The world is simple, and so is life
Everything that is the best in the world is guaranteed by extremely simple thinking, and we must fulfill our life value and charm in the journey of constantly consolidating our life footprints.
I hope that the difficulties and sufferings in life will only make us more energetic and confident, and guard the purity and beauty of our hearts.
Drive yourself to a happier and happier future in life, and the happiness of this life will eventually achieve yourself, and fix this absolute life advantage and excellence.
1. Make life interesting.
Death is an unknown thing, and we don't know what will happen after death, so we are anxious.
Just as love comes, just like marriage, the only difference is that we can get rid of marriage, but we can't get rid of death.
However, the only fair thing in the world is death.
Perhaps unfairness will continue after death, but what cannot be changed is that death itself is fair.
Because death is fair, we have the confidence to live in this world, and when we live indignantly, we can scold
Don't look at your dog's smugness now, when the time comes, just like Lao Tzu, you will be a pile of ashes when you die.
Because death is a long time, we have to live to the fullest.
But it's never easy.
We were born in an old world where many rules of the game had to be followed or we would be kicked out.
How to live is always a matter of life, and people will think about it when they have nothing to do, put it aside when they don't understand, and think about it again when they have nothing to do.
So a lifetime has passed, and there is still a shallow taste of death.
Of course, it's best to stop at the beginning, otherwise you won't be able to get up if you fall into it.
Life is like God buying a mobile phone for a person, you cherish and use it, and it can be used for many years. You have a habit of dropping things, and when you break them, you don't have them.
God is not rich, and I don't have the money to buy you a second part.
I also thought about it when I was younger:
Either live meaningfully, and that meaning is to keep giving yourself something new;Either you die, or sooner or later, people will die.
Later, I felt that the idea was completely wrong:
Meaning is not what we think it is, and value is not what we think it is.
Life is the broadest thing in the whole universe, and it is a pity that our so-called meaning and value are at best a straight line, and the other scenery is aside.
Heaven has given a person an additional gift in a certain aspect of talent, and he does not necessarily want your talent to contribute to the world, because how the world develops is a matter of God.
The reason why he gives you a talent is that God really likes you as a person, and he is afraid that you will find it boring in the long and vulgar days.
And most of the others have to live long, meaningless and boring days, and there is no choice between this.
Some people will succeed, but success is an event in a short period of time, and the days before and after success are equally boring and long.
This is something we have to endure.
In addition to the success of one's career, the more lasting and heartfelt success is to find happiness in the vulgar days.
Second, simple human intuition is more accurate.
When you see someone, you don't like it, when you meet something, you don't approve of it, at the beginning you will have an intuition, you have to trust this initial intuition, it is often correct.
For each person, intuition is one's own, the voice of one's own nature and all experience in an instant, while ideas are mostly foreign, the result of accepting social preconceptions and the opinions of others.
However, ideas have great power, and it is easy for people to think about problems under the domination of ideas, and over time they become habits, making their intuition dull or even lost.
Therefore, intuition should be given priority in looking at people and things, and the interference of preconceived notions should be excluded as much as possible.
You're too innocent, you'll be fooled!
Is it?People with simple hearts are not distorted by interests and prejudices, their intuition is more accurate, and they have an instinctive awareness of the good and evil of human nature.
Of course, there are times when judgment is wrong, but there are certainly far fewer mistakes compared to people with complex minds.
Treating people equally is not only manifested in not being overbearing, respecting people who are weaker than you, but also showing that they are not inferior to others, which is respecting people who are stronger than you in a human way, showing that you are treating him as a person rather than an identity.
Not humble and not arrogant are two sides of the same character, inseparable, and those who are noble in heart will not be humble or arrogant.
In the same way, those who flatter the superior will be bullied, and the two scenes of the same posture are also the same posture to the upper slave and the lower one.
When you meet an unrighteous person who has done unrighteous deeds to you, and you are filled with righteous indignation, what should you do at this time?
There are unrighteous people in the world, and you can't change that objective fact.
I am afraid that you will not be able to transform this specific unrighteous person into a righteous person on your own.
Of course you can fight him, but let's assume that justice is often late or even absent, and it is difficult for you to win for the time being.
Of course, if you are a dignified person, and you are resolutely unwilling to fight him in an unrighteous way, because it means that you have lowered yourself to the same level as him.
So, what can you do to calm the anger in your heart?
Write a journal to describe the person's face and analyze the person's behavior.
When you do this, you are standing on him and looking down on him, using him as a specimen to dissect human nature and understand society, thus transforming a negative experience into a positive asset.
Some people may say: Isn't this Ah Q?
Yes, sometimes life needs the spirit of Ah Q.
If human beings only believe in the law of the victory of power and the law of material victory, and do not believe in the law of spiritual victory, then mankind will be completely depraved.
There are two levels of human ability:
The first level is the general quality of intelligence, that is, whether you have developed an interest and habit in intellectual activities, and whether you love to use your brain and are good at using your brain.
The second level is the special endowment of the individual, which is determined by genes or innate physiological and psychological characteristics, so that it has the potential advantage to develop in a specific field.
Generally speaking, the former is good, and the latter will be shown.
An intellectually active person has a greater chance of discovering the place of his special endowment, while in a mentally retarded person, his special endowment is likely to be buried forever.
Therefore, one should devote one's energies to the good development of one's general intellectual qualities. If so:
First, even if you are not in a profession that best suits your endowment, you will still be a good person in the workplace, because any profession involves more or less intellectual challenges, and you enjoy and are willing to take on such challenges.
Second, it will be easier for you to find the most suitable field for your endowment, so that your best abilities can be best used and developed, and this is your real career.
For what must be done, no matter how big or small, whether you like it or not, since you have decided to do it and are doing it, you should be serious, pay attention to quality, and do it well. There is a feeling of being responsible for oneself and society.
Even if it's something as trivial as washing dishes, if you don't wash it cleanly, you will feel uncomfortable. Without this kind of seriousness about quality, it is impossible to do both big and small things.
It has been observed that people who do big things often do small things seriously, while people who don't do small things seriously can't do big things.
The so-called genius is not bound by customs, not sloppy.
It can be seen that seriousness is a quality, and a person must have this quality if he wants to make a difference.
Of course, a serious person may not be able to achieve great things, and there must be other qualities to achieve great things.
We must do things according to real interest, but there is an inevitable situation in life, that is, due to objective circumstances, we have to do things that we are not interested in.
In this case, it is useless to resist and complain, but only increase the pain in the process of doing things.
Therefore, it is necessary training in life to complete the things that must be done but not necessarily interested in the spirit, and perseverance is also a necessary quality for those with excellent qualities.
Third, the taste of the world is refreshing.
Qinghuan: "What is it?"
Qinghuan is almost untranslatable, it can be said to be "light pleasure", and this light pleasure does not come from anywhere else, but from a love of calm and simple life.
When a person can taste the fragrance of wild vegetables is better than the delicacies of the mountains and seas, or a person can see a more attractive taste than diamonds in the stones on the side of the road, or a person can listen to the sound of birds in the forest and feel more moved than walking birds in a cage, or experience that quietly sipping a pot of oolong tea can cleanse the soul more than in a noisy dinner party, these are "Qinghuan".
The reason why Qinghuan is good is because it has no desire for life, because it does not pay attention to material conditions, but only pays attention to the taste of the soul.
The realm of "Qing Huan" is very high, which is different from Li Bai's self-exile like "life is not satisfactory in the world, and the Ming Dynasty spreads flat boats";
Or "life must be full of joy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon" kind of joy.
It is also different from Du Fu's sad heart of "life is full of tears, and the rivers and rivers are the ultimate".
Or "life does not meet, but action is like a participant;".Tonight and night, together with this lamp candlelight" that kind of helpless sigh.
There are a thousand kinds of lives in this world.
Wen Tianxiang's is "who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat", we can easily understand his fierce ambition;
Ouyang Xiu's is "Life is a lover, this hatred is not about the wind and the moon", we can very much appreciate his lingering hatred;
Nalan Xingde is "people are affectionate and affectionate, but now they are really not affectionate", and it is not difficult for us to realize his helpless sadness;
Even like Wang Guowei's "Life is only like the wind before the wind, happiness is also sporadic, sorrow is also sporadic, all of them are a little bit of Ping!The poignant feeling of the impermanence of life can still be understood.
However, "Qinghuan" is difficult!
Especially people living in modern times, there is almost no happiness.
What kind of joy is it?
We wanted to take a good walk on the side of the road, but the sound of people and cars kept roaring by, and there was hardly a moment of pure silence in the day.
When we go to the restaurant, we want to eat some light side dishes, almost unavailable, too much oil, too much sauce, too much salt and monosodium glutamate has become the biggest feature of Chinese cuisine, sometimes afraid of such greasy, especially instructed the cook to cook a dish for nothing, when the dish is brought out, people are shocked, because there are more salads on the dish than vegetables.
Sometimes there is nothing to do, and the mood is only suitable for sipping a cup of tea and drinking a cup of coffee with friends, but unfortunately, the mood is also there, and friends are there, but I can't find a place, and the place with tea and coffee is always noisy.
There is no joy in the world, so go to the mountains!Let's go to the beach!However, the mountain side and the sea are not pure, wherever the footprints of people can go, there is garbage, there is filth, there is noise!
In this society, why is "Qinghuan" so hard to find. The eyes should be clear, and you can't find the green mountains and green waters;The ears should be clear, and you can't find peace and harmony;The nose should be clear, and you can't find clean air;The tongue should be clear, and you can't find artemisia shoots;The body wants to be happy, and you can't find a cool pure land;If you want to be happy, you can't find wisdom and clear heart. If you want to enjoy pure pleasure, the only way is to stay in your own little world and cleanse your soul, because the more material world we have, the more light pleasures we have, the more we lose them.
Nowadays, people's joy is to go to the beer house where the smoke is strong and the hygiene is worrying, to eat fried crickets;It's to go to karaoke in the dark and don't see the light of day to sing a breath;It's to go to the countryside wild shop and the local chicken villa built randomly to have a drink;And to go to the small room to do the play of the square city, forever repeating the action of touching the cards These relaxed lives are thought to be joyful, but they are sad to think about. Why can't people live a happy life now, but instead take turbidity as joy and purity as suffering?
When a person is happy with turbidity, it is difficult to experience the taste of clear life, and when the joy is exhausted and the turbidity heart rises again, the world becomes more and more tasteless.
Fourth, live freely and uniquely.
Everything extraordinary in the world must eventually return to the ordinary, and its value must be measured by ordinary life.
Greatness, wonderful, and success are nothing, and life is complete only when the ordinary life is truly good.
The impermanence of the world has led many sages in ancient times to advocate retreat and self-control, quiet and indifferent.
Many people are disgusted with this philosophy.
They love to see people start their businesses with vigour, fall in love with it, and enjoy life with all their heart.
But don't forget the main thing: you still belong to yourself.
Everyone is a universe, and everyone should have a self-sufficient spiritual world.
It is a safe place where your most precious treasures are treasured, and no calamity can infringe upon it.
The mind is a peculiar book, with only income and no expenditure, and all the pains and joys of life are recorded in its income column as precious experiences.
People seem to have two selves, one self to the world to struggle, to pursue, maybe triumphant, maybe defeated;With a serene smile, the other self welcomed home the sweaty and bloodstained crying and smiling self, and pointed out to him the rich spoils of war, and even the defeated ones had a share.
A person should recognize his own nature, know what kind of person he really is, and thus live a life that is best for his nature, and this is the best life for him. Knowing this, he will not lose his way in the noisy world.
The premise of seeking peace of mind is to have a mind first.
In theory, everyone has a mind, but in reality this is not the case.
There are some people who are forever controlled by external forces, who live forever in the noisy outside world, and who do not have a real inner life. For such people, there is no peace of mind.
Only by paying attention to the soul can a person be disturbed by the disturbance of the soul and have the need to seek peace of mind.
People need both movement and stillness, forming an appropriate balance between the vitality of life and the tranquility of the soul.
Between movement and stillness, there must be a suitable proportion or rhythm. If the proportions are out of proportion and the rhythm is out of order, the person will get sick, too active will be irritable, too quiet will be depressed.
For the state of the mind, the highest praise is: abundant simplicity.
This is generally a situation of extremely healthy growth:
On the one hand, always maintain a child-like nature, so simple;
On the other hand, the various abilities contained in the nature are fully developed and thus abundant.
All spiritual greats have this characteristic in their spiritual world, the core of which is always simple, but capable of embracing a wealth of emotions, experiences and thoughts.
The opposite is poverty and complexity. These are the mediocre minds, which are occupied by all kinds of interpersonal relationships and calculations of interests, so complex, but completely devoid of spiritual connotation, so they are also a kind of impoverished complexity.
In addition to these two cases, there may be a lack of simplicity, but a simplicity that does not have the brilliance of the spirit is rather simple than simple.
Truth is the hardest thing, and for the sake of it, one may have to give up many good things: fame, status, possessions, family.
But truth is the easiest, and in the world, it is the only one that a person can always get and keep as long as he wants to.
Purity can't be done, and the next best thing is truth. If you can't do it really, you can retreat to the next best thing - confused.
A person who truly has a unique personality does not try to show that he is unique, and he is not afraid to appear like others.
Those who want to show that they are different at all times are often mediocre people with a lot of vanity.
Living a sincere, unique, and chic life is of course beautiful. However, you must first live comfortably before you can talk about this.
If you pay too much attention to the way you live, and always live for others to see, or even for yourself, then the more you perform sincerely, uniquely, and chicly, the more contrived, mediocre, and restrained you actually live.
Some people live wonderfully, some people live freely, and those who live chic are in between, not above them.
Ding Jungui. December 28, 2023.