Author of One Thought Walker
Cultivation is a kind of full nourishment. It is impossible for a person who has not been fully nourished to be nourished. Cultivation is a kind of complete infiltration and nourishment of love, and every cell of a person with cultivation is permeated with the water of love. It's like a flower or fruit that is full of nutrients.
Self-cultivation is not the result of indoctrination. Indoctrination can only educate and educate. Indoctrination is of the mind, and self-cultivation is of the heart. Upbringing is a pattern, a normative etiquette; And self-cultivation is completely a kind of nourishment of love. Upbringing and nurturing are not exactly the same, you may be well-bred, but you don't have self-cultivation. A person is eager to be nurtured, and he is likely to be the result of an unsuitable model of socialization, because society is of the mind, and his mind cannot be adapted to society; If a person is desperately hungry for self-cultivation, it means that there is a lack of love in the depths of his being. Love is not soaked through, so the deepest part of his inner body is shriveled and lifeless, so he cannot be truly cultivated. He may seem cultured, but he is likely to be completely uneducated. Moreover, there is an anomaly that the more cultured a person seems, the less cultured he may be. Parenting is from the outside in, while self-cultivation is from the inside out. Cultivation is the domination and restraint of the mind, and self-cultivation is the natural outpouring and outgoing of the loving temperament of the heart. Therefore, those who are educated may not necessarily be cultivated, and those who are cultivated may not necessarily follow the patterns and routines of education.
Padmasambhava was born in the muddy water, she was quite upright and bright, she was self-contained. The artificially cultivated flower branches are very regular and beautiful, but it has more education and less cultivation. Therefore, self-cultivation refers more to a kind of natural inclusion, while upbringing refers more to artificial or social content. Cultivation can take time and effort to cultivate, while cultivation is more difficult. Because self-cultivation is nourished with heart and love, not with the mind--- time and energy"Teach"bred out. Therefore, to cultivate a person with self-cultivation, we must start from a very young age, irrigated with love; Parenting can start at any time, just take some time or effort, but there is a rule--- the earlier you cultivate, the less difficult it is. But the main essence of cultivation is love, and the main content of education is the cultural tradition and etiquette in the mind. Therefore, it is easy to be educated, but it is difficult to cultivate.
Cultivation is water-based, and upbringing is mud-based. Clay can be molded, but water-based cannot be molded. Therefore, upbringing can be shaped, but self-cultivation cannot be molded. Cultivation of nature, the cultivation of love; After upbringing, education can be meritorious. Therefore, in my opinion, if a person grows up to be self-cultivated and not just educated, he must be irrigated with love and nourished with heart from a very young age, so that when he grows up, he will be filled with the cultivation of light, like a lotus flower on the water in the mud, standing in a pavilion, dark and pure fragrance. People who seem to be overly educated in life generally lack self-cultivation,-- the formation of nurturing, and have no nourishing content. A person who excessively allows himself to embody his upbringing is actually empty inside, and there is no self-cultivation inside, and he must use formal upbringing to cover up the reality of the lack of inner self-cultivation. If a person is truly cultivated, if a person is truly internal, he will no longer take too much refuge in those external forms of edification, because the light of self-cultivation and inner love will naturally flow out autonomously--- just as a beautiful flower cannot hide its fragrance. Therefore, a well-cultivated person is a person with a fragrance of flowers, and a well-educated person is at most a person with a beautiful face.
A well-cultivated person can be nourished by others as well as through self-nourishment. The cultivation of self-cultivation begins with the love of others and matures at the time of self-nourishment. And upbringing has always been the strength of external forces. Cultivation is like a coat of the soul, and self-cultivation is the lotus canopy of the soul. Therefore, upbringing is mostly manifested in the external form, and self-cultivation is the content of the inner reality. Cultivation is the fermentation of love, the fragrance of flowers; Upbringing is the artificiality of the mind, and the degree of force. Therefore, in terms of texture, self-cultivation is soft, and upbringing is hard. Softness is the ultimate beauty, so we must soften and soften our minds and hearts. This is the ultimate beauty and the final state. The world starts from softness, hardness and strength are just processes or means, and eventually we must become soft and beautiful. If gender symbols are used, the world begins with women and will inevitably reach the world of women in the end. Men are just a process, a means. Society only starts from the nature of women, and it must end up with the fate of women's sex. If gender symbols are used, self-cultivation is feminine, and upbringing is masculine. Therefore, self-cultivation is feminine and loving; And upbringing is tough, and strong.
If a person is a seed, if it falls into the pool of the heart, he will become a lotus flower of self-cultivation; If he enters the wall of the mind, he becomes the iron tree of upbringing. In short, self-cultivation is related to love--- is watery, soft, shiny, floral, feminine; Parenting, on the other hand, is related to fear--- it is the fear of the other, a kind of adaptation that has to be formed. It is muddy, hard, deliberate, masculine. In short, nurturing is about love, and upbringing is about fear.
Well, that's all for topics related to conservation and conservation. With that, I would like to take it one step further"Preach"My consistent view: throw everything away, don't cultivate, don't educate ,......When there's nothing, there's nothing......And it all came back again. Well, before you are young, like an empty cup, fill yourself with ...... firstAnd then at some point, empty yourself ......And then there is: emptiness, that is, fullness; To be full is to be empty. When a person begins to read his self-cultivation, he is already at the stage where he begins to empty himself. Well, empty yourself, including the nourishment you have repeatedly desired. I don't want anything, including the problem of self-cultivation and upbringing, please throw things out, and throw away all ......Let yourself be empty, light, like an empty house or an empty pipe, make room, let the song or the melody, let God come within yourself. When it's time for a person to touch their skin, it's time to start emptying themselves. Well, my friends, by the means of my words, begin to think about these questions, and then throw away their minds as well, and just be there, like an empty house, with that empty house. Turn yourself into an empty house, be with an empty house, don't pile up anything, don't decorate, just an empty house, just be with an empty house. Come and feel that emptiness and that beauty. ......There is no longer self-cultivation, and self-cultivation has become an empty house. Well......That's the end of this article, and I bless you.
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