Many people think destiny is random, but in reality, its operating mechanism is extremely precise and fully consistent with modern science. Your destiny is actually code that has been “solidified” through your repeated choices. Our daily actions and decisions ultimately determine our fate.

After birth, as we constantly interact with the external environment, we subconsciously label things and define them — identifying what is right or wrong, good or bad. In Buddhist philosophy, this process of being repeatedly influenced by environment and habits is called “conditioning”; in modern science, it is the process of the brain’s neural system gradually forming and solidifying.

When you become dependent on or even addicted to something, it is no longer just a fleeting thought in your mind. As you repeatedly follow your feelings and act on it, these habits become deeply rooted in your nervous system, growing into solid, extremely strong physical structures. This is why bad habits are so hard to break — because your obsessions have already become part of your physical body.

To clearly see how inner obsessions create physical suffering, let’s take “diabetes” as the most direct example.

From the perspective of cause and effect, disease does not appear out of nowhere. When we are tempted by the sweetness and crispness of food and indulge in consuming far more sugar and carbohydrates than our body actually needs, we are essentially letting our mind get lost in greed for food and following that greed to create actions, such as overeating.

These excess substances enter the body and become a huge burden, triggering abnormalities and breakdown in the physical and mental systems. Your body suffers from illness because your mind first planted the seed of “greed.”

Since the old neural system (long-term behavioral habits) has become as strong and solid as physical matter and cannot be completely emptied in an instant, how can we truly break free?

The solution offered by ancient wisdom is: maintain awareness and stop “charging” the bad habits.

Taking the healing of diabetes as an example: you need to completely cut off the old habit of overeating, and strictly build a new dietary pattern according to your body’s real needs. In science, this is exactly “neural plasticity.” By repeatedly performing beneficial actions in the right environment, the new, healthy cognitive system will gradually take root and solidify in your body.

Whether you want to heal stubborn physical illnesses or remove mental afflictions, the underlying logic of reshaping is the same: see through and discard the wrong old systems that lead to destruction, and rebuild correct cognitive systems that align with natural laws.

This is a process that requires great patience and perseverance. But as long as you always maintain clear awareness and remember what truly benefits you and what harms you, you can gradually pull yourself out of the mud. When you are no longer a slave to old habits and greed, you will truly regain control of your life and rewrite your own destiny code.