As the saying goes, "you can see character at the dinner table". Eating is a trivial matter, but you can get a glimpse of people's hearts.
At the dinner table, some people are extravagant, while others cherish rice as gold.
The cultivation is revealed between cups, chopsticks and bowls.
Cai Lan's new book A Bowl of Pure Happiness says:
"If you are awed by life and grateful for food, you can walk through this life calmly and gracefully with a calm mind."
Eating is a trivial matter, but the attitude and posture of eating can reflect the trend of a person's later life.
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Waste of food is the beginning of losing good luck.
In Four Disciplines for Leaving Every Family, Mr. Yuan Lefan warned his descendants that they must "love things and cherish life".
Money is precious, of course, we should save it. Don't waste such cheap things as rice, water and electricity.
During the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yifang was rich in wealth and fertile land. Tenants rent a grain mountain every year. After a long time, the inexhaustible grain will rot.
He was advised to help the poor with inexhaustible food, but he refused. He also fed sesame seeds to pigs and mung beans to cattle and sheep.
In the sixth year of Zheng De, the Yellow River was short of dikes, the river flooded, and the fertile land in Zhang Yifang was completely destroyed.
Finally, their family lost their dependence and starved to death.
"Zeng Xian Wen" said: "Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and I only hope to come early and late."
Every step of life, God has a response.
Just because you can't see it in front of you doesn't mean you won't come later.
Big fish and big meat, extravagance and waste, seemingly scenery, are actually overdrawing the future fortune.
According to the Buddhist scriptures, before a person falls, he is blessed with good luck and inexhaustible gold and silver, but as soon as he is blessed, he immediately goes to rolling in the deep.
A cup of tea and a cup of rice are hard to come by.
Farmers are sweating like a pig when they grow rice. Cooking takes a lot of heart and energy. If they don't have a good meal, how can they stand their hard work?
It seems like a trivial matter to waste a little food. Many a mickle makes a mickle.
In fact, it is not food that is dumped, but your own happiness.
Gulp it down. Is that the reason?
Life is like a blessing card. When we don't accumulate blessings, there is no deposit in the blessing card, so we are short of money.
I can eat and drink now because I have accumulated blessings in the past; You can eat and drink well in the future, because you have chosen frugality now.
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Fear of food is the beginning of happiness.
Bai Juyi said: "The extravagant are frugal, but the fierce are in sight."
A wise man will not only focus on the road ahead, but also on the distant future.
A visionary, no matter how big the return is, only uses three points, leaving seven for himself to use later.
Jackie Chan is an internationally renowned martial arts superstar. I once saw him write his name on the plastic bottle he had drunk.
He can drink another bottle of water next time, but he was born in an ordinary plastic bottle and marked the delicacy of water with a precious signature.
Not only that, it is said that Jackie Chan is very strict in going to the toilet at home, and only one piece of paper is allowed at a time.
Obviously, the more blessed you are, the more you will cherish your blessings; The less fortunate, the more blessed.
Yongzheng period, the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng was extremely frugal. Every time he has a meal, he will eat all the rice grains and rice dregs.
He once wrote a letter for the leftover porridge wasted in the palace: if people can't finish eating it, they will give it to cats and dogs; Cats and dogs can't eat, they will be dried for birds to eat; Discarding at will will be severely punished.
Yong Zhengdi thrifty, because see father kangxi 30 or 40 years don't change the palace carpet, wearing clothes is simple and simple.
Laozi said: "I have three treasures: one is kindness, the other is frugality, and the third is not being the first in the world."
If people can be frugal, they can abstain from sex, and they will not do anything beyond the law because of excessive desire.
Extravagance, indulgence of desire, is bound to run amok and reap the consequences.
Thrift seems to be a small virtue, but it is actually the source of all virtues.
Diligent people must have virtue and happiness.
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The bowl of rice in front of you determines the fate of the future.
A small bowl of rice can decide the fate of the future.
In the Journey to the West, Tang Priest traveled all over the place to learn from the scriptures. He was suddenly ill for three days, and lying in the hospital bed was very painful.
Pig Bajie didn't know the reason, and called to break up. The Monkey King said, "This is Master's fate. It will be fine after these three days. "
It turns out that Tang Priest took a nap and lost three grains of rice when he called Elder Jin Chan under the Buddha's seat in his last life, and this life will be difficult for three days.
Pig Bajie was shocked: "Old pig eats sloppily. When should he get sick? "
The Monkey King persuaded, "little brother! Who knows that Chinese food is hard! "
The rice and vegetables on the dining table can affect people's fate because eating a bowl of rice is by no means a trivial matter.
Rice is the fruit that farmers suffer in the scorching sun, spend a lot of effort and leave a lot of sweat before harvesting.
A seed, carefully cultivated by farmers, bears fruit, flies over Qian Shan and comes to your mouth. How many people pay for this?
"Zhu Zi's Family Instructions" earnestly warned: "It is not easy to think about a porridge and a meal; Half a silk and half a wisp, it is difficult to save material resources. "
It is easy to buy rice, but difficult to cook; Cooking is easy, but growing rice is difficult.
A bowl of rice looks cheap, but not everyone can afford it.
A few months ago, the World Food Security and Nutrition Report 2020 released by the United Nations showed that 690 million people around the world were hungry.
Thinking of those hungry eyes, bony body and this bowl of rice, how dare you waste it easily?
This bowl of rice can be eaten in import, which is a big undertaking. Eat well and cherish every grain of rice, and you will naturally be blessed for a long time.
Zhuangzi said: "The hurricane began at the end of Pingmei."
Details see character, small things see people's hearts.
Eating is a trivial matter, but it can predict people's future.
Rice is everyone's blessing. If you eat every grain of rice, happiness can enter your life.
People who eat well are sure to behave well and do things well.
God never fails to live up to any good thing, and will certainly surprise everyone who eats well.