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供奉道祖能消灾免难吗?

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宇宙,天地的变化,人的生老病死,以及万物的化生,都离不开“阴阳”,离不开“道”的制约,灾难的发生或幸福的来临,都是“大道”的赏罚。善因的赏就是富贵延寿,恶业的罚就是灾难、病厄。所以,信道者消灾延生的最好办法就是信奉道祖,祛恶扬善。祈求消灾延生在于忏悔、发善愿。应接受的果报必须接受,但在忏悔心生,愿心发起之时,未发生的果报会随着转变。祈求消灾延生的人祈求消灾延生,不要一边祈求一边继续做恶,这就是忏悔。而且尊从道祖之训,供奉道祖,助大修行的人成真得道,修桥、铺路等善事祈求消灾延生。如此做法即有前世冤家债主来索债,有千真保佑,使之心开意解,不在索还旧债。再者,由于发愿的原因,而将没发生事件的因素改变,若继续做恶则与灾难的原因相应,若弃恶向善,便消灭了灾难的因素,从此远离灾难困苦,可高枕无忧矣。所以,供奉祖师自然得到万神保佑,发愿行善,潜心修真,定能改变未来的命运,其中有不可思议的感应。

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A hundred years ago it was assumed and scientifically" proved" by economists that the laws of society made it necessary to have a vast army of poor and jobless people in order to keep the economy going. (46) Today, hardly anybody would dare to voice this principle. It is generally accepted that nobody should be excluded from the wealth of the nation, either by the laws of nature or by those of society. The opinions, which were current a hundred years ago, that the poor owed their conditions to their ignorance, lack of responsibility, are outdated. In all Western industrialized countries, a system of insurance has been introduced which guarantees everyone a minimum of subsistence (生活维持费) in case of unemployment, sickness and old age. I would go one step further and argue that, even if these conditions are not present, everyone has the right to receive the means to subsist(维持生活), in other words, he can claim this subsistence minimum without having to have any" reason". (47) I would suggest, however, that it should be limited to a definite period of time. let’s say two years, so as to avoid the encouraging of an abnormal attitude which refuses any kind of social obligation.

This may sound like a fantastic proposal, but so, I think our insurance system would have sounded to people a hundred years ago. The main objection to such a scheme would be that if each person were entitled to receive minimum support, people would not work. (48) This assumption rests on the fallacy of the inherent laziness in human nature ; actually, aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would not want to earn more than the minimum, and who would prefer to do nothing rather than work.

(49)However, the suspicions against a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum are not groundless from the standpoint of those who want to use ownership of capital for the purpose of forcing others to accept the work conditions they offer. If nobody were forced to accept work in order not to starve, work would have to be sufficiently interesting and attractive to induce one to accept it. (50) Freedom of contract is possible only if both parties are free to accept and reject it ; in the present capitalist system this is not the case.

But such a system would not only be the beginning of real freedom of contract between employers and employees; its principal advantage would be the improvement of freedom in interpersonal relationships in every sphere of daily life.

(47) I would suggest, however, that it should be limited to a definite period of time. let’s say two years, so as to avoid the encouraging of an abnormal attitude which refuses any kind of social obligation.

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