Take notes one by one. After my family left, I told my mother that I would worship a famous teacher and continue my studies. In the next few years, all the school exams were ranked and supplemented in full compliance with the closure of the Confucius Institute. Therefore, Teacher Fan believes that the ups and downs of life are destiny takes a hand's, and can't be forced at all. So I am indifferent to fame and fortune, and I have no desire to get lucky.
One day, he went to Qixia Mountain in Nanjing to visit Jackson Yungu. Two people sat in a room, and after three days and three nights, they didn't sleep. Jackson Yungu was very knowledgeable and cultivated his understanding. He sat for three days and nights and said strangely to Fan, "The reason why a mortal can't be detached is because his heart is entangled in delusion. I've been sitting with you for three days now. It's rare to see you with little delusion! " The Taoist priest said, "The fate of my life has long been calculated by Confucius. Honor, disgrace, life and death have a destiny. I know delusion is useless, so I don't think about it anymore. "Because Kong Gong's words were outlined. Yungu smiled and said, "I thought you were a saint and a hero, but you are an ordinary person. "I asked him what this meant. Yungu said: "Most people are bound by the luck of Yin and Yang because they can't be careless. If a person can do his best sincerely and tirelessly, he won't be arrested for counting. On the other hand, if you are reckless and opinionated, then you can't let him live. You have been calculated by Confucius for twenty years, and you haven't changed a dime. Isn't this an ordinary person? "
He said, "At this rate, can Destiny be saved?" Yungu said: "The Confucian saying,' I control my own destiny, and I seek my own happiness' is indeed a wise saying. The Buddhist scriptures say,' Seek wealth, men and women, men and women, and long life.' It is obvious that you can get anything you say. Buddhism regards falsehood as one of the five precepts, so do Buddhists and Bodhisattvas have their own reasons to deceive others with falsehood? But this so-called begging is not asking for foreign companies, but teaching you to beg for yourself. It is to seek from one's own heart, which is the so-called truth of "self-cultivation and enlightenment." Repair means repair, which means self-cultivation, and repair means teaching people to change and be good. The most important way to start is to have shame, regret, fear and courage, so as to be effective. The first class is to teach people to accumulate virtue and invite happiness, and wait quietly. Never covet your own heart, satisfy your own heart, as long as you do it sincerely and wholeheartedly. Although the time is uncertain, the results are not reported. What you have to do now is to reflect on yourself, correct all the sins of not being admitted to the imperial examination, not being able to live long and not having children, and then be diligent in accumulating virtue and behave well: be tolerant of shortcomings, be kind to others, and cherish the spirit. The past is like yesterday's death, and the future is like today's life. This is the rebirth of righteousness, which can ascend to heaven and save destiny. The Book of Changes says, "Seek good fortune and avoid evil". If the destiny is hard to return, how to pursue good and how to avoid evil? "
Hearing this, Fan fell in admiration and said, "Master, be merciful and teach me to turn over a new leaf!" "YunGu took a book" merits and demerits "to him. And teach him to act according to the intention of the day every night, reflect seriously, and record his merits and demerits according to the rules. Every month to the end of the month, sum up once, and the surplus can be used as a good deed. After bidding farewell to Yungu, I knelt in front of the Buddha and repented bitterly when I got home, and made a sparse essay, vowing to do 3,000 good deeds first, seeking the first place to repay my parents' kindness.
Since then, Mr. Fan has been trembling with fear, which is quite different from the long and careless days before. Although there is no one in the darkroom, I dare not let go. There has always been a fear in his heart, for fear of offending the gods of heaven and earth, and he dare not have the idea of harming others and benefiting himself. When you meet something just and beneficial to the people, don't avoid hardships and try your best to do it. A year later, instead of taking part in the imperial examination, Kong Gong once said that he should take the third place, and suddenly he took the first place. Wait until the autumn exam, and you will win. Since then, all the calculations made by Confucius Institute have not been realized. But his behavior is correct and upright, which is not pure goodness. Sometimes I don't have the courage to do good, sometimes I can't tolerate indifference when I meet someone who offends me, or I can control everything when I am awake during the day, and I am more relieved when I am asleep or drunk. In this way, it is still a waste of time, and there is no accumulation of virtue.
His 3,000 acts of kindness took more than ten years to complete. He made another 3000 wishes for the children. After a year, I gave birth to a son named Daqi. His wife is also very virtuous and does good deeds with him. She couldn't write, so she printed a circle of ink with a goose feather tube to record her merits. Or giving alms to the poor, or buying and selling and releasing them, there are as many as ten laps a day. Every winter, I sell the silk cotton my husband bought for my son to make cotton-padded clothes, and use the money to buy cotton and make cotton-padded clothes for the poor who have no clothes to wear. She is so diligent in doing good deeds that when she meets Mr. Fan, she praises him and says, "If you are so willing to sacrifice yourself to save others, your son's life after the apocalypse will be reliable."
In less than three years, three thousand more good deeds were completed. Later, he wrote 10,000 articles for Jinshi. Three years later, he won the Jinshi and was named the magistrate of Baodi County, Hebei Province. His wife thinks that there is nothing to do in the county official's son, and there are fewer good things. So I often frown, thinking that 10 thousand acts of kindness don't know when they will be complete. One day, I saw a man of God in my sleep and asked him, "Good deeds are never enough. What should I do? " God said to him, "You can only reduce food, and everything will be done together." It turns out that Baodi's fields cost 20 cents, 30 cents and 70 cents per mu. When he became a magistrate of a county, he felt too heavy and wanted to ask the court to reduce it to one point and forty-six points. He did play on the table, but it hasn't been implemented yet. After waking up from my dream, I was surprised and suspicious. To my surprise, all the immortals knew at once. Doubt is a trivial matter, how can it be easy and good? Later, a Zen master came to Wutai Mountain and asked him about it: "Is God's word credible in my dream?" The demon replied, "I can believe it, because as long as a person is really willing to do something beneficial to others, his actions can indeed be all good." What's more, the reduction of counties will benefit all the people? Therefore, it is very easy for people who are officials and in power to accumulate virtue and cultivate goodness; On the other hand, it is extremely easy to commit crimes. "
The boundary between good and evil is judged by how a person acts according to his own intentions. Act deliberately, it is good to benefit others, and only seek self-interest, regardless of others is evil. As a result, those who benefit others benefit themselves, and those who benefit themselves often harm themselves. Based on historical past and present experience, there are many precedents for this kind of karma. Although there is no obvious retribution in itself, there is still no failure to report it to future generations. Therefore, truly wise people must be willing to do things that are beneficial to the people. That selfish man is really the stupidest person!
Teacher Fan is so determined. During his tenure in Baodi, he did many things beneficial to the people, such as dredging rivers, building dikes and reclaiming wasteland, and the people were very grateful for his kindness. Kong Gong counted him as 53 and died. That year, he didn't want to live long, but he wanted nothing. Later, he lived to be seventy-four years old. His son, Daqi, is also a scholar and made a high-ranking county magistrate. Liao Fan has written many books in his life, four of which are Xunzi Shu, which is called "Four Lectures of Liao Fan" and is the most popular.