Anatomy of social weirdness

In many large families, in order to compete for the inheritance, brothers and sisters and relatives do not give in to each other, and the face is red and the neck is thick, and if there are kind people in the family who study Buddhism, the whole family can maintain the operation of the whole family.

A family with a good person can maintain the functioning of the family. If there is a group of such kind people in the society, who can first reflect on themselves and not blame the state and society, the society will be much more peaceful.

And if the education of self-reflection does not take root and is not done well, it will need to pay a lot of social resources to care for the families with problems.

Therefore, we should have the concept that every family and every member is closely related, starting with the family and developing to care for the people in the society who need to be cared for.

When there are more and more people who give love and do good deeds, the level of life in a place will become higher and higher, and the spiritual realm will be more and more sublimated.

If you are spiritually uplifted, and you are able to treat everything around you with a mindset of asking for nothing and giving to everything, whether it is your relatives or other sentient beings, you are giving and thinking about others without asking for anything, then in this life when you need help, there will be many people to help you, and there will be people to comfort you when you need comfort.

This kind of spiritual power that wants nothing will make you very happy all your life, which is true happiness, stability, and satisfaction.

The utilitarian tendency of modern society makes many people develop an irresponsible mentality, unwilling to be responsible for what they do, and do not review themselves when they do wrong, and will only blame others for their faults.

This is true for parents, and of course for children. When a child does not do well in his schoolwork, he may blame his parents and teachers, because this is how his parents taught him.

And some people will blame their bosses and colleagues when the company is not going well, and blame their subordinates when the boss is not satisfied.

Some people lose gambling and blame others for winning their money; But if you are not greedy, how can others win the money in your pocket?

Some companies lose a lot of money or go bankrupt, as long as you ask the reason, most people will say that they were framed by others, that someone else jumped their ticket, lost their money, and collapsed their company.

If you can't find someone else to blame, you start to see if there is a problem with the ancestral tablet, the feng shui at home, and the ancestral tomb, and few people will think that it is their own fault.

It's been so long since your ancestors died, and the tablet at home is just a symbol to commemorate them, what does it have to do with what happened to you?

In fact, when we find someone to pay for our misfortune, we never reflect on the never-ending greed in our hearts that is most closely related to it.

Some people don't want to take responsibility for their own faults, and they always want to find someone to replace their sins, and if they can't find a living person, they will find someone who has already died.

It's a very bad and impolite thing, and it has a very negative impact on the education of the next generation, and it's a very bad way of creating karma in terms of Buddhism.

One has to look at oneself to see if one is too greedy, too greedy for other people's money or windfalls.

Not to speak

"Isn't there a free lunch in the world"? If you want to get something for nothing, unless your good fortune is very great, it is unlikely.

If a person does not learn to reflect on himself, no matter how old he is and how high his status is, it is in vain, because he has no wisdom and will not observe the words and deeds of the moment, so he will often hurt others for the benefit of himself.

It is very important to observe what your body, mouth, and mind are doing, saying, and thinking for a long time. Without careful observation, one is very susceptible to external temptations.

In Buddhism, we talk about common karma and other karma, and the former is telling us that all sentient beings, environments, countries, communities, and so on that coexist with us are closely related to us, and that no one can vent or destroy them in a lofty and willful manner.

Because of this shared karma, whatever effect our actions have, the end result will still be in us and will mature in our inner world.

Therefore, to want to enjoy yourself alone without any scruples about building the possible pain on the outside world is definitely a delusion and a self-infuriating act.

As for other karma, it only determines the characteristics that can be manifested in us such as our birth, personality, gender, etc.

Therefore, as human beings, we still need to have a good spirit of great love and a sense of responsibility, because from the moment we are born, everything we see is directly or indirectly related to us, that is, the connection of common prosperity and common loss.