Character determines destiny - many secular people think so. However, the author personally feels that character cannot control destiny. It can at most have some influence. If personality determines destiny, then we don’t need to study, work or practice. We only need to hire a personality analyst to understand all aspects of our own personality, and then find a psychiatrist to guide us on how to change our personality according to our own wishes, and ultimately change our destiny. For the purpose, isn’t everything going to be fine?
In a narrow sense, character is different from morality. There is no distinction between good and bad. There are only distinctions such as introversion, extroversion, toughness, weakness, impatientness, chronicity, straightness, and curvedness. The sincerity or hypocrisy, kindness or meanness, enthusiasm or indifference, etc. shown by a person are actually not a person's character, but his morality, quality, and character. Let me ask, if character can determine destiny, then what kind of character can determine what kind of destiny? Is there a fixed and unified standard? Let me ask, if character can determine destiny, then what character determines the fate of being a president or president of a country? What kind of character does one need to be a scientist? What kind of character is the destiny to become a billionaire or a big boss? Let me ask, if character can determine destiny, then whether a person's ideology, morality, knowledge, culture, and physical fitness will take a back seat, and the character of cultivating willingness will bear the brunt. ; Let me ask again, character determines destiny - which saint (not a celebrity) has ever said this? Presumably even the vast Buddhist scriptures do not say this.
The Buddha said: If you want to know the cause of the past life, who is the recipient in this life; if you want to know the result of the next life, who is the author of this life!
The Book of Changes says: One virtue, two destiny, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin skills and five reading.
It can be seen that destiny is determined by the karma of the previous life and various causes and conditions in this life, and is not simply determined by personality. For those who are addicted to fortune-telling and those who blame others, the author also offers some words of comfort: Although character is innate, it cannot determine destiny. The destiny of the next life is mainly determined by the behavior of this life, and the destiny of this life has nothing to do with the past life. In addition, it mainly depends on the growth of knowledge, the change of mentality and the display of wisdom. Since personality differs from person to person, there is no need to deliberately change it - for example, a person with a weak personality does not need to make a fool of himself and try to be strong, otherwise he will become nondescript and humiliate himself; it is better to use strengths and avoid weaknesses, use softness to overcome hardness, and use weakness to control strong , Only then can the effectiveness of its nature be exerted. I learned about Buddhism in 1996, started studying Buddhism in 1998, and converted to the Three Jewels in 2001. I have been exposed to Buddhism for more than ten years, but I have never paid attention to or been interested in my own destiny, and I have no intention of asking a guru to divine the causes and consequences of my life. , but often think: Life is impermanent and worldly events are unpredictable. Now that we have learned Buddhism, why do we need to talk about fate?