袁了凡 / Yuan Liaofan

袁了凡 / Yuan Liaofan enters the wiki through Hanji 161 part 4 as the figure behind the episode’s fate-change story. The host says Yuan was once given a detailed life prediction, then later met 云谷禅师 and changed the apparently fixed pattern through intention, virtue practice, and accumulated good deeds.

In the source, Yuan Liaofan is not a broad biography subject. He functions as the narrative proof case for 积善修心式改命: seeking wealth, children, office, and longevity becomes possible only when desire is paired with修心, 发愿, and actual conduct.

The episode ties Yuan directly to 《了凡四训》, treating the text as a method left for descendants and later readers rather than as an ornamental classic.

Connections

• 《了凡四训》 - text associated with Yuan’s fate-change teaching in this source.
• 云谷禅师 - adviser whose instruction redirects Yuan from passive fate acceptance toward practice.
• 积善修心式改命 - core concept created from Yuan’s role in the episode.
• 《命自我利》 - earlier source-scoped title variant that Hanji 161 part 4 clarifies through Yuan’s story.
• 曾国藩 and 稻盛和夫 - later readers used by the episode to show the text’s reception across self-cultivation and management contexts.