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law, and adoptive father and adoptive mother. After the adoptive mother passed away, the adoptive father continued to step-mother.Born in this way, he went to the east and the west, but he still suffered from cold and hunger.Without a home, Niu Gensheng lost a part of selfishness in his heart when he was a child, and took everyone who tolerated and accepted him as his home; without brothers and sisters, Niu Gensheng took all his childhood playmates as brothers and sisters.

The reporter asked Niu Gensheng who had the greatest influence on the formation of his outlook on life?He replied that, in terms of personal matters, it is natural that adoptive parents have the greatest influence, "My father raised cows and delivered milk for 38 years, and I inherited my father's business; my mother gave me education, and the two sentences she asked me will never be forgotten. One sentence is 'If you want to know, turn it upside down', if you think about other people's sufferings, you will know how to deal with others; the other sentence is 'to suffer a loss is a blessing, to take advantage is a disaster', I would rather lose myself than everyone else." On Gong, he felt that Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory had the greatest influence on him, “Without the Party’s good policies, how could there be Niu Gensheng and Mengniu today?”

Under the influence of his mother, Niu Gensheng formed the concept of "wealth gathers and people disperse, and wealth disperses and people gather together" in his childhood.His mother gave him one or two cents, and he shared it with his friends. As a result, everyone was willing to listen to his instructions, and went to teach the "bastards" who bullied him.At this time, he experienced the power of "people gathering" for the first time.Since then, he has been like this, he has suffered a disadvantage, ordered the group to be small, and his leadership ability has gradually emerged.

On January 2005, 1, an explosive news spread on the Internet at an alarming speed——

As Mengniu's largest natural person shareholder, Niu Gensheng donated less than 10% of his shares to create the "Lao Niu Special Fund" to guarantee Mengniu's century-old development.The specific operation is divided into two steps: the first step is to donate 51% of the share dividends to the foundation during Niu Gensheng’s lifetime, and keep 49% for personal control. In the second step, after Niu Gensheng's birthday, all the shares will be donated to the "Lao Niu Special Fund", and the family members cannot inherit them. Each of his wife, one son and one daughter can only receive no less than the average salary of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. monthly living expenses.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was amazed.

Niu Gensheng told reporters that he only wanted people to say this when talking about their descendants: "Oh, he (she) is the descendant of the founder of Mengniu." He thought that Mengniu at that time should have been a long-lasting brand .

A tearful sentence from a woman in Hohhot represented the hearts of many people: "He donated everything. Even if we drank his milk all our lives, we only showed a little love for his cause."

At this point, people are really impressed by this person who has dealt with cattle all his life!This accidental event—in fact, it should be regarded as an inevitable event—finally made it clear: the main secret of Mengniu's growth, or the biggest "differentiation strategy" that Niu Gensheng adhered to throughout his life, is still hidden in the mother taught him when he was a child. In the motto: A small victory depends on wisdom, and a great victory depends on virtue.

The winding path leads to a deep sense of Zen

A person's wisdom is a combination of a person's ability, quality and cultivation. Ability is the foundation of personal wisdom, quality is the platform for the expression of personal wisdom, and cultivation is the external manifestation of personal wisdom.

The level of personal wisdom is actually the level of personal ability.Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. When the two are in harmony, a person's wisdom will reach a level beyond the reach of ordinary people.Everyone has comprehensive abilities, but the distribution of strength and weakness is different.Due to the different characteristics of individual abilities in society, everyone enters different industries, positions, and performs different tasks.Individuals give full play to their own wisdom, not only for themselves, but also for others to create wealth and achieve their own goals.

According to the prediction of futurists: the future society will be a mind-based society, the competition in the future will be the competition of the mind, and the greatest wealth of individuals in the future will be the wisdom of the mind.Everyone loves wisdom, especially in today's era of high intelligence competition, people not only desire to have wisdom, but also hope to have a variety of wisdom to enrich their wisdom cultivation.For example, wisdom in life, wisdom in study, wisdom in work, wisdom in success, wisdom in strategy, wisdom in science, wisdom in art...

So, what is wisdom?How can one increase one's intelligence?

From the perspective of thinking, wisdom is a kind of advanced thinking ability. It is called advanced because this thinking ability is different from ordinary thinking ability. It represents the highest level of thinking development. This level is the dream of every scholar. the height of.

From the perspective of knowledge, wisdom is a unique kind of knowledge. It is unique because the intelligence contained in this kind of knowledge is far higher than general knowledge. It can be interpreted from different angles, but it can never be exhausted. It means.Compared with general knowledge, it has deeper and wider applicability, and has higher guiding value for people's intellectual activities.

Therefore, wisdom is known as the jewel in the crown of knowledge.

There is a difference between wisdom and cleverness.Smartness does not necessarily mean wisdom, but wisdom must include smartness.Cleverness is just the ability to measure pros and cons, and greed and deceit are also smart.A wise person cares about gains and losses, while a wise person is brave enough to give up.If you don't experience something, you don't gain wisdom. Wisdom is honed from people and things. If you escape from reality and leave people and things, you will not be able to produce wisdom.

Every little ant that is born starts to learn to crawl, and must choose a tree as its future journey.If the size of a tree symbolizes the perfection and happiness of a lifetime, then for the little ant, at the earliest time, with its slender body and narrow eyesight, it was impossible to know which tree to choose, so they could only climb to the nearest tree. a tree.When they climb more and more trees, faster and faster, and accumulate rich experience and experience, one day they finally know what they want most, and when they start to choose life eagerly, the sad thing is that most of them Most of them have no time to retreat to the ground at this time, and choose again from the beginning.

They are then left with small choices about trunk to trunk and branch to branch, and the more experience they accumulate, the fewer choices they can make.In the end, just like the sand in his hand gradually leaked out, the old ant had a whole body of experience and stared blankly at the top of the tree, becoming a profound philosopher.It thinks: if this life is tall, perfect and happy, it doesn't know who bestowed it; if it climbs a low and weak sapling for a depressed life, it doesn't know who to blame.

However, it found that at the bottom of the tree, there are many trails under the sunshine, and there are so many newborn ants with the courage to set off and choose...

The story of this old ant tells us that the most important thing in life is not the process of action but the choice of direction, whichever direction you choose will lead to the process.So the key to being a human being is to choose the right general direction. Only in this way will your dedication and hard work be rewarded, otherwise, you will be doing nothing throughout your life.

The chances of free choice in life decrease with age. This does not mean that there are fewer opportunities, but that there are not many opportunities that suit you or that you dare to seize.Before the age of 30, you can try all possibilities without any scruples, but after the age of 30, do you still have the courage to start all over again?

There are only a few gates that determine your destiny in the journey of life, but the different choices of these gates can make a world of difference in your life.Do you know how to control your own destiny at a critical juncture?The first is thinking, the second is thinking, and the third is thinking.Only when you think deeply about everything related to your own destiny can you exert your brain wisdom and know how to go in the future.

It can be seen that if we want to cultivate and improve wisdom, we need to start from two aspects: one is to understand the knowledge and methods of thinking, and to broaden the mind's thinking horizon and level; training.

Due to the constraints of many factors such as family, education, occupation and environment, our minds and wisdom are usually incomplete, or limited to narrow professional fields, or restricted by a certain level of knowledge, so that we can truly achieve mastery and harmony. There are very few people who have a perfect state of wisdom.Therefore, a famous scholar said: Modern people learn more and more knowledge, but wisdom is farther and farther away from their minds.Where does wisdom come from? In fact, it is just the integration of knowledge in different fields and the penetration of knowledge at different levels. If these two points can be achieved, wisdom will naturally arise.

The form of personal wisdom is self-cultivation.A person's good self-cultivation is like adding better nutrients to flowers to make them bloom more beautifully and attract people!A person who is not well-cultivated, his wisdom is not so easy to play, and the original good wisdom, due to the problem of self-cultivation, has affected the development of his own wisdom. If you want to improve your wisdom, you must improve your own. training.

Buddha has no fixed method, it would be better to say it in another way

Today's work and life are fast-paced, and many people are under heavy load. In the long run, it is easy to appear sub-health state, such as irritability, loss of cognitive sensitivity, memory loss, skin aging and other symptoms.

If you can temporarily stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city after get off work, even if you just stay in a natural environment for a while, look at the green trees and smell the fragrance of flowers, you will suddenly relax your mind.

When you are faced with adversity, physically and mentally exhausted, when you lose confidence in the face of adversity, as long as you look at the problem from a different angle and actively change your attitude towards life, you will get rewards in life.

Once upon a time, there was a man who was good at catching birds.

One day, he caught many birds and put them all in a big cage to feed them.He checks every day and feeds food on time.If the birds developed plump tails, he cut them short right away.Moreover, he picks out one of the fattest birds every day and kills it as an appetizer.

After seeing this, a bird thought: If I eat too much, I will grow a lot of meat, and the master will choose me to cook and eat; if I don’t eat when I’m hungry, it won’t take long will starve to death in the cage.Neither of these two methods will work. I should eat according to the amount and eat less food. This will not only prevent the growth of meat, but also keep the feathers shiny and moist.When the body is thinner, it can escape from the cage.

(End of this chapter)