Zhuangzi said: Ze pheasant takes ten steps and pecks, and drinks one hundred steps. The pheasants in the fields eat a mouthful of food after walking ten steps, and drink a sip of water after walking a hundred steps. Later generations summarized it as: a peck and a drink, it is not predetermined. This means that even small things like eating and drinking are determined by innate cause and effect. There are gains and losses, and there are many ups and downs. Everything is bound by cause and effect. Buddhists believe that:Life's deepest suffering stems from our ignorance of cause and effect.

Only by seeing through cause and effect can life not fall into ignorance and delusion. in order to get rid of pain and gain true freedom and peace.

01

Cause and effect of relationships

A colleague from a former subsidiary left the company.

After getting along day and night for more than half a year, I suddenly broke off contact, and I felt a little uncomfortable.

I chatted with my friends for a few words, and I felt that life is really impermanent.

But he said something like this: I have personally resigned in the past few years, if not hundreds, but dozens. Coming and going, I've long been used to it.

Family, marriage, career choices.

Any one reason can make a relationship fall apart.

The day before yesterday, they were still smiling and laughing, and the "friends" who ridiculed each other may not be in touch the day after tomorrow.

In the novel, Jin Yong borrowed Cheng Ying's mouth to say such a sentence:

"You see these white clouds gathering and scattering, scattering and gathering, life is separated, and it is the same. Why bother? ”

Yes, the gathering is scattered like a flowing cloud, and no one can control it.

The origin and extinction of the fate, the fate is strong and the fate is weak, and there is no better way than to accept it.

宋元祐六年春，蘇轼擔任杭州知府。

Old friend Qian Xian passed by Hangzhou, and the two briefly reunited.

I haven't seen him for many years, Qian Xian is still in the middle of the show, Su Shi and him talk happily and talk with each other.

The wine in the room was drunk round after round, and the wine table was empty again and again.

But there is no endless feast in the world, and Qian Xian wants to leave Hangzhou for Yingzhou.

Thinking of the upcoming separation, Qian Xian's interest in drinking instantly disappeared.

蘇轼卻頗為豁達，他說：“樽前不用翠眉颦。 人生如逆旅，我亦是行人。 ”

Don't grieve for parting.

We ourselves are all travelers between heaven and earth, coming in a hurry and passing away in a hurry, so why bother if we are passers-by in each other's lives?

No matter how deep or shallow the relationship is, it is not easy to meet.

Life is short, cherish it when you encounter it, and don't drown it when you lose it.

Yi Gongzi said: We must live in fate, not in relationships.

緣來，則珍惜；緣盡，則放手。

Cause and circumstance flow, and peace with fate.

Cherish the present, take every possession in life seriously, and face every loss in life with an open mind.

02

Cause and effect of gains and losses

There is a story told in "The Biography of Historical Records: Lisi":

李斯因有大功，被始皇帝任命為宰相，位極人臣。

Under one man, above all men.

His sons are married to princesses of Qin, and his daughters are married to the royal family of Qin.

One day, his eldest son, Li You, came home from vacation.

Li Si set up a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust for his son.

At that time, the officials of Xianyang came to cheer, and there were thousands of carriages and horses in front of the door.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Si was not as happy as he imagined.

He said: I was originally a commoner in Shangcai, but now that my glory has reached the extreme, I am afraid that it may not end well in the future.

Sure enough, a few years later, Li Si was imprisoned, all the guests were arrested, and Li Si finally abandoned the city in Xianyang.

I saw him rise up a tall building, and I saw him collapse.

The world's gains and losses fluctuate like the wind, coming and going like clouds.

One second it was in your hands, and the next second it was gone.

In "Dream of Red Mansions", when Qin Keqing was seriously ill, she warned Sister Feng and asked her to prepare for the family's defeat.

Sister Feng asked her how to keep the family prosperous.

秦可卿說：“嬸嬸好癡也。 否極泰來，榮辱自古周而復始，豈人力能可保常的。 ”

The ignorance here is attachment, and there is suffering if there is attachment.

Later, Rongguo's mansion was copied, and Sister Feng couldn't accept it, and finally fell ill.

In "Okay Song Note", it is said: The house is empty, and the wat was full of beds back then; The withered grass and withered poplar used to be a singing and dancing field.

The mansion full of beds and wat boards is now empty. The places where dignitaries drink and dance are already full of spiders.

There will be prosperity and decline, and there will be ups and downs.

The gentleman's ze, the fifth and the cut.

No one can always be glorious, no one can be prosperous all the time.

Instead of suffering from gains and losses, it is better to calm down and let go of attachments.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Shuao, the minister of Chu, was the prime minister three times, but there was no joy on his face.

He was deposed three times, and there was no sadness on his face.

When his friend asked him why, he said:

"What should come will always come, and what should go can't be recovered, and the gains and losses are often beyond your control, so why bother with them?"

There is not enough joy to gain, and there is not enough worry about loss.

You don't have to be complacent when you have it, and you don't have to be depressed when you lose it.

Gain indifferently, lose calmly.

Accept and give up with a normal heart, and life will naturally be less painful and more free.

03

Cause and effect of fate

Some time ago, I revisited "Alive" and was quite emotional.

The rich man in it was originally a rich son, and his family was rich.

But he couldn't help but gamble on his own.

Ryuuji made a move on the dice, and Fugui lost all his family property overnight.

Since then, Ryuuji has replaced Fugui and lived a free landlord life.

Who would have thought that in less than four years, the situation changed abruptly.

Ryuuji was captured and shot, and although Fugui lost his family property, he saved his life.

At the time of the execution, Ryuuji shouted at Fugui: I died for you.

We often say: Creation makes people. Fate is like a narrow ghost, always unpredictable.

The wealth that Ryuuji painstakingly calculated became a life-threatening blade in the blink of an eye.

The rich and prodigal lost the farmhouse, but it accidentally saved its life.

Ryuuji was unwilling and did not accept his fate, but there was nothing he could do.

Writer Yang Shishi said: Fate is like the weather, it can be predicted, but it is often unexpected.

It always changes the trajectory of our lives with one accident after another.

Writer Ge Fei failed the college entrance examination in his first year and was not admitted to university.

His mother told him to learn carpentry.

Originally, he had given up on going to college, but fate played a joke on him.

When the principal of the local central primary school heard that none of them had been admitted to university, he was very angry and asked the person in charge for a list of "hopeful" people to go to university.

The person in charge included Ge Fei in the list.

The principal walked five or six kilometers in the dark, arrived at their village at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, inquired from house to house, and finally found Ge Fei's house and woke him up from bed.

Then Ge Fei went to repeat his studies, and was admitted to university the following year.

In this way, the carpenter Gefei became the writer Gefei.

Ge Fei later said: Many major events that can change your fate are all made up of chance. You say there's an inevitability in this, right? I think there is no necessity, it is all accidental.

Everything is fate, and nothing is up to anyone.

Man's life is governed by the will of the individual, but even more by fate, which is purely accidental.

Li Bai was dedicated to becoming a celebrity in his early years, but he drifted away for half of his life and became a generation of poets.

Tao Hongjing was obsessed with his career in his early years, but he was repeatedly attacked, and finally became a Taoist monk, and finally founded the Maoshan Sect.

After Zeng Guofan was seized power, he was depressed day by day, but he didn't expect the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to resurrect, so that he finally became famous in history.

Many times, it is not we who choose our fate, but fate who chooses us.

Chuang Tzu said:Peace of mind.

Whatever fate gives, we will accept.

You can enjoy the gift of fate, and you can also bear the blow of fate.

順其自然，隨遇而安，人生才能充實平靜，自在從容。

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As the saying goes: all laws are empty, but cause and effect are not empty.

In a hundred years of life, gains and losses are gathered and scattered, and there is an inherent cause and effect and logic.

If you understand it, you will see it lightly, and if you see it through, you will look down on it.

聚散隨緣，得失隨意，萬事隨命。