There is no way for misfortunes and blessings, but people call it upon themselves, and the rewards of good and evil follow them like a shadow. Good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds will be rewarded with evil deeds; it’s not that they are not repaid, the time has not yet come. If you want to avoid blessings and avoid disasters, you must have good thoughts and always do good deeds. The following ten things can best accumulate virtue. Do them more and blessings will follow.
1. Loyalty, filial piety and friendship
Loyalty means loyalty and treating others sincerely; Filial piety means being filial and being filial to your parents; Friendship means being friendly, being kind to others and treating others with integrity; Brotherhood means brotherly respect, brothers love and care for their younger brothers, and younger brothers respect their elder brothers.
2. Compassion for the widowed
Everyone has a heart of compassion. This is human nature. To pity and care for the vulnerable groups, those who are helpless, and to help them with all your heart, is to follow the way, and helping others is helping. People help themselves.
3. Be kind to others
In every word and deed in daily life, you should not just think about yourself. You should think about driving everyone to do good together and form a good social atmosphere.
In life, don’t use your own strengths to cover up others, don’t use your own good deeds to describe the bad deeds of others, and don’t belittle the incompetence of others just because you are capable. We should be more tolerant of other people's faults, restrain our talents, and be indifferent.
4. The Beauty of Adults
Since there are relatively few good people in society and more bad people, a few people who do good things will be attacked and destroyed by the majority of people who do not do good things. Therefore, when you see a good person doing good deeds, you should support him and encourage him more, so that he will be more motivated to do good deeds.
5. Saving people in critical situations
In life, everyone will inevitably encounter disasters. When you see someone else encountering misfortune, you should rush to rescue him or find ways to help him out of danger just as you would if you were in misfortune. The kindness to others is not big or small, the key is to be able to relieve others' emergencies.
6. Giving up money for blessings
In all Buddhist practices, giving comes first. The so-called giving is nothing more than the word "giving up". The ancients talked about "giving up", and only by giving up can you get something. The world attaches great importance to money, so we start by donating money. Internally, we can break our greed, and externally, we can help others through emergencies. When giving alms, although it may be a little reluctant at first, over time, you will gradually develop a habit.
7. Cherish the lives of animals
Mencius said: "The gentleman is far away from the kitchen." The gentleman in ancient times could not bear to see or hear the scene of animals being slaughtered and cooked out of compassion, so he could not even bear to go into the kitchen.
All animals have life and a sense of survival. Like people, they also want to live but are afraid of death, so we should love and protect them. It is best to be vegetarian, abstain from killing, and release animals. This is a matter of immeasurable merit.
8. Sympathy for others
When bad things happen to other people’s families, we should pity them and help comfort them instead of taking pleasure in others’ misfortunes. When others do bad things, you should try your best to persuade them to correct themselves, lest they go further down the wrong path.
9. Push more and take less
When dividing money or benefits, give the more to others and keep the less to yourself, so that you will not cause trouble.
10. Don’t expose others’ shortcomings
If you discover other people’s shortcomings or other people’s privacy, you should keep it secret and help them hide it. Don’t publicize it everywhere. This is a sign of kindness.
