I don't know how to abandon evil and do good.
In fact, whether it is Confucian culture, Buddhist culture or Taoist culture,
Agree that good and evil are rewarded. The Confucian classic "Yi Kun" pointed out: "If there is a good family, there must be Qing Yu; If you are poor and weak, there must be more than one. " There is a cloud in the Buddhist Nirvana Sutra: "Good and evil are reported as shadows; Three generations of cause and effect, the cycle is not broken. This life is empty, regret! " Taoism also has the idea of "bearing the burden", and the Taiping Jing says: "Those who bear the burden are the first, and those who lose are the last. Inheritors, according to legend, have inherited the heavenly heart from their ancestors, lost little, didn't know it, accumulated over a long period, and gained more. In the future, strangers will be wronged by innocent people and even passed on by them, so the former is inheritance and the latter is negation. The loser is the ancestor who lost to the younger generation. " Therefore, Taoism has always believed that people's good and evil behaviors will be rewarded in future generations. Throughout the ages, allusions, cases and examples that have reported good and evil abound.
Zhao Dun, the general of the State of Jin, often hunts in Shoushan. Once, Zhao Dun saw a hungry man named Shi Ming under a mulberry tree and gave him food. Soon, he became a chef of 8 Jin Army, but Zhao Dun didn't know it. In September of that year, Duke Ling of Jin invited Zhao Dun to drink, and the soldiers prepared to assassinate Zhao Dun. Shi Mimi, a chef in Gong Ling, knew about the plot and worried that Zhao Dun would not get up when he was drunk. He suggested, "The monarch gave a banquet to entertain his servants, and after three glasses of wine, it would be over." I want Zhao Dun to leave before the assassination order of the monarch, so as not to be killed. After he left, he didn't meet the ambush, so he released a vicious dog named Ao. Shi Ming killed the dog for Zhao Dun. Zhao Dun said: "It is useless to replace people with dogs, even if dogs are fierce." But I didn't know that Smiming was secretly repaying kindness. When Gong Ling ordered the ambush to go out in pursuit of Zhao Dun, Shi Siming countered the ambush in Gong Ling, making it impossible for the ambush to move forward, and finally saving Zhao Dun from disaster. Zhao Dun asked him why he did this, and he said, "I am a hungry man under a mulberry tree."
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Yang Rong who made a living by ferry for generations. A series of heavy rains caused the river to surge, washed away houses and drowned people downstream. Other ships have gone to salvage the goods to help forget the righteousness. Only Yang Rong's great-grandfather and grandfather were busy rescuing the people who fell into the water and didn't catch the drifting goods at all. Yang Rong's ancestors did good deeds and accumulated virtue, so their descendants were blessed. By the time his father was born, Yang's family had begun to be rich. Born in the Yangjia family, he was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 20. His official position has always been Shao Shi, and he listed the lofty status and honor of a surname, a teacher and a Taibao. His great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were also sealed in official positions, and the descendants were also prosperous, talented and virtuous.
A young man got a concussion while climbing a mountain in Taitung. The Taipei brain doctor who received the call for help immediately drove south, only to be robbed by a middle-aged man wearing a leather jacket on the way. When the doctor finally stopped the car to send him to Taitung and rushed all the way up the mountain, the young man had died half an hour ago. A man sat beside him, weeping. When the doctor saw the leather jacket he was wearing, he immediately recognized him as the man who hijacked the car on the road. Feeling very angry, he grabbed his collar and scolded, "You killed your son." It turned out that the man in the leather jacket was the father of the deceased. In order to see the injured son, he hijacked the car in desperation, but unexpectedly he hijacked the doctor's car, delayed the life-saving doctor halfway, and finally made a big mistake.
There is a mage in Taiwan Province Province. The day before he became a monk, he saw a hundred-step snake on his way back to the hut on Taitung Mountain. He was afraid that someone would be bitten, so he waved away the snake. The snake took a few steps and rolled up again as before. He thought, "in this way, it is still possible to bite others." So he waved and ran after the snake. The snake took a few more steps and rolled up as before. He thought, "You may bite again." Then he drove the snake away. This time the snake didn't move. He suddenly heard the voice of a monk at the foot of the mountain. I thought, "If a monk passes by here, something will happen. Why don't I catch this snake and take it to the ravine to set it free? " But he never caught a snake. He only read some reports about catching snakes in books and on TV, and thought, "It won't be too difficult to catch snakes!" " ! Just grab its seven inches, and there will be no problem. With that, he went around to the snake with a hundred paces and pressed the snake's seven inches with his bare hands. At that moment, his index finger was immediately bitten by a hundred-step snake and he soon fell into a coma. After more than an hour, he was sent to MacKay Hospital in Taitung, without serum, and then transferred to Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital. Tzu Chi Hospital injected him with snake, tortoise shell, flower, bamboo and silk serum, but it was ineffective. Twelve hours later, the doctor announced that there was nothing he could do. Then he was rushed to Taichung Rong by plane, and continued to take the serum of Hundred Step Snake, and was finally saved. He finally became a monk as he wished and took the dharma name "Heart". Master was bitten by a hundred-step snake for the safety of others, which led to coma. This is a rare good thing and deserves a good reward. Therefore, he can finally avoid death.
Therefore, it is an irrefutable universal law that good and evil are rewarded. Xu Yuan in the Ming Dynasty put it well in Eight Meanings: "Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. It's not like you don't report it. You will report everything then. " So, what are good and evil? Buddhism believes that what you give yourself is evil and what you give others is good. Buddhism further distinguishes between good and evil: what is beneficial to oneself and others is good; What is bad for yourself and good for others is great goodness; What is bad for yourself and others is evil; What is good for yourself and bad for others is great evil. With this correct understanding, we must know how to do good and accumulate virtue. Therefore, a person's personal gains and losses, fame and fortune, welfare benefits must be natural and comfortable. Don't let your personal desires expand, be insatiable, compete with others for fame, benefit the market, and even do whatever it takes to achieve your personal interests. We should be compassionate, bearing in mind that "all sentient beings are happy with great kindness and great compassion, and all sentient beings are suffering with great compassion", and strive to do more work or things that are beneficial to others and all sentient beings, "worry about the world first, and be happy after the world"; Thousands of people are afraid of being tired, and thousands of rich people suffer from their own poverty "; If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell ",thus sacrificing the ego and achieving the big one.
However, in real life, there are still many people who are selfish, selfish, selfish or selfish, or forget the meaning of others. Their intentions and words will consciously or unconsciously accumulate bad karma, not only planting bad karma for themselves, but also leaving bad karma for future generations. Of course, you may see that some people who have done bad things or even committed various crimes are still at large, at large, not punished as they should, and have been rewarded. That's just what he smashed or the wealth accumulated by his ancestors has not been completely lost. When his evil deeds offset his fortune to zero, it will definitely lead to great disaster. As the old saying goes: "Good people thrive, good people don't prosper, good people have many disasters, and those who suffer disasters prosper;" The wicked are evil, the wicked are not evil, and the evil ancestor Dodd will be evil. " When it comes to the blessings accumulated by ancestors, they are actually like bank deposits. The more you save, the more blessings your descendants will receive. However, as descendants, if they only take and don't save, future generations will have to rely on "starting from scratch". If you borrow money from the bank instead of saving it, it will be unfortunate for future generations to pay their debts. Therefore, there is a saying that warns well: "Entrepreneurship will create a clean one and leave the disease to future generations." Zhang Can in the Qing Dynasty said a more vivid metaphor: "Lumo planted thorn trees and was not allowed to hang his children's clothes."
If you are extremely stingy, you will have a luxurious man; Virtue first, good children will be born. You are reading this article, can you get some enlightenment?