Life in the world, mixed joys and sorrows, suffering and tribulation are always unexpected, even Wang Yangming, who is a saint through the ages, has experienced such days.
A thousand years ago, Wang Yangming was in high spirits, offended the eunuchs, and had no choice but to be assigned to Longchang, which was a miasma-filled place with strong folk customs, and the Longchang Post Station in disrepair could not live in people, so he had to commit himself to living in the cave.
The bad environment and dangerous situation all threatened his personal safety and health, but Wang Yangming did not fall into internal friction, but faced these tribulations optimistically.
Longchang, a remote Jedi where birds don't poop, has become a place where Wang Yangming was sanctified.
Where despair arises, it is when life sprouts.
Temper in things, first cultivate the mind
Wang Yangming said: People must be tempered in things, and doing kung fu is beneficial. If you have to be quiet, you will be chaotic and will not grow in the end.
We have heard our parents and teachers say this sentence since we were children: jade cannot be cut without a weapon.
And foreign countries also have a similar saying: a great captain cannot grow in a calm river.
Only by tempering in adversity can people achieve what they will achieve, and this is the true intention of tempering things.
In the process of overcoming difficulties, we constantly integrate our knowledge and put it into practice, and this process is the unity of knowledge and action.
It is often said that Wang Yangming's mind is utopian, but this is purely a misunderstanding of the literal truth.
Wang Yangming himself also hates fantasy very much, and when he was in his forties, he warned himself to be proud**: Don't hang empty dreams, but hone in things."
When you encounter something, don't run away from it, face it, it's here to polish you, it's to make you more and more perfect.
Only by tempering things can we know and act together
Wang Yangming put forward a concept very early on, called "quiet understanding".
This concept is very similar to the Taoist Vipassana, which allows people to sit still, like muddy water slowly precipitating, and when it settles completely, savor the turbid things and get rid of them.
With the improvement of knowledge and cognition, Wang Yangming found that there was a big problem with the "quiet place realization" proposed in his early years.
If you meditate blindly, you will fall into the predicament of "wild solitary meditation", and you will slowly become like a withered tree, which is unavoidable.
So he combined his experience in the dragon field to put forward the idea of "honing in things" and began to practice.
Wang Yangming admonished his **: "Those who don't know and don't do it, know but don't do it, it's just unknown." ”
The mouth is full of sage quotations, but he does not move like a mountain, and does not verify the truth of the sage's thoughts at all, which is false.
Why did he dare to say that? Because Wang Yangming is not a scholar in the traditional sense!
Although he was born in a scholarly family, Wang Yangming has been inspired to join the army and serve the country since he was a child, he is not only good at reading, but also strong in martial arts, and the art of war and strategy are first-class in the world!
He quelled the rebels, broke the mountain thief, and left the eternal saying, "It is easy to break the mountain thief, but it is difficult to break the heart." "Because he really killed the bandits, leaving no armor behind!
If you can endure it, you can have the last laugh Reading cured my mental internal friction
Lin Huiyin once said: "Life is like a pot of porridge, tormented and boiled." It is advisable to look at the heat, and the ups and downs are self-sufficient. ”
What porridge is good? The porridge that is slowly boiled over low heat is the most fragrant.
Finely boiled porridge is the most mellow.
Life is also like boiling porridge, you can't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and you can't boil the five-flavor porridge of life in a hurry.
Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, the world has a variety of flavors, and only by tasting it carefully can we understand the wonders.
In adversity, only by calming down and enduring hardship can we turn danger into relief; The road is arduous, and only by boiling can we see the willows and flowers bright!
Boiling is not giving up, don't care too much about the momentary gains and losses, the winner is the winner in the end, and the winner can eat it all!
The wise man is never afraid of failure and grinding, accumulates experience in mistakes, becomes more and more courageous in difficulties, and can turn the tables against the wind!
The real strength is the fearless heart, and the real cultivation is in that tempering.
After tempering, this cultivation of life will be completed!