In the Ming Dynasty, Hong Yingming's "Caigen Tan" has a cloud: "Fat and sweet are not the true taste, and the real taste is just light;."The magic is not to the people, but to the people. "Meaning, spirits, fat, spicy, sweet are not really delicious, the real taste is light. The appearance of things may be dazzling and intense, but the return to the essence is often plain and simple. The same is true for eating and behaving.
"Light" is a healthy lifestyle. If the diet is light, not thick or greasy, the five organs will be safe and long-lasting. Qing Dynasty gourmand Li Yu Youyun: "The beauty of food lies in lightness, clear is close to alcohol, and light is true." If the taste is strong, the true taste is often taken away by other things and loses its nature. The five flavors are light, which can make people feel refreshed, clear, smooth and less sick. The five flavors are suitable for the five organs. "Big fish and big meat have a strong and fatty taste, and if you eat too much, you can't get greasy;Coarse tea and light rice seem to be ordinary, but it is suitable for all ages and never gets tired of eating for a long time. As the saying goes, "all tastes are as long as light tastes", and all kinds of tastes in the world are not as deep as light tastes. If you chew the root of the vegetable and maintain your health lightly, you can be stable and long-lasting.
"Light" is a simple attitude towards the world. If you can abandon the flashiness in the world, you can endure poverty, withstand **, and keep the discipline. During the Qing Dynasty's Hou Mingke's tenure in the Xiaoyi Department to raise the people's knowledge, in order to help the victims, he asked the department to share the suffering with the people, and stipulated with his family that the three meals were light and not too much. There was a hall where the officials were unwilling to endure the oil-free coarse rice, and extorted ten catties of lard from a common people, ate five catties by themselves, and secretly sent Hou Mingke's wife Yang Zhixiang with another five catties. Hou Mingke was furious when he learned about it: "Scraping the people's fat ointment is like killing my father." The people are hanging upside down, and you are waiting to enjoy the blessings, but they are not able to be built. "He ordered the minor officials to be cut down and his wife to return the lard. His ethics won praise, and when he left office, he was presented with a plaque of "benevolence and virtue like spring", and the people sent it with tears.
"Light" is a normal heart that is not frightened. Keep the plain and let go of vanity, and you can get rid of the confusion of gains and losses. As the son of the champion of the dynasty, Wang Yangming became a reciter at the age of eight, and wrote a poem at the age of ten, and the world regarded him as the future champion. However, since the age of 22, Wang Yangming has taken two consecutive examinations, both of which ended in failure. My classmates were ashamed of falling behind, but Wang Yangming said: "The world is ashamed of not being the first, and I am ashamed of not being the first." "Don't be frightened, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court;Go and stay unintentionally, wandering with the clouds outside the sky. This spirit seems to be beyond the object, and it seems to be out of reach. Wang Yangming told us that the secret is just three words: normal heart. He once wrote in a poem: Everyone has their own fixing needle, and the root of all things is always in the heart. But he laughed at the past and saw it upside down, and looked for it outside the branches and leaves. It is normal to not like to get rich;It is normal to not worry about losing;It is normal to be proud of your reputation;It is normal to be slandered and not to be annoyed. Face gains and losses with a normal heart, do your best, and then listen to the destiny of heaven. When it is time to work hard, do your best, see success or failure lightly, and don't drill the horns for things that are not worth it.
The strong flavor is often short, and the light and interesting are unique. "Thick flavors tend to dissipate quickly, and bland things are the most interesting and authentic. If people are obsessed with "thick", they are easy to get tired and sick - if they are strong in profit, they will be greedy, and if they are strong in fame, they will be angry, and the medicine to deal with greed and hatred is the word "light". Keep this "light" word, you can maintain your heart, not pessimistic and negative when you are poor, not arrogant and lascivious when you are rich, not get carried away when you are successful, and not give up decadently when you fail, and always do it lightly but not chaotic, light and promising.
There is a real opportunity between heaven and earth, and only the indifferent can see through it. At all times, we must maintain a peaceful mind, do not let our hearts be controlled by unbridled selfish desires, we must maintain inner peace, avoid being trapped by mundane things, let ourselves live in peace, and then we can reach the state of openness and openness.
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