The third reveals the ways to cultivate kindness and the fourth discloses the benefits of the virtue of humility. The second lesson explains the ways to reform.
The first lesson shows how to create destiny. In relating his own life experience in changing destiny, Yuan, at the age of 69, wrote and taught these four lessons to his son. At first, he disregarded this monk's words as farcical nonsense, but as Kong's other predictions began to occur with great accuracy, he then proactively made an effort to rewrite his fate. Yuan Liaofan was told by a Taoist monk surnamed Kong that he would only live to the age of 53 and have no son. Thus, one should not be bound by fate, but by one's own actions. The principal idea behind these lessons is that destiny can be changed through proper cultivation of kindness and humility. Yuan wrote the book to teach his son, Yuan Tian-Chi. Liao-Fan's Four Lessons ( Chinese: 了凡四訓) is a book written by Yuan Liaofan ( Chinese: 袁了凡 1533–1606), was a Chinese official during the Ming Dynasty, born in present-day Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province.
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