The son asked in confusion: "Why?"

Shao Yong went on to explain: "Birds can sense changes in the earth's atmosphere better than humans. Now that the cuckoo is flying to the north, it shows that the earth's atmosphere flows from south to north, and the normal state should be just the opposite. Once the earth's atmosphere is chaotic, the world will be in chaos.

There will be great chaos, and recently, many diseases that only appear in the south have also appeared in the north. It seems that our Song Dynasty will be in great trouble."

His son quickly asked him where to avoid chaos, and Shao Yong said five words: "Sichuan can avoid chaos." In the last years of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty, after Shao Yong's death, his son led his family to move to Western Shu.

In order to ensure the safety of his family's life and property due to the war caused by the invasion of northern tribes, Shao Yong was really unique in choosing "Sichuan" to avoid the chaos, because Sichuan is indeed a good place to escape the war.

, it is worth noting that until the Anti-Japanese War, the fierce Japanese army failed to enter Sichuan. Moreover, when war broke out in Guanzhong in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, both Tang Xuanzong and Tang Xizong fled to Sichuan to avoid the chaos.

After Li Yuanwai read many of Shao Yong's stories, he gradually formed an understanding of fate: In this world, many things have already been determined. What should come will always come.

Whether it will come or not, you can't ask for it. In short, destiny is determined by God, and it's useless no matter how much people mess around.

Therefore, gradually, Li Yuanwai also developed a strong interest in fortune telling and fortune telling, because the more he felt that his destiny was already determined, the more he wanted to know how his destiny was "determined".

Whenever he has time or opportunity, he spends a lot of money to visit fortune tellers and the like. However, he has searched and searched, but he has never met a real expert that he admires.

As the saying goes, if you plant flowers deliberately, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade. Just when Mr. Li was not looking for it deliberately, he happened to encounter it.

Once, when he went to the south for business, he met an old man in a monastery. This old man had an extraordinary appearance, with white beard and hair, and an air of immortality, which made people awe-inspiring.

After chatting with him for a few words, the old man said to him: "You are in the officialdom. You can take the exam and enter the academy next year. Why don't you study?"

Li Yuanwai was a little surprised when he heard this, and quickly explained that the reason why he did not take part in the imperial examination was because of his mother's order, because her mother did not want him to enter the official career, but wanted him to inherit his father's legacy and do business well.

After hearing this, the old man nodded repeatedly and called Li Yuanwai a filial son. He also introduced himself that he was from Yunnan and was a disciple of Shao Yong in the Song Dynasty. When Li Yuanwai heard that he was a disciple of Shao Yong in the Song Dynasty, he couldn't help but be very excited because he

I had read so many books about Shao Yong and had infinite admiration for him. I didn’t expect to meet his disciple again! Is this God’s will? So, I missed it, so I tried every means to invite this old man to come.

He went to his own home and told his mother everything in detail.

The old lady was a shrewd person and had seen the world. She was dubious about the old man her son had brought, and decided to give it a test first. After thinking about it for a while, she said: "Since this gentleman is good at numerology, please ask me."

Let him calculate for you some of the things you experienced when you were a child and see if it works."

The old man took a sip of tea calmly, then nodded gently with a smile on his face. He calmly told Mr. Li's birth date.

As a result, Mr. Kong's calculations, although they were very small things, were very accurate - Mr. Li's birth date, what he had experienced when he was a child, and even the origin of the small scar on Mr. Li's left cheek. This old man

Everything was said clearly.

Li Yuanwai, mother and son, couldn't help but be dumbfounded. They felt that this old man really had real abilities, and he was very different from those who cheated people. Since he met an expert, of course he had to ask him to help calculate his future destiny.

When it comes to trends, calculating the past is just to test it, but calculating your own future is valuable.

The old man said that Li Yuanwai had read so many books about Shao Yong, and he was Shao Yong's second disciple, so he was destined to do so. Therefore, at the request of the mother and son, he carefully calculated the good and bad fortune of Li Yuanwai's life.

Blessing and misfortune.

The old man explained the important life stages of Li Yuanwai one by one very clearly - which year he got in the exam, which year he should be a supplementary student, which year he should be a tribute student, and after the tribute student paid tribute, in a certain year

One year, he was elected as a county magistrate in a certain province. After serving as magistrate for three and a half years, he resigned and returned to his hometown. At the age of 45, on August 14th, he died.

Yuan Wai Li was hit by a fatal accident and had no son, which made Yuan Wai Li's mother and son very sad.

Li Yuanwai also wrote down the old man's words one by one, and then stopped doing business and started studying again. From then on, whenever there was an exam, the results and rankings were exactly what the old man had calculated.

Once, according to the old man's original calculation, he should have received ninety-one shi and five dou of rice as a tribute before he could pay tribute. But when he received 71 shi of rice, the Xuetai approved him to pay the tribute.

Gongsheng.

At that time, Li Yuanwai once doubted the accuracy of the old man's prediction.

But later, his final application for promotion to Gongsheng was not approved after being reviewed by higher-level officials, so the promotion from Xuedai was not realized. It was not until the year of Dingmao that he was allowed to be promoted to Gongsheng, and at that time, he received

The total amount of rice was exactly ninety-one stones and five buckets of rice - exactly as the old man predicted. After Li Yuanwai experienced this incident, he became more convinced that a person's honor and disgrace, promotion and wealth, good luck and bad luck are actually destined.

.What should come will always come, and what should go will always go. Sooner or later, what is yours will be yours, and what is not yours will never be obtained by you, so he takes everything very lightly and just goes with the flow.

If you are so persistent, try to change something.

When life has reached this stage, there is no such thing as disappointment, let alone hope, because you know the key stages of your life very clearly, and it is clear that you can't change it, and you can't refuse it, so Mr. Li's heart is as dead as water.

of peace.

But what happened next, his life, which had already been on a certain track, suddenly took an unexpected turn. This change was too strange.

After Li Yuan was admitted as a tribute student, according to regulations, he had to take up a position in the history compilation agency of the capital. Before he officially took up the post, he decided to go to Qixia Mountain to meet Zen Master Yungu. This was a Taoist monk.

of eminent monks.

After Li Yuanwai met Zen Master Yungu, Yungu looked at him in the Zen room and asked in surprise: "It seems that your current cultivation level is very good, because since you came in, I have never seen you have a single delusional thought.

Unless you have extremely profound cultivation, you cannot reach such a profound state. How did you do it?"

Li Yuanwai told Yun Gu in detail about the old man he met and how the old man accurately predicted his life. Finally, he said: "My life was determined by that old man. When will I live, when will I die, and when will I be proud?"

, when you will be frustrated, it is determined and there is no way to change it. Therefore, once you know that your life is destined, you will lose all hope and there will be no delusions in your heart.

After hearing this, Zen Master Yungu burst out laughing and said, "I originally thought you were a great hero, but after you said this, I realized that you are just a mediocre ordinary person."

Li Yuanwai was a little confused by Zen Master Yungu's evaluation. Zen Master Yungu further explained: "The kind of destiny you are talking about is actually the life of ordinary people. For some people with extremely high cultivation, their destiny is not

It is a fixed number, but a variable. The saints are optimistic about fate, but they do not accept fate, but have the courage to struggle and be proactive. His life is in his own hands, and the destined number cannot restrain him. The opening chapter of "Yi"

As a righteousness, it is said: "A house that accumulates good deeds will always be blessed." That is to say, for those who actively do good deeds, their originally destined destiny will slowly change, and change for the better. Therefore, destiny can be determined by oneself.

Change, and Buddhism allows people to understand the power of the principles of extreme good and extreme evil. Once you understand it, do it accordingly. It is my own destiny to create my own life, and my own blessings. If I do evil, my blessings will naturally be lost; if I practice good,

, you will naturally get blessings. What was said in various poems and books in the past is indeed a clear and clear good lesson. Our Buddhist scriptures say: If a person asks for wealth, he will get wealth; if he asks for children, he will get children; if he asks for longevity, he will get it.

Live a long life!" What Zen Master Yungu said is very complicated, but the core meaning is actually one sentence - your destiny is in your own hands.

But Yun Gu's words awakened Mr. Li, and he began to lead a positive life, accumulating his own good deeds.

From then on, Li Yuanwai was very cautious about his every move, word and deed. For example, even in an empty dark room, he would treat it solemnly and would not yell or curse, because he was afraid of offending the world.

Offend ghosts and gods.

When Li Yuanwai met people who hated him or slandered him, he could accept it calmly and did not argue with others. In the second year after meeting Zen Master Yungu, when Li Yuanwai went to the Ministry of Rites to take the imperial examination, the fate predicted by the old man was:

Suddenly it started to fail - according to the old man's original prediction, Li Yuanwai should take the third place in the exam, but when the results came out, Li Yuanwai actually came in first place! The old man didn't predict that Li Yuanwai would pass the exam, but

In the fall of the provincial examination, Li Yuanwai actually passed the exam! But it turned out that this was not his destiny.

Seeing that his efforts to change his destiny had such remarkable results, Mr. Li became even more confident.

Then he vowed to do three thousand good deeds. From the day he made the vow, he became more active in doing good deeds. After more than ten years of hard work, he completed the three thousand good deeds. As a result, his wife gave birth to a son. Of course, this
Chapter completed!