Abstain from greed for love.

A friend has been trading stocks for several years, and he has accumulated profound experience and lessons in the market. He himself often publishes some opinions about the stock market in some economic newspapers and periodicals, which is not only clear-cut, but also a lot of beginners in the stock market have really learned a lot from him and benefited a lot from the stocks they bought, so he is still quite famous. Because of this, I found him in May and gave him 10,000 yuan to operate on his behalf. A few months later, there was an extra 3000 yuan in my account.

To show my gratitude, I specially invited him to dinner. At the dinner table, I said enviously, "I'm afraid you have made a lot of money with your mind!" " Unexpectedly, he shook his head like a rattle and said, "You are wrong. I haven't paid half the investment yet. I don't believe it. I said, "How is that possible? You have worked hard in the stock market for so many years, and you know the stock like the back of your hand. You can only make money if you don't accompany me. The friend sighed and said, "You don't understand this. I am always careful not to neglect the funds that others ask me to operate on my behalf. I will stop immediately if I can earn 23/10. " But it's my turn to support myself. I always pursue the maximization of interests and always expect to bargain-hunting. As a result, you often have to cut meat, which is really not worth the candle. Finally, he said, "In fact, I know where I am wrong, that is, I am too greedy, but often when things come to an end, I just can't be vigilant. I just want to be high and demanding, but in the end I have nothing to lose. " 」

My friend's heartfelt words made me think deeply: the biggest purpose of investors entering the stock market is to make money, and the market without profit will not attract people. As the saying goes, "a gentleman loves money well", so does the stock market. In the stock market fight, being familiar with fundamentals and technical analysis is one aspect of winning, and more importantly, the psychological factor of "Kung Fu is outside". Everyone wants to maximize profits, which is understandable. However, even the "top" masters can hardly copy the bottom of the market and escape from the top of the market, and they can eat "three pieces" of fish every time, let alone ordinary investors. Even if they have had such an experience once or twice, it can only be said to be accidental.

In fact, there are many investors like him who may succeed in operating for others, but fail in serving themselves, mainly because they care too much about themselves and are too greedy. So my friend finally concluded that "greed is the taboo of stock trading. I hope investors can learn a lesson, start from greed, and have the idea of' small wealth means security'. Maybe that's when you succeed. 」

Yes, in the volatile market, every time you invest in stocks, the return can be about 10% to 20%, so you can make a profit, that is, you can make an early shot. Don't be greedy, you will lose your wife and your soldiers in the end.

In the face of things, people have desires. Moderate desire can make people live easily, while unrestrained or excessive desire can produce evil. Therefore, human nature avoids greed, and greed will invite trouble.

There was a joke in ancient times: one day, the wives of county officials, scholars and battalion officials chatted. The wife of the county magistrate said, "My master's name is Wen." The scholar's wife said, "My master's name is Xiuzhilang." The camp officer's wife said, "My master's name is a weasel. When the second wife of the county magistrate and academic officer asked why she was called this, the wife of the camp officer smiled proudly and said, "On weekdays, I often come back from private visits to the countryside with a lot of live chickens, and the people call him a weasel. 」

This shows how much people hate those insatiable people, and looking back at history, insatiable people have no good end:

Yuan Zai of the Tang Dynasty was born in poverty. When he finally became the prime minister of China's heyday, his power was already under one person and above ten thousand people. But his desires are endless. Until he was strangled, gold, silver, jewelry, diamonds, agates, antiques, and houses widely built in Chang 'an were copied from his home. But the most surprising and incredible thing is that there are 800 stone peppers in the property. It has been calculated that a stone in the Tang Dynasty now weighs 79,320 grams, so 800 stones are now 64 tons.

During the reign of Yan Song and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, he served as the official minister, with the official surname of Prince. He took his son Fan Shi as his minion and manipulated state affairs. When he was in office, most of his salary was misappropriated by him. 1562, Zhou Yinglong and Lin Run impeached Fan Shi one after another, Yan Shifan was killed, 10000 more than two ounces of gold and 200 ounces of silver were copied. Yan Song was dismissed from his post and died soon after.

In the Qing Dynasty, He arsenic was originally a servant of the Qing court, and was favored by Qianlong because of his flattery. He was a university student in Wenhua Hall. He and Kun are in power, but he doesn't care about other big things. He just searches for wealth. He not only took bribes, but also publicly blackmailed; It is not only secret corruption, but also open plunder. Tributes from local officials to the emperor have to go through the hands of arsenic. And arsenic, choose the most exquisite and rare for yourself, and then send the rest to the palace.

After Qianlong's death, Emperor Jiaqing announced 20 pieces of arsenic, which made him commit suicide. Later, he and arsenic were confiscated, and the property was worth about 800 million taels of gold, equivalent to the income of the imperial court 10. As a result, some people made up two jingles and sarcastically said, "When He Kun falls, Jiaqing is full." 」

In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Weimin once described those corrupt officials in yujiang county Yinyue History: "They are incorruptible in appearance and only love money in their bones. It is like a crane with bright fur and flawless quality, devouring people's hearts. Two feet are as busy as an arrow, and fragmentary fish wander in it. The portrayal of corrupt officials' faces really hit the nail on the head. The so-called "one year to clear the magistrate, a hundred thousand snowflakes and silver", all the points are people's cream. The terrible thing about corrupt officials is that they are insatiable. Their attitude towards money is that Han Xin divides his troops-the more the better, their desire for power is to ascend to heaven by the way, and their longing for fame is to cultivate and clear it, and to hide their descendants; Hope is "happiness" ...

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Liu Mengyang, then the chief editor of Tianjin Ta Kung Pao and later turned to politics, was appointed as the governor of Cixian County and Yongnian County in Hebei Province. In order to save a penny, he wrote an inscription on corruption, saying:

Rich people envy, but ask the source; The source fruit is positive, although it is not greedy; Improper provenance, should be ashamed of clear night; Everyone laughs at me for being stupid, although I am stupid and adaptable; If you are not crazy, what will you lose if you are crazy? Being an official is for the people, and greed is not my ambition; More money is not a blessing in the end, and the character is reserved; How long can vanity last? Life for decades, struggle in the world. 」

The inscription "Stop Corruption" clearly points out that money should be taken properly, which is undoubtedly a sedative and sobering agent for those who abuse power for personal gain. Nowadays, after being investigated, some corrupt officials always regret that they have been harmed by money; In fact, money itself is not guilty. The reason why a person commits a crime is because of the expansion of his own selfish desires. Therefore, those people who have ulterior motives and are confused by money may be able to play a certain warning role by carefully tasting the drug "abstaining from greed".

The word greed contains everything in life. Some people are greedy for fame and gain, although they are not greedy for money or things. It means that people have fame and status after making achievements in the world, but these are illusory after all. If they are greedy for these things and take them seriously, it is greed for fame. Greedy people like others to know their existence. If they like to leave their names everywhere, or often appear in newspapers, television and other media, they often want to turn themselves into "celebrities", "celebrities" and "celebrities", all of which are "famous" in their minds, and exaggerate them to achieve the purpose of "being famous" or "being famous for future generations".

Others are greedy for color, and when they see beauty, they must take it for themselves. The more, the better. There are also people who drink too much. Whenever and wherever, they always like to drink cups, and all the principles have been forgotten. Others are greedy for gambling, destroying family happiness and even endangering social order for gambling; Some people are greedy for love and always expect others to give them more care and more, and they will never be satisfied. ...

In fact, everyone has desires, and most people have their own hobbies, but we must know that only doing well without greed is beneficial to people's body and mind. And once it is excessive when satisfying personal desires, it becomes greed. In fact, people's life span is only a hundred years, and they only eat three or two bowls and wear a few feet of cloth. A bed is enough for a good sleep. But because of greed, they often get one even ten, and get ten even a hundred ... Their desires are endless, their hearts are never satisfied, and they often fall into the pain of what Buddhists call "wanting".

Buddhism says that the root of life and death lies in "greed for love", that is, greed for love and five desires, and one cannot leave the cycle of life and death. Greed and love are synonyms. Refers to the insatiable spiritual function, longing for defiled love or property. "The Prajna Sutra of the Heavenly King" Volume 1: All beings circulate in the wheel of karma all night, all because of greed. And this kind of greed is produced in our minds when we treat the outside world.

China people often use the word "in spirit" to describe people's restless hearts, and all practitioners know that the biggest obstacle to practice is to subdue their own hearts, which is not only the source of human wisdom and consciousness, but also the greatest enemy of mankind.

In Buddhism, the image of the pig represents the biggest worry among the fundamental worries-greed. Of all the consciousness, greed is the most difficult to subdue, because there is a' I', and we need to fill our stomachs and warm our bodies. I should feel comfortable and happy ... for real practice. As the saying goes, "the magic is born from the heart, and the magic starts from the heart." All greed for love is caused by the devil.

The most effective way for Buddhism to cure greed is abstinence. "precept" refers to the rules and codes of conduct that Buddhists should abide by in their daily lives. For greedy beginners, you can first hold the eight official pavilions. That is to say, on the basis of the original five basic Buddhist commandments (don't kill, don't steal, don't win, don't cheat, don't drink), add three commandments:

(1), don't decorate the fragrant vines, don't smear your body with sesame oil, and don't watch singing and dancing prostitutes;

(2), don't sleep, sitting on a tall and gorgeous bed.

(3) Don't eat out of season. The provisions of the Sixth Commandment are mainly based on Indian customs. According to the current understanding, it should be not to dress up or listen to songs and dances. Buddhism emphasizes this because it is afraid that believers will pursue their desires and interfere with their normal practice after being influenced by the secular world.

The seventh commandment is not to sit or sleep in a tall and gorgeous bed. The bed was originally used for sleeping, and there is nothing wrong with it. But the "bed" in Buddhism not only refers to a bed for people to sleep and rest, but also includes general seats and benches. Buddhists originally wanted to reduce material enjoyment, indifferent to fame and fortune, and pursue spiritual liberation. Therefore, "sitting on a tall and gorgeous bed without sleeping" is to hone people's will, and the purpose is to make people work hard from their hearts. The first eight precepts mainly require believers not to eat after noon. In India, not only Buddhism, but also other religions. It is said that after the implementation of this regulation, you can feel comfortable physically and mentally and reduce your thoughts. There is an old saying in China called "Be gentle, be courteous and frugal", and Buddhism formulated this commandment to avoid people's greed.

After observing precepts, with the progress of spiritual practice, people gradually realized that the greed for love comes from self-knowledge. I saw the difference from Araya's super-knowledge. With the dichotomy of seeing and not seeing, there is the possibility of taking and taking, taking and not giving up, and the cycle of life and death is endless; However, if you realize that seemingly opposite things such as seeing, seeing, taking and taking are not real, then the persistence of "I" will be abandoned and greed will naturally disappear.

If you give up the greed for love, give up greed, and live with the naive, natural and satisfied face of human beings, you will find that the work is not so hard and the interpersonal relationship is not so complicated, and the troubles in your heart will naturally be less, and you will no longer lose because of a little interest, and you will no longer reach out for something that does not belong to you, and you will no longer live a tense life day and night because of greed. I won't feel uneasy when I work during the day, and I have reached the free and easy state that people often say, "A false name is worthless, bad style is spotless, ill-gotten gains are not taken, and extra-legal actions are not done". That tossing and turning heart in the world is bound to be cool everywhere, and life is bound to be much simpler and happier.