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The Buddha taught you not to be angry: sorrow comes from the heart

sorrow comes from the heart

Once you are driven by desire, you will be confused. If you let your qi go, you will be violent, and you will be obsessed with desire, and people will not be able to wake up, and there is only one source of desire, that is, people's hearts, which not only produce desire, but also produce sorrow, and sorrow is mostly because people's certain desires are difficult to satisfy, or people find that even if desires are satisfied, they are still uncomfortable.

It is often seen and heard that some people complain about the difficulties in life, but look at their living environment, civilized cities, and superior material conditions. These people complain about such a living environment and are dissatisfied with it all day long. In fact, the way to relieve this trouble is very simple. If you look at the lives of those poor people, the difficulties and complaints of the former are nothing at all.

I received two ladies a few years ago. They came to me one after another, and the first lady said that she was very distressed, because her relationship with her twin sister was a mess, and she opened a restaurant three or four years ago, at the beginning, the restaurant business was very bad, and she encountered a lot of difficulties, but the sisters worked together to endure hardships and suffer together, until the situation of the restaurant improved, and later, the business was too good to stop, and the lives of the sisters became rich. Over time, problems arise, sisters and sisters often quarrel and no longer trust each other. At this point, I asked the lady if she had a general idea of what had made their relationship the way it was, and she hesitated for a while, and finally talked about money.

The lady left shortly after the second lady arrived. I understood at a glance that this second lady was the sister of the lady just now because they looked very similar. Sure enough, what she said was basically the same as the previous lady.

We can see that the two sisters above did not know how to enjoy wealth reasonably, which caused many conflicts and disputes, and they all asked me what I should do, and I just told them to spend more time reading or meditating calmly. Because I know that their sorrow stems from their wealth on the surface, but in fact it is not the root of the difficulties, and the reason why people feel difficult is because of their unwillingness.

Excess wealth can drag down people's hearts. If people want to live a healthier and more comfortable life, this kind of thing must be abandoned. Nowadays, people know that obesity is harmful to health, so weight loss has become one of the hottest topics. But what do people think about the fat of wealth? In the minds of many people, wealth is always a good thing, and the more the better. Such people should lose weight for their wealth.

Your wealth is huge, but all you need in your life is a heart.

The root of all suffering is greed, jealousy, and ignorance in the human heart.

There is an old lady who frowns every day. Because she has two daughters, the eldest daughter marries an umbrella shop, and the youngest daughter marries the owner of a rice noodle shop. When the weather is sunny, she always worries that her eldest daughter's umbrella can't be sold, and when it rains, she begins to worry about her youngest daughter, what if the rice noodles are not exposed to the sun and become moldy? So when the sun came out, she was worried about the eldest daughter of the umbrella shop, and when it rained, she was worried about the youngest daughter of the rice noodle shop. Whether it is sunny or rainy, the old lady has to worry. Later, she met a monk and asked him to explain how to avoid worry. The monk smiled and said to her: You can't change the weather and rain, but you can dominate your mood. The quality of things in the world is only in one thought, and afflictions and bodhi are also two sides of the same coin. In the future, when you see the sun coming out, you will be happy for your little daughter, and you can dry a lot of rice noodles; If it rains, you think of the eldest daughter, and the business of the umbrella shop must be very good today. This way you will no longer worry about it.

If the disease of the human soul is not cured, then the human body will never be free from pain and torment. If the soldiers who defend their homeland and defend the country cannot be keenly aware of the possible attack from the outside world at any time, how can they ensure the security of the country? In the same way, each of us should ensure that our minds adhere to the right path at all times, so that we can ensure that our bodies are not attacked by diseases and are free from pain. When a person is stealing, he will be nervous about being seen by others and look left and right, looking panicked. But being seen by others is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that your heart has seen the evil deeds you have stealed, can you escape the surveillance and questioning of your heart?

If you plant evil causes, you will eventually get evil results. A poisonous plant will not be pure and beneficial in every part of it, and the roots, stems, leaves, and fruits it produces will be poisonous. Therefore, we can know that all words spoken out of greed and hatred, actions made, and even thoughts that sprout will be rewarded in the same way.

The root of all people's actions is the heart, and the root of all people's feelings is also the heart.

A gentleman often had stomach pains in the middle of the night, sometimes so painful that he couldn't sleep, he was very worried about his body, suspecting that he either had a stomach ulcer or, worse, stomach cancer. The more he thought about it, the more his stomach hurt, and the more he doubted that he was really hopeless, but he was very nostalgic for life and didn't want to die at all.

Later, he couldn't stand this kind of suffering, so he went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor did a comprehensive physical examination for him, and finally told him that his stomach pain was not a big problem, because the work pressure was too high and the rhythm of life was too tense.

With the doctor's authoritative conclusion, the gentleman was relieved and slept peacefully that night, and when he woke up the next day, he felt very strange that he didn't have stomach pain last night! Next, he began to reduce his workload and try to do what the doctor said, but he didn't expect that after just over a month, the stomach pain disappeared. Only then did he really realize: if you think too much, you will get sick even if you don't get sick.

The sorrow in your heart is like a weed, and if you pay attention to it, it is equivalent to watering and fertilizing it, and it will naturally grow unscrupulously with nutrients for growth. Only when you stop paying attention to it, or even intentionally reject it, will it gradually shrink and eventually die due to the loss of the soil on which it depends.

2024-02-05 18:02
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