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Those seemingly accidental opportunities in life are actually the inevitable results of life, but the worldly people are blinded by ignorance and shallowness, and they cannot see through the causal relationship behind the phenomena in this world, so they are roughly blamed on luck.
For example, when many people in the world see that a person has succeeded, they will blame his success as a result of luck and characterize it as a fluke, but behind this lucky opportunity, there are actually all inevitable factors.
For example, when we see a person's sudden misfortune, it is easy to blame all this as an inexplicable suddenness, in fact, behind this suddenness, there may also be an inevitable factor that promotes doom.
This truth is like what is said in the "Four Precepts of The Mortals": Most of the auspicious omens are cute and move the four bodies, and those who are too thick are often blessed, and those who are too thin are often close to disaster. The common eye is multi-eyed, saying that there are undetermined and unpredictable.
The meaning of this sentence is that most of the time, the signs of a person's good fortune and misfortune are germinated in the heart and expressed in their actions. Those who are generous are often blessed, while those who are mean often invite misfortune. However, ordinary ordinary people are shallow in nature, so they cannot recognize this auspicious and evil blessing, just like a person with an eye disease, they cannot see clearly, so they say that the misfortune is uncertain and unpredictable.
Many of life's problems can be answered in ourselves, but we can't see the root of all these answers, because the results of life depend mostly on our own choices and behaviors, and our own choices and behaviors come from the mental thoughts in our subconscious, which are even imperceptible to our subjective consciousness.
It is as if we habitually make choices and reactions in life with our own cognition, and we ourselves cannot detect right or wrong.
But once biased behaviors and words and deeds appear in one's own life, such words and deeds will have a more or less impact on life, thus affecting the direction of life.
And many of life's endings are the result of the influence of one choice after another and the problem.
For example, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are good examples, life is an extremely complex state of existence, not only a few words can explain, we can not fully understand the true character of a life, but in this complex state of life, there are always some representative events that can set off the main personality and mentality of the characters, and we can naturally see the root of the fate in these mentalities.
For example, when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu first started their army, they once agreed to face north together to serve the King of Chuhuai.
However, when Liu Bang led the army into Guanzhong, he broke the Qin army, and the son and baby of the King of Qin came out and surrendered, and some people suggested that the King of Qin be killed, but Liu Bang said: "At first, the King of Chu Huai sent me to attack the Qin army, because I was lenient with others, and moreover, the baby had already surrendered, and it would be unlucky to kill." ”
So instead of killing the baby, he made him an official under his command.
However, after Xiang Yu entered the pass, he killed the children and babies, slaughtered the people of Xianyang, and later reported to the King of Chuhuai for his orders.
Once the King of Chu Huai made a covenant, who entered Guanzhong first who ruled this place first, but Xiang Yu said: "The King of Chu Huai is supported by my uncle Xiang Liang, he has no record, what qualifications are there to preside over the covenant, such as today they are all pacified, all rely on the strength of the generals and my Xiang Yu, the King of Chu Huai has no merit, should have divided his territory to rule." ”
So Xiang Yu ostensibly honored King Huai of Chu as emperor of righteousness, but eventually killed him.
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The different attitudes of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu when facing problems just explain the truth that different personalities create different endings.
The words and deeds of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu and their handling of people also indirectly explained the reason why Liu Bang was able to defeat Xiang Yu.
Although Xiang Yu can also be regarded as brave and strategic, but his character defects have become the fatal wounds of life, Xiang Yu is proud of his achievements in the face of problems, cruel and ruthless, proud and arrogant, and Liu Bang showed generosity and tolerance in front of everyone, abide by credit, and is good at learning from the strength of others, just in the middle.
The difference in personality between the two naturally has become a fundamental factor in determining victory or defeat to a large extent.
No matter in what era, it is difficult for a person who can only do things to be better than a person who is good at being a person, just as the so-called character determines fate, the different endings of the two people, is not the best proof of all this truth.
So when considering from this point of view, shouldn't we carefully consider the inevitable relationship between the state of life's words and deeds and the ending, and whether the phenomena that arise by chance in those complex human processes are just accidents?
The situation and the result of life are created by two factors: one is an objective cause and the other is a subjective cause.
The so-called objective causes are pure accidents in life, such as external factors such as natural and man-made disasters that we cannot control, while the other is subjective causes.
As we have just said, behind those seemingly accidental opportunities, it is the inevitable result of life, and this result is the inevitable result caused by the bias of subjective words and deeds.
We can never change the external factors at the objective level, but what we should do is to observe and dominate our mental words and deeds as rationally as possible, and use self-cultivation to make ourselves more in line with objective rules and more in line with the morality of life, so at the subjective level, to the greatest extent, let the situation develop in a direction favorable to ourselves.
It's like there's a very popular saying: We can't change the world, but we can change ourselves.
The purpose is to adjust their own subjectivity, to adapt to the objectivity of things at a larger level, so as to improve the "inevitability" in life, so that the "accident" that appears in life can become a moment that surprises them.
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