Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 43 Cultivate Inclusiveness with the Buddha's Heart——Swallowing Everything, Inching to the Universe (4)
We must have a mirror heart and a tolerant belly towards people.In the highly competitive modern society, bumps and bumps are inevitable.In our social interactions, things like suffering, being misunderstood, and being wronged often happen.Of course we hope not to encounter these things. Once it happens, the most sensible choice is tolerance.Tolerance not only includes understanding and forgiveness, but also shows tolerance and breadth of mind, strength and strength.It is others who are tolerant, but happiness to yourself.Many people changed his life because of tolerance.

Because his parents divorced and no one disciplined him, a teenager often got together with some gangsters in the society and developed a bad habit of stealing.

After lunch that day, I saw a new bookstall at the gate of the school, and the front was crowded with people.

The young man was very curious, so he squeezed in. When he saw it, wow, it was full of colorful comic books, many of which he hadn't read.The teenager loves reading comic books the most. When he saw the comic books being bought by his classmates one by one, he quickly bought them too.But as soon as I reached into my trouser pocket, I realized that I had no money on me.He remembered that yesterday's two dollars were spent playing games.

The young man was very upset, there were fewer and fewer villain books, and the young man was very anxious and didn't know what to do.He wanted to go back and get the money to buy again, but on second thought, his home was some distance away from the school, and the comic books might have been sold out by the time he came back.

what should I do?At this time, a sinful thought immediately flashed into my mind, steal!
So the young man pretended to buy a book, picked up a copy of "Nezha Naohai", flipped through it, and secretly stuffed it into his schoolbag while the stall owner was looking for money.He was about to turn around when a loud voice suddenly sounded: "Master, he stole your book!" A senior classmate pointed at the young man and said, the young man broke out in a cold sweat and was stunned, his face turned red and turned white.

Something unexpected happened. The boy heard the stall owner say, "Oh, classmate, you misunderstood. He is my grandson."

At that moment, the boy was moved upside down.

The senior classmate apologized to the stall owner and left.The boy heard the uncle say to him again: "You go back and ask grandma to cook. I will go back after I sell these books."

The boy knew that the uncle hinted him to leave.But he didn't leave, the boy hid in a corner until the stall owner closed the stall and went home.He really wanted to run over and say sorry to the uncle, but he lost his courage.He knew that the stall owner tolerated his crime.

Since then, the teenager has never stolen anything again.

Many years later, when the stall owner was about to forget about this incident, he suddenly received a thick package full of books, and each book had the same sentence written on it: "To the person who changed my life. There was another letter, which said: "Hi, sir. I am the boy who stole your little book. You tolerated me with your infinite heart. You are the person who changed my life. If you don't mind, I I really want to call you Grandpa. Now I am the chairman of a publishing group. In order to repay your tolerance for me, I will send you every new book published by our publishing group. Please accept these to atone for my conscience. books."

A word from the old man changed the boy's life.How great is the power of tolerance.Many times we don't realize it.To be tolerant to others is to be cruel to oneself.We were wrong, including yourself, we are all sinners, we all have to pray for forgiveness from others.Forgiving others is forgiving yourself.There is nothing unforgivable, we all make mistakes, and knowing that we are wrong is already the greatest punishment for those who make mistakes, so what else can we not forgive.If we are narrow-minded and preoccupied, we will always be the ones who are unhappy.

We must respect the individual differences of others, understand and understand their general weaknesses and shortcomings. People who are too picky will naturally have no friends. "To uphold great virtues and pardon small faults is the righteousness of one person." Especially those who hold authority in their hands, let alone.What's the point of bossing around his subordinates all day long and becoming a loner.The interpersonal relationship is too tense to get along, are you tired all day?To achieve harmony is empty talk.Principles must be followed in dealing with people, and the key to principles depends on how well you grasp them.Too much is too late, and I would rather not be too late. "A big belly can tolerate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world; smile as soon as you open your mouth, and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world" is the most reasonable saying.

As the saying goes: "Responsible to others with the heart to blame yourself, forgive yourself with the heart to forgive others."When criticizing others, you should think about whether you are doing well enough. When forgiving yourself, you should also think about not being too harsh on others.Blindly forgiving yourself and blaming others will only make you not enterprising, arrogant and unreasonable.If you always blame yourself, you will find that many things are not as you imagined, so you can correct them; forgive others more, take a step back, and give others and yourself a chance.In fact, as long as you look at problems from the perspective of others and consider other people's ideas more, you will not be too subjective and biased, and you can avoid many misunderstandings. Don't do to others what you don't want.If you can do this, you can be regarded as a real gentleman.

There are higher realms
A range of knowledge, including knowledge, vision, bearing.A person who has no vision in life, only sees the reality, and is limited if he looks farther; a person with foresight and high vision can have great achievements for thousands of years and eternal greatness.

The connotation of the whole article of "Xiaoyaoyou", first of all, is to have high opinions in life, which are the insights, opinions, visions, and thoughts we usually talk about.It is impossible for a person without vision and insight to succeed in his career or complete a beautiful life.Later, the Zen sect in China also first emphasized "consisting of vision", and one must first see the Tao before one can practice the Tao. If the practitioner of the Tao has not seen the Tao, what kind of Tao should he cultivate?It’s like saying that when we see gold, we think of ways to make gold into things. If we don’t even see gold and just think about it, what’s the use of it!Not only cultivators must first see the Tao, but ordinary people must truly understand life before they can understand how to be a human being.Therefore, Zhuangzi first put forward "given view".

Regardless of the worldly law or the worldly law, it is the same. If a person wants to make great use of it, he must have true knowledge and insight, so Zen Buddhism must have insight.What do you see?See wisdom.The noun of Buddhism, the wisdom of wisdom with insight.So ah, true knowledge and insight are what you see, not what your mind thinks. This is beyond the comprehension of ordinary minds and ordinary consciousnesses.He talked about deification, the god of the spirit, changing to the land of nothingness, and only then can one truly be at ease.That is the true liberation taught by Buddhism.

If you want to be successful, you must define your vision for life.Your vision cannot be given to you by others.If it is not your own vision, you will not have the determination and urge to realize it.This vision must be based on your talents, dreams, hopes and passions, vision is a great thing, and it will have a positive impact on others.Especially when a man's vision coincides with his destiny (especially his purpose of existence).

People with vision usually see farther than others, have the courage to predict the unknown and the confidence to create the unknown.Short-sighted people cannot see the sky clearly.

Bill Gates started Microsoft at the age of 19. At that time, he was not favored by others, but with his wise vision, he combined Microsoft processors with software, changed the status of large-scale computers, and promoted a The personal computer revolution.The success of Bill Gates is not a myth. What he has insight into is the inevitable law of development of the information industry, and what he pays attention to is the long-term market and competitiveness.It is precisely because of this long-term insight that Bill Gates not only made himself successful, but also brought mankind into a new era.

When Bill Gates talked about his success, he once said: "People often ask me to explain Microsoft's success. They want to know that our company has grown from a small business with two people to a company with 60 employees and annual sales of more than [-] million people." Billion dollar secret. Of course, there is no easy answer, but luck is a factor, however I think the most important factor is our foresight and high level of insight. I have always seen the world through a telescope .”

In fact, it was Bill Gates' vision of future technology that made him choose the best starting point for success.It was exactly as he described it: We glanced at something sitting next to an Intel 8008 chip and started working on it.We asked, "What if computers were nearly free to use?" We believed that computers would be everywhere, thanks to cheap computing power and awesome new software that took advantage of hardware.We built our kingdom by betting on microcomputer hardware while producing microcomputer software when no one else was doing it.Our initial insight makes the rest seem easier.We can be said to have taken advantage of both the time and the place.So we got there first and succeeded.

By 1995, Microsoft dominated the personal computer market with operating systems and software.At that time, Bill Gates almost made a fatal mistake, that is, he did not realize in time that the introduction of the Internet would fundamentally revolutionize the entire information technology industry and the global economy.However, because he kept his sensitivity to the world around him at all times and listened to other people's opinions in a timely manner, he changed his views and adjusted Microsoft's strategy in an all-round way.

When Bill Gates found out that he was wrong, he immediately wrote an email to more than 2 employees under his command.The title of the letter was "Internet Surfing", which seemed to be a declaration of a new era.Bill Gates said in it that the Internet is going to revolutionize our products.He also ordered his employees, starting tomorrow morning, to delete all software from their computer hard drives in order to start over.Microsoft was in a mess that morning, and many people were unhappy, because many very profitable product groups were disbanded in this way.Hundreds, thousands of engineers had to go to work in new offices.But it didn't take long for everyone to admit that he was right.

In December 1995, Bill Gates held a large-scale event, indicating that Microsoft intends to fully participate in and win this software war in the Internet age.Microsoft will produce web browsers, web servers, and network Microsoft's existing programs.Since then, everyone at Microsoft's corporate headquarters has entered the Internet age.In this compound of 12 buildings, the development of network projects is carried out in every corner.Bill Gates said: "Currently, the Internet is the most important thing for us. It will drive everything. Our software is all core products."

In the history of the information industry, few people seem to be able to accurately predict the future, but Bill Gates created the myth of Microsoft with his unique insights.

If a person wants to win in this era of competition, he must have insight and vision for the development of things. Only by being one step ahead of the future can he walk ahead of the times and win success.

I also saw such a philosophical story:
A young man opened a mountain with others. When others smashed the stones into stones and transported them to the side of the road to sell to house builders, he directly transported the stones to the pier and sold them to the flower and bird merchants in the city.Because the stones here are always in strange shapes, he thinks that selling weight is not as good as selling shape. Three years later, he became the first person in the village to build a tile house.

Later, it was not allowed to open mountains, but only to plant trees, so this place became an orchard.Ya pears all over the mountains and plains attract merchants from all over the world. They transport the piles of pears in baskets to Beijing and Shanghai, and then to South Korea and Japan.Because the pears here are juicy and crispy, pure and pure.

Just when the people in the village were cheering for the well-off life brought by pears, the orchard farmers who had sold stones sold their fruit trees and started planting willows.Because he found that the merchants who come here are not worried about not being able to pick good pears, but they are only worried about not being able to buy baskets for holding pears. Five years later, he became the first person in the village to buy a house in the city.

Later, a railway ran from north to south, and the small village was opened to the outside world. When some people began to raise funds to set up factories, it was the same farmer who built a 3-meter-high and 4-meter-long wall on his field.This stack of walls faces the railway, backed by green willows, and on both sides are endless [-] mu pear orchards.People who pass by here by car will suddenly see four large characters when admiring the blooming pear blossoms: Coca-Cola.It is said that this is the only advertisement in the five hundred miles of mountains and rivers, and the owner of the wall has an extra income of [-] yuan per year with this wall.

In the late 20s, Shinichi Yamada, the Asian representative of Toyota Corporation of Japan, came to China for inspection. When he passed by this small mountain village by train, he heard this story. people, and hired him with an annual salary of one million.

Why is this young man successful?In addition to his commercial mind, he also has the ability to see opportunities first. He has a vision and can always be one step ahead of the future, so he can always achieve success.

Bill Gates said: "Try new things at any time, engage in new investments, find new markets, and always be one step ahead of the future. Only those with such ambitions and conditions can be called successful." In modern society , To be successful, not only depends on a single condition, but the most important thing is the vision of "one step ahead of the future", because only with true knowledge can we grasp the opportunity of success and finally achieve success.

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