Author: Guoxue Life Zhang Zhiwei
How can we live our lives well?
One writer replied: Know yourself, open yourself, touch the world.
There is a dialogue in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger":
"When you clench your hands, there's nothing inside, and when you open your hands, the world is in our hands."
Opening yourself up is actually a process of constantly improving yourself.
The road is at our feet; thoughts, from our souls, everything is yourself.
Only by opening yourself will you encounter a larger world, a more beautiful landscape, and live your best self.
Open your heart and the world is smooth
The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao once said: "A gentleman is not extremely numerous, and his chest swallows a hundred rivers and streams." ”
People with a broad heart, extraordinary temperament, high moral integrity, can win the admiration and respect of more people.
There is such a story:
A minister who loved to hunt accidentally lost a finger during a hunt.
Worried, he found a confidant to pour out his sorrows with wine.
The confidant said: "You are lucky, it is better than losing your life, you must believe that everything is the best arrangement." ”
When the minister heard his confidant say this, he thought he was mocking himself, so he said bad things about him in front of the emperor and deliberately alienated him.
To the minister's surprise, even though he knew that he had caused the evil, he did not resentful, and offered all the delicious and delicious food as always, with a letter: "Everything is the best arrangement." ”
A month later, when the emperor was going out hunting, he sent his ministers to survey the terrain.
In the past, it was the minister and the confidant who went, but now that the confidant was snubbed by the emperor, the minister went alone.
In the dense forest, the minister got lost, mistakenly broke into a primitive tribe, and was captured and wanted to be sacrificed, and the minister was terrified.
Unexpectedly, someone found that he had cut off a finger at this time and released him on the grounds of mutilation.
The minister who had escaped from death remembered his confidant's words, ran to him, and said, "You are right, if it were not for this broken finger, I would have ascended to heaven by now." ”
Then he said guiltily, "I really can't stand you, I have a copy of you in front of the emperor." ”
The confidant smiled and said, "No, no, no, I still have to thank you, if it were not for your rumors, the emperor would definitely send me and you forward, and then it will be me who will be sacrificed to heaven." ”
After saying that, the two laughed and said good, and in the days that followed, the two supported each other, and their careers went straight up and soared.
The old saying goes: "If you are generously compatible, you can benefit all things.".
The confidant in the story has both the grace of tolerance and the grace of tolerance,
In the case of damage to the career and the departure of friends, you can still face it calmly.
If a person can be lenient and generous in his dealings, he will naturally be pleased.
As the saying goes, cultivate a broad heart and accumulate a lifetime of happiness.
The difference between a gentleman and a villain lies in the difference in the "amount of heart".
To be able to see the strengths of people, to tolerate the shortcomings of people, is the weight of a gentleman.
So-called: "There is tolerance, and the virtue is great.". Only by opening your heart and keeping your heart can you live a calm life.
Open your mind and go wide
Sima Qian once said: "Ordinary people are satisfied with old customs, and scholars are indulging in old news." ”
The gist of it is that ordinary people are conditioned by old customs and are satisfied with the status quo.
Scholars, on the other hand, often indulge in their own knowledge and experience, and pedantic in their own thinking.
The road of life, if you want to stand tall and go far, you must abandon old thinking, open new thinking, and touch the wider world.
Bacon once said, "Thought determines behavior, behavior determines habits, habits determine character, and character changes life." ”
What opens up the gap between people is a small thought when thinking about problems.
A wise man led his students to see the sunrise, and on the way, they were blocked by a river.
The wise man asked, "There is no bridge on the river, so how shall we get there?" ”
One student said, "Let's wade through the water, shall we?" ”
The wise man shook his head.
Another student said, "Why don't we go back?" ”
The wise man shook his head again.
The past did not work, nor did it go back, and the students were puzzled.
At this time, the wise man said: "Wading in the water is a fear of life, not enough to take; going back, although there is no risk, but the purpose has not been achieved, it is not enough to take." Just walk slowly along the river and you'll always find a small bridge. ”
Sometimes, changing one's thinking leads to one's wisdom.
There is such a startup story:
A young man opened a restaurant near the national highway.
Who knows, the business is dismal, he thought of many ways, but all of them had little effect.
One night, he lay in bed, thinking about how business could flourish, thinking about it, and he decided to change directions and think from the customer's point of view.
It didn't take long for him to build a toilet next to the hotel and make a bold sign.
As a result, many drivers stopped by the restaurant while going to the toilet, in order to make it easier to park.
In the I Ching, it is said: "Change is universal, and general is long."
If things want to change and develop, they have to change their limitations and open up new ideas.
Many times, what traps a person is not the environment, but the thinking outside the environment.
When this road is not open, you may wish to stop and think slowly, ask your heart, what to do,
In this way, we can find another village of willow dark flowers and bright lights when the mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way.
Life is a door, open it and you may see more novel things, a wider sky.
Open yourself and stand high and look
There is a saying like this:
"Standing at the foot of the mountain, you see garbage everywhere; standing at the top of the mountain and looking down, you can see the beautiful scenery."
Eagles soar across the sky, looking at the rivers and rivers, frogs sitting at the bottom of the well, and all they see is the wellhead.
There is a joke:
In the early morning, three old men crouched in the corner of the wall, talking about ideals.
The old man who picked up the dung said, "If I become emperor, the dung on this street will be all mine, and whoever dares to pick it up will arrest him."
The old man who chopped firewood said, "You really didn't show up, if I were the emperor, I would build a golden axe and use it to chop wood every day." ”
The old man who begged for food laughed: "Can you be an emperor, do you still need to work?" If I were the emperor, I would sit on the side of the road every day eating baked sweet potatoes. ”
Many times, what determines the level of life is vision and insight, which affects the depth of our cognition of things.
The arrogant people of Yelang do not know that there are mountains outside the mountains, and it is difficult to achieve anything.
One day, Keiko complained to Zhuangzi:
"The King of Wei gave me a gourd, which was big enough to hold five large stones, and used it to hold water, too big and too heavy; cut it open as a urn, and could not contain anything, and I hated it for being useless, so I smashed it."
Zhuangzi listened and told a story:
The Song state has a peddler who is good at making antifreeze medicine.
A guest listened and asked for a hundred gold to buy his secret recipe.
This peddler calculated that what he sold in a year could not be more than a few gold, and such a sale, without loss, sold the secret recipe.
After this man got the prescription, he immediately went to the kingdom of Wu and lobbied the king of Wu.
At that time, when Wu Yue was at war, and it was winter, king Wu ordered him to be a general and fight with the Vietnamese army.
With antifreeze medicine, the Wu army's combat strength increased greatly, coupled with another water war, and soon defeated the Vietnamese army.
After that, King Wu cut off the land and made him a marquis.
It is also a touch of medicine, some people have been peddlers all their lives, and some people have been rewarded.
Now that you have a giant gourd, why not tie him up and travel around the world? But I am worried that it is too big and useless, which shows that your vision is a little narrow!
People often judge the value of things with their own eyes, thus ignoring the other side of things.
Vision determines the realm, and only people with high realms can see the true value of things.
In the "Left Biography", it is said: "A gentleman knows the great and far away." ”
Only when people stand tall can they look far, open themselves, open their horizons, and wisdom will come.
The world is bigger than we can imagine, and what really determines our vision is not only the pattern, but also our minds.
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"Generation Grandmaster" has this line:
"See the heavens and the earth, see yourself, see all beings."
When we open ourselves, open the shackles of our horizons and patterns, life is like lifting through a heavy fog.
From this, we can see the world's high mountains and flowing waters, poetic feelings, and a broader world.
From now on, may you and I open ourselves up, so as to seize every opportunity that passes in front of us, improve our temperament, and be a person with a realm!
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