Chapter 9: The Reincarnation of Cause and Effect
The trajectory of the avenue is like a circle, where you start and go back, so what kind of things you do, what kind of consequences you have, good people have good results, evil people have evil results, cause and effect cycle, retribution is unhappy! It's all a fixed number, and what can change is the variable in what happens!
Many people are very familiar with the four words of cause and effect reincarnation, and have always thought that it is the theory put forward by the Buddha Shakyamuni, but when we really get close to it, understand it, and understand it, we can't see anything, it's ethereal, rootless, and we can't get anything. The most explained is a group of small novices of the Buddhist family, but they themselves have not understood, so there is no way to explain to others, speaking of the trajectory and basis, are some people who have not seen the past and present lives, ethereal, in the clouds, they still don't know, how to teach others? It's just a perfunctory explanation. It's not convincing at all. So the way of Shakyamuni was defiled by these little novices!
The real karmic reincarnation is one that exists around us, and it also exists in our lives, in the past, in the present, and in the future, but the realm of the people in the future is insufficient, and no one will recognize and explain it!
What is cause and effect? From the literal meaning, it can be seen that the cause is sown and the effect is obtained. What causes are sown and what fruits are obtained, this is a fixed number, and it cannot be changed.
However, in the process of results, some human factors are mixed in, and when they are planted and thus do not get fruit, and there is no wise man to explain and enlighten, the world begins to doubt whether this sentence is true or not, and whether this law is true!
What kind of thing is done, there will inevitably be what kind of result, but when the result is produced, there is a variable, and we can't see this variable clearly, so we can only see the result in a superficial way, and when we see the cause, when we find that the effect is different from the cause, we suspect that the effect and cause do not exist.
Therefore, if you want to understand the cycle of cause and effect, you must understand where the variables come from!
In the current era, there are too many examples of cause and effect, so let's talk about the so-called 'sky-high bride price' that everyone knows.
In many places, people have continued to increase the bride price for marriage, which has led to public resentment, but what is the root cause? What is the problem, and why does it arise?
I remember that when I was young, the local customs were quite simple, but no matter how simple the place is, there will be a contradiction that human beings are born with, that is, the vain desire to compare. This stems from the innate vanity of human beings, which cannot be changed, and can only be restrained and controlled by reason.
When there is a desire to compare, someone will inevitably be suppressed when they are satisfied, and the visible oppression will be transformed into invisible oppression after it is stopped!
For example: living on the same land, there are many neighbors in the township, but the family income is different, Zhang San's family income has always been the highest family in the neighborhood, and Li Si, who is also a neighbor, is not as good as Zhang San everywhere, which will invisibly suppress Li Si everywhere in life and ordinary days. When a person's comparison vanity is satisfied, it will inevitably need a person to set off below, otherwise there will be no vanity satisfaction enjoyment.
This situation will cause Li Si to be unwilling to be in the so-called low place, and Zhang San himself will be happy to be in the so-called high place!
Because the times are different, in this small era, the people rarely have the opportunity to create better conditions to surpass others.
But when the times change and many people begin to walk out of this small world, those people like Li Si who feel that they have no face will choose to leave the country to get a better life, and this oppression will fade with leaving, and it will gradually shrink with the efforts to earn money.
Since ancient times, we will judge the family background and status of this family by the life events of the marriage of the younger generation, which is a very simple way to measure!
In the new era, the status has been broken, and the feudal ideology has been eliminated, but it is only a superficial elimination, from light to dark!
When the status of the two sides is equal, and Li Si's money is getting more and more and closer to Zhang San, the latter thinks that this is not a good thing, but will think that this is a state that threatens him, so he will try to suppress it!
If the local custom is 10,000 yuan, then Li Si wants to raise his eyebrows when he returns from going out to earn money, wants to get the vanity of transcendence, the satisfaction of desires, and the comfort of breaking the oppression, he will choose to pay double the price to prove his status!
And after Zhang San saw it, he naturally couldn't let this threat grow and surpass himself, because his family was well-off, he would take out more money than Li Si to get higher desires and satisfaction!
As a result, the state of life of the group will change.
Soon there will be people talking about which family is rich, whose status has improved, and whose marriage partner has taken how much bride price as proof! And the woman will also be proud of marrying the rich family.
And the other Wang Wu was anxious in his eyes at the moment, and after some hard work, he took out a higher amount of money to surpass Zhang San and Li Si when he got married, and finally there was no shame.
The environment at the moment has been altered and destroyed, forcing everyone to chase ducks to the shelves and have to do it!
Whether it's a good rule or a bad rule, when the rule is formed, although you think you changed the rule, you are actually controlled by the rule.
Man-made rules can be changed, but they are never overridden!
This custom, this desire, this vain comparison will only rise higher and higher after it is formed, until it is beyond a range that no one can bear, and then the evil consequences will follow!
This reason is caused by the desire for vanity comparison, and this fruit is still devoured by such groups themselves, and the heavier and heavier burden and bad social atmosphere brought by them make it impossible for them to bear!
Of course, some people will think that my child is married anyway, and I planted this evil cause, but I don't need to bear the evil consequences, let others bear it.
But if you look at it a little longer, when your child has a child again, and your grandson grows up, this evil result will circulate to your son, won't it be more painful for the child? How can the cause be planted, and the cycle of its effect can be avoided?
If you want to no longer be persecuted by the evil consequences, you must let go of the evil causes, let go of the desire to compare, and recognize the essence of the matter, and it will naturally be solved.
What we have to do is not to be a cow or a horse for the next generation, but to help the next generation solve some necessary living foundations, and the rest still need to grow up on their own.
If you can't let go of the evil causes, then the evil consequences will last forever!
There is also what we think of as a matter of cause and effect, which is the distinction between good people and bad people.
Many people think that good people are not rewarded, and bad people are not rewarded, where does the cause and effect come from?
The so-called good has no good retribution, evil has no evil retribution, this is all artificial participation to change the trajectory, we can't distinguish clearly, so we will be confused, confused!
[Tao Te Ching] has words; The road is lost, and there is benevolence and righteousness.
What is righteousness? Righteousness is to be good to others, and to be good to others is bound to be bad to others.
If you do bad things, there will definitely be bad results, and some people will tolerate the wicked with beautiful lies and unclear benevolence, thinking that they are doing good, but in fact they are just conniving at the hypocrisy of the wicked!
As a result, the evil consequences are tolerated by the so-called benevolence, and the evil consequences are superfluous.
This will lead to the wicked having no evil retribution and becoming more rampant. Good people are not rewarded, kindness disappears! Therefore, the road is lost, and there is benevolence and righteousness!
Benevolence is never a good thing, he is just a hypocritical lie that deceives many people.
All evil causes have evil consequences, and the evil consequences do not come only because someone has borne the evil consequences for them with a benevolent heart, and benevolence itself is the embodiment of the unreasonable, and the biggest reason why they do not fight back is that they are not strong enough, or they do not want to suffer the consequences of counterattack, which is a manifestation of cowardice. But that doesn't mean there's a cause and no effect!
Or say: Repay grievances with virtue, what is it?
Zi said: Repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue? Complain straightly!
Benevolence and kindness need to be active and spontaneous, and definitely not passive acceptance as required by others.
These reasons are all variables in the cycle of cause and effect, and only by finding this variable and formulating appropriate management can we not change cause and effect.
Evil is constant, not good and nothing, but because evil is not punished! Complaining directly, the party is the fairest solution, instead of using what so-called kindness to perfunctory, and what kind of benevolent lies to deceive everyone, which will only make the wicked more rampant, the kindness is weaker, and the cause planted will inevitably have results, but in the process of this result, someone changed the direction, and the part that the wicked should bear was transferred to the good people with benevolence and good lies.
Tampering with cause and effect will eventually be punished!
The way of hypocrisy, the great evil of the world.