Superstition and Luck —— Enlightenment from Zeng Guofan's Epitaph

Is there a difference between superstition and luck? Everyone has his own opinion, and my opinion is: there is no difference! Superstition is a popular saying of luck; Luck is just a superstitious scientific statement. My motivation for writing this article is that Zeng Guofan's epitaph has only twelve words: "Don't trust books, trust luck;" The words of the public will be passed down forever. " Translated into vernacular: don't trust the books you have read, believe in luck. These are the only two sentences that can be passed down from generation to generation.

To tell the truth, when I first saw this epitaph of 12, I felt incredible! Who is Zeng Guofan? Scholars who started out in rural areas have pursued the principle of "studying hard, being honest, doing things in a down-to-earth manner and working hard" all their lives, and have achieved countless great achievements: eliminating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, eliminating the Nian Army, the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili, a university student in Wuyingdian, and a very important minister. Such a great man said countless famous words before his death. And his last epitaph actually told future generations not to believe in reading but to believe in luck? Isn't that unkind? But Zeng Guofan is a famous kind man in history. How can he talk like that?

Xiao Yishan, a famous historian in the Republic of China, once said: "Zeng Guofan's achievements in his life come from his knowledge." It can be seen that learning is the fundamental foundation of Zeng Guofan's great achievements in his life, and a large part of learning comes from reading! Zeng Guofan, who has read countless people all his life, actually pointed out another way to future generations at the last moment of his life: "Don't trust books, believe in luck." This is incredible!

For a long time, I didn't understand: what was the intention of doing this? It was not until I listened to a program called "Luo Ji Thinking" the other morning that this mystery was awakened: in fact, what I said was very meaningful and kind!

His last words can be understood from two levels, or: this sentence is addressed to two kinds of people. The first kind of people are those who have a successful career. Zeng Guofan used this sentence to warn them that your success is not entirely the result of your personal efforts, but also the factors of fate and luck. Even if it has achieved great success, it should be somewhat "blessed" and always remain in awe of the fate factors containing uncertainty. God can care for you or abandon you, so don't be too conceited in life!

The second meaning is aimed at the second kind of people, but also at the vast majority of people. Zeng Zheng Wen encouraged them to say: The reason why you didn't succeed is that your luck hasn't arrived yet. Don't be discouraged, don't be discouraged, and don't regret reading too little. Luck is coming, the door panel can't stop it! We must always hold a hope for the uncertain God of Destiny. With hope, life can be healthy and meaningful! Don't feel too inferior in life.

The epitaph of just twelve words tells how many kinds of philosophy there are in the world. Zeng Guofan and Zeng Zhengwen are honest and kind people!

From my own experience, I think fate exists. In 2065438+2007 1 1 month, a friend of mine who was worth more than 2 billion passed away. And more than three years before his death, I dreamed of the scene of his funeral when he died, just like the scene of his funeral last year. I was surprised when I finished my dream. I just want to know how I had such a dream. His brother's daughter got married in the second half of the year before last. I went there, met him and talked for a while. At that time, I saw his face was very good. On the way back, I was still thinking about my dream, but I didn't expect it to come true at the end of last year. There are many such experiences, some of which are particularly familiar when they happen, as if they had known each other for a long time. Come to think of it, it turned out to be something you experienced in your dream. It's just a matter of time. I don't know why, maybe it's destiny takes a hand.

Let me tell you something about a friend. This man became a civil servant in our county very early, working from nine to five every day. If you follow a normal life and climb up step by step, you can almost see your old day!

I only remember it was a few years ago. My cousin set up a stall in Shenzhen to sell barbecue. It was already past twelve o'clock at night. This man called and said that he had arrived somewhere in Shenzhen and asked my cousin to pick him up. At that time, my husband joked that you should not be a good civil servant and don't joke here! Later, after repeated confirmation, I found that he was not lying, so I went to pick him up to our place. He escaped from pyramid schemes, was cheated by his own brother and resigned at home.

Instead of staying in Shenzhen, he went home with his cousin's money! Including 1, his brother came home and was severely beaten by him. I lost my job and wandered around every day. Occasionally, one day, a friend accompanied him to drink. This friend has been in the garlic business for several years and has some connections. However, at that time, garlic had been falling for three years in a row. In the city, there are five yuan and twenty-five pounds on the street. Our county is a garlic area, and many buyers put garlic into the cold storage, losing all their money. The cold storage urges them to pay storage fees and electricity bills. . . Many people say that I can't afford this money, and I don't want garlic. All you have to do is handle it as appropriate, and then I can't reach anyone by phone. It's spread everywhere. Whoever loses will jump off the building! It was really not sensational at that time!

This year, he followed this friend all the way to the bottom and took out all his savings. Neither of them knows! Because the cost is extremely low, many of them are won at the cost of cold storage. In other words, in which year, garlic never came back, from a few cents a catty to a peak of nearly ten yuan a catty! No one knows how much goods he saved at that time, only that he quickly changed hundreds of thousands of cars and bought two suites! The next year, he contracted 100 mu of garlic in the village. In the harvest season, he went directly to the fields, and 45,000 mu of farmland was directly handed over to farmers. He asked people to dig out garlic on the same day and manage it themselves, from drying to warehousing!

Garlic prices continued to run at a high level this year. His 100 mu of garlic was cheated to Shenzhen for 50 mu. Nevertheless, he made a lot of money that year. Meanwhile, we continue to buy dried garlic and store it. Roughly estimated, in two years, he earned more than10 million. People around him say he is a multimillionaire!

This is the most legendary turning point of fate I have ever seen! When luck comes, even if you don't want to do anything, there will be something shadowless pushing you forward.

We have a famous fortune teller here, a grandfather in his seventies. He guessed many people's constellations correctly, such as being an official, doing business, going to school and so on. The only person who doesn't believe in fate is doomed. He is a retired English teacher in high school and has done good deeds for nearly ten years. As a result, he lived more than ten years than the fortune teller, which is known to the older generation in our town.

Life has a destiny, which can only be solved by doing good. Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and there are immortals who have insight into all good and evil in the world, and rewards and punishments are clear. When people are alive, they should do more good deeds, accumulate more virtues and do more good deeds, and always insist on doing one good deed every day. That is to say, it is the right way to accumulate blessings for yourself, children and family! Wu Fusheng Tianzun