Destiny is a very important ancient concept in traditional Chinese culture. The ancients generally respected heaven and believed in destiny. They believed that life and death are determined by destiny, and wealth is determined by heaven. Life is only eight meters long. If you travel all over the world and you are not satisfied with your fortune, great wealth depends on fate, and small wealth depends on hard work. Life is fate, and you can't help it at all. people?. This so-called? Everyone has his own destiny, and his destiny is different. ?
What exactly is fate? Mencius said: "If you don't do it but do it, it is heaven; if you don't do it, it is fate." ? ("Mencius. Devoting one's heart"), Dong Zhongshu said: "The order of heaven is called destiny." ? ("Book of Han. Biography of Dong Zhongshu"), therefore, destiny is related to heaven. The so-called "human destiny is related to heaven", so destiny is also called destiny, that is, destiny or destiny is innate and innate, or it is Destined. In traditional Chinese fortune telling, the movement of human life is often divided into big luck, small luck, and fleeting years according to the time process. The movement of life is destiny, so life is also called destiny. That is, destiny manifests itself in different fortunes. Human life is composed of several different fortunes, either good luck or bad luck, good luck first and then bad luck, or bad luck first and then good luck. In different life paths, different quality of life is shown. Usually the quality of life is measured by wealth, poverty, nobility, longevity, and longevity. Therefore, fate or destiny actually refers to the trajectory of a person's life that is predetermined innately.
Traditional Chinese culture believes that people's destiny is knowable, and attaches great importance to predicting destiny. This is "knowing fate". Confucius said: "If you don't know destiny, you cannot be a gentleman." ? ("The Analects of Confucius. Yao said"), and claimed that "at fifty you will know the destiny of heaven". ("The Analects of Confucius. For Politics") Why do we need to know our fate? ?Precaution will lead to success, failure to predict will lead to failure? It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Knowing your destiny can help you deal with the dangers in your destiny in advance, so "Happy God knows your destiny, so you don't have to worry". Among the Four Books and Five Classics, the "Book of Changes" is listed as the "first of the group of classics", and the "Book of Changes" is actually a book of divination, among which the "Xici" is the original divination of hexagrams.
Confucius conducted a lifelong in-depth study of the "Book of Changes" to the point of "Three Wonders of Wei Bian". An article in the "Book of Changes" is Confucius's experience in studying the Book of Changes. Chinese Taoism has a very rich fortune-telling technique, including Liuyao, Plum Blossom Yishu, Four Pillars and Eight Characters, Qimen Dunjia, Liuren, Iron Shen Numbers, Face Reading, Palmistry and so on. Why is it called fortune telling? This is because traditional culture believes that everything has a certain number, and fortune-telling is to infer a person's destiny based on easy numbers and fortune-telling. Chinese historical records record many masters who were proficient in this art, including Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, Liu Bowen, etc., and so on. In Buddhist practice, there will also be a special function called "fate communication". Those with this function can use their third eye to directly see into other people's past, present, future, and even previous lives and multiple lives.
The Chinese people’s understanding of destiny first fully reflects the fragility and limitations of human beings as living beings. Although human beings are the most precious creatures, they are still subject to the birth, old age, illness and death of living beings to a large extent. Due to limitations and constraints of survival conditions, human beings so far have been unable to fundamentally change this basic destiny. Under the control of this basic destiny, human beings are fundamentally helpless, so there are various theories of destiny mentioned above. But can humans really not change their own destiny?
It should be said that before the new civilization, human beings were indeed unable to do it, but after the new civilization, it was completely different, because at this time, human beings already had the basic destiny of completely ending human life, old age, illness and death through the ultimate cause. In other words, after the new civilization, human beings will no longer succumb to the power of so-called basic fates such as birth, old age, illness, and death. We have already explained this principle in series of works such as "The Evolution of Being", "New Civilization", "Pioneer Town. New Civilization Utopia", etc., so we will not go into details here (please refer to the New Civilization Network). If the basic destiny is like this, then of course other relatively minor destiny can be changed even more.
We know that fortune tellers often make fortune judgments based on a person’s external material characteristics, but is a person’s appearance immutable? No! In fact, people's external characteristics can continue to change, at least in terms of health and lifespan, they can be changed through their own efforts. Unified information theory believes that the essence of life is the unity of the living body and the main program as spiritual essence, and the main program is the internal cause, which is also the core content of the living body. In the long river of life, the subject program, as the internal motivation, interacts and promotes the externalization (i.e. evolution) of the living body, making the world of life continue to move from low to high, creating a colorful life world. The subject program ( Spirit) plays a core and fundamental role in it.
The essence of spirit is a subject program (an energy sub-combination with sequence and subjectivity), and human consciousness is the most complex advanced subject program, but no matter what, all spirits are composed of It is composed of programmed combinations of energy quanta, but they also need corresponding vessels and organs to carry them. Human organs and various tissues are combinations of organic matter with a certain structure. The fixed shapes formed by these combinations can make energy ions distribute on them in a certain order and manifest different spirits. Among them, the brain is so complex because of its supreme complexity. It forms the most complex advanced subject program (thinking).
Of course, the formation of organs is not innate. It is also formed through the interaction between extreme particles and energy quanta according to a program (see the "Gemini Law" in "Ziwei Xingming"). It is formed under the guidance of the energy quanta sequence as a spirit.
It can be seen that the human spirit plays an important role in the external changes of human body organs and the dominance of physical health. Human beings can completely achieve changes in the external material characteristics and temperament of the human body by constantly improving their spiritual qualities. , and this change will further lead to changes in the individual's physical appearance, ideological culture, spiritual outlook and other aspects, thereby changing his own destiny. Obviously, this kind of change is a proactive change in the spiritual aspect, constantly optimizing one's own spiritual quality, and the optimization process of spiritual quality is what is called mind cultivation in traditional Chinese culture. Before the ultimate goal of the new civilization is realized, although cultivating the mind cannot change the basic destiny of human beings, it can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and change other subordinate destinies such as happiness, wealth, longevity, social status, health and longevity, etc.
Chinese Taoists have a saying that "my destiny is not in heaven but in me". This so-called "it is better to accept your destiny than to tell your fortune, and it is better to cultivate your destiny than to accept your destiny". That is to say, people can change their destiny to a certain extent through their own efforts. But what you plan for depends on people, and God depends on you. Blind and incorrect efforts will not change your destiny, but may make it worse. Therefore, under normal circumstances, people often need to "do their best to obey fate" and let nature take its course. On this basis, they can further improve it through mind cultivation. This process was also called cultivation in ancient China.
Cultivation can change your destiny. Changing your destiny through practice is the so-called "life-cultivation", and the fundamental of life-cultivation is to continuously improve your spiritual quality, that is, to cultivate your mind. The heart (spirit) is the source of human behavior and other life manifestations. Only by continuously improving one's spiritual quality through cultivating the mind can we fundamentally change all the bad things in a person's destiny, make up for the shortcomings in the innate destiny, and perfect Cultivation of the mind can completely reverse and change bad luck, thereby achieving the so-called life cultivation.
Fate is the manifestation of the laws or laws of the universe in the course of human life. If people want to truly change their destiny, they must follow the way of heaven, that is, follow the laws and regulations of the universe, focus on virtue and do good. This is the primary issue in cultivating the mind. The question is: How can we recognize the true laws and regulations of the universe? If your cognition is based on wrong views, then this kind of mind cultivation will make you suffer more. Not only will it fail to change your destiny, but it will make your destiny continue to be misfortune. Therefore, correct understanding is the most critical and core factor in cultivating the mind.
The new civilization will not advertise itself, but it can provide you with a broad and profound vision, allowing you to stand at the forefront of the times