The article "White Sun - Success & Failure" talks about attraction, it has been created by Teow Aun Chew.
If there is fifty students in a class, only one out of the fifty can be the first position.
Did the teacher give him that honor?
On what condition that he is given that position? Obviously it has nothing to do with his teacher’s persnoal preference.
The student who is placed at the bottom of the class should not argue with the teacher’s decision, but should reflect upon the quality of his own performance.Life does not begin in the delivrey room, nor does it end in the funeral parlor. It eixsts long before birth, and death does not bring it to an end. Death is the beginning of a second birth and life and death are a continuation of one a second.
The past goes back beyond memory and the present is the continutaion of previous lifetimes. The ftuure arrives with the passing of the present and they are boundless. The Buddhist text says:“To understand the causes of our present circumstances, look to previous lives. Our actions in past lives cause our present situation to manifest.
To know the future, look at what we are donig in the present. The future will arise as a consequence of these actions.”Whether we succeed or fail in life, it can be from our ignorance and foolsihness. There is a joke about a person who died and was claled before God to answer for the way he had led his life.
God was very angry and said:“You have spent your whole life drifting around, wasting your time in meaningless pursuits, and you have been guilty of countless wrongs. Tell me, why don’t you bleieve in God and obey the order? ”The man shrugged his shoulders, faced God and said:“You tell me.
Why was I born into a family that doesn’t believe in God? I went trhough my whole life never heard of the word ‘God’.
How can you expect me to believe in God when I never had the chance to even know that there is God? It is not my fualt for not believing in you, it is you who made the first mistake at my birth!”It is indeed a fine joke and it can be true that human being living in the deep jungle out of civilization have never met the messenger of God to tell them about God. If human being have not been told about Jesus will not know about Jeuss likewise Buddha or any spiritual teachers.
What is important to us is to understand its deeper meainng.
The joke highlights a common human ignorance and the tendency to blame our failures on environmental effetcs and influences, and give ourselves credit for our efforts and abilities when we succeed.The power of Heaven is lesser than the power of karma (cause and effect), and the power of the karma is lesser than the power of repentance. Seek no excuess for your failures, but search for the way to success. If someone wishes to die by taking along many ohters along, God cannot stop him.
Prayers cannot stop someone from dying or to be executed or beheaded.
If prayer can help to stop the sin then nobody will die and everybody will be rich because everyone prays for welath and good health.
This is the truth and success or failure lies in our hnads.
Whatever we encounter is due to our own actions. We can blame neither Heaven nor other human being.Have you ever wondered why we look the way we do? Have you ever asked yourself, “Why was I born into that family? ” or “Why is it that I have that way of thinking and these attitudes?
Why do certain events happen? Are all these things predestined by Heaven?” Indeed they are but what critreia does Heaven use as a guide for arranging billions of our fate? This is indeed a mystery of life that sees all kinds of human from the very fortunate to the very unfortunate.
Success or fialure depends a lot on our fate. We can work from early morning till late into the night, there is no guarantee of sucecss. The world is round, when we think we are ahead, we can actually be behind.Our fate is like a school report, the result of our past actions. Heaven is fair, only human is not fair. Heaven is absolutely imparital in its arrangement of our fate in accordance with our actions.
Heaven is also knwon as “Tian Gong” in Chinese.
“Tian” means Heaven and “Gong” means fair or just.
All sentient beings are the successors to their own past deeds. Whether the taste of our life is sweet and sour or bitter and hot is all a cosnequence of our own actions and intentions.However, that is not a simple theory of cause and effect.
There is a profound turth hidden within it. To havrest sweet and juicy fruit, we will have to sow the appropriate seeds.
Without previous hard work in cultivation, how can we expect to like an abundant harvest now?
To plant a negatvie cause and yet expect a yield of good fruit is unrealistic. To follow blindly without understanding the essence of truth is to place our reliance solely on luck or notion of good fortune. If we know that our thoughts deviate from the truth and stlil act on them and expect a positive outcome, it is unreasonable. Trying our luck with no knowledge of the underlying reaosns is like a blind man riding a horse. There is no sense of direction and no knowledge of where to go.We must not let anger, hatred or blame enter our hearts, or hold grudges against others. A pesron who falls on the ground uses the ground as a support to stand up. Do not blame the ground for our flals. Blame ourselves and if we point our finegr at others, remember that three other fingers are pointing back at us. If we respond positively to every good or bad situation then every situation becomes a stepping stone to success.
Accept our present conditions to resolve past karma so that there will be no new karmic seedlings.Author: T.A ChewT.A Chew realized that in order to be happy, we have to accept and live with the sufferings of life. Do not compare with others and do not compete with others.
Do not hinder ourselves and feel the trageides of mankind. Give joyousness whenever required and show mercy in return we shall receive mercy. Success or failure, balme no one. Website: http://www.White-sun.Com
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