"Caigen Tan" is a collection of quotations written by Hong Yingming, a beginner Taoist in the Ming Dynasty, who discusses cultivation, life, life, and birth. It has the crystallization of the truth of the three religions, and the way of teaching people to pass on the world, which is a rare and rare sermon for the ancient times. For people's righteous self-cultivation and moral cultivation, there is an incredible subtle power.
Quit worrying, police injury is on probation
You can't have the heart of harming others, you can't have the heart of guarding against others, and you can't do without the precepts. It is better to be deceived by others than to be deceived by others, and this is harmful to those who observe. The two languages coexist, shrewd, inexhaustible, and vigorous.
[Translation]."You can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people."It is used to admonish people who are not alert enough and do not think carefully when interacting with people. I would rather endure the deception of others, but not debunk other people's ** in advance, which is used to admonish those who are too high in the police spirit and think too carefully. When a person gets along with others, he can be regarded as vigilant and can be regarded as a way of being vigilant and pure and generous.
[Comment].The ancients summed up their life experience with a lot of intriguing words. For example, "Zeng Guangxianwen" is the source of the sentence "The heart of harming people must not be had, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable". The author presents a different opinion here. The reason why people can't harm people's hearts is because harming others will also harm you.
There is also a kind of person who is very open-minded, and always feels that there is nothing unspeakable in what he says and does, so he does not distinguish between the importance and the object, and as a result, he gives people a handle for this, and this kind of person is guilty of believing in people too much.
But there is a premise for guarding against people, and it is necessary to guard against bad guys, villains, and laypeople. If everyone is defensive, everything is defended, and people become "people in the trap". In the same way, forbearance is also forbearance with premises, forbearance of small things, forbearance of one's own interests, and forbearance of everything and everywhere. It is not good to prevent it too much, and it is also not suitable for society without life experience.
Righteousness and harmony, fame and virtue
Only when the righteous are reconciled will they not start the road of wrath. Meritorious people promise humility and virtue, so as not to open the door of the furnace of jealousy.
[Translation].A person who advocates moderation and righteousness is prone to extreme views on world affairs, and adds some gentle thoughts of mutual understanding to adjust them, so that he will not embark on the road of conflict of will with others. A person who has achieved fame and career must have the virtue of humility so that he will not open the door of jealousy.
[Comment].We should not rely on our own strengths to treat things as a person, and we should not ignore the shortcomings of the other because of the advantages of one side. People of righteousness have a strong personality, and they may look at problems in an extreme way. Speaking strongly is a strength, and speaking fiercely is a weakness. In order to learn from each other's strengths, we must develop a gentle attitude towards the world on weekdays, pay attention to tempering the fierce personality, and maintain a good relationship with others without quarrel with the world.
People with status should pay more attention to the principle of making great achievements and making great achievements, and maintain a humble and kind attitude in order to maintain the longevity of their achievements. No matter what position you are in, you should be humble and cautious, avoid ruthless disputes between people, and free up energy to do what you should do.
Be cautious and give nothing
Virtue must be careful in the smallest things, and be gracious to those who repay the wood.
[Translation].Prudence in words and deeds must start from the smallest place, and a person who helps others should help those who cannot reciprocate you.
[Comment].Moral cultivation is accumulated bit by bit, life. It can be common that some people like to act like to be rude, and those who do big things are not limited to details, so as to cover up their rudeness and ignorance, or what they do is often reckless and forgetful, but they cover it up with rudeness.
A well-cultivated person is also cautious in his words and deeds in small things, not violating morality because he is small, and not doing anything that is inconsistent with his ideal pursuit. As far as helping others is concerned, from the ideological point of view, there can be no idea of making the other party grateful to the villain, if this is a kind of insincere hypocrisy, we must do more things for the sake of goodness, and less icing on the cake.
Be cautious in words and deeds, the way of a gentleman
Nine out of ten words may not be surprising, and if you don't say a word, you will be saddened. Nine out of ten plots may not be credited, and if one plot fails, the police will be full of discussions, so the gentleman would rather be silent than impatient, and rather clumsy than coincidental.
[Translation].Even if you can say nine out of ten sentences, no one will praise you, but if you say one wrong sentence, you will be criticized one after another. Even if you succeed nine times out of ten, it may not be due to you, but if you fail once, complaints and reproaches will come.
Therefore, a gentleman would rather maintain a taciturn attitude, never be impulsive and impatient, and would rather appear clumsy in doing things, and never be clever and appear superior.
[Comment].In real life, there is often a strange phenomenon that what you do is better than what you don't do, and what you say is better than not what you don't say, because if you do it, your shortcomings will be revealed. You say it, and your mind is exposed. The more you do and the more you achieve, the more you become the target, because your success gets in the way of others, and some people like to speak ill of others.
This kind of mentality has schadenfreude, curiosity and a sense of authority, and always feels that if you can spread a message that exposes the privacy of others, it is enough to show that you are a well-informed person, so as to satisfy your own desire for authority, so there is a saying that "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles." The reason why good things can't go out is because people are jealous and don't mention things that they see you are glorious, and as a result, they are so dusty and frozen that they will never be known to the world.
On the other hand, once a bad deed is done, driven by people's schadenfreude, it will immediately spread the word to everyone, and it will soon be known to everyone. That's why the author issued the phrase "Nine out of ten words may not be surprising, and if one word is not true, it will be especially sorrowful." Nine out of ten plans may not be credited, and if one plot fails, it will be discussed and prospered". "Be cautious in words and deeds" here is certainly one way to protect oneself wisely, but it also indicates another way, that is, in the case of a matter after careful consideration.
Warning the world to save people, the merit is immeasurable
A gentleman who is poor and cannot help others should be reminded when they are obsessed with people, and rescued them when they are in distress, which is also immeasurable merit.
[Translation].Although a reasonable and righteous person cannot use his wealth to help others with his poor family, when he encounters someone who feels confused and does not know how to solve it, he can give him some guidance from the side to make him understand, or when he encounters an emergency, he can say a fair word from the side to save him from danger, which is also a great good deed.
[Comment].People have a traditional habit of helping others either by doing things, helping money, or contributing, and they attach great importance to the tangible things they have. Intangible things such as coming up with an idea, giving advice, and admonishing with reason are often overlooked. It seems that it is only in the reading layer that it attaches importance to the ideas and the value of the reasoning of people with a wide range of common sense and high realm.
In ancient society, civil and military giants often had their own staff and so on to give advice to themselves. With the development of society, there are various forms of help to people, especially intangible things such as knowledge, wisdom and experience are increasingly valued, and the idea of service is gradually moving towards the general public, towards an orderly, paid and effective track.
Knowledge and economic money are linked, which can be measured according to time, such as asking a lawyer to analyze a case for you, so that the capable person can come up with a best strategy for his company. Especially in the market competition under the commodity economy, what is more needed is human wisdom, and useful ideas, that is, talents, are being paid more and more attention.
Contemplating the mind in silence is truly delusional
In the dead of night, people sit alone and observe the mind, and they begin to feel that they are poor and really alone, and they get great fun in this, and they feel that they are really present and cannot escape, and they are ashamed of this.
[Translation].In the dead of night, when everything is silent, sit alone and examine your heart, you find that your delusions are all gone, and your true heart is revealed, when this true heart is revealed, the dark moon is in the sky, the spirit is comfortable, and you feel that you have experienced the subtle realm without distractions. However, when you already feel the truth, it is difficult for your mind to completely eliminate your delusions, so you will feel uneasy in your mind, and you will feel insulted thoughts in it.
[Comment].The ancients emphasized tranquility and far-reaching, indifferent and clear-minded, here we talk about real people, delusion, so what do delusional hearts and sincerity mean?The so-called sincerity is like the bright moon in the sky, shining brightly, without a little dark cloud to cover it. The so-called delusion is like a dark cloud covering the bright moon.
However, the relationship between delusion and sincerity is not like the relationship between the dark clouds and the bright moon, because truth and delusion are one and inseparable from each other, for example, the water of the abyss is as clear as a mirror, and everything is reflected, and this is when the true heart appears. On the other hand, the turbulent waves in the sea can overturn huge ships, and this is the time when delusion appears, which is a metaphor for the heart of a saint who is often as still as water, and the heart of an ordinary man is prone to delusion about external things, so that he loses his pure heart.
Without sincerity, there is no delusion, just as without water, there are no waves. In real life, it is better to be more calm, less desired, more dusting, and less noisy fighting, which is conducive to self-reflection and self-cultivation. This is the practical significance of the so-called "contemplating the mind in silence and seeing the truth in vain".
The body is still visible, and the water is clear and the shadow is bright
Listen to the bells of the silent night and wake up to a dream within a dream. Look at the moon shadow of Chengtan and glimpse the body outside.
[Translation].The night is quiet and people hear the sound of bells in the distance, which can wake up people's dreams in vain, and observe the bright reflection of the night from the clear water. Spirituality beyond our physical bodies can be discovered.
[Comment].Li Bai has a sigh in "The Preface to the Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Plum Garden" that "the husband of heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things, the one who passes through time, and the passing guest of a hundred generations, and the floating life and bitter dreams are joyful". Some people, in the sigh of the shortness of life, have wine today and get drunk today, and the spring night is bitter and short. Others have the ambition to make a career in a short journey of life.
For a person, enlightenment in the quiet night, watching a movie on a moonlit night, and the sudden melodious sound of a bell in the silence may suddenly dawn on him. In the stillness of the mind, many things that have been meditated on may be realized at once. Inspiration is triggered, and the self is seen.
Purity is born from filth, and light comes out of darkness
Bake insects to filth, turn into cicadas and drink in the autumn wind. The rotten grass has no light, turning into fireflies and shining in the summer moon. Because of the knowledge of purity, it is often self-defiled, and every light is born from obscurity.
[Translation].The worms born in the dung are the dirtiest worms, but once they metamorphose into cicadas, they drink only the clean dew of autumn. Rotten weeds are devoid of brilliance, but once they are bred into fireflies, they can sparkle in the summer night sky. From this we can see that what is clean is often obtained from impurity, and light is often produced in darkness.
[Comment].For a person who has made a difference, he should have the understanding that a shallow background is not a decisive condition for making a difference, and he should not feel inferior because of self-pity and self-pity, but should find ways to change the arrangement of fate. Living in a harsh environment, if it is a natural environment, you need to be able to overcome the difficulties and overcome the hardships of the environment. Jiaguo is a living environment, and it cannot be degraded by this.
Sometimes, the innate environment may be difficult to change, but the self-image can be changed through acquired efforts. As the old saying goes, "There will be no seeds, and men should be self-reliant." It can be seen that a person does not have to worry about the bad environment, the key is to be self-improvement, self-esteem, self-love, self-discipline to be able to achieve self-realization.
Not only that, but sometimes things are always the opposite, and the better the living environment, the more susceptible to corruption and depravity. Human nature is the same as physical nature, the warmer or hotter the place, the more rancid things are, but the cold places keep things fresh for a long time.
Many great people in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, have struggled and succeeded in the arduous environment of their youth. From this point of view, the cleanliness of the environment is relative to the filth, and there may not be no decay in the cleanliness, and there may not be no beneficial things in the filth. The environment is also relative to the growth of a person.
The truth in the quiet, the nature in the light
In the quiet of the wind and waves, the true realm of mortal life. The taste is light, and the heart and body are natural.
[Translation].Only in a quiet and plain environment can a person discover the true state of life. Only in a poor life of coarse tea and light rice can a person experience the true face of human nature.
[Comment].Living in the turbulent era of change, it can hone people's strong fighting spirit, but they have no time to take care of the inner realm of life. Only by living in a peaceful and prosperous world can we realize the true meaning of life, and only then can we experience kung fu and feelings.
Therefore, the chapter of "Zhuangzi Xuanxu" has the famous saying "Tian Yi nourishes the will", emphasizing the cultivation of the body and mind in tranquility, so as to achieve the state of returning to simplicity and returning to the truth. This quiet and quiet pastoral life has attracted countless people, forming the concept of life that the ancients were born to help the world, and when they entered the WTO, they were hidden in the mountains and forests.
And he got himself, and paid for things with things
Only when one party has one body can pay for all things with all things. Those who return to the world in the world can also be asked in the world.
[Translation].Only those who can go beyond the self to understand themselves can make all things develop according to their nature according to the laws of nature and make the best use of each other. There are people who can return the world to the people of Tianbian, and although their bodies live in the world, their minds surpass those of mortals.
[Comment].Buddhists believe that the world is unpredictable, and it is a fire cave intertwined with troubles and toils, and if you don't jump out in time, you won't be happy, so Buddhists advocate retreating from the world. Applying this truth to ordinary life, that is, a person should not always be busy in the real world, but should think about problems outside the self-factor, escape the entanglement of fame and fortune, and make the spirit free and free.