Three minutes to talk about culture
The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit. ”
People in the world think that having money and wealth is the purpose of our life, but it turns out that those who have money are not happy, and even add more troubles out of thin air because of money.
Thousands of good fields, but three meals a day, thousands of mansions, but a pillow of sleep. "A person who has too much external material wealth does not attain true joy and happiness.
Therefore, it is said that the purpose of life is to escape from pain and pursue happiness.
Since wealth is not a source of happiness, how can a person be happy and happy?
No one has self, no god has no merit, and a saint has no name
Zhuangzi's sentence means that life cultivation is divided into three realms, at the level of "supreme", you can forget about the unity of self and man, and when you reach the realm of "god-man", you will not deliberately want to do anything, and when you reach the level of "sage", you don't care about fame and fortune at all, and live out your true self.
So happiness comes from the fact that we can let go of ourselves!If you always think that "what do I deserve, what do I have to get", then it will be difficult for you to get true happiness, "no self to others, no merit to gods, no name to saints", is actually a way to let go of self-obsession, when we get rid of the control of worldly utilitarianism, in order to live a true self and happiness.
Zhuangzi put down his fame, looked down on Lilu, and achieved that he had no self, but he could live like a fish swimming in the water, thinking unrestrainedly like the Kunpeng universe soaring, and he preferred to turn into a butterfly, or a butterfly to turn into Zhuang Zhou, ignore it, and travel freely.
Empty yourself to travel the world
Zhuangzi told a story to the king of Lu Guoguo through the help of the Shinan Yi Bureaucracy, saying that when you cross the river by boat, if you hit an empty boat head-on, you will not be angry, but if the boat is controlled, you will yell and remind the other party to avoid it, and when the boat hits, you will even get angry, thinking that the other party has offended you. Although the result is the same, the resulting emotions are very different.
If a person is free from the interference of external affairs, he will be free from troubles and sorrows. The problem of Lu Guojun is actually a problem that every one of us will encounter, and the key is that we take ourselves too seriously, and we can't help but react like a conditioned reflex when we encounter anything. If you can be careless, like an empty boat wandering on a river, then nothing can cause the slightest ripple in your heart, then the heart of happiness is always there.
The shadow is resting, and the silence is resting
Zhuangzi is very good at telling fables, and here he makes fun of Confucius and tells a story about Confucius talking to a fisherman.
Confucius was repeatedly frustrated in his travels around the world, and when he was confused, he was guided by a fisherman. Confucius said to the fisherman: I was snubbed by the Lu State, humiliated by the Song State, and I was poor and destitute because of my talents, and I didn't know what I had done wrong to get here.
After listening to this, the fisherman told Confucius a story about "fear of shadows and evil deeds". It is said that once upon a time there was a man who was afraid of his shadows and hated his footprints, so he ran desperately to get rid of them, but he ran until he was tired and died, and the shadows and footprints could not disappear. The fisherman said, "This man is stupid!"Because he only needs to "rest in the shadow and rest in the shadow, and rest in the quiet", he can fundamentally solve the problem of shadows and footprints.
The person who runs desperately to get rid of the shadow, he can solve the problem fundamentally as long as he is in the dark and stops moving, but he mistakenly thinks that escape is the solution to the problem, in the same way, sometimes we are tired and seem to be trying to solve the problem, but in fact we are trying to escape the problem, in the face of the confusion of life, we have to find a solution, not a way to hide.
If you understand this truth, do you already know the answer to happiness?
The saint Yan Ran died and died
Zhuangzi Shanmu records that Confucius was poor with Chen Cai and did not eat for seven days. Confucius traveled all over the world, and because he was rejected everywhere, how poor did he end up?Trapped on the border between Chen and Cai, I was hungry for seven days without eating!The ** who followed him hung their heads one by one. At this time, Confucius leaned against a dead tree, slapped the trunk with his hand, and sang a happy ballad in his mouth.
Why could Confucius sing so happily in such a poor situation?Confucius said to **: "The sage Yan Ran died of his body." He said that the saint accepted the arrangement of fate, went with the flow, followed the changes of nature, and calmly faced the final outcome, even if it was death. Since you are not afraid of death, of course you can accept the dilemma of not eating for seven days.
Dazhi is idle, Xiaozhi is intermittent, big words are hot, and small words are Zhan Zhan
Truly knowledgeable people do not argue with others, and short-sighted people always blush-necked and quarrel with others. Thoughts that fit the avenue will be as imposing as flames, and the remarks confined to small skills will be trivial and endless. This is what Zhuangzi tells us about happiness. To be happy is to be broad-minded, to be able to tolerate what is tolerated, and to endure what is unbearable. The world is very big, but our hearts are even broader, why do we care about some small interests and small disputes?If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if you are careful, you will lose all your friends and the happiness of the world.
There is no joy in the music, and there is no reputation in the reputation
I am sincere and happy with nothing, and I suffer greatly from the vulgar. Therefore, it is said: "There is no joy in happiness, and there is no reputation in reputation." ”
That is, I think that inaction is true happiness, but this is also the most painful and troublesome thing that worldly people feel. Therefore, "the greatest happiness is the absence of happiness, and the greatest honor is the absence of honor." ”
Life is half-satisfying, and plain is true.
When you focus on work, study, and sports, it is the best time to be happy.
Only by doing nothing can you be happy for a lifetime
The skillful work and the wise worry, the incompetent have nothing to ask for, and they are full of food and swimming, like a boat that is not tied. "After figuring it out, people with "poor" abilities can live happier lives.
"Inaction" is not inaction, but inaction. Because you don't violate the objective law and follow the objective law, you can do anything, that is, you can do anything, as long as you follow the Tao and follow the objective law.
Zhuangzi said, "What is useless is of great use", and some people think they are doing useful things, but they have little effect;Some people seem to be doing "useless" work, but they will be passed on to future generations and will be of great use.
The things that taste in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy, and love, are often useless. Singing useless poems, getting drunk with useless wine, reading useless books, and feeling useless, he finally became a useless person, but he lived a good life because of it."
Forget about the fit
Forget your feet, and you can do it well;Forget to ask, take it with you;Forget right and wrong, and the heart is suitable;Do not change internally, do not follow externally, and things will be appropriate;Those who start with the right and don't taste the discomfort forget the right fit. (Zhuangzi Dasheng).
Forgetting the presence of the feet, it is the comfort caused by the shoes;Forget the existence of the waist, it is the comfort caused by the belt;
Intellectually forgetting right and wrong, it is the comfort caused by the heart;There is no inner change, no external blind obedience, it is the comfort caused by everything just right.
Start with comfort, and then there is no situation that will be uncomfortable, and that is to forget the comfort caused by comfort.
Don't always think about how to make yourself comfortable and happy, when you forget about comfort and happiness, it is really comfortable and happy.
Zhuangzi compares happiness to a butterfly, giving us the ultimate answer to the pursuit of happiness:
The more you catch a butterfly with a net, the faster it flies, the higher it flies, the more you can't catch it
But if you ignore it, concentrate on your own business, and forget about the pursuit of happiness, the butterfly will fly over itself and stop on your shoulder.
Therefore, when you don't think of pursuing comfort and happiness, you are prone to enter a state of comfort and happiness at this time. ”