Your classmate has trouble eating. What is certain is that he has never done any charity in his previous life, so he has such consequences.
1. If he did not accumulate merit in his previous life, he will still be poor no matter how hard he works to make money now. Because he is poor, he will blame others and everything else, and he will become even poorer if he blames everything else. In the end, I fell into this cycle of obsession, which became tighter and tighter, and my fate became more and more miserable. This is the law of life for ordinary people, just like a fly that can find a gap with a slight turn, but insists on flying out of the glass, making it dizzy.
2. It is very difficult for a person who does not believe in Buddhism to embark on the path of believing in Buddhism. The reason is that the cycle of strong attachments mentioned earlier traps people like a poisonous snake. So it is useless for you to directly explain these major Buddhist principles. How can a person calm down and believe in Buddhism when his life is a problem?
3. The fate of your classmates is very bad, which also brings an opportunity for relief. When people are in extreme pain, they often think philosophically and then enter religion (this is how I believe in Buddhism). If your classmate has not started to think about life and the world, it means that he is not miserable to the extreme yet, and it means that he still thinks that he can prosper in the future and there is still hope. If he has no hope, he will naturally seek answers to his life. This is a good opportunity to persuade him to enter Buddhism.
4. Your classmates have a very bad fate and may go to the other extreme. This extreme is the crazy pursuit of wealth, even to the point of hating everyone and society, which leads to the previous cycle. You want to prevent him from going down this path.
5. If you want to persuade him to believe in Buddhism, you must have an understanding of his characteristics. At the beginning, don’t mention the word “believe in Buddhism” directly, but start completely according to the habits of your classmates. If he believes in materialism, he should be guided by materialism; if he believes in communism, he should be guided by communism; if he believes in witches and gods, he should start with witches and gods; if he believes in fortune tellers, he should start with fortune tellers. You must first observe what he wants most, and use this thing to gradually induce him, or even deceive him. I have a friend who is just like your classmate. He crazily wants to get rich and believes in materialism. I took advantage of his persistence and asked him to use materialistic methods to study how others made money. After research, he found that getting rich has little to do with people's ability and knowledge. I also helped him research what is related to getting rich. After research, he discovered that getting rich is only related to fate (he is so smart! He can actually come to this conclusion, which shows that he really thinks about it. After research, many fools still believe that getting rich is related to intelligence. It’s really too much. I’m obsessed! In the middle, I even used horoscopes to enlighten him, but I can’t tell whether it’s a lie or not). Since getting rich is only related to destiny, of course we need to study how destiny is formed. I recommended the book "Four Lessons from the Moral" to him. Until now I have not mentioned the word "believe in Buddhism". Finally, this friend also started to do alms to change his destiny. In the end, because charity brought about huge changes in his body and spirit, he naturally believed in Buddhism. He has changed a lot now and is on the right path in life. Of course, my friend is an intellectual and likes to think, so it is easy for him to get going. And I'm older than him, and he trusts me. This is called crashing. The characteristics of your classmates and your image in their hearts can only be determined by you.
6. Therefore, it is best to induce a person to believe in Buddhism from a place where he can get the inspiration quickly. The quickest response is giving, and you can start with giving. Among the methods of giving, the fastest response is release. Giving can help your classmates improve their destiny, put them on a healthy road, and no longer lead a poor life. After giving alms for a long time, it is very easy to change a person's spiritual temperament, making people become kind and open-minded, and it will be a matter of course for them to embark on the path shown to us by the Buddha. In the end, because he believes in Buddhism, his destiny will be better, and his better destiny will support his belief in Buddhism, and this will lead to a good cycle.
7. If belief in Buddhism conflicts with a life of poverty, giving alms has no conflict with life at all. No matter how poor you are, you can always donate 1 cent a day. If you don't have even 1 cent, you can always give up your seat on the bus and clean the corridor of the hotel. It doesn’t cost anything to make a donation after giving alms.
That’s why it’s so difficult to help someone believe in Buddhism. You must use various means to proceed gradually and slowly like the sun melting ice.
When a person is in financial crisis, how can he survive and study Buddhism well at the same time? The answer is simple. According to his habits, he was induced to start from giving alms and eventually believe in Buddhism. Because he started to believe in Buddhism through giving alms, he was naturally able to reconcile Buddhism with life.
The writing is a bit messy, and it is just one family’s opinion. Please correct me.