Reference of Soul(2)
In fatology, there is often a saying of “getting noble person”. From my understanding, so called “noble person” is not people in power, not rich people, but is the person who can affect your whole life. Certainly, this influence is more affect soul. Because the fate is determined by heart. Kind heart leads to happy fate, evil heart leads to dangerous fate. Small hearts leading to general, benefiting heart leading to Bodhisattva, greed harming others leading to small guy, rolling hearts contributing to moving travelers, heart that preferred living alone contribute to hermit. So the trace of fate is not out of heart. Therefore, in your life, if you have persons who can change your heart, letting you leave bed interest toward kindness getting happy, this person is the “noble person” in your fate. You should cherish.
Buddhism Son Action 37 Poems has similar saying:
“Companying him make evil disappear, merit increase like moon
Important than oneself, depending on kind knowledge Buddhism son Acts“
Taking refuge to Jianggong Guru, I was working in the education committee of Wuwei city, always dipping into busy stuff, although reflecting frequently, the dirty things often attach me, annoying my heart. I wrote my life before I met Jianggong Guru in my Lieyuan:
That period of life is very harsh. To get up at 3 AM, I drank lots of water at night, bore piss and then got up, because the sound of alarm could not wake up me anymore. I did not want to develop, did not want to make article, and I only want to practice writing. There were no interesting or colorful things in my life. Only loneness companied me. I had no friends nearby who could discuss with me, no director who I could ask for. There were long darkness in my heart and no light of hope.
To avoid disturbing, I refused chances of making money again and again, so I became very poor and often had no money with me. Sometimes, I searched for old newspapers everywhere to exchange money for a meal. I did not have my house to live, I did not have own space to write. Some members of my family crowed into a dorm about 10 squaremeters. At night, we slept in a single bed, with two in one direction, and one in another direction. I had very busy and ordinary work which did not have many connections with outside. I was most afraid that I became a “wolf child”. Because there is lots of literature friends who thought themselves extraordinary and lost themselves without realizing that. They became a busy and ordinary cell, and were satisfied with temporary benefit. To avoid to be assimilated by environment, I kept beard to warn myself. At the same time, I saved money to buy books. I understood, only reading a lot can make me overcome the closed environment, and avoid being assimilated.