Historical Story: Fortune-telling is not as good as Xiu De.

There is a fable in "Zhuangzi Foreign Things", which tells the story of Song and white turtle. Finally, Confucius was invited to comment:

In the middle of the night, Song dreamed that someone had long hair and peeped at the side door, saying, "I came from an abyss called Zhalu. I was sent to Hebo by the God of Qingjiang, but I was caught by a fisherman named Zhalu." When Yuan Jun woke up, he called someone to predict the dream. The fortune teller said, "This is a turtle." Yuan Jun said, "Is there a fisherman named Yu Qi here?" People around you said, "Yes." Yuan Jun said, "Let him come to see me." The next day, I entered the DPRK. Yuan Jun asked, "What did you catch?" Yu Qi said, "I caught a white turtle with a diameter of five feet." Yuan Jun said, "Give me the turtle you caught."

After the white sea turtle was presented, Yuan Jun wanted to kill it and raise it. He hesitated and called for divination. The fortune teller said, "It's lucky to kill a turtle for divination." Therefore, Yuan Jun ordered people to dig turtle meat and use tortoise shells for divination. Seventy-two times, not a single mistake.

When Confucius heard this, he said, "The tortoise can give Song a dream, but it can't hide from the fishing net. Its intelligence and wisdom can accurately divine seventy-two times, but it can't avoid the scourge of digging meat. In this way, when the ingenuity is exhausted, the mystery is not as good. Even with the highest ingenuity, ten thousand murders are inevitable ... "

In Confucius' comments, what makes people feel scared is the phrase "although there is knowledge, people are looking for it" in martial arts novels. No one can deal with the sea tactics of Wulin League alone. No matter how smart a person is, "no matter how smart a person is, he may worry and lose", not to mention that 10 thousand people will deal with you together. If you want to avoid such a disaster, you obviously need great intelligence.

The so-called great wisdom and great intelligence at least come from improving one's self-cultivation. "Zhuangzi Xu Wugui" records the story of a clever monkey, which can be used for reference:

Wu Wang and his party crossed the Yangtze River and climbed a Monkey Mountain. When the monkeys saw people coming, they all ran away in panic and fled to the jungle. At this time, there was a monkey, calmly climbing branches and jumping, showing off his dexterity in front of the king of Wu. The king of Wu shot it, and it quickly caught the arrow. The king of Wu ordered the left and right sergeants to shoot several arrows quickly together, and it fell from the tree and died. The king of Wu turned to his friend Yan and said, "This monkey thinks he is smart, and he looks down on me with his agility. That's why he ended up like this. Take a warning! Don't judge a book by its cover! " Yan worship as a teacher, get rid of pride, abandon pleasure and decline glory. Three years later, people praised him.

The monkey in the above story is really capable, but he died because of being shot by an arrow. Monkeys are smart, but what about people? What the prince of Wu finally said to Yan was obviously a warning. Yan immediately decided to give up his proud attitude and go to learn from the teacher to repair the chain.

In ancient countries, there were fortune tellers who were in charge of divination. One of the methods of divination is to use Zhouyi for divination. The Book of Changes uses 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams to express all kinds of complicated situations in the world, and writes down the words of hexagrams and hexagrams for each hexagram and hexagram to express its good fortune and regret. This divination system has its efficacy, but its principle is to emphasize the importance of Xiu De. The reason is: there are gains and losses if you want; There are gains and losses, and there will be good and bad luck. If you reduce your desire, you can dispel your feelings of gain and loss, and then you will not be subject to the theory of good or ill luck. "

For example, "stop slandering like self-study" is a good sentence. When self-cultivation reaches a certain level, adversity will naturally be turned into luck, just as the hexagram of "modesty" stands for modesty, and its six hexagrams are "unfavorable to luck". On the other hand, if you don't have any self-cultivation, you will inevitably attract other people's plots and hostility, and your fate will be unimaginable at this time.