"Cai Gen Tan" is a popular reading of Hong Yingming, a taoist in the early Ming Dynasty, and together with Chen Jiru's "The Secret of the Small Window" and Wang Yongbin's "Night Talk of the Hearth", it is called "the three strange books of the world".
Why is this book called Cai Gen Tan?
Hong Yingming's life was very hard at that time, and it was a pity to see that a large number of vegetable roots were thrown away, so he wanted to take the roots away, but he did not want to owe people anything, and paid a little money to buy the vegetable roots.
Over time, local people called Hong Yingming a "silly vegetable root".
One day, a friend "Yu Kongjian" visited Hong Yingming at home; Hong Yingming treated each other with vegetable root pickles and rice porridge, and after Tasting in Kongjian, he patted the table and applauded.
Hong Yingming's pickles marinated with vegetable roots have a black and bright color, salty and crispy, and the bitterness of no vegetable roots, compared with ordinary pickles, they have a different taste.
His book ends with the root of the vegetable, and here's a brief look at some of the ideas in the book:
1. The character of a person who wants to be a fine gold and jade will be calcined from the fire; the deeds of Si Li's unveiling of the heavens and the earth must be walked on thin ice
If you want to be a person of fine gold and jade, you must be calcined from the fire: if you want to achieve the personality of pure gold and jade, you must go through the tempering of the fire.
The deeds of Si Li's earth-shattering deeds must be performed on thin ice: if you want to build a vigorous feat, you must experience the hardships of walking on thin ice. Everything goes smoothly and smoothly, unless you rely on luck all your life, which is obviously unrealistic; when you encounter trouble, you can't solve it; you must have a solution that suits you, so that you can face the problem and deal with the problem.
2. When a thought is wrong, one feels that all actions are not true, and that prevention should be like crossing the sea floating sac, and do not allow a needle to leak (xià); all goodness is perfect, and one must be worthy of a lifetime, and cultivation should be like a lingyun treasure tree, and it must be supported by false trees
If you think wrong, you will feel that all actions are wrong, and prevention should be like crossing the sea floating sac, do not tolerate a needle leak: if you do something wrong with a thought, you will feel that all your actions are wrong, so you must beware of mistakes, just like the floating sac that crosses the sea, and does not allow a hole with the tip of a needle. Tell us that some things are very important, must not be a child, must be cautiously faced, cautious handling. For example, the choice of marriage partner, the choice of work, and even the choice of the city in which they live will determine a person's fate.
All good deeds should be done in a lifetime, and cultivation should be like the Lingyun Treasure Tree, which must be supported by false trees: all kinds of good things have been done in order to make people have no regrets in their lives, so they need to practice hard, just like the Ling yun treasure tree in the Western paradise world, which must be supported and supported by many trees. This sentence is to do more good deeds; to get pleasure in the heart can often make people more popular.
3. Busy with things, often check the points in the idle, too much to be rare; when moving, think, pre-operate from the quiet, not the heart to rest
Busy with things, often check the points in the idle, too much to be self-expended: what is done in the rush, often use the free time to check and examine in advance, and the wrong behavior is naturally less. When the matter comes to an end, it can only be handled by experience, and if it is carefully considered at this time, time does not allow it; nor can it choose a decision at will, so that relying on luck to handle things must be regretted.
Thinking when moving, pre-operating from the quiet, not self-breathing: the thoughts and thoughts when acting, in advance when quiet, carefully planned, the wrong thoughts naturally stop.
Cai Gen Tan is a popular Confucian reading, the three schools of thought of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, with the study of the mind and Zen as the core, with self-cultivation, Qi family, governance, and peace in the world.
This small book can cultivate self-cultivation, calm the irritable mood, and can also provide some effective ways to solve problems, which interested readers can read and flip through.