White Sun – Personality & Fate
Different personalities bring us different kinds of result and as a general rule; pleasant and humble personality will definitely give better result. Fate changes if we change our personality. A simple example is a neat haircut can bring better luck than one who keeps long hair for a man. He will definitely stand a better chance to get the job if he is going for an interview while his other qualities remain.
The situations we encounter influence our mental thoughts. Our mind responds to the situation we encounter and can change our mental activities, that is, our perspectives, attitudes, our ways of acting, speaking and thinking and most people will feel uncomfortable in a tense situation.
How do personalities affect our fate? The people we meet always have an impression on us and likewise we have on them. For example, some are humble while some are proud. What do you except their fate to be if they are proud? For those that are humble, their chances are always better in many ways to have a better fate and life. If one is rich, smart and humble, he will always have the respect from people and find himself surrounded with cooperative staff. People will be pleased and willing to work for him as compared with a boss who is bossy and proudly smoking cigar in the office.
Humble people usually will find themselves easier to accept other people’s opinion or criticism. They can benefit from these opinions and criticisms by transforming them into wisdom and experience. Proud people are difficult and not easily willing to accept other people’s suggestions and most likely will feel unhappy and reject them even if they are good. Our situation is actually determined by our own personalities. Who would want to give valuable suggestions to people who thought that they are the best in the world? It is only when we are green and humble that we learn and not when we are ripe and rotting.
Suppose there are two groups of people with different categories of personalities: one is negative and the other positive. The negative one will have characteristics such as critical, jealous, arrogant, selfish and lazy. These people most likely will be irresponsible and careless in their words and actions. The other category of positive personalities would most likely exhibit characteristics such as appreciating others’ success, being encouraging, humble, generous, open-minded, responsible, cool, calm, peaceful, caring and optimistic about life. We can imagine the kind of situations these two groups of people will face in their lives. For the negative group, they would probably have obstacles in their interpersonal relationships. They would become isolated and lonely.
People who are lazy will hesitate to take action and people who are careless will most likely make many mistakes. Their future conditions and fate can be anticipated to be cloudy, dark and unpleasant results. On the other hand for those who are positive, encouraging, willing to take action, thoughtful, courteous, persistent and hardworking will most likely have success in life. Different personalities indeed affect the fate and bring different results to people. ‘Luck’ is actually the functioning of many other unknown factors and we cannot expect to have success throughout our life. Good personalities definitely play a very important part. People can change and if one is willing to change, then the most arrogant person can become the most humble.
Failure can have a positive meaning to us if we can learn from it and understand why we did not succeed. Before Edison invented the light bulb, he had tried hundreds of different materials and he failed more than nine hundred times. It is very discouraging to have failures, however, he thought of every failure as a precious experience. His positive attitude consoled him that he had found one more material that is not suitable for the filament. After hundreds of failures he finally found that tungsten was the best material for the bulb. He changed the fate of his experiment because he had the awakening wisdom to continue and great positive desire to brighten up the world.
This is the advice from my Heavenly Teacher JiGong:
“With whole-heartedness and one-mindedness, take the ancient saints and sages as your model; take the Old Grand Master (Maitreya Buddha) as the model. Take the Teacher’s aspiration as your aspiration. Take the heart of Heaven as your heart and learn from the virtuous nature of saints and sages. It doesn’t matter if you walk or run. As long as you keep moving, there is surely an outcome in the end. Fear not being slow, but do fear standing and keeping still. The worst is turning back. This is like the running race between the tortoise and the rabbit where the tortoise won in the end. Therefore, as long as your goal and aspiration does not change, there would surely be an outcome in the end.”
We can learn from this saying and change our personalities if we have not developed a positive one. Everyone can change and it is not too late to do so. With good personalities, we are bound to change our fate and there would surely be an outcome in the end. Do not let fate determine our life but let our good personalities determine our fate.
Author: T.A Chew
T.A Chew bumped into an old friend after at least 15 years of not seeing each other. The first impression from his friend was, you have changed tremendously (in the positive manner). By looking at his own photographs between his younger days and now, his personality has changed and also his fate. It must be the cultivation of Tao and positive attitude of humbling himself. Website: http://www.white-sun.com
