Life withers in numbness
Liu Xiaolin
There is a kind of death in the world called life withering in numbness!
Zheng Guanying's "Prosperous Dangerous Words and Medical Tao": "The weak people have insufficient brain qi, so they have numbness and fainting diseases." "Numbness originally refers to the feeling of numbness or even loss of sensation in some parts of the body, which is a metaphor for not reacting to external things. Slowly, numbness refers specifically to the self-enclosed state that some experienced people take for granted and are accustomed to external events.
Looking between heaven and earth, it was crowded with self-righteous smart people. They seem to have a clear understanding of the whole world, and they often sigh at the things and people around them. Day after day, numbness envelops the ego.
It is a natural reaction for a person to be curious about many things when he first enters society. After entering the society for a long time, the city government is in hand, which is a helpless survival of the fittest.
"The involvement of the world is shallow, the dot dye is also shallow; the history is deep, and the machinery is also deep." Therefore, a gentleman is not as good as Pu Lu in his practice; he is not as gentle as he is sloppy. In other words: there is no shortage of pure ignorance in the world, and there is no lack of sophistication and sophistication. If a person has experienced sour, sweet, bitter and spicy, he can not complain about the world, if he has mastered the contingency magic formula, he can still retain simplicity, if a person suffers from many injustices, he can still smile at the sky, and if he has read the spring color of the four hours, he can still be high or low, and if he is the best in the world. For these people, wisdom retreats after wisdom, and kindness stands before fame and fortune. He has always had an understanding of the complex and complicated world, and has never been numb to the life of black and white.
The insensitivity has a terrible consequence, which is to become a complete skeptic. As a result, everything was cloaked in disguise. From then on, everything was an unreal existence. Affection, friendship, love, compassion, benevolence, filial piety... All these beauties become illusions! It's cold!
I have always believed that the beauty of the process of life is far better than the brilliance of the ending--the subject of life should be one's own true experience, not to become oneself in the eyes of others. If a person is not a sage, who can be blameless? If people are not magical, who can fully protect them? You and I in society, who can be the eternal winner? You and I have been hurt by others to a greater or lesser extent, but none of this can be a reason for a person to be numb!
The fire of life will eventually burn out, how can it last longer? To help the world, to give is to give. To have a heart to care for the world, to give is to give. Only in this way will we be more at ease in our short careers, and we will still feel the warmth from others at the moment of entering heaven. Because, we are as far away from numbness as possible, and the clarity of the moon white wind is stationed in the depths of the soul.
Life is made up of minutes and seconds that never look back, quiet but natural. There is helplessness, loneliness, entanglement, sourness, joy, plainness... At four o'clock the clouds and smoke are endlessly the same. You and I are both shuttling through our respective passages, day after day. At some moment, the supreme light appears, and time freezes—you and I are frozen in the great time and space from then on. Walk to the water poor, may not sit and watch the clouds rise! This is the question of the Nine Heavenly Laymen. They are us, and may life not wither in numbness!
Attached picture of the work of the Nine Heavenly Residents
