Endless life is the normal way of the universe, and the cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death is the law of all things. All things cannot understand life and death, but they live endlessly according to the laws of heaven. And human beings, as beings in the same position as heaven and earth, are the spirits of all things. Human beings can perceive life and death, and can comprehend the meaning of life.
Human beings cannot control the ever-growing universe, which has brought about generations of human reproduction. Everyone gets old, and this is beyond human control. Cheng Zi said that there are two things in the world that can take the merit of creation, one is immortality, and the other is to become a saint. Becoming a saint can be examined, but immortality has never been heard of. Perhaps it is not known that there are immortal cultivators in the world, and the wonders of the world cannot be judged blindly by self-knowledge, and it is not impossible to break through common sense.
Although it is possible for a person to take over the merits of heaven and earth creation and achieve immortality, after all, this matter is too ethereal and cannot be done by people who are not the great creators of heaven. Therefore, everyone will face the time of physical exhaustion, even if there is no shortage of people who are old and still young in their bodies, they cannot change the fact that their bodies are already at the end of the crossbow.
The aging of the body is the law of heaven and earth, and people are not strong. And the master of the body is not the body, but the spirit. In the book Zhuangzi, it describes the story of a Confucius who met a piglet on the way on a business trip, the piglet was on the sow**, and suddenly the sow died, and after a while, the piglets scattered and fled. Because the piglets love the spirit of the sow and not the body of the sow, when the spirit leaves, it is no longer the same kind, so the piglets panic and scatter. It is clear that the spirit is far more important than the body.
The spirit is far more important than the body, and if the body is not nourished, the spirit will die. The body needs nourishment to ensure the existence of the spirit, and the spirit needs nourishment to maintain its youthfulness forever. It is a pity that people value the body over the spirit, which is called the mind, sexuality, and heaven in the Confucian system. The Lord is the heart for man, the sex is for man, and the day is for the epidemic. Heart, sex, heaven, one.
Mencius described a man whose little finger could not be bent, and who would have gone to great lengths to seek medical advice if he knew that there was a good doctor who could heal him thousands of miles away. Mencius said that if a person's body is inferior to others, he knows how to heal, and his mind is inferior to others and does not know how to heal.
Human beings have role models, and among human beings, the one who preserves his heart in harmony with the newborn baby is a saint. The saint is dedicated, and then the intellect knows the sky. Knowing the heavens will know the original supreme goodness, and such a person can transcend life and death, but those who have obtained this heart will no longer have any doubts, and the mind will no longer be trapped in anything, and will reach the state of doing what the heart desires without exceeding the rules. For example, Confucius: "Food, food, and water are also among them." ”
People's minds are affected by external things, the so-called servitude to things. People's emotions are swayed by changes in the conditions of the external world, and the mind of a saint is not dependent on things, but can still maintain supreme happiness in the most ordinary material conditions, because a saint has a cosmic heart. If you want to be able to enjoy it anytime and anywhere, you need to know your own mind, and the original heart of seeking knowledge lies in self-cultivation.
Self-cultivation lies in the use of objects, knowledge, sincerity, and righteousness, so if you want to cultivate yourself, you must learn self-cultivation skills. If you don't know this kung fu, there is no way to talk about self-cultivation. The quest for knowledge does not lie in relying on reason to remember the words of predecessors, but in practice. Today's so-called learning in school is a quest for knowledge, not a quest for knowledge.
Leaving self-cultivation and seeking knowledge, what you seek is nothing more than the theory of your predecessors, not in your heart. The heart is reasonable, and there is no reason outside the heart. If you can't do your best, you won't be exhausted, and if you're not exhausted, you won't know the sky, you can't know nature, you can't know your mind.
If you seek this light, you will be able to see the true existence from the changing world, and you will be able to find this heart that has never changed since ancient times. It will not let the heart float outside all the time, but really let the heart have a place to rest.
This heart is eternal and unchanging, so it can remain young forever. So when Confucius had a dream a few days before he died, he knew that he was going to die, but he could sing happily in the morning. The Book of Rites records this incident, Confucius got up early, carried the cane in his hand, shook the door, and sang: "Mount Tai is decadent? Is the beam bad? The philosopher's wilting? ”
A saint is a person who hears the Tao, a person who knows the heavens with all his heart, and a person who seeks to achieve eternal and unchanging hearts. Therefore, when the body is old or dies, the heart of a saint will not move at all, and Mencius called forty not moving. It was Mencius who had already sought this heart before the age of forty, and had sought an eternal and unchanging heart of perfection.
Towering, saint, happy in life and happy in death. It is a person who truly transcends life and death, a person who knows life and death, a person who knows ghosts and gods, and a person who understands the underworld. The heart of the saint is the heart of the universe, and the heart of the universe is eternal, so it is called eternal youth.
Human beings cannot control the aging of the body, but there is a way to keep the soul young forever!
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