Analects 98: When you are at your poorest, what do you rely on to survive this period?

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I have talked about the temptation to be an official, the pain of illness. There is another practice in life, that is, poverty, that is, material shortage and scarcity. In this case, people are easily deformed.

Zi Yue: "Hyun-jae huiya!" A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, in the dark alley. People are overwhelmed by their worries, and they will not change their happiness when they return. Hyun-jae back!" Today, talk about how Yan Hui lived by himself in hardships and hardships.

Confucius said that if you want to say that virtuousness is Yan Hui. In Confucius's heart, the most loved student is Yan Hui, during several school waves, many students were tempted to pull away from Confucius, yan Hui unswervingly followed Confucius. You need to know how powerful temptations are, especially when they are not present or lacking. In this world, temptation is everywhere.

箪 is a small basket woven of bamboo. A small basket of food. At that time, the food was just roasted sweet potatoes and a corn. It's not that Yan Hui eats less and loses weight in a meal, but he is poor! I want to eat mountain treasures and seafood without.

Scoop, a container made of gourd melon shells for water. Eat very little, drink less, only a scoop of water. There was no money to dig a well, and there was no running water at that time, so I had to buy water to drink. At that time, there was a profession that was to pick up and sell water and walk the streets. Yan Hui had no money, only bought a scoop, and saved drinks.

Poor food and drink, described as a shortage of materials, poor and white. Not to mention the furniture and appliances, the family is surrounded by walls. If you eat and drink like this, where do you live?

In the dark lanes, similar to illegal buildings, abandoned houses have fallen into disrepair, leaking wind and rain, slums. alas! How could my ancestors be so poor? My family must have come from a poor family, so they were displaced and begged along the streets. How did you live?

People are overwhelmed, my mood is like this now, everyone can't stand it, worried about when such a day will be a leader? Poverty is like a black hole, which can squeeze out all the spirit, time, physical strength, and energy.

Once, Hong Kong Television station had a variety show, where the rich and the poor exchanged lives and experienced each other.

Huo Qigang, who participated in the program, felt very deeply, and the poor people simply did not have time to stop thinking, let alone study, in order to make a living. Often work a few jobs to barely survive, relying on selling physical strength and time to make money in exchange for a meager income. Day after day, I can't see my head.

The suffering of the poor is that once experienced, they never want to look back.

Nineteen years ago, I was just doing insurance, and I was poor and white, and I only had forty cents left in my pocket after eating. Every time you pay a salary and withdraw money from an ATM, you have to look at the balance carefully and you must calculate the spending. Go to the restaurant to order, first look at the price, where do those high-end places have the confidence to go in?

Shyness in the pocket feels inferior, people are poor and short-minded, and horses are thin and hairy! Yan Hui is so poor, how can he behave?

I don't change my happiness. People are poor and happy, in such a hungry and cold water, in the days when they have eaten this meal without a meal, they are still happy and obsessed.

What pleasure has such a role in resisting hunger and poverty? Do not forget ideals and beliefs, study and learn, and live in the spiritual world. I believe that the immediate tribulations are temporary, and I believe that I have the ability to change the status quo, and I will not be sad.

Those who are confident can be calm; those who feel that they can't see their heads in a hard life are actually people who can't do anything to change the status quo. After many struggles and struggles, in the end, it was fruitless, tired, discouraged, and naturally felt dark.

Just like we do insurance, if the patron does not solve this fundamental problem, he will open this order without knowing where to place the order, and he will be panicked and cannot live in peace. Examination after assessment, frustration after disappointment, anxiety and pain torture.

Secretly, I will ask myself, when is such a day a leader? Many people can't survive it, and they fall off. For him, he was finally relieved. Days without a fixed income and no savings are difficult!

Explore your way, and in the accumulation of time, hope is not far away, naturally full of confidence, no longer anxious. As long as the pace of action is accelerated step by step, the days will get better and better.

It is precisely because there is a way to have self-confidence and hope. Yan Hui does not change his pleasure, it is not that he is satisfied with the status quo, prefer to live such a minimalist life, a person is fine, what to do if he marries his wife and has children in the future? Yan Hui must have a wife, otherwise there would be no me.

Therefore, this passage is about the poorest days of Yan Hui, just like we are talking about a person's adversity and lows today. In the face of adversity and hopelessness, how to reverse the situation, bottom out and rebound, not change its pleasure, not be frightened by difficulties, and not bow to reality? We must not let go of the bottom line of being a person, bow down or break the law and commit crimes.

A few days ago, I read an article on the headlines about a group of high-level scammers using WeChat dating to cheat. Their words are meticulous, complete, and breathtaking, and you can go to my headlines and look through them.

They are also poor and have a way, but this fraudulent path has no hope and no future. Selling one's soul is extremely bitter, and sticking to one's ideals is bliss.

Looking back on it now, I was able to come here because I believed in insurance and believed in myself. It's hard not to change your fun. Now we have long been out of the state of eating and drinking, but we are also facing too many temptations. Every resource and every solution of the company is desperately wanted.

Like in Taiping, not poor but too rich, I am talking about the support of the company's platform, too many tricks, dazzling. Honor system, incentive programs emerge in an endless stream, less will be worried, more will be worried, poor handling, happiness is gone.

Not changing the joy is a firm belief and a down-to-earth act of self-discipline management. Everything is used by me, I am my own master, only by being the master of my own soul can I know how to choose and give up.

This is like buying a house and becoming a master, you can dispose of the contents of the family at will, and you no longer need to get the consent of the landlord when you rent a house. Being a master is very important, that is, to control yourself and manage your goals and rhythm.

In this way, the talents that others give you become a boost, rather than a problem and a hindrance. When I was a child, learning kitten fishing said this. If you don't know what you're doing or what you want, you'll be distracted by the butterflies and dragonflies that fly around, do the wrong thing, and take a detour.

The kitten, who has always focused on fishing, will not change its pleasure. It knows that its joy is fishing, immerses itself in it, and shields itself from all distractions around it. Therefore, today we talk about not changing their pleasures, not that poverty does not have a choice, but how to choose when rich?

There are many products, which one to sell? There are many honors, which one to chase continuously? There are many solutions, which one is the most desirable? Must be taken. Therefore, Yan Hui's sage is not just saying that he is poor and cannot be moved. Not changing one's pleasure is a clear sense of direction, a kind of calm concentration.

With this ability, whether you are in a desperate situation or a good situation, whether your life is at a peak or a low, you can do something and do nothing, and keep the bottom line and dreams.

Only in this way is this practice of life extremely happy. When difficulties are overcome, there are natural achievements; temptations are rejected, and it is equally gratifying.

Well, this concludes today's lesson, and I hope you'll be obsessed with it. We'll see you next time!