Chapter 148: Averting Prophecy, Reversal
If you really don’t understand, just do one thing, don’t think about bad things, don’t say bad things, only think good and say good. This is called averting prophecy.
There is a saying called “a word becomes a prophecy,” meaning that certain predictions or words will eventually become reality. In psychology, it’s called Murphy’s Law, which states that if something can go wrong, it will, no matter how small the probability is.
Murphy’s Law refers to the energy field effect of language and behavior.
Language is believed to have energy, and everyone’s actions and words affect their own energy field.
Avoiding negative language is believed to reduce the occurrence of adverse events. This principle is reflected in the law of attraction and psychology, emphasizing positive speech and a positive mindset.
If a person knows nothing and doesn’t understand, then they should think good thoughts and speak good words, not negative ones. Over time, their energy will develop in a positive direction. This energy will influence various events in life.
It’s like a boy growing pothos, constantly saying good words and praising it. When he himself emits this beautiful and positive praise, his own energy is positive, and the plant also receives positive energy.
Scientists have studied an experiment where one pot of flowers was praised profusely, and another was cursed profusely. The experimental result was that the praised flowers thrived, while the cursed ones withered.
Let’s not dwell on the truth or falsehood of this experiment, but from various angles, we can see the influence of human positive and negative energy on the surrounding environment.
A pair of parents with short tempers who like to hit and scold, their child grows up in this environment from a young age, which will have a certain impact on him, and his personality is prone to being extreme when he grows up.
Conversely, a harmonious couple who lives every day in warmth and positivity will also influence their child. Old sayings call this verbal and behavioral example.
What is called averting prophecy is also a method, a way for people to be positive and upward-looking in life. The boy originally believed he would be fine, and after three years, he was fine, which has been verified.
For a period, the boy actually didn’t want to wake others up, because when he first woke up, there was a sense of extreme loneliness, meaning he liked quiet.
It’s not that he dislikes interacting with people, but rather because in many situations, most people are still within the established patterns.
When bad habits are strong, one is easily influenced by solidified cognitive perceptions.
For example, objectively speaking, the boy is very loyal to his friends and very good to the girls he interacts with.
This is good, right?
To reverse this, the boy was loyal to his friends, but became crippled, burdening his family and causing them worry and distress. This is considered disloyalty to his family.
Being good to the girls he interacted with, he spoiled them, affecting their self-perception, making them complacent, and having a significantly negative impact on their future outlook on life, exacerbating their “princess syndrome.”
To reverse this, this boy was sentimental and righteous. Despite such severe injuries, he comforted others. After this experience, he became even more grateful to his family, and his feelings for them deepened.
He worked hard to give all his best to the girls he interacted with, taking care of their lives. It can be said that he embodied the qualities of a good man.
To reverse again, this boy, who is so good that he seems like an idiot, swallows his own hardships, leaves the good things for others, bullies himself severely, doesn’t cherish himself enough, causing those close to him to worry. It also caused his own soul to fall into an abyss.
To reverse yet again, precisely because he is good like a big idiot, doing things like a stupid pig despite being intelligent, he broke through illusions and saw his true self, thus living as his true self. He then used this energy to influence his family, allowing them to achieve a healthy and positive state of life.
To reverse yet again, at the same time, he values life greatly, yet appears unfeeling to worldly people. He cannot bear to harm an ant. When a friend is gone, he rationally analyzes the harm that emotions cause him, choosing only to remember the good times with his friend, and not to be excessively sad because of his friend’s departure.
To reverse yet again, however, because he himself has experienced such suffering, and also feels heartache over his friend’s departure, he does not want others to suffer when they are ignorant. He wants to help many people through his own methods, allowing them to face life positively and attain a free soul.
Fun, right?
It can be infinitely reversed. As long as one can weigh the pros and cons, choose a point to magnify, then things can change arbitrarily.
That’s why cultivators see no bad things, because they don’t get fixed on any event.
Having form, and also formless; entering form and breaking form, there is no such thing as breaking or not breaking form. It can itself be formless or have form.
For such a person, when communicating with ordinary people, do you think the ordinary people in his eyes seem like flawed children?
He can’t bear to get angry with a child. When the child is immature, he wants to spank them, but he’s afraid of hurting the child’s feelings. If he doesn’t, the child still doesn’t understand things.
Hahahaha.
The boy does many things out of instinct. For example, when eating at a noodle shop, if a woman is pushing an infant down the stairs, he will immediately put down his chopsticks and go to help lift the stroller.
Seeing a child about to be hit by a car, he doesn’t even think, opens his mouth and shouts, “Child, don’t move! There’s a car!”
The child, scared, stood still and didn’t move, thus avoiding the accident. The child’s father took the child and left directly without a word of thanks, but the boy didn’t care.
Walking on the road, he sees a bottle to be discarded, but seeing an older aunt pushing a cart for collecting bottles just passed by, he will chase after her to give it to her.
Seeing people arguing and the police being called, he won’t just stand and watch the fun; he’ll glance and move on.
In a park, there’s an acrobatics performance where someone breaks a chicken leg, applies some medicinal wine, and then breaks it back, and the chicken is healed.
Then they offer it for free to the onlookers. They say it’s a family secret and not for sale, but soon they say it’s a gift, and then it’s sold for dozens of yuan a bottle, and a crowd excitedly buys it.
His gaze is clear and out of place. In his eyes, these people are like livestock being played with. He doesn’t intervene just to teach this group of people a lesson, to let them grow themselves.
This boy is both sentimental and unfeeling.
In life, he is also different from ordinary people. He and the Wang Fei went to eat rice noodles, and both ordered the tomato flavor. When the wrong order was served, he ate it normally. After telling the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper’s older sister apologized and offered to change it. He casually said, “It’s okay, haha, as long as I can eat it, no need to change it.” Then, so spicy that he drank two bottles of water, he told the shopkeeper to charge him normally. Seeing that he was a good person, the shopkeeper’s older sister initially wanted to waive the cost of the three bottles of water for him and his girlfriend. He didn’t allow it, but later when paying, at the sister’s insistence, the cost of the two bottles he drank was waived, considering them as a treat.
Is this person strange?
On the way home, he told the Wang Fei, “Some things are really not worth arguing about.” He told them the order was wrong, just in case someone else who was packing takeout received the wrong order too. He also said that when people don’t fuss over things, their energy is positive, and the shopkeeper’s sister’s energy was also positive, which is why she gave him the water for free. If it were someone with negative energy who only cared about petty gains, they wouldn’t get things done. The key to doing things lies in being a good person. If one does things well enough, they can achieve Buddhahood and attain the Dao without cultivation.
Because a sufficiently good person is the Dao itself.
