Can human change their destiny?
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Hiya, jus to ask if one person always hav bad luck, meaning no gd life since young til now, is ti means tis person got bad karma? Is it possible get to know wat his previous life abt? Can change his fate, n destiny?
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Yes. i did.Originally posted by so_what:Hiya, jus to ask if one person always hav bad luck, meaning no gd life since young til now, is ti means tis person got bad karma? Is it possible get to know wat his previous life abt? Can change his fate, n destiny?
Go through Liao-Fan's Four Lessons, to change to a good life.
http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Misc/4teachen.html
The First Lesson: Learning To Create Destiny
The Second Lesson: Ways to Reform
The Third Lesson: The Way to Cultivate Kindness
The Fourth Lesson: The Benefit of the Virtue of Humility
it WILL work!
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Liao-fan's Four Lessons is indeed a good and interesting read, unfortunately I have only read one section of it... I would find time to finish reading it. Highly recommended BTW, 'fate' in Liao Fan's Four Lessons simply means Karmic effect. Everything, good or bad that happens to you in your life... can be said a karmic result due to a karmic seed you have planted in the past... and if the person is a good person (this life) and yet he still has a bad life, that has to do with his past life.
Definitely, men can change their destiny... but it is only by inner transformation that can bring out 'outer' transformation. And this is what Buddhism teaches. It is by applying Buddhist wisdom that we can truly change our lives. As for knowing how previous life is about, there is a saying "To know your previous life, see what is happening to you in this life. To know your future lives, see what you are doing with this life."
Regarding remembering previous lives, I believe it is not necessary for transforming your current life, but as long as you practise one day you will eventually remember your previous lives as many people I know have done that. What is most important is to practise well. -
give it 3 years. try to do several good deeds a day, things will change for the better. When you do that time, keep your wandering thoughts of gaining rewards down. More importantly the mind must be purify for it to work. don't hover greed, hatred, folly.
that say, 1 ming4 (life), 2 yun4 (luck), 3 fengshui (geometric), 4 de (virtue), 5 du su(education).
1, 2 and/or 3 might be more heavenly made but 4 and 5 is more of human's make. de(virtue) is doing good deeds. du su(education) of coz is to increase ones understanding and wisdom.
3 kinds of dana(giving) to cultivate:-
1) giving wealth, you'll gain wealth
2) giving education, you'll gain knowledge
3) giving freelessness/helping people, you'll gain health
All these professors that teach how to earn money, but they themselves are still poor. In Buddhism, they know the conditions only. They don't have the seeds. What's the seeds? It's giving. You don't plant fu tian(field of merits) how to harvest fruitions?
Money got 2 kinds. One's physical, one is mental. Using money makes you happy. That happiness is mental money. Everytime u suffer hardship, you are actually cultivating mental money. Training to be more strong in the mind. Ppl nowaday are too pamper. hence a little bit hardship, they cannot take. So it's good to train the mind.
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
Good saying...i agree wif u tat i'm getting stronger each time when i was down..dunno y i stil forgive tos ppl who had been mean to me..does it telling i'm giving "virtue", well, coz i dun hold any grudges frm others esp my parents whose got favourism towards my siblings
Money got 2 kinds. One's physical, one is mental. Using money makes you happy. That happiness is mental money. Everytime u suffer hardship, you are actually cultivating mental money. Training to be more strong in the mind. Ppl nowaday are too pamper. hence i little bit hardship, they cannot take. So it's good to train the mind.
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Tks sinweiy, cheers
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mistake is the mother of success what.Originally posted by so_what:Good saying...i agree wif u tat i'm getting stronger each time when i was down..dunno y i stil forgive tos ppl who had been mean to me..does it telling i'm giving "virtue", well, coz i dun hold any grudges frm others esp my parents whose got favourism towards my siblings
Tks sinweiy, cheers 
also, tian shi bu ru di li (timing is no better than good location); di li bu ru ren he (good location is no better than human harmony/peace).
ie, human goodness can change things.
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You know why? Because you are not ignorant! Attachments/anger are rooted in ignorance. Good work... if you can take refuge in three treasures and become a Buddhist, cultivate everyday in the midst of our lives... we will still meet many things, good or bad, but gradually find that we are easily 'liberated' from them. This are small liberations... eventually we will reach Great Liberation/Enlightenment.Originally posted by so_what:Good saying...i agree wif u tat i'm getting stronger each time when i was down..dunno y i stil forgive tos ppl who had been mean to me..does it telling i'm giving "virtue", well, coz i dun hold any grudges frm others esp my parents whose got favourism towards my siblings
Tks sinweiy, cheers