Liaofan's Four Lessons

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Liao-Fan's Four Lessons (Chinese: 了凡四訓) is a book written by Yuan Liaofan (Chinese: 袁了凡; 1533–1606), was a Chinese official during the Ming Dynasty, born in present-day Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province. Yuan wrote the book to teach his son, Yuan Tian-Chi. The principal idea behind these lessons is that destiny can be changed through proper cultivation of kindness and humility. Thus, one should not be bound by fate, but by one's own actions. Yuan Liaofan was told by a Kong a Taoist monk, that he would only live to the age of 53 and would have no son. At first, he disregarded this monk's words as farcical nonsense, but as Kong's other predictions began to occur with great accuracy, he then proactively made an effort to rewrite his fate. In relating his own life experiences, Yuan at the age of 69, through his efforts was able to change his destiny therefore wrote and taught these four lessons to his son that through fate was never ment to be. The first lesson shows how to create destiny. The second lesson explains the ways to reform. The third reveals the ways to cultivate kindness and the fourth discloses the benefits of the virtue of humility. This book is still in circulation today, after more than 400 years, and is studied as a foundational text in learning both Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism.

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