The 21st century is an anxious era of fierce competition. There are more and more physical and mental diseases, and it is difficult for people to really calm down. AlthoughEverybody loved itEasyA comfortable life, but not many people can live a comfortable life. The reason why people are miserable, why they are unhappy, why they are tired, why they are not comfortable living is because they do not maintain a normal mindCompare yourself to others oftenfor the sake of it. Only by maintaining a normal mind can we cultivate at ease. Great freedom is a transcendent state of mind, a kind of free and easy with fate, and a kind of unfettered happiness. In contemporary times, relaxation seems to have become an unattainable "luxury".
Tang Dynasty only Yan Zen mastersaid"The clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle".itIt's the most Zen **OftenA poem that is used to inspire people to tell people to maintain a normal heart that is not shocked by humiliation and forgets about things. Because, in the view of Zen Buddhism, the ordinary mind is the Tao, which is Zen. One story saysThere was a middle-aged man who was unhappy all day and felt very unhappyEven unlucky. So he went to the temple to seek advice from a monkI want to find the way to liberation
The monk asked, "What reason do you have not to be happy?"What about it？The middle-aged man said, "What others have, I don't have." Several of my friends live in high-end villas, drive luxury cars, and live a rich lifeThey also have beautiful wives and concubinesAnd I'm better than themNot tooShabbyIs it?
The monk said, "Then you want to."NopeThinkToo,Are there any friends who are not as good as you?The middle-aged man thought for a while and said, ".ReallyYes, my friendMediumMost of them are inferior to me. ”
The monk said, "Don't just look at what you don't have, but look at what you have and what others don't have." It's important that you keep your level of mind. If you don't keep a normal mind, even if you have everything, everything is better than others, you are still unhappy. ”The author believes that this is Hawking's great wisdom, although he can only move two fingers, but he still feels very happy.
For those monks, theyEat when you're hungry and sleep when you're sleepy. Then I meditate and chant the sutrasThis is the ordinary mind.
The monk believes that the so-calledOrdinary heartThat is, there is no artificiality, no right and wrong, no trade-offs, no impermanence, no ordinary and no holy heart. Ordinary is a kind of realm, which "does not take things to be happy, not to be sad about oneself", and is not happy or sad about changes in the external environment. TrueOrdinary heartandIt is not "seeing through the red dust", nor is it a negative retreat, ordinary heart is a kind of wisdom and a positive attitude towards life.
Maintaining a normal mind is the natural and comfortable state of human beings living in the world. Only by maintaining a normal mind can we cultivate great freedom
WhileOrdinary heartThe connotation is:State of mind, desire, freedom, love, letting go, tolerance, gain and loss, happiness, wisdom, fate, etcIndividualaspect, comprehensivelyCultivate yourself. If we treat everything with a normal mind, we will reach a state where our mind can be clear when there is nothing to doWhen there is something, the heart can be decisive;When you are proud, you can be calm;When you are frustrated, you can feel calm. IfusOftenThere are no distractions in the heart, and fame and fortune will be seenBroken, depending on the success or failureLight, will be discredited gains and losses, in order to gain a normal heart. The world is impermanent, in the face of all kinds of tribulations, in the face of all kinds of ** and desires, if we can maintain a normal heart, we canLive an easy lifeFeel at easeBe healthy, happy, happy and live a long life.