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If you are not thrifty, this family will definitely lose

Dade layman 2015-11-24

[The period of residence is simple. Teach the son to have righteousness. 】

We must always have an attitude towards people, that is, "simple", thrifty, very simple, simple is very real, not vain, do not slap a swollen face and become fat, and do not compare with others. The verses of our "Zhu Zizhijia Aphorisms" are mentioned here, but in fact, how much does the frugal sentence say? "A porridge and a meal, when thinking about where it comes from, it is not easy; Half a silk and half a thread, the constant thought of material resources is difficult", "Don't camp a Chinese house, don't seek a good field", "The quality of the utensils is clean, and the tile is better than gold and jade; The diet is refined and the garden vegetables are more precious", all of which are thrifty. Therefore, these verses have already told us, "diligence and thrift are the foundation of running a family", if you are not thrifty, this family will fail.

And this thrift is not only thrifty in finances, but also in many ways of dealing with others. Therefore, there is a book called "Discipline and Customs", which mentions the blessings of life, which have their own blessings. Therefore, those who cherish blessings, his blessings will always be more than enough, you see that we have the spirit of "more than every year" on Chinese New Year's Eve, do not be extravagant, do not exhaust the blessings. Those who destroy the heavens are likely to run out of blessings quickly. And the ancestors told us that "Lu is all dead", a person spends his fortune too fiercely, he could have lived to be 80 years old, maybe at the age of 50 his blessings are finished, he will die, he will live for 30 years. If he had lived only sixty years, but he had been very frugal, he would have lived twenty years before he had spent all the blessings of his life at the age of sixty. These are the teachings of our ancestors.

And Lao Tzu taught us that he has three jewels: one "mercy", benevolence; 2. "Thrifty" frugality; 3. "Don't dare to be the first in the world", that is, humility and modesty. These are the three treasures of life that Lao Tzu gives us, and it mentions "frugality". And this "thrift" is not only the spirit of thrift when using money, but also the spirit of thrift when dealing with everything.

2024-02-05 18:05
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