Caigen Tan said that Jide: a compassionate heart is the chance of life

菜根谭说积德：慈悲之心，生生之机

Only by doing good deeds and accumulating virtue can we live and prosper. To abstain from killing and release life is of great merit.

------Zhuge Changqing

Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations on cultivation, life, life and birth compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It has the crystallization of the truth of the three religions and the eternal and unchangeable way of teaching people to pass on to the world. It has an uncanny and imperceptible power for people's self-cultivation and moral cultivation.

Its characters are concise, clear and meaningful, and elegant and popular. It is like a quotation, but has interest that the quotation does not have; It is like essay, but it has the neatness that essay can't easily reach; It is like admonition, but there is the kindness and openness that admonition lacks; And there is rain over the mountains, and the sound of the bell at night is still, dotted with it. What it says is clear and fragrant, and the wind and moon are boundless.

Zhuge Changqing believes that this philosophical classic "Caigen Tan" is of great significance to people in all industries. Hong Yingming, with the name of "Sincere" and the name of "Returning to the early Taoist priest", has passed down the "Caigen Tan". According to his other work, The Wonderful Traces of the Immortals and Buddhas, it is known that he was enthusiastic about the official career and fame in his early years, and retired to the mountains and forests in his later years to wash his heart and worship the Buddha. He lived around the Qinhuai River in Nanjing around the thirtieth year of Wanli (1603) and devoted himself to writing. He has contacts with Yuan Huang, Feng Mengzhen and others.

The title of the book "Caigen Tan" is taken from Wang Ge, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, who said, "If one can bite the root of vegetables, everything can be done." It means that one can adapt to the poor life as long as he is strong enough, and whatever he does, he will achieve. In his (inscription) for "Caigen Tan", Ming Yuji further explained: "Tan", named after "Caigen Tan", is rooted in the bitter experience and also from cultivation and irrigation. It can be imagined that it can overcome the storm and prepare for the dangers. " Hong Yingming was also quoted as saying, "Heaven works for me to form, and I escape from my heart to fill it; heaven meets water, and I grasps my way to connect it." Yu's explanation added a layer of meaning, that is, when facing bad luck, a person must strengthen his integrity, work hard, and cultivate and nurture his ideal diligently. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the person who signed the name of Sanshan Sick Man Tongli (reprinted the preface of Cai Geng Tan) said, "Anyone who grows vegetables must cultivate their roots, and their taste is thick." He also cited the old saying of the month, "The nature of the vegetable is fixed, and the root is fragrant." It said that only those who have a simple and quiet mind can understand the purpose of it.

Caigen Tan was written in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of nearly 400 years.

Those who are destined to read this book often to enlighten wisdom.

In many places, Caigentan put forward to do good and accumulate virtue, such as: "a compassionate heart, an opportunity for life", "how happy to cultivate blessings, to kill far disasters"; "Happiness and misfortune are the difference of one thought"; "Fame and wealth come from morality" and so on, reminding people that they should have the confidence to do good, accumulate virtue, and be merciful and abstain from killing.

This is similar to the modern people's advocacy of wildlife protection, but modern people are based on maintaining a good living environment for mankind. There are evil and good in human nature, and we should treat people with compassion, not with calculation as the starting point. Just because there are many people with compassion, there is a warmth in the world.

When the mother eel was thrown into the pot for cooking, she would hold her stomach very high, for the sake of the baby fish.

Although the poor Eel mother already knew that she could not save her child, Eel mother still did so.

It's a great virtue to abstain from killing and release animals.

Zhuge Changqing wishes all the people who are destined to respect their parents, do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and abstain from killing and releasing life rich and auspicious!

References for this article:

1. Caigen Tan

2. Network materials and ancient poetry

行善积德，才会生生不息、富贵吉祥。戒杀放生，功德巨大。

------ 诸葛长青

   《菜根谭》是明代还初道人洪应明收集编著的一部论述修养、人生、处世、出世的语录世集。具有三教真理的结晶，和万古不易的教人传世之道，为旷古稀世的奇珍宝训。对于人的正心修身，养性育德，有不可思议的潜移默化的力量。

   其文字简炼明隽，兼采雅俗。似语录，而有语录所没有的趣味；似随笔，而有随笔所不易及的整饬；似训诫，而有训诫所缺乏的亲切醒豁；且有雨余山色，夜静钟声，点染其间，其所言清霏有味，风月无边。
   诸葛长青认为，这本哲学古典《菜根谭》对各行业的人都有很大意义。    洪应明，字自诚，号还初道人，藉贯不详，有《菜根谭》传世。根据他的另一部作品《仙佛奇踪》，得知他早年热中于仕途功名，晚年归隐山林，洗心礼佛。万历三十年(1603)前后曾居住在南京秦淮河一带，潜心著述。与袁黄、冯梦桢等人有所交往。

   书名《菜根谭》，取自宋儒汪革语：「人就咬得菜根，则百事可成。」意思是说，一个人只要就够坚强地适应清贫的生活，不论做什么事情，都会有所成就。明于孔兼在为《菜根谭》写的（题词）中，进一步阐述道：「『谭』」以『根谭』名，固自清苦历练中来，亦自栽培灌溉里得，其颠顿风波、备尝险阻可想矣。」又引用洪应明的话说：「天劳我以形，吾逸吾心以补之；天阨我以遇，吾亨吾道以通之。」于氏的解释，增加了这样一层含意，即一个人面对厄运，必须坚定自己的操守，奋发努力，辛勤培植与浇灌自己的理想。乾隆间署名三山病夫通理的（重刊菜根谭序）则说：「凡种菜者，必要厚培其根，其味乃厚。」并引月古语「性定菜根香」，说明只有心性澹泊沉静的人，纔能领会其中的旨意。

　　《菜根谭》成书于明万历年间，距今已有近四百年的历史。

   有缘者可以经常翻阅此书，开悟智慧。

   菜根谭很多地方提出行善积德，譬如：提出“慈悲之心，生生之机”，“多喜养福，去杀远祸”；“祸福苦乐，一念之差”；“名誉富贵，来自道德”等等，提醒人应当有行善积德自信、慈悲戒杀之心。

    这和现代人倡导保护野生动物运动，有点相似，但现代人则是基于维护人类良好的生存环境。人性有恶善，待人也应以慈悲为怀，不能以算计人为出发点。正因为慈悲心肠的人多了，人世间便自有一片温情。

  鳝鱼妈妈被人扔进锅里蒸煮的时候，她会把自己的肚子挺得很高很高，竟然为是为了腹中的鱼宝宝。

  虽然，可怜的鳝鱼妈妈已经知道无法挽救她的孩子，鳝鱼妈妈仍然这么去做.......。

  戒杀放生，功德十分巨大啊。

  诸葛长青祝福天下孝敬父母、行善积德、戒杀放生的有缘者富贵吉祥！

  本文参考资料：

      1、《菜根谭》

      2、网络资料、古诗文网 

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Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

(Zhuge Changqing: zhuge8031@163.com ）

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Zhuge Changqing's Chinese Dream

Learn from sages and carry forward virtue

Revitalizing China for the benefit of the world

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诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国国学传统文化传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“学习圣贤、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

（诸葛长青：zhuge8031@163.com）

Zhuge Changqing mailbox：

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