"You can't decide before drinking a peck" is a Buddhist term. It is said that everything has a cause and effect. If there is something in your life, you can't throw it away. You can't have what you don't have in life. In other words, whether it is human or animal, his fate has long been arranged by God, which is also called "fatalism".

"One drink and one peck" refers to eating and drinking water. Drinking is drinking water, pecking is bird eating. Zhuangzi from Zhuangzi in the Warring States Period? Health advocate: "Ze pheasant pecks ten steps, drinks a hundred steps, and does not stay in the fan. Although God is king, he is not good. "

Interpretation: The pheasant in Shui Ze takes ten steps to peck at food and one hundred steps to drink water, but it doesn't pray to be locked in a cage. The chicken in the cage is full of air, but it is not comfortable.

"Murphy's fate" means that even such a small matter as eating and drinking water is determined by the karma of past lives.

Quote the 31st time of The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty: "He lived up to his previous period, became a demon, occupied a famous mountain, sent him to the abode of fairies and immortals, and married him for thirteen years. I took a drink and licked it. Didn't I set it before? "

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I. Sources

Excerpt from Kong Jing's lecture notes on Tibetan scriptures.

Second, explain

"Is it destiny takes a hand to drink and peck?" It means that there is a root cause in this life, but Prajna and human heart are not predestined. There are reasons for being reborn for a living and even having a career, but corruption and theft are the choices made by people and become the reasons for the next life.

Our simple understanding is: material bearing is the result of past lives, and spiritual choice is the cause of the afterlife.

Three. Brief introduction of the author

Shi1February, 927 15 was born in Lujiang County, Anhui Province, and his ancestral home was Jian 'ou, Fujian Province. He studied in Guizhou National No.3 Middle School during the Anti-Japanese War and Nanjing No.1 Middle School after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. /kloc-came to Taiwan Province province in 0/949, served in the Practice Society, and studied classical Chinese in his spare time. He studied philosophy and Buddhist scriptures for thirteen years with Mr. Fang Dongmei, Master Zhang Jia and the old Buddhist of Li Bingnan.