We often hear a saying around us that "people's lives are predestined by heaven", and in the view of many people, people's lives are predestined by heaven, especially when we often listen to the old people who say: "This is the fate of the world". Since ancient times, there has been a "life and death by fate, wealth and fortune in heaven", as if we can only listen to God's fate. However, there is another viewpoint called "Man's determination overcomes heaven", which was put forward by Xunzi, who believed that to give up human efforts and think of heaven is against the reality of all things. Through human endeavor, one can master the laws of nature and thus better control the destiny of mankind. This is Xunzi's theory of "man's determination to triumph over heaven".
/0df431adcbef76095729e15625dda3cc7dd99edc?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85Some people will feel that this is not a bit contradictory to each other! Well! In fact, many of the sayings around us are contradictory. For example: there is "the mighty can not bend, the rich and powerful can not be obscene", there is "a man can bend and can stretch"; there is "close to the water tower first get the moon", there is "rabbits do not refuse the grass around the nest"; there is "a good horse does not eat back grass ", there is "the return of the prodigal son, gold can not be replaced"; there is "the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly", there is "there is no revenge is not a gentleman"; there are "People do not offend me, I do not offend", and there is "the first to strike, after the first to suffer," and so on, these examples are numerous, it can be seen that we have been from ancient times, whether it is from life or work, are a yin and a yang existence. There are positive, there are negative, in fact, do people is also the same, there is a "fixed number" said, there is a "people must win the day" said. So which one of these is the one we should believe in and take as a guideline for our lives?
First of all, we need to understand what is "the certainty of everything"?
/b8389b504fc2d562ab2aa824ec1190ef77c66cdc?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85We often say that "Everything is fixed" should be interpreted as "under the *** same rules of the game, each looking for a niche, to make the most appropriate changes". To change, it should change according to the rules of the game, called evolution or evolution. To remain unchanged is to follow the original rules, which is called evolution or evolution. To change or not to change, are by oneself based on **** the same law and make a decision, so still everything has a fixed number.
"Everything is fixed" is not difficult to understand, everything in the world follows the "Tao" in operation, whether it is the food chain or ecological balance, no matter how "change", are inseparable from the "Tao". ", are inseparable from the "unchanged" *** with the environment, this is "everything is fixed" basis.
/2e2eb9389b504fc2fba9c9cceedde71191ef6d00?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85If a person fully accepts the established rules of the game, set in stone as it evolves, the result is that one becomes a fatalist and accepts predestination. If one fully accepts the established rules of the game, yet is able to utilize one's niche and make a reasonable evolution, one results in becoming a creationist, not based solely on predestined planning. Both of these activities are in accordance with the laws of predestination, but it is up to the person to decide which path to take, and it is up to the person to live with the consequences of that decision. This "change" in "no change" is in fact the contradictory side of "man's destiny is predestined by heaven", i.e., "man's destiny is better than heaven's". ". Therefore, the fate that can be changed later, in fact, also in the fate.
/faf2b2119313b07ec56029c107d7912396dd8c1d?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85There are a lot of lifeless substances in our living environment, such as rocks, stones and other materials. life-giving substances, such as rocks, fine sand, and water, usually made of fairly simple compounds, arbitrarily mixed. They have only a nature, and no instincts, much less a soul.
Many living plants and animals are made of cells. They have natures and instincts, but not necessarily souls. They must be cultivated and pass considerable tests before they can develop the vigor of a soul. Advanced animals such as human beings, of course, have souls, but unfortunately there are many people who have forgotten and live by instinct alone, making the same as ordinary animals, unworthy of being called the Spirit of all things.
/c8177f3e6709c93d16e5763e943df8dcd00054e7?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85The human soul, with its autonomy and creativity. Since the soul is formless and incorporeal, it cannot produce actual functions, so it becomes very important to create a body. In order to control it effectively, the soul must make a complete life plan before it creates a body, so that it knows how to organize its own body and make sure that when it carries out this innate life plan in the future, it will be appropriate and effective. We call this innate life plan the Divine Order. It means that according to the same rules of the game in the energy realm, that is to say, according to the blessings that the soul has obtained in its past lives, the tasks to be accomplished in this life are determined separately. This innate life plan is what we usually think of as "destiny".
/c83d70cf3bc79f3d91f69cf9b1a1cd11738b29e7?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85Since this is the case, should we not resign ourselves to our fate? to the fact that we're not going to be able to do anything about it?
The answer is no!
Energy is changeable, just as yin and yang are interactive, tai chi is rotating from week to week, unchanging is changing, changing is also unchanging, all the plans for everything, it is impossible to stay the same. There is flexibility to be creative. It is possible to make limited changes, to follow the Tao and change the changes, so that the autonomy to be carried forward. Continuous improvement, striving for excellence, good and better, this is the nature of the soul, very much in line with the energy world. The energy mentioned here is the term of modern science, and also the Tao as Lao Tzu said, the change of energy, there are some trance parts, called perturbation, and scientists have no way to figure it out. Energy to maintain a number of mysterious, for human beings, in fact, there are many benefits, do not have to rush to break through.
/574e9258d109b3ded3629da1c7bf6c81810a4c1d?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85As soon as you produce the tendency to change, you begin to produce the later life planning.
Acquired life planning is the change we make when we grow up, according to our own will, with our own conditions, and the environment. If the acquired life plan is very similar to the one brought by the innate, the rate of its achievement is usually very high, on the contrary, it is difficult to realize, but this is not certain. Specific things, we have to according to their own conditions and ability, according to their own strengths, do not have to be overly far-fetched.
Thus, the words of the ancients are all reasonable, contradictory two sentences, nor who is right and who is wrong, are the life of the summed up experience, are now we should take as a model. Whether it is "man's destiny is predestined by heaven" or "man's destiny is victorious by heaven", in fact, it is all decided by us personally. What kind of family you were born can not choose, but what kind of life you want to be able to decide for yourself. The fact is that you can't blame God or anyone else for what you want.
/f636afc379310a551133a63dbc4543a9832610e7?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85The body certainly has a period of time to be used but our life is not "destiny". In fact, the lifespan of the body is not the same for all of us, nor is it fixed for each of us. What makes life interesting is that we all know that we will die sooner or later, but we really don't know when we will die, where we will die, and how we will die. Because everything is fluid and negotiable. Otherwise what is the use of man's own will and creativity and autonomy?
"There is a time in your life when you have to have it, and a time in your life when you don't have it, so don't force yourself to have it."
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