Uncovering secret causality in Life

More than ten years ago, an old lady from our neighboring village won a lottery prize of 200000 yuan in the county town. You can imagine the joy this windfall brought to her. At that time, 200000 in rural areas was simply an astronomical number.

Who knows that soon after, joy begets sorrow. If the money is taken back, the children will have to distribute it, and relatives also want to get some credit, so there is a problem with the distribution method. Each son has his own reason to take more and less, and the daughter also struggles for distribution rights. Relatives cannot force it, but there are many people borrowing money for various reasons. Whether they plan to repay it or not, only heaven knows - after all, it is windfall. In the end, all the money was divided, and all the children and relatives were offended, leaving the old lady alone. Children and relatives have also become enemies with each other due to property disputes.

Money could have solved many of our problems and brought many conveniences to life, but the mindset towards wealth is not right, and wealth may not necessarily bring happiness. Modern people rarely encounter a peaceful and prosperous era. Many people have become wealthy, but do they live happier lives? I can't see it. In fact, below the subsistence line, wealth has a significant impact on happiness; But once it exceeds the subsistence line, the level of happiness has little to do with wealth.

I know a girl who is the only child of her parents and dotes on her like a beloved baby. She has money at home and her father works in a business with a monthly income of tens of millions. Studying in the United States herself is a princess like blessing. But she lived very lonely and depressed both at home and abroad, and had an unhappy day. When we talked to her, her world was gray and devastated.

So how should we face life? This requires contentment. With contentment, with little gain, there is joy; Without gains, one will still be satisfied with everything they have. If one can face the world with this heart, it will reduce many troubles and add a lot of happiness. A simple bowl of food, a gourd of drink, in the humble alleys, people cannot bear their worries, and they will not change their happiness even after returning. This is the difference in mentality.

If the children in the above example have a sense of contentment and face the pie falling from the sky, how much joy should it be? If that wealthy princess knows how to be satisfied with everything she has, what kind of blessing is she? When one's mentality changes, the joys and sorrows change accordingly. All laws arise from the heart, and everything arises from the heart.

Remembrance: Friends who believe in religion believe in a perfect heaven. There is no perfection in the world, and happiness is relative to misfortune. To eliminate misfortune is to eliminate happiness itself. You feel happy because you are better than yesterday, or because the whole village is hungry and your family has rice husks to eat, you have a tattered cotton jacket and your disliked Chen Laosan is shivering in the cold wind wearing a single coat. Happiness and misfortune are also interdependent. As the saying goes, only those who are satisfied can have long-term happiness. Contentment is a state of mind, as well as an open-minded sentiment. Contentment is not about getting more, but about caring less; Not having too much, but complaining too little.