Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 64 Cultivating Morality with the Buddha’s Heart——Dharma is like an ocean, and virtue is boundless (1)
Virtue and Buddha-nature, virtue and Buddha-mind
A person who can achieve enlightenment, a person who can sublimate, or a person who wants to do a great job in this world must have two things, that is, all-round talents and perfect virtues.It is already difficult to be all-rounder, and it is even more difficult to add all-round virtue; it is impossible to have talent without virtue, and it is also impossible to have virtue without talent.Those who have virtue but no talent can practice Taoism, but they cannot enter the world; it is dangerous to enter the world with talent but no virtue, not only endangering themselves, but also endangering the world, so one must have both talents and virtues to enter the world.The above borrowed the words of Confucius, so it is said that a person "makes it reconcile with Yu without losing exchange".

A man's moral character is the master of his talents and knowledge, but his talents and knowledge are only the slaves of his character.If a person has talent but bad moral character, it is like a servant running the house when the master is not at home. How can ghosts and ghosts not run rampant and make trouble at home?

"Talent is the foundation of entrepreneurship".What kind of talent is the foundation of entrepreneurship?Talents with both ability and political integrity.Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "Generals are wise, trustworthy, benevolent, courageous, and strict." The criteria for selecting generals are resourcefulness, integrity, benevolence and righteousness, courage, and strict self-discipline.The requirements for wisdom, honesty, benevolence, courage, and rigor proposed here are to have both ability and political integrity, and to focus on virtue.

A friend summed up his way of employing people: "Only those who are virtuous are genuine products and should be reused; those who are not virtuous are waste products and should not be used; those who are virtuous and not virtuous are by-products and should be used; those who are talented but not virtuous are drugs and should be used with caution." I asked: "Why can one use talent without virtue?" He replied: "Drugs also have medicinal value, such as morphine can be used as an anesthetic, and poisonous snakes and centipedes in traditional Chinese medicine can be used as formulas, but the dosage should not be large, otherwise it will be fatal. A person with talent but no virtue is like Wei Yan in the Three Kingdoms period. He showed his rebellion early. Zhuge Liang can control him, so he can still be a general of the Shu Han. After Zhuge Liang passed away, he finally rebelled and was beheaded by Ma Dai using Zhuge Liang's legacy. Talented people without virtue, as long as they are well controlled, they can still use their strengths as experts."

What is wickedness?Lack of morality is essentially a lack of wisdom, a lack of fundamental wisdom.A person who only loves himself, does not love others, and even tries his best to benefit himself at the expense of others, is a lack of benevolence.Greed, jealousy, and arrogance are lack of equality.Pretend to be clever, act boldly, play tricks, this is lack of a pure mind.In a word, to lose one's nature is to be immoral.A wicked person thinks he is smart, but in fact he is the most stupid, because he cannot be tolerated by human beings.

Modern society not only needs both ability and political integrity of individuals, but also needs both ability and political integrity of groups.An operator should reflect his morality through his products, his brand reputation, and his group quality, not just limited to his words and deeds.Therefore, operators should not only take the lead in demonstrating their fine gold and jade character, but also need to work hard in selecting and employing people, select every supervisor and every employee with the concept of having both ability and political integrity, and emphasizing morality over talent, and strictly supervise them. The inspection system, strict moral requirements, strict employment discipline, improve the overall quality, and shape a group into a capitalized person.

Personal qualities have both ability and political integrity, and follow orders without orders;

The quality of the group has both ability and political integrity, and must receive outstanding achievements.

One day, a businessman came from the Western Regions.He took the jewels to sell in the bazaar.These jewels are assorted, all of great value.In particular, one of the orbs named "Shan" is even more eye-catching.Its color is pure crimson, like a vermilion cherry, with a diameter of one inch, and its value is as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars. It attracted many people to watch. Everyone was amazed and exclaimed: "This is really a treasure!"

It just so happened that Master Hanran also came to visit the market that day, and seeing many people discussing something, he brought his disciples and squeezed into the crowd.Master Hanran looked at the orb carefully, and asked, "Can Shan use it to fill my stomach?"

The businessman replied, "No."

Master Hanran asked again: "Then can it cure diseases?"

The businessman replied, "No."

Master Hanran then asked, "Can that drive away disasters?"

The businessman still replied: "No."

"Does that make people filial?"

The answer is still: "No."

Master Hanran said: "It's so strange, this bead is useless, but the price exceeds hundreds of thousands, why is that?"

The businessman told him: "This is because it is produced in a very far away place without human habitation. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to go through many hardships and hardships. It is very difficult to get it. It is a very rare treasure." what!"

After hearing this, Master Hanran just smiled and left without saying anything.

One of Master Hanran's disciples was very puzzled by the master's question, so he couldn't help asking him for advice.Master Hanran taught him: "The ancients once said that although gold is a treasure, people will die if they swallow it; even if its powder falls into people's eyes, they will be blind. I have not pursued these things for a long time. Baby, but I also have precious treasures on me. Its value is not only worth hundreds of thousands, and water can’t submerge it, fire can’t burn it, wind and sun can’t damage it in the slightest. Use it to make the world stable, It can make me feel comfortable and safe. People don’t know how to pursue such treasures day and night, but they regard the pursuit of jewels as the only important thing. Isn’t this not near and far away? It seems that people’s hearts have been dead for a long time!”

The "treasure" mentioned by Master Hanran refers to people's own virtues.

The ancients said: "Don't worry about disrespect for status, but don't worry about disrespecting virtue."Only a noble moral quality and a perfect spiritual life are truly priceless treasures worth pursuing.

Righteousness, uprightness

The correctness of the leader itself is the beginning of good politics. There is no need for strict laws and regulations, and the social atmosphere will naturally return to correctness as it transforms.If you are not righteous, it is useless to ask others only by issuing orders.

He has good conduct, he has the confidence to be a talent, he is tough in doing things, he is selfless in his heart, and he has a broad mind both inside and outside.If you are open-minded and upright, you will win the trust and respect of others.As the saying goes: If you are not upright, you will not be able to upright others.If one's own behavior is not correct, if one wants to do a good job as a "gentleman", I'm afraid it will only be "not following orders".

There is such a story in the long historical novel "Zeng Guofan":
After Zeng Guofan was appointed as the governor of Liangjiang by the court, in order to establish his prestige and rectify the extremely corrupt official style, he followed Wu Zetian's method and set up a one-shot impeachment at the gate of the governor's office (similar to today's report box), calling on the army and the people to rape the officials. The malpractice was written as a letter of impeachment and put into the house, and the Governor-General personally read it.

This suddenly caused great panic among some people.At that time, the Yamen of the governor of Liangjiang was stationed in Qimen County, and Bao Renjie, the magistrate of Qimen County, felt that disaster was imminent.He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to ask Shi Qidi, who had been a knife and pen official for 48 years and served more than a dozen county magistrates, for advice on how to deal with it.Shi Qipai made a small plan, and Zeng Guofan was defeated.

The first letter of impeachment opened by Zeng Guofan was to report that his younger brother Zeng Guoquan smuggled more than 2 silver taels back home after he captured Ji'an.Then there was a letter of impeachment exposing Zeng Guofan's ineffectiveness in fighting, his skill in fighting for power, and his failure to follow the laws of the country.Zeng Guofan was extremely annoyed. He knew that someone was deliberately against him, and he wanted to find out the truth, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with it if it got out. The court had long been wary of the Han people who held military power. Can you make it clear?So he had to withdraw the impeachment on the grounds of "military emergency".

It is really thought-provoking that a small knife and pen official can easily defeat the ambition of the dignified frontier official and the first-rank official to rectify the government.It seems that "you have to be hard to strike iron", this is an eternal truth.If Zeng Guofan's own butt was clean and there was no trace of feces, no matter how cunning and cunning Shi Qipai was, he would be "a mouse biting a turtle-no way to talk", and Bao Renjie would not escape bad luck.

Another story, according to "Yuan Shi Zhang Xiongfei Biography" contains:

In the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Hu Xin, the son of Ahema, a senior local governor, committed a crime. The emperor ordered the eunuchs and Zhongshu Province to interrogate him together.Hu Xin pointed to the officials in charge of state affairs one by one and said, "You have all used my family's money and things. What qualifications do you have to interrogate me now?" At this time, Zhang Xiongfei said, "Have I received any money from your family?" Xin said, "Only you didn't." Zhang Xiongfei said, "Of course I can interrogate you." Hu Xin finally gave up.

As the saying goes: If you are upright, you will not be afraid of the shadow tilting, and if your feet are upright, you will not be afraid of the crooked shoes.Having said that, how many people can really be upright and upright?
There are thousands of ways for people to live their lives (some live poorly, some live rich, and some live well-to-do).

There are thousands of types of work that people do in life (workers, farmers, police, doctors, teachers, environmental protection).

There are thousands of differences in people's hearts (those who are infatuated, those who have conscience, those who are black-hearted, those who are greedy, and those who are caring).

No matter what kind of person you are?What kind of work do you do?Which heart is it?All you live in this world is to take your own breath. Only with this breath can you live in this world; if you don’t have this breath, you have a conscience; What's the use?You are no longer in this world.But how do you breathe while you are alive?

Breathe well, the body is comfortable, the spirit is refreshed, the work is smooth, and the life is happy!
Can't breathe well?Bad intentions, ulterior motives, fighting openly and secretly, there will never be peace!
The good or bad of life, the uprightness of your body and the inclination of your shadow are all in your mind.

Everyone wants to live a good life, everyone wants to live a happy life!I haven't heard anyone say that he likes to live in poverty; he likes to live without enough food and warm clothes.If everyone wanted to live such a life, then those martyrs who wanted to make the poor people live a better life would not have to use their own blood and lives to fight and fight.

Therefore, a good life is hard to come by. Everyone knows this truth, not to mention that living a good life is everyone's yearning and pursuit.

But a good life is not something you can just say, you must have ideals, goals, and direction.While the policy of reform and opening up has enriched a large number of people, it has also defrauded a large number of people.Those who are in their positions but do not seek their own governance directly affect the development of society.

In Jilin Province, there was a news that a provincial and municipal education leader was dismissed.The reason was the alleged embezzlement of huge sums of money for books.The books used by students are indeed too expensive now, not to mention those in universities, middle schools, and elementary schools, even the books for children as young as kindergartens cost 80 yuan a semester, and there are only a few booklets. But what is the actual cost of these booklets?Are you so at ease earning your child's money?Is your conscience at ease?This was caught by the government, but there are still some people who are at large, and some people who are more black-hearted than them are still doing some black-hearted things, still living a luxurious life, eating, drinking and having fun freely.Maybe you will blame God for being unfair, blame yourself for memorizing it.But then again, if you are upright, how can you be afraid of the shadow slanting?If your feet are straight, why are you afraid of crooked shoes?You walk the road by yourself, and no one forces you to do what or how to do it.What really drives you is your heart, and it is you who have changed the color of that once bright red heart; that pure and righteous heart has become crooked, greedy, and hard and black; When you look back at the footprints left behind you, those footprints that are mixed with blood and sweat of all kinds of hearts, you will find unprecedented truths.

Rein in the precipice, turn around and be on the shore.I would advise those high-ranking officials and nobles who are in their positions to take money lightly and forget all about fame and wealth.Be true to yourself, so that you can live calmly.

Money is a good thing.Can't do without it.Everyone knows the role of money.

But money is a bad thing, too much will bite your heart.How much is too much.

Money is something outside of the body, you can't bring it with you when you are born, and you can't take it with you when you die.But with so much money in front of you, how many people can not be tempted by it?
As the saying goes: "If your body is upright, you will follow orders. If your body is not upright, you will not follow orders." Therefore, no matter what you do, you'd better ask yourself every day: Today is your breathing even? ?Are you upright today?

Buddha has Buddha's "Qi", and people have "Qi"

When it comes to learning and morality, don’t make superficial efforts, as if you don’t want anything. You only need knowledge and morality, and don’t care about other things.When Kung Fu achieves stomach bleeding, it depends on whether you care or not.However, if you really need a moral person, if you really need this spirit, loneliness, poverty, and disease can't change your integrity, and then you can talk about going out of the world and entering the world, with the intention of altruism.Without this concept, daily bragging is useless.Therefore, it is said: "Those who are the same as the Tao, the Tao is also happy to obtain it. Those who are the same as the virtue, the virtue is also happy to be obtained. Those who are the same as the loser, the loss is also happy to be obtained." Experience it yourself, don't ignore it.

Integrity and integrity are the standard of being a person and the touchstone for testing the soul.

Looking through Mao Zedong's evaluation of ancient and modern figures, we can clearly feel that he always praised those with strong bones.For example, he believes that "Zhu Ziqing is seriously ill and would rather starve to death than receive the 'relief food' from the United States", which reflects that "the Chinese have backbone."There is also his evaluation of Lu Xun that we are familiar with: "Lu Xun's bones are the hardest. He does not have the slightest servility and obsequiousness. This is the most precious character of the colonial and semi-colonial people."

Mencius once said: Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued. This person is a man; maybe Mencius set the standard of a man too high, maybe this is the root of Mencius' self-cultivation, and maybe only sages can achieve .Although there is no gold and no one is perfect, a real person should be a person with backbone. According to Mencius, there are really not many people who can be called a man.In today's materialistic age, people have changed, they are not rich but want prostitution, poverty is a shame, as long as they can be rich, they can be lower than Han Xin; as long as the house can be lived in, the car can be driven, the ticket To be able to spend, it doesn't matter whether it is stealing or abducting, or even as long as life can be passed, even if there is a little green on the head, it doesn't matter what kind of integrity it is.

As far as solar terms are concerned, the most virtuous people throughout the ages are Boyi and Shuqi of the Shang Dynasty. They thought that Zhou destroyed Shang with violence for violence, and that the subordinates offended the superiors. Maybe they were foolish, loyal and filial, but they can be ashamed Eat Zhousu, who died without food for seven days on Shouyang Mountain, can be described as a model of solar terms, which aroused infinite admiration from later generations.

Unscrupulous people, seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, greedy for life and afraid of death, so as to betray the country and seek glory, their souls are full of copper stink.Throughout history, those who abide by morality will be famous forever; those who have no morality will be despised by the world.

On June 1898, 6, the Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup, and the reform movement of 8 failed.Tan Sitong, one of the representatives of the Reform Movement of [-], had every chance to escape at that time.Liang Qichao, another leader of the reform movement, also repeatedly urged him to leave as soon as possible, but he refused to flee, and said impassionedly: "Reforms in all countries are all formed by bloodshed. Today China has never heard of anyone who shed blood because of reforms. So it is not prosperous. If you have it, please start with your heir!" Before Cixi launched a coup, Tan Sitong's father had written many times to urge him to go home to avoid the disaster of killing himself and his family, but he had already embraced the ambition of giving up his life for righteousness. He laughed at all the letters.

Before being executed, he shouted in front of tens of thousands of onlookers: "If you want to kill a thief, you will be powerless to return to heaven; die well, so happy!"

Along with Tan Sitong, Liu Guangdi, Yang Rui, Yang Shenxiu, Kang Guangren, Lin Xu and others were also martyred, known in history as the "Six Gentlemen of the [-] Movement".The six righteous men, all of whom are awe-inspiring in righteousness, would rather die than submit. Their noble integrity is admired by the world.

Some people think that integrity is a standard and goal tailored by Confucianism for Chinese intellectuals and scholar-bureaucrats, which is biased.Because although it was the representative figure of the Confucian school who first advocated "integrity" and shouted "I cultivate righteousness".But as a kind of patriotism, a state of being a human being, and a goal to pursue, this should be one of the main connotations of the national spirit that the Chinese nation has explored for thousands of years.

From Boyi who didn't eat Zhou Su until his death and starved to death in Shouyang Mountain, to Su Wu who didn't lose his fortune; from Su Dongpo's singing of "a little arrogance, a thousand miles of wind", to Wen Tianxiang's "heaven and earth have righteousness", "severe and eternal". From "Song of Righteousness" by Yue Fei, who "eat Hulu meat hungry with ambition, and talked about drinking the blood of Xiongnu with a smile", "Man Jianghong", to Fang Zhimin's "Lovely China"; from "Eight Girls Throwing River" to "Spike Fang "Five Heroes of the Mountain"... The history of the Chinese nation is a history of the ups and downs of the great righteousness and the gradual formation of recognized value orientations; The history of coping with the most difficult challenges of history and life is also a history of pursuing truth, goodness and beauty, abandoning falsehood, evil and ugliness, and forging national aesthetic taste.

"Talking about Backbone Qi" is an essay by the famous historian Wu Han.In this article, Wu Han explained the backbone as "Never bow to any difficulty, never be flattened, bent, withstand, or intimidated. For the victory of socialism and communism, we will definitely be able to overcome any difficulties." Difficulties, a spirit of forging ahead".

The "bone" of "spine qi" is a metaphor for human quality, while "qi" refers to the strong and unyielding integrity, a kind of "heroic spirit", a kind of personality and national dignity.A few words from Mencius are well said. In the face of severe tests, one must be able to have a backbone if "the rich and the noble cannot be promiscuous, the poor and the humble cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be subdued."In order to illustrate this point of view, the author has extracted three typical examples from the many solid and moving stories of our ancestors for our reference.

The first example: At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin’an was captured by the Yuan army. Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister, was captured after he failed to fight against the Yuan Dynasty. Faced with repeated persuasion by the Yuan people and the temptation of Xu Yi’s high-ranking officials, he resolutely refused and refused. With the resounding verse of "No one in life has died since ancient times, keep the loyal heart to reflect the history", he fought back the enemy.This just shows Wen Tianxiang's awe-inspiring noble integrity, and his great righteousness and courage to regard death as home for the motherland and the nation.Isn't Wen Tianxiang just a typical representative of our Chinese nation's mighty and unyielding?From him, we felt a sense of righteousness.

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