How to write a causal story after reading it?

I came across a collection of causal stories written by Mr. Wang Daoding in Qing Dynasty in a friend's bookstore. I was attracted by this fresh and concise title, and I couldn't help but take it down and sit still and read it. I'm not sure if I open it, I'll be intoxicated and can't close it. I sat in the bookstore until night fell, and the handwriting on the book was completely illegible, so I borrowed a book from my friend and went home to continue reading by candlelight. I read until midnight and finally finished reading it, but I still wanted to watch it again, but it was late at night and I felt sleepy, so I closed my book and went to sleep.

I love books, but not all books can fascinate me so much. Therefore, this book is a collection of the essence of ancient causal stories, giving people a refreshing feeling. The author must have made great efforts, so the readers can't put it down. The Book of * * * has collected 87 ancient true causal stories with different contents and wonderful plots. The scope is nothing more than the positive and negative typical stories of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, and all the stories show an eternal truth: good is rewarded with good, evil with evil, and karma goes hand in hand.

There are many stories in the book, but after reading it, the story of positive and negative causes and effects impressed me the most. The positive story is called "Ten Gold Things Changed", which is about a scholar Wang Jia who is extremely poor and often has no food for several days. When he was admitted, a fortune teller in the street told him that he would die in a car accident before the Millennium. Wang Jia was very depressed. As the probation period approached, he came to Jinling (jiangning house) together under the persuasion of several classmates. It is said that there is a local fortune teller who is surprisingly accurate in seeing good or bad luck, and people come to visit fortune-teller in an endless stream. Wang Jia and six classmates went to visit the fortune teller. The fortune teller accurately told the family background and experiences of the other five people, which surprised everyone. Seeing Wang Jia, I sighed and said, "My son will die in five days. I should go home quickly, but in my opinion, I should die on the road. Even if I leave right away, I'm afraid it's too late!" They were surprised and asked if there was any way to save them. The fortuneteller said, "Life and death are great. Without great virtue, it is not enough to return to heaven." Back to the apartment, Wang Jia said goodbye to everyone and prepared to return to the village. A well-off and generous classmate took pity on him, rented a boat for him, gave him the passage fee and gave him ten gold for emergency. After walking more than ten miles on the Yangtze River, I tied my boat to the shore and waited, because the wind was too strong to go any further. Seeing that the five-day deadline is approaching, the ship still can't go, and the language of "dying on the road" seems to have come true. Wang Jia, bent on waiting for death, wandered ashore empty. Suddenly I saw a middle-aged woman with three children walking to the water's edge, holding one in her left hand, pulling one in her right hand, followed by one, crying while walking, and passed Wang Jia miserably. After a dozen paces, Wang Jia hurried to catch up with the two women and asked her why she was crying. Women ignore it. Wang Jia followed, and the woman turned to scold. Wang Jia asked eagerly, "If you are really in trouble, please tell me, maybe I can help!" " The woman had no choice but to say, "I unfortunately married a butcher." I am very violent, and I am often beaten and scolded. Before going out today, he told me that my two pigs sold for ten gold. Later, someone came to buy it, and sure enough, he got ten gold. After the pig buyer left, my neighbor came to my house to see the silver and said it was fake silver. I chased out to find the pig buyer, and it was gone. Take it to the silver shop for inspection and say it is copper. I've been there a few times and they all say it's copper. I think my husband will kill me when he comes back after this big deception. It's death anyway. It is better to die in the water than to die by the whip. All three children were born to me, and both mother and son died together to prevent them from being poisoned and whipped by that bad father. Wang Jia felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. He wanted to see silver, but it turned out to be copper. At this time, the money given by my classmates happened to be in my sleeve, thinking that I was dying. What's the use of asking for this money? So when the woman was not looking, she quietly changed the money in her sleeve and said to her, "You almost made a big mistake! This is real silver, how can it be copper? " The woman didn't believe it, and Wang Jia immediately asked to go to the silver shop for inspection. She went several times in a row and said it was real silver. The woman was overjoyed and said, "Fortunately, I met my husband, otherwise I almost made a big mistake!" " "Took the money and kowtowed.

The wind of the Yangtze River is still blowing, and Wang Jia is still alive five days later. When he returned to Jinling, his classmates took him back to find the fortune teller and wanted to laugh at the fortune teller's nonsense. When the fortune teller saw Wang Jia, he was talking to someone else. He looked at it carefully and said with a smile, "Mr. Wang will not die now. He must win the first place in the scientific examination this year!" " Next year, Lian Jie will join the Hanlin Academy and be awarded a prize, and his life expectancy will increase to 80! "Wang Jia laughed." Mr. Wang's words are inconsistent, just to cover up your inaccurate physiognomy. " The fortune teller said, "It's not that my physiognomy is not accurate, but that you must have done something extraordinary these days and saved several lives, so you can preserve the power of nature." Wang Jia thought, if the ten gold I gave that woman can really save several lives, it is also my classmate's credit, because he gave the money, what does it have to do with me? In this year's scientific research, Wang Jia and the classmate who funded him really won the championship. The following year, they joined the Hanlin Academy together and were rewarded with longevity.

After reading the story, I felt a lot. Looking around the world, there are indeed many well-intentioned people who are often willing to help the poor and even save people from the quagmire. However, when doing good deeds, I don't really want to be willing, ask for nothing in return, and even say to others, "I brought this to you." Afterwards, I often miss it in my heart. When you meet someone you have helped, you feel proud of yourself in vain, and even complain that the other person is not grateful. What's more, some people do good deeds in order to win everyone's praise and win a reputation as a "great man". If they do something good, they will publicize it and tell each other for fear that no one in the world will know. Although they have done good deeds, they have not finished all these things because of their unclean hearts. Wang Jia did a good deed and gave ten gold. Although it was not much, he was willing and asked for nothing in return. He didn't even let the other party know, and he didn't take credit afterwards. He also attributed the credit to others. In the dark, he accumulated great virtues, and God's reward for him is naturally rich. To do good and give alms, you must have the mind of a king. Before you see yourself giving, you can't see the property you give. After that, you can't see the people you help, such as white clouds floating across the clear sky. Although it once gave people a sense of beauty, it left no trace. As the Diamond Sutra says, "Bodhisattva can't live and give, and can't think about its blessings."

The negative story is called "Stepmother Killed the Child", which is about a man who left a son after his wife died. It is inherently sinister for a man to marry another wife. After his wife gave birth to a son, the man died. Before his death, he admitted to sharing his property equally with his two sons. After the death of a man, his later wife was full of evil thoughts and reckless, treating her ex-wife's son as a slave, and treating her clothes and diet separately from her own son, which was extremely abusive. When his ex-wife's son reached the age of 14 or 15, he went to work in the town bank, and all his salary was given to his stepmother, but her stepmother still harbored evil thoughts. One day, my stepmother steamed rice cakes and asked my parents to go to the store and ask my eldest son to come back to eat. I heard that there was a rice cake, and my parents sneaked into the kitchen to steal it. I didn't expect to foam at the mouth and die of poisoning just after eating it. It turned out that the stepmother poisoned the rice cake and tried to poison his ex-wife's son. I didn't expect to harm others and myself, but in the end she killed her son.

After reading the story, I feel heavy. Such a stepmother should regret it for life, right? The world is big, the son is unfilial, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not harmonious, and the stepmother harms her son. It has become as common as fallen leaves in the street. All this is because people don't believe in cause and effect. If the world gains wealth, if it is not the right way, it will be fierce, not only retained, but also accompanied by fierce disasters; The whole world has evil thoughts, or secretly harms others, but they don't know that harming others will eventually harm themselves. If all the mothers in the world are kind, kind and gentle, treat their ex-wife's children as their own, and even treat all the children in the world as their own, and have such a broad mind, even if your food and clothing do not benefit all the children in the world, you have already forged a beautiful relationship in your heart. Kind seeds are like flowers. Whether they bear fruit or not, people will feel their fragrance overflowing.

After reading the whole article, I can't help but marvel at Mr. Wang Daoding's well-intentioned book. His understanding of the cause and effect of good and evil, and his exhortation to all sentient beings, all focus on the word "sitting on flowers and harvesting fruits". The metaphor behind it is silent cultivation. As the saying goes, "As you sow, so you reap", God is fair to everyone, and everything is a complicated cause without exception. Buddha said: Everything is blessed and never leaves. Our hearts are empty, and good and evil are up to us. Planting flowers is a cause, and harvesting is a result. A good idea is to plant a flower in our hearts. After being nourished by sunshine, air, soil and water, it will bear fruit and we can enjoy it ourselves. Even if the flowers will not bear fruit, our hearts will become infinitely happy and fragrant because of the fragrance of flowers. When planting flowers, you can "just ask about cultivation, don't ask about harvest", and you don't have to force the harvest of fruits. Isn't it a harvest to relax yourself and forget your troubles in the process of planting flowers? That kind of calmness and joy should be very similar to Mr. Tao Yuanming's mood when he "picked chrysanthemums under the hedge and saw Nanshan leisurely"

If we can be kind, say good words, do good deeds and be good people everywhere in our daily life, it is to plant flowers in our hearts every day. A good thought is a flower, and an evil thought is a thorn. There are many kinds of flowers, and the garden of the heart is colorful and fragrant, and even sweet fruits can be harvested unconsciously; There are many kinds of thorns, which not only hinder their progress, but also stab themselves in the end. Speaking of planting flowers, I suddenly remembered a little thing my sister told me recently. One day, my sister went to a unit to do business. She doesn't know where to go because there are no familiar people. She ran up and down several times and was about to get off work. She was sweating with anxiety. Just when she was in a hurry, a young girl came up with a big smile on her face, called her sister's name kindly, took her to the office, made her tea, and then took care of her sister and did whatever she wanted. My sister is very grateful and keeps thanking the girl. Then she asked curiously, "We are strangers. Why do you not only know my name, but also be so enthusiastic about me? " The girl said in surprise, "Oh, you don't remember me?" I went to the hospital alone last winter, cold and hungry. You lent me your hot water bottle to cover your hands and helped me buy food in the canteen! "Sister just vaguely remember, as if there really is such a thing. My sister said that she forgot it when she was so young, but others remembered that she was helped inexplicably when she needed help. Just like sowing a seed casually, it blooms and bears fruit inadvertently. A small act of kindness you happen to do can get such a good return, let alone do more good deeds with good thoughts.

Doing good and accumulating virtue is like planting flowers, following the fate without climbing. I saw a short story on the Internet, which was quite touching. A young man heard that doing good will pay off, so he wanted to do good every day, but he didn't feel that he met anyone who could help. One day when I was on the subway, I saw a girl carrying a big bag. She smiled and said that she would help the girl with the bag. The girl said warily, "No, I'll take it myself." The young man insisted again and again, and even reached out to grab the girl's big bag. While grasping, he said, "I am a good man. If you want to do good, I will help you! " Who knows that the girl was frightened and immediately took out her mobile phone and called the police. As a result, the young man "did something good" to the public security bureau. I don't think this young man's original intention is bad. It is good to have good thoughts, but just because he doesn't understand fate, he is self-defeating. In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are many ways to be good in life. What I am afraid of is that there is no heart to be good. It's too big to save a life, but too small to lead the way and give up your seat. There are too many good deeds to do. You don't have to be Jia to do good and accumulate virtue. You have to pay for doing good. The poor can also do good, because besides money, there are seven kinds of giving, such as heart, face, eyes and words. I often have good ideas, smiles on my face, kind eyes and gentle words. I see people's gains as all I have, and people's losses as my losses. I give them a warm smile or a word of encouragement and comfort. These donations can also be used to plant Futian at no cost.

The ancients said, when you move your mind, your fortune will be fixed, let alone executed. I believe that in life, the mind will always be with us. Our kindness is like planting a fragrant and beautiful flower, let us walk among the flowers and enjoy the happy fruit; Evil thoughts and actions are like sharp thorns. When one day your heart is full of thorns, you will find yourself unable to move and scarred. Since planting flowers is so good, why not plant flowers along with the fate?