Do you think < Cold Kiln Fu > is persuading people to accept their fate?
It's talking about origins.
You must have heard the saying - "Shiya
Life
Yunya
"Others have failed.
Comfort him - time is also fate
I failed.
Self-mockery - time is also fate
These short six words
It's almost become the standard Chinese response to frustration.
The origin of this sentence
It's a short essay called "Cold Kiln Fu"
For a thousand years
It is hung in Lu Mengzheng's name
The man who served as prime minister three times in the Northern Song Dynasty
But I want to break a trivia today.
Academic research
In fact, it is very likely that the < Cold Kiln Fu > was not written by Lu Mengzheng
The earliest extant engraving is from the late Qing Dynasty
There are even some flaws in the article
For example, it says, "Zhang Liangyuan is a commoner."
The ancestors of the Zhang Liang family were connected to five generations of prime ministers
How could it be a commoner?
Lu Mengzheng, who read thousands of volumes in the Northern Song Dynasty
Impossible to make such a mistake
So the truth is probably
This is a rap artist between the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Through the dramatic life of Lu Mengzheng's "From Cold Kiln to Prime Minister's Mansion"
An exhortation written in his name
But - here's where it gets interesting
Why fake Lv Mengzheng?
Because of Lu Mengzheng's life itself
It is the most living evidence of the kind of pattern that this article is trying to describe
And a false exhortation
Why can it be passed down for hundreds of years?
Can make countless people cry after reading it
Because although it is not written by Lu Mengzheng
But it caught the real thing.
This is real stuff.
It's not Lu Mengzheng's personal perception
It's a bigger, deeper, lower structure.
In Buddhist language
It's called Dependent Origin.
I'm going to dismantle it today
That's it.
Hello
Hello.
I am Wang Lijie
I want to answer a question - when < Cold Kiln Fu > was written down "
When the words "fate and luck" are used
What is it saying?
Are you trying to persuade you to lie down and accept your fate?
Or say
What it sees
In fact, it is the set of "karma harmony" talked about in Buddhism
That sophisticated modern science is still catching up with today
Put the conclusion first - < Cold Kiln Fu >
It's not a book that makes you throw in the towel.
It's a manual that lets you see the conditional structure.
resign
I closed the book halfway through
See the origin
This is the true key to this article
Let me first talk about the real life of Lu Mengzheng
Then you can understand why this fake article
Will be left behind by time
Lv Mengzheng's life experience
It is clearly recorded in the "History of the Song Dynasty"
After his father Lu Guitu married a concubine
Fall out with the original
Kick the original Liu family out of the house with their son
The mother and son lived in extreme poverty
In later operas, it is said that he "lived in a cold kiln
"Beg for food and eat" - specific details have artistic processing
But "Song Shi" used eight words to characterize his boyhood
"Mengzheng has gone through a difficult time"
Lu Mengzheng at that time
And anyone who is abandoned by their family today
There is no essential difference between young people struggling to survive
Hungry, cold, humiliated, unable to see the future
But what is he waiting for?
He doesn't know it himself.
What he can do
Just reading.
Read every day
Read without any reward
At the age of thirty-three
He won the champion
Two years of peace and rejuvenation
Emperor Taizong of Song personally presided over the imperial examination
A few more years passed
He enters the center
Thirty-nine years old
First visit
Three times in a lifetime
He has been prime minister for nearly ten years in total
From the young man who was kicked out of his house and lived in poverty
To the important minister who paid homage to the third degree - this gap
It is the true base color of the article < Cold Kiln Fu > that has been circulated for thousands of years
Now.
Let's look at the skeleton of this article
Its author
No matter who
Did one thing - enumerated dozens of historical figures
They're all examples of flipped luck.
It said, "The dragon has never met.
Dive among fish and shrimp
Gentleman lost time
Hand over to the villain "
It says Confucius
Confucius was attracted to Chen Bang - a generation of saints was trapped between Chen and Cai
Seven days without food
It said Jiang Taigong
Fishing in Weishui - an unknown old man before the age of 80
Fishing and starving to death
I just met King Wen of Zhou
It says Han Xin
Humiliated under the crotch - dignified soldier fairy
As a young man, he once slipped under a butcher's crotch
It says Feng Tang Yi Lao
Li Guangnanfeng
It says that Zhuge Liang didn't meet Liu Bei before
Just a farmer in Nanyang
It says that Xiang Yuli is the best in the world
Finally, Wujiang killed himself
It said that Liu Bang was originally a small Surabaya pavilion chief
The last four hundred years of the Han Dynasty
Dozens of characters in one breath
High tide ups and downs
There's a huge gap.
And then it came to the conclusion -- "This is the time also
Life
Yunya
"Most people stop at this point.
Stop at these six words
And then came to a very sad conclusion - you see
Life does not depend on hard work
It's all about fate
This is the most serious misreading
Because if you continue reading
The article is written at the end - "Sigh
Life is alive
Wealth is untouchable
Poverty is not to be bullied
This is the cycle of heaven and earth
Eventually the repeater
"Translated into Vernacular - Life is Alive
Don't get carried away when you are rich and powerful
Don't give up on yourself when you are poor and lowly
The underlying laws of this world
It's the cycle -- the high now won't be high forever.
The current low will not be low forever
Is this still "resignation"?
This is fate.
Recognize and accept fate
It's two things.
Accept fate - I see the pattern
So I give up.
Life is - I see the pattern
So I know what to do.
Lu Mengzheng himself
The best evidence to the contrary
If he really accepts his fate
Should have died in that cold kiln
But he didn't.
What is he doing in the cold kiln?
read
Read late at night
Illuminate the book with snow
What is he waiting for?
He doesn't know.
He's just doing what he's supposed to do.
This article
Whether he wrote it himself or not
It borrows his name
What I want to say is never resignation
What it's saying is - the structure of time is regular
Recognize this pattern
So you don't ruin yourself during the slump
OK
Let's now switch to a Buddhist perspective
Let's take a look at what exactly this article encounters
There is a very central concept in Buddhism
It's called Dependent Origin.
The simplest explanation is four words - karma and harmony
Anything happens
It's not a single cause
It is the result of a set of conditions maturing together
Seeds are just causes.
It's going to sprout.
You need sunlight, you need moisture, you need soil.
Temperature, season -- it's called "edge."
Inga edge
Not one less
That sounds like common sense.
But Buddhism takes it to the extreme.
Nothing exists on its own.
It's embedded in a network of conditions.
None of the critical conditions in that web are in place yet
The result will not appear
Jiang Taigong fishing
Eighty years
It's been there. It's been there.
But King Wen of Zhou was not born and did not go out
Before passing by Weishui - that web was not finished
Failure to reconcile
Zhuge Liang Farming in Nanyang
His talent has always been there
Because of
But Liu Bei has never experienced failure and is not cornered
Not humble enough to think twice about the hut - that web is not finished
Lu Meng is studying in a cold kiln
His talent has always been
Because of
But that imperial examination has not yet arrived
They weren't ready for that.
He himself has not yet completed some kind of internal transformation
The web wasn't finished yet.
Once that web is finished
It just happened.
Not gradual
It emerges.
This is the true meaning of the word "Shiya"
Not the fate of ignorance
It's the season
Now is the time.
seed germination
The time has not come
The seed stays in the soil
It looks like nothing happened.
But it never went away.
And the source of most people's suffering
Not without seeds
But when the seeds are not germinated
Began to suspect the existence of this seed
This is a crucial distinction
Have you ever felt that way - you read a lot
You work hard
You know you're not bad
But it didn't pay off.
Time goes by day by day
You start to wonder - am I mistaken?
Am I not talented at all?
Is this road completely blocked?
The suspicion itself
It's the most common accident before the seeds have sprouted
Lu Meng is in the cold kiln
Must have experienced such doubts countless times
This < Cold Kiln Fu > written in his name
It moves people.
It's not because it says something big.
Because it says, "The torture of waiting."
Not my ability
This is time, luck, and fate
"It says
Then I became a high official
People say I'm capable
It's not that I have the ability
The time has finally come
That's not modesty.
This is the sobriety after seeing the law
OK
So much for that.
I'm going to make a cross-cultural comparison.
We have talked about < Four Lessons of Fan > before.
That issue was about - lives can be actively modified
Yuan Liofan has used decades of merits and demerits
Disperse your own probability cloud from a sharp needle into a cloud
reshaping
But < Four Lessons of Xiaofan > has a premise
It didn't unfold - time
You planted a good seed today
It's not going to give you a good result tomorrow.
It may take ten years, twenty years, or even a lifetime
You inject new parameters into Alaya's knowledge
The inferential output of the system doesn't change immediately either.
It has to wait for enough new seeds to accumulate
Wait for the potential energy of the old seed to be diluted
Wait for a trigger to appear
"The Four Lessons of All Things" talks about "what causes what you sow, what you get"
But < Cold Kiln Fu > is about - how long will the "fruit" come?
Read these two articles together
It's a complete map.
I will teach you to rewrite the parameters
Han kiln teaches you to rewrite the parameters before the results appear
How not to go crazy
Together you understand - practice is not just about "seeds"
We have to wait.
Switch another perspective
We're looking at Taleb's "Anti-Fragility."
Taleb had a central observation.
The rewards in this world are non-linear.
You spend most of your time doing "useless work"
Accumulation, preparation, precipitation
Seems to be making no progress
But one day
A small trigger event occurs
All your previous accumulation suddenly activates at the same time
Produce jumps of an order of magnitude
Taleb called this convexity.
Your payoff most of the time is next to nothing
But once triggered
Returns explode in orders of magnitude.
This is the same as "good luck in time"
Almost the same observation
Lu Meng is studying in the cold kiln
Nothing in return.
The people around him laughed at him
It's classic accumulation with no payoff.
But the real effect of this accumulation period
Instead of generating immediate rewards
It's planting seeds in the cloud of future probabilities.
When the time came - that imperial examination
All planted seeds activate simultaneously
A jump
Taleb explained this with probability theory
< Cold Kiln Fu > uses "Shi Yeming" to explain this matter
Buddhism uses karma and karma to explain this.
Three people said the same thing
Let's look at the perspective of consciousness-only
Consciousness-Only has a core model
It's called "Seed-Current-Inoculation."
Your every thought, every action in the past
All planted a seed in Alaya consciousness
This seed doesn't just disappear into thin air.
It's waiting quietly in the warehouse.
What are you waiting for?
Wait for the current conditions to mature
The key is - the same seed
Under different causal conditions
Germination can be delayed by years, decades, or even lifetimes
And < Cold Kiln Fu > sees exactly this
Some people's seeds germinate quickly
Some people's seeds have to wait a long time
It's not about the seeds.
It's a matter of karma.
It doesn't write an article to tell you to accept your fate
Is to tell you - is there any seed?
I know it.
Is it time?
It's out of your control.
You can control it.
It's how you deal with yourself in between.
This "self."
This is the true theme of < Cold Kiln Fu >
OK
Now for the more practical part
If you understand the origin structure of this article
What should you do during the downturn?
And I will do three things.
The first thing I do
Guardian Seed
During the waiting period
The easiest thing to happen
You are the one who destroyed your seeds
How to destroy
Doubt yourself, give up effort, hit yourself, turn to anesthesia
Once you start to feel like a loser
Once you start anesthetizing yourself with alcohol, swipe short videos, ineffective social interaction
You're actually eating your own seed.
What is Lu Meng doing in the cold kiln?
read
Read every day
Reading under the snow
Nothing in return.
He also reads
He's not waiting for a miracle.
He's guarding the seed - keeping it from spoiling
Seeds don't disappear just because you have no results
But it will be weakened by your self-doubt
That's a very precise observation of consciousness-only -- the potential energy of a seed.
It's about your state of consciousness.
The more certain you are
The more stable it is
The more you shake
The more diluted it is
The second thing
Identify causes
Waiting is not stupid
Waiting is "viewing fate"
When the web of karma is slowly woven
It has a signal.
A new person emerges, a new opportunity emerges
A new trend has started -- signals that most people don't see.
It's because their consciousness is filled with anxiety
No bandwidth to scan the scene
Buddhism talks about "perspective"
I don't close my eyes and look inside.
It's looking at the outside world with open eyes
You watch carefully enough
You can be at the moment when the karma is about to become
Make the smallest move
Make that web tighter
Jiang Taigong is not foolishly sitting by Weishui fishing
He uses a straight hook
Straight hook can't catch fish
He didn't catch a fish
It's King Wen
He's signaling - there's a different person here
King Wen heard
Here it comes.
If Jiang Taigong was just fishing
King Wen may not necessarily pass by
Passing by doesn't necessarily stop
Jiang Taigong's waiting
It's with discernment, etc.
And a third thing.
non-narrative
This is the hardest.
People are at a low point
The easiest thing to do
Just make up a story about your situation
"I am a buried genius."
"The world has been unfair to me." "That's all I've ever done."
This kind of story
It's the biggest seed consumer.
Because once you make up a story
You are no longer the seed
You become that story
Stories are self-reinforcing.
It locks you into a local optimum.
There is an amazing thing in < Cold Kiln Fu >
After the author wrote about those encounters
No self-pity
There were no charges.
It's just a statement.
"Shiya
Life
"Yunye" these six words
It was a very serene observation.
No emotion
This non-narrative ability.
It's called "seeing the truth" in Buddhism.
No narrative.
No evaluation
No self-packaging.
Just seeing what's happening
You can observe yourself.
That's when you start to describe yourself in terms of who I am.
You're already talking
When you start telling people over and over again "what is my life like"
You are diluting the seeds with narrative
True practice
It's to turn off the narrator -- not you.
It's to turn off the voice-over that keeps telling you "who are you"
Narrator level
You are seeing yourself for the first time as a seed
It's not a story.
truthful person
Seeds are the most stable
OK
I know you might want to ask a question
Did Lu Mengzheng not take the initiative to do anything at all?
Is he just waiting?
No, definitely not.
He did three things - read books
Protect your inner state and be filial to your mother
None of these three things directly make him prime minister
But these three things
He can control it.
The deepest layer of < Cold Kiln Fu >
There's a limit to what one can do.
What can really change destiny
It's always variables that you can't control.
But the variables you can control
Determines when uncontrollable variables arrive
You are ready
Still collapsed
This is what the Stoics called the control dichotomy.
This is what Taoists call "doing nothing without doing anything."
This is the true essence of Buddhism's teaching of "doing your best and listening to your destiny."
Not for you to accept your fate
It allows you to clearly distinguish between "you can do" and "you can't do"
Do what you can
Can't do it without being torn
A thousand years ago
An unknown author
By the name of a prime minister who crawled out of a cold kiln
Write a short essay of less than 800 words
It doesn't use a single Buddhist term.
But every word it writes
It's all the vernacular version of fate
What it sees is - the world is not a definite machine
It's a web of karma that continues to weave
You are a node on the Internet.
You can decide the state of your node.
But you don't decide when it's done.
What you can do
Is to make yourself this node
The moment the entire web is completed
We're at our best.
So it lists those historical figures
It's not, "Look at how miserable and dramatic these people are."
It's saying - this is the structure of time
This is the structure of karma
This is what everyone with a seed goes through
Long lurking
And it pops up.
Understand the structure
You read < Cold Kiln Fu > again.
You will find it memorable
Instead, it's quiet and powerful
And finally.
I'd like to leave you with one question.
Is there a seed waiting for you right now?
It may have been buried for five years, ten years, or even longer
Occasionally you wonder if it's rotten long ago
The answer to < Cold Kiln Fu > for you is
You only need to answer one question - your current node
Are you ready?
If ready
When will the net be finished?
It's about the internet
It's not your business.
If you are not ready
Even if the net is finished today
You can't catch it either
Welcome to let me know in the comment area.
What is that waiting seed in you?
You are also welcome to tell me what you think of "Time and Life"
The six words "luck also" - do you think it is resigned to fate?
Still knowing my fate
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.