The Four Trainings of Liaofan
by (ming Dynasty) Yuan Liaofan
About This Novel
"Liaofan's Four Instructions" is a family motto left to his descendants by Yuan Liaofan, a thinker in the Ming Dynasty. It is based on a lifetime of knowledge, experience and insights, and earnestly teaches the principle of "my fate is determined by me and not by God", and expounds the way for individuals to cultivate themselves, discipline themselves, and settle down. Yuan Liaofan used his lifelong learning and integrated the thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism to form a superb philosophy of life. He used his own experience from believing in fate to accumulating virtue to change fate to encourage people to work hard. It can be regarded as a timeless lifestyle manual.
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Official(2)Scraped 21d ago
Make your own destiny and seek your own happiness! A pure heart brings happiness
This book promotes the perspective of merit. Although I do not agree with the examples in the later part, which have a slight feeling of accumulating good fortune and retribution, deceiving readers to accumulate good fortune and change their lives; but there are still many practical truths in the early part.
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Official(2)Scraped 21d ago
Make your own destiny and seek your own happiness! A pure heart brings happiness
This book promotes the perspective of merit. Although I do not agree with the examples in the later part, which have a slight feeling of accumulating good fortune and retribution, deceiving readers to accumulate good fortune and change their lives; but there are still many practical truths in the early part.
