In the activities of the Outward Bound company, the coach will often tell everyone a story that warns us to think carefully and weigh the pros and cons before doing something, and it's not too late to implement after making the right judgment. In the Qing Dynasty novel "Jing Hua Yuan", there was such a description: "The virtue or vice of the world's evil children, isolated ministers, righteous husbands, and chaste women often lies in one thought." Just because of this one thought, people make mistakes and end up in jail. But in our real life, many people always say this when they repent: I only regret my one thought at that time.... But have you ever thought carefully? Is this really just one thought? Actually no, "a three-foot ice does not form in one day," one thought is just the surface phenomenon, because before this one thought, you already had many "one thoughts" in your heart, sometimes knowing it's wrong but still indulging yourself, like running a red light, quantitative changes accumulate to cause qualitative changes, and eventually an accident happens. There is an ancient Chinese saying: "stealing needles as a child, stealing gold as an adult," which means the principle of habit becoming natural. Like the rise and fall of tides, the cycle of day and night, any thing has a good side and a bad side, including your brain. There is an angel and a devil living in your brain, they are constantly having fierce battles. You need to fight shoulder to shoulder with the angel to prevent the devil from occupying your spiritual territory. But if you are weak-willed, you will fall into the devil's strategy, and in the face of the devil's attack and contamination, you can only "yield due to one thought," and be easily defeated. This is the duality of the spirit, both practical and dangerous. You must understand the spirit, just as an electrician understands electricity. If you can reasonably control and use this invisible force, making it serve our happiness and comfort, illuminating our entire world. But if you don't understand it, can't control it, intentionally or unintentionally violate the rules, and touch the live wire without insulation, the consequence may be destruction. For many people, their suffering comes from this. You must always remind yourself to stay consistent with the laws of the spiritual world, and the premise is that you must understand what these laws are, otherwise you cannot remain consistent with the compliant laws.
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