Post by lifechanyuan on Apr 7, 2024 7:25:09 GMT
Pushing People to Forge Ahead is Doing the Devil’s Trick
by Xuefeng
The
kind of individual that each person is and how many blessings and sins they will
enjoy throughout their lifetime is a definite number. What kind of achievements
each person will rise to is a certainty, whom each person is destined to meet
and fall in love with and who they will encounter and torture are all part of
their life’s trajectory. Whether you want to be a singer, a politician, a
scientist, an artist, a high-ranking official, have lots of wealth, a thief, a
beggar, or whatever else, has already been written into the script; you
cannot just be whoever you want to be. Similarly, who can become a Celestial
being or Buddha, who can become a monster or demon, who will fly to heaven, and
who will fall to hell have long been decided. When a person gets sick, what kind
of diseases they will have，when they will be born, and when and how they will
die have all been determined in the process of LIFE. What kind of life a person
can live and whether they are rich or poor have also been determined and no one
can escape the arrangement of the cosmic script.
If
you fertilize, water, and maintain a Chinese cabbage, it will grow very plump
and fat, but in no case can it become lettuce. Feed a sheep more grass and grain
and it will grow fat, but it will never become a cow. Do not bother with a
giraffe’s neck, it will grow long naturally; do not tell lions how to catch
zebras, they will figure it out; do not teach mice how to dig holes, they are
born to dig them.
Prompting
people to forge ahead, encouraging them to achieve things, teaching them how to
become successful, grooming them to become officials and make fortunes,
instigating them to glorify and illuminate their ancestors, to be outstanding,
and so forth are all like teaching hens how to crow or asking bulls to produce
milk. Not only is it useless, but it is also the same as compelling a woman to
engage in prostitution. Its profound meaning is: “Go to your death! Work hard to
die! Look, the grave is not far away, run to it quickly!”. So, promoting people
to forge ahead is a devil's trick.
According
to Apple Daily, more than two hundred-sixty officials and corporate executives
over the last five years have taken their lives by shooting themselves, cutting
their wrists, drowning themselves, hanging from beams, jumping off buildings,
and lying on rails. All these people were successful and outstanding, but what
were their results? Had they been allowed to choose their path again, would they
still work so hard to become so successful? Can we see how their past hard work
was actually leading them to their deaths?
Do
you think that the higher an official’s rank, the happier and freer they will
be? Do you think that the more money they earn, the more freedom and happiness
they will enjoy? Do you think that becoming the chairman of a board or a
president is joyful? Do you think that the more powerful and capable people
you associate with, you will have a better and more satisfactory
life? Wrong! The more you possess, the more troubles and pains you will
have.
Barefoot
people and those who wear high class leather shoes, who are happier? Children
with bare butts playing in the mud and those who practice hard, dress in
fashionable clothes, and play pianos on stages, who are happier?
I
used to live in Binka, the most backward area of Zimbabwe, Africa, where most
children do not wear shoes. Under the moonlight at night, in the middle of
dozens of simple thatched huts, there were bonfires with young people beating
drums, the children were jumping and laughing around those bonfires, and a few
thin dogs were running around and barking. At that moment, I understood what
happiness meant. I lived with a primitive tribe in the Pacific island nation of
Vanuatu. During the day, many people would sit or lie down chatting in shabby
houses with air leaks on all sides or sit or lie down drinking tea in the shade
of the outdoor courtyard. They live like this for more than half of each year
and who can say that they are not happy?
It
is said that a wealthy person once came to relax in a seaside resort. They saw a
fisherman lying on the bow of his boat every day enjoying the sunlight after
having caught only a few fish. The wealthy vacationer felt that this was a waste
of good time, so they “showed kindness” and went to teach the fisherman how to
succeed. They told the fisherman that he should hurry up every day to catch and
sell more fish, and then if he got enough money, he could form a fishing team to
catch even more fish and then he could set up a fish processing factory. In this
way, in a few years, the fisherman could become wealthy and successful. The
fisherman asked, “what would I do if I become wealthy?” The rich one replied,
“when you have money, you can come to the beach to enjoy your vacation like me”.
The fisherman asked again: “What do you think I am doing now?”.
Why
do you want to forge ahead? Why do you want to be diligent? Why do you have to
work hard? Why do you want to be a winner? Is it not good enough to just live in
compliance with nature? Life only lasts for a hundred years, if that; playing in
the mud in childhood, chasing members of the opposite sex and playing around in
your early youth, going to school when you are young, falling in love and
working in your prime, drinking tea and chatting when you are old, and watching
flowers bloom and fade in your old age, is this not a good life?
Mice
dig holes, cats catch mice, seedlings strive to grow, and fruit trees bear
fruit, but what about people? Without instigation and encouragement, they will
naturally follow their lives’ paths. If someone loves to learn, there is no need
to urge them on because they will definitely learn, if they love to work, then
they will definitely study technology and work hard, but if they deserve to be a
boss, without instigation, they would definitely be uneasy working as an
employee. If they would like to steal or rob, it would be useless for you
attempt to instill morality and ethics into them. If they want to be a saint,
they will study the philosophy of saints and understand the truth of the
universe. It is a waste of effort for you to attempt to bring a saint into the
world. If they want to become a Celestial being or Buddha, they will naturally
look for the environment conducive to that end and nothing can stop
them.
Twenty
years ago, I read Napoleon Hill’s “The Complete Book of Success”. I became very
ambitious and wanted to earn more money. As a result, I was deceived and
defrauded out of more than four hundred-thousand RMB Yuan. From then on, I have
hated “Success”; for more than twenty years, I have been studying, and finally
found that promoting people to forge ahead is the devil’s trick.
Someone
might ask: “You, Xuefeng write articles day and night to create Lifechanyuan and
Chanyuan homes, are you not working hard?” My answer is that I love it; no one
urges me to do it. I would like to be like this, but if someone urges me to work
hard, I will tell them to, “Go to hell, you abettor!”. Can a hen lay eggs if she
has none in her belly? If she has eggs in her belly, can she not lay
them?
by Xuefeng
The
kind of individual that each person is and how many blessings and sins they will
enjoy throughout their lifetime is a definite number. What kind of achievements
each person will rise to is a certainty, whom each person is destined to meet
and fall in love with and who they will encounter and torture are all part of
their life’s trajectory. Whether you want to be a singer, a politician, a
scientist, an artist, a high-ranking official, have lots of wealth, a thief, a
beggar, or whatever else, has already been written into the script; you
cannot just be whoever you want to be. Similarly, who can become a Celestial
being or Buddha, who can become a monster or demon, who will fly to heaven, and
who will fall to hell have long been decided. When a person gets sick, what kind
of diseases they will have，when they will be born, and when and how they will
die have all been determined in the process of LIFE. What kind of life a person
can live and whether they are rich or poor have also been determined and no one
can escape the arrangement of the cosmic script.
If
you fertilize, water, and maintain a Chinese cabbage, it will grow very plump
and fat, but in no case can it become lettuce. Feed a sheep more grass and grain
and it will grow fat, but it will never become a cow. Do not bother with a
giraffe’s neck, it will grow long naturally; do not tell lions how to catch
zebras, they will figure it out; do not teach mice how to dig holes, they are
born to dig them.
Prompting
people to forge ahead, encouraging them to achieve things, teaching them how to
become successful, grooming them to become officials and make fortunes,
instigating them to glorify and illuminate their ancestors, to be outstanding,
and so forth are all like teaching hens how to crow or asking bulls to produce
milk. Not only is it useless, but it is also the same as compelling a woman to
engage in prostitution. Its profound meaning is: “Go to your death! Work hard to
die! Look, the grave is not far away, run to it quickly!”. So, promoting people
to forge ahead is a devil's trick.
According
to Apple Daily, more than two hundred-sixty officials and corporate executives
over the last five years have taken their lives by shooting themselves, cutting
their wrists, drowning themselves, hanging from beams, jumping off buildings,
and lying on rails. All these people were successful and outstanding, but what
were their results? Had they been allowed to choose their path again, would they
still work so hard to become so successful? Can we see how their past hard work
was actually leading them to their deaths?
Do
you think that the higher an official’s rank, the happier and freer they will
be? Do you think that the more money they earn, the more freedom and happiness
they will enjoy? Do you think that becoming the chairman of a board or a
president is joyful? Do you think that the more powerful and capable people
you associate with, you will have a better and more satisfactory
life? Wrong! The more you possess, the more troubles and pains you will
have.
Barefoot
people and those who wear high class leather shoes, who are happier? Children
with bare butts playing in the mud and those who practice hard, dress in
fashionable clothes, and play pianos on stages, who are happier?
I
used to live in Binka, the most backward area of Zimbabwe, Africa, where most
children do not wear shoes. Under the moonlight at night, in the middle of
dozens of simple thatched huts, there were bonfires with young people beating
drums, the children were jumping and laughing around those bonfires, and a few
thin dogs were running around and barking. At that moment, I understood what
happiness meant. I lived with a primitive tribe in the Pacific island nation of
Vanuatu. During the day, many people would sit or lie down chatting in shabby
houses with air leaks on all sides or sit or lie down drinking tea in the shade
of the outdoor courtyard. They live like this for more than half of each year
and who can say that they are not happy?
It
is said that a wealthy person once came to relax in a seaside resort. They saw a
fisherman lying on the bow of his boat every day enjoying the sunlight after
having caught only a few fish. The wealthy vacationer felt that this was a waste
of good time, so they “showed kindness” and went to teach the fisherman how to
succeed. They told the fisherman that he should hurry up every day to catch and
sell more fish, and then if he got enough money, he could form a fishing team to
catch even more fish and then he could set up a fish processing factory. In this
way, in a few years, the fisherman could become wealthy and successful. The
fisherman asked, “what would I do if I become wealthy?” The rich one replied,
“when you have money, you can come to the beach to enjoy your vacation like me”.
The fisherman asked again: “What do you think I am doing now?”.
Why
do you want to forge ahead? Why do you want to be diligent? Why do you have to
work hard? Why do you want to be a winner? Is it not good enough to just live in
compliance with nature? Life only lasts for a hundred years, if that; playing in
the mud in childhood, chasing members of the opposite sex and playing around in
your early youth, going to school when you are young, falling in love and
working in your prime, drinking tea and chatting when you are old, and watching
flowers bloom and fade in your old age, is this not a good life?
Mice
dig holes, cats catch mice, seedlings strive to grow, and fruit trees bear
fruit, but what about people? Without instigation and encouragement, they will
naturally follow their lives’ paths. If someone loves to learn, there is no need
to urge them on because they will definitely learn, if they love to work, then
they will definitely study technology and work hard, but if they deserve to be a
boss, without instigation, they would definitely be uneasy working as an
employee. If they would like to steal or rob, it would be useless for you
attempt to instill morality and ethics into them. If they want to be a saint,
they will study the philosophy of saints and understand the truth of the
universe. It is a waste of effort for you to attempt to bring a saint into the
world. If they want to become a Celestial being or Buddha, they will naturally
look for the environment conducive to that end and nothing can stop
them.
Twenty
years ago, I read Napoleon Hill’s “The Complete Book of Success”. I became very
ambitious and wanted to earn more money. As a result, I was deceived and
defrauded out of more than four hundred-thousand RMB Yuan. From then on, I have
hated “Success”; for more than twenty years, I have been studying, and finally
found that promoting people to forge ahead is the devil’s trick.
Someone
might ask: “You, Xuefeng write articles day and night to create Lifechanyuan and
Chanyuan homes, are you not working hard?” My answer is that I love it; no one
urges me to do it. I would like to be like this, but if someone urges me to work
hard, I will tell them to, “Go to hell, you abettor!”. Can a hen lay eggs if she
has none in her belly? If she has eggs in her belly, can she not lay
them?
