Each of us comes to this world, we have our own destiny script, and we all have our own paths to take, so many times, what can convince a person is not the truth, but the south wall.
It is not preaching that can make people wake up, but suffering.
In this world's largest prison is the prison of thinking, everyone lives in the cage of their own thinking, deeply imprisoned, unable to listen to any contrary truth, habitually resisting everything outside their own ideological system, everyone is paying for their own cognition, so the most difficult thing for people to live is awakening.
As the saying goes, "Survive in a desperate place".
99% of a person's cognitive awakening comes from the thousands of cuts in society, bankruptcy, serious illness, love the wrong person, experience a life and death betrayal, people are so painful that they can't sleep, and they wake up.
Even so, there will still be people who have been fascinated, when a person is still looking forward to it, you can't wake him up, only pain can wake upAlthough the rain is heavy, it does not moisten the grass without roots, and the Tao does not cross the people who have no fate, because as long as you don't realize it, no one else can give it to you.
Everyone's life has its own calamity, only you can help yourself get through, if you cross it, you will complete your life upgrade, and if you can't get over, you will have the same thing, different scenes, and it has been repeated. It will keep struggling, muddy, and unable to wake up.
And awakening is a necessary journey from foolishness to wisdom.
What is Stupidity?
To describe stupidity in a more understandable way, most people have already begun to think in their brains as soon as their eyes are open and their feet have not yet gotten out of bed, and their minds cannot control them, and they don't know that they are thinking, let alone why they are thinking.
When I wake up, I think about getting dressed and getting up, I get dressed and get up thinking about what to eat in the morning, I think about it when I eat in the morning, I think about all kinds of things at work, except for being asleep, I think almost all the time, I am talking to the thoughts in my head, I am entangled, my attention is basically not on what I am doing, most of my attention is in my head, as if I am living in my head.
Fighting wits and courage with all kinds of thoughts and emotions in my head, without really dressing, eating, working, not really living, not really seeing the life around me, doing everything is perfunctory, so-so, and I can't fully feel the life I am focused on at this moment. This is the manifestation of stupidity.
Because our minds always come up with some definitions, we always look to the future, or we are stuck in the past, or we judge the good and bad, right and wrong, and we never feel the existence of perfection in this moment.
Therefore, stupidity is to refuse to accept things as they are, and to live in a world of illusion and imagination.
Therefore, whether it is Buddhism, Taoism, or Confucianism, they will advocate that we calm down, so that we can stop our delusions, see the truth of things clearly, and break the illusion of dreams.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for most people to do this, because society has given us many definitions of success, and we think that we must be successful in some kind of definition to be meaningful, in order to gain a false sense of accomplishment and security.
So how do we break the entanglement of thoughts?
That is to quietly see thoughts, emotions and thoughts, to see this entangled scene, not to get caught up in it, but to observe quietly, and when you see your entanglement, you jump out of this game, which is the beginning of getting out of its control.
It's like regaining consciousness in a dream, knowing that the image in the dream is not you, just like Lao Tzu said "Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly", when you are a butterfly, you can see Zhuang Zhou's behavior clearly, which is a way to get out of the game.
Each of our thoughts has energy, and the energy consumed by thoughts is often several times that of manual labor, which is why many people feel very tired when they don't do anything in a day, and they are used to fight with their thoughts.
Often people who have been flowing their thoughts do not realize that they are being entangled by thoughts, and even enjoy this entanglement, and they can't distinguish between truth and falsehood.
It's like the little monk asking the old monk: ".What is the difference between before and after your practice?
The old monk said: "Before his practice, he carried water, chopped wood, and cooked rice every day. After practicing, he still carried water, chopped wood, and cooked rice. ”
The little monk asked again, ".So what does it mean to be enlightened?
Old monk: "Before attaining the Tao, when chopping wood, I was worried about carrying water, and when I was carrying water, I was thinking about cooking; After attaining enlightenment, chopping wood is chopping wood, carrying water is carrying water, cooking is cooking, and this is a kind of diligence."
Distracting thoughts are like a ** and estrangement, so that we are separated from the real world, can not settle down in the present to do things, the so-called contrary is like this, can not see the truth of the matter, can not live in the present, always live in the world of dream bubbles, this is called stupidity, ignorance.
It is precisely because of all kinds of thoughts and distractions that we can't see ourselves clearly, don't understand ourselves, don't know what you really need, and don't know what you need to do, so it leads to chaos and no direction in our daily lives.
To improve this, we need to be honest in two words.
This honesty is not to be honest with others, but to be honest with yourself, to be honest with your every feeling, to be honest with your every emotion.
Rather than living in disguise, in the imagination, in the world defined by others.
For example, you have a lot of instinctive emotions that need to be vented, but your quality and upbringing tell yourself that you can't vent your emotions, and then comfort yourself and say, I can just accept some grievances and bear them silently, in fact, this kind of suppression not only can't resolve things, but will become very hypocritical and painful.
There are also people who obviously want money in their hearts, but they say that they regard money as dung, why, because some people think that money is vulgar, because their so-called cultivators need to be indifferent to all these external things.
This kind of twisting will make people become hypocritical and dishonest.
And if we want to break through stupidity, we need to be honest with ourselves and our hearts, which is the beginning of understanding ourselves and knowing ourselves.
Be honest about everything that happens, know your true feelings, and don't pretend. Sincerity is true, sincerity is no desire, sincerity is the highest inaction, and all things feel their sincerity and respond.
Accept your true self, face your true self, and know your true nature. Follow your heart, do what you want to do, be aware to enjoy it, love everything with life, and allow it to happen.
Experience the occurrence and existence of all life, experience without attachment, experience without resistance, everything in the universe is flowing, and those who change must be attached to it is stupid.
Only letting go is wisdom.
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