Indeed, after conversion, most lay people enjoyed the legal benefits and really felt the ubiquitous blessing of Buddha and Bodhisattva. The career on the verge of bankruptcy has come back to life, and the marriage that is about to break up has also been healed. Even the patient who was sentenced to death by the doctor miraculously recovered. The conversion of these people has influenced many people to believe in Buddhism and convert to the Three Treasures. These living induction cases have also broken the confusion in many people's hearts, and years of materialistic atheism have also been broken.
However, just like the question of the layman above, there are also some believers whose lives were originally smooth sailing. After reading some Buddhist books and listening to the persuasion of some kind-hearted Buddhist friends, I am willing to convert to Sambo, but I can't do business, my body is sick and painful, and my family and friends also make irresponsible remarks. They originally wanted to enlighten their wisdom from Buddhism, but the more they learned, the more confused they became.
I want to say to you: in fact, this is also a blessing of three treasures! Everyone's karma is different, and so are their karma. Some people have no worries about food and clothing for the first half of their lives and are proud of the spring breeze. This was originally the result of doing good deeds in your last life, but as long as a person is an ordinary person, it is impossible for you to do good deeds without creating bad karma in your last life! Therefore, when you enjoy all the blessings of the first half of your life, it is time for you to have a catastrophe and bad luck! This is why there are so many jealous talents in the world! So many talents in Jiang Lang have dried up! Only so many people lost their lives!
If you were so proud of the spring breeze before you converted, and squandered your money by eating, drinking and gambling before you converted, instead of giving alms to support and accumulating virtue to do good deeds, then maybe you will continue to enjoy the scenery for a while, which is what Confucianism said: If God wants to clean up a wicked person, he must enjoy all the blessings first! Therefore, we can see that many wicked people with ulterior motives were particularly prosperous before they were unlucky, and many corrupt officials were extremely prosperous before they were double-checked. That's why his enemies and creditors moved all his remaining blessings to clean him up. Only by fully enjoying their blessings can we drag him into the three evils and take revenge!
If you are such a person, think about it, you suddenly converted, started to do good, and have returned to goodness, then the Buddha and Bodhisattva will surely bless you! How to bless? One is please don't squander the few blessings left! So you will suddenly feel unlucky, and when you do good deeds, Buddha and Bodhisattva will bless you and help you eliminate all kinds of evil deeds made in the past! How to get rid of your bad karma? The most direct way is to make you suffer!
So you will feel that after you convert, you are not only unlucky, but also often suffering from three diseases and two pains. Your relatives and friends also began to misunderstand you for no reason, and even lost money for no reason and were cheated. In this case, we should understand that this is the blessing of Buddha and Bodhisattva, and be grateful for the three treasures! We have done so many things that we are sorry for others in the past, and now we are bullied, misunderstood and cheated. This is debt repayment! It's the industry! So, face it calmly! When we can face it calmly, that is, when we practice humiliation, among the six bodhisattvas, humiliation ranks above giving and keeping precepts, and the merits of humiliation far exceed giving and keeping precepts! Using all the gold, silver and jewels in the world to support the three treasures, and even accepting the big and small riding precepts formulated by the Buddha without any offense, such merits are far less than your merits of being indifferent to honor and disgrace! Therefore, Buddhists have the inculcation that "one thought is angry, and nine deaths will burn for life"!
The fate of life is like a parabola. The best time is the beginning of your decline, and the worst time is the darkness before dawn! Stick to your teeth, it will be bright soon, it's sunny! Therefore, don't be afraid of setbacks, don't give up easily, as long as you have a clear conscience, as long as you don't do anything wrong, as long as you do things with your heart, naturally, "God helps those who help themselves!" "Could it be very Thai! There will definitely be a turn for the better!
Some people say: at my age, is there still a chance to make a comeback? I said: Jiang Taigong met King Wen in the 1980s, as well as the ups and downs in Deng Xiaoping. In his later years, he can still fight against Kun! Which hero didn't come out of suffering? Which sword was not forged repeatedly in the fire? The key is whether you have confidence!
Others said: I just want to have a smooth life and don't want to go through so many difficulties. Hey! This is an idiotic dream! How can there always be a smooth road in the world? That's the nature. Where there is an uphill slope, there is a ridge, where there is a mountain, there is a plain, and where there is a canyon, there is a lake. What if the earth is plain and the flood comes? What should I do if the typhoon and tsunami come? Nowhere to hide! If there is only daytime, it won't be long before the earth will be scorched by the scorching sun! If there is only night, the whole earth will be as ice and snow as the Antarctic and the North Pole! Therefore, it is precisely because of the alpine plains, the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the day and night that the world is full of vitality and colorful! If it's all the same, it's like our electrocardiogram. When it becomes a straight line, it will also declare the death of life!
I remember a philosopher said: the hardships of youth are precious wealth of life, too smooth when you are young, too sad when you are down and out in your later years! Children who are successful when they are young will either be exhausted in Jiang Lang when they grow up, or they will be jealous of talents and die young. There are too many examples of this since ancient times. How many of those prodigies in China Youth University of Science and Technology can make a difference when they grow up? However, those children who were not so optimistic when they were young, even some silly children, have many excellent talents when they grow up. Einstein, Bill Gates, Chen Jingrun and so on are all living examples.
Suffering is the wealth of young people. Young people can get up when they fall, but old people may not get up when they fall. So, if you are young and you are suffering, don't give up. I believe that Sambo is blessed. No matter the career in the world or the innate practice, you will go up a storey still higher after the baptism of suffering!