Welcome to Mr. Qianmian's "Wang Yang MingXinXue" class!
Decrypt Wang Yangming's heart and be a strong person!
Cultivate the magical wisdom of a strong heart, be a must-see for those who have a strong heart, and collect the essence of the whole book of the "Records of Transmission and Practice"; absorb the power of Wang Yang's knowledge and action, the study of light in the strong heart, and the source of wisdom for successful self-cultivation.
I hope you can learn something, today's first lecture, please read.
Mencius said, "In five hundred years there will be saints."
What is a saint? I think the four sentences of Hengqu can explain, "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, continue to learn from the saints, and open up peace for all the worlds."
Saints must have the pattern and mind to rebuild social values and save the hearts and minds of the world's people. That is, to be able to establish a heart for heaven and earth and a destiny for the people. But there must be a premise for doing this, that is, to have a firm belief and will that is beyond ordinary people, and to be able to deal with them calmly when difficulties ensue.
Some people said: "Wang Yangming is the last saint in China, and there will be no more saints in China." "Why? Because people are getting busier and busier, more and more blind and confused, there is no time to care about the "heart" problem.
Social development is very fast, the pace of life is getting faster and faster, 996 has become the norm for hit workers. In big cities, I get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, take a car to the east or west of the city, take a car for nearly an hour, finish an 8-hour shift, and take another hour to go home.
After returning home, most people's time is dominated by online games or short videos, and they live in such a busy and confused state of life every day.
There are also a small number of people who are busy pursuing their own promotion funds, so they have a fever of examination and national examination. Society is seriously involved, but everyone is like this, and in this state, you and I will always feel panic inexplicably.
When we are running for money, busy for fame, and desperately trying to be a little better than others, our body and mind are getting more and more tired, but desire is in front of us, it is like poison that makes people want to stop, and eventually get lost in it.
What can we do? Wang Yangming prescribed to our time: if the master of timing, and the fortune of heaven is generally endless, although the reward is ever-changing, it is often calm, the so-called "heavenly monarch is calm, and the hundred bodies obey the order".
The universe is endlessly flowing, and man is no exception, but what flows endlessly can only be the body, and the mind must be stable. When the human heart can control its own body in a complex world, then no matter how the outside world changes, it can be calmly handled, and people will not lose themselves in the rapidly changing modern society.
01
Failure is not shameful, what matters is the mentality
Wang Yangming has a poetry cloud: "The dangerous Yiyuan is not stuck in the chest, why is it different from floating clouds through space?" The night is quiet and the sea is thirty thousand miles, and the moon is flying tin under the heavenly wind. The poem is called "Pan Hai", which means that no matter how the sea churns, it is just a floating cloud in front of you. This poem shows Wang Yangming's state of mind that sees through the glory and disgrace of the world and is indifferent.
In the fifteenth year of the Ming Dynasty's Hongzhi Examination, two remarkable figures appeared, one was Tang Bohu and the other was Wang Yangming. The former was intoxicated with landscapes after being involved in the examination case and banned from the examination for life, and devoted himself to poetry and painting with resentment towards the examination, and eventually became a brilliant artist in the field of art.
The latter was the same as Tang Bohu's encounter, but Wang Yangming's attitude towards the imperial examination was completely different from that of Tang Bohu. Once, the teacher told Wang Yang that the first major event tomorrow would be the imperial examination. Wang Yangming did not think so, he believed that the first major thing in the world was to be a saint.
Hongzhi's fifteen-year examination was the second time Wang Yangming took the exam, and like the first time, he fell off the list, and there were also candidates who fell on the list, who were either secretly sad or crying.
Wang Yangming did not have obvious mood swings, and when his friends thought that he was also sad and comforted him, Wang Yangming said: "You are ashamed of not climbing the first, and I am ashamed of not climbing the first but being annoyed by it." ”
02
Determined to be ambitious, although suffering and not changing the original intention
It is not an easy task to be calm and calm, but we can find a way from Wang Yangming: to aspire high.
Mr. Zhu Guangqian, a famous modern art theorist in China, also said: "If you regard yourself as great, you should have a 'disdainful' view of troubles; if you regard yourself as small, you should have a 'worthless' view of troubles." ”
Where do our panics and indifference come from? We come out of our troubles because we value things too much and see ourselves too small. So that we put these trifles in our hearts every day, think about this today, think about that tomorrow, young people should be vigorous, not twilight.
Twilight is because we think too much, and think too much because we don't have lofty ambitions, so we worry too much about the tomorrow that has not yet come.
Wang Yangming aspired to be a saint, and his life had ups and downs. He experienced the "Rebellion of the Eight Tigers" when eunuchs were in charge, and because of his righteous words, he was "forty people with a staff and demoted to Guizhou Dragon Farm" because of his righteous words and grievances for the arrested officials.
On the way to Longchang, Wang Yangming was chased and killed, and luckily escaped death, and when he was adrift at sea, he encountered a merchant ship trek. But these big winds and waves did not make Wang Yangming panic and lose his way, but on the contrary, he could be more determined about his goals and finally realize the Tao in the Dragon Field.
Therefore, we can say that one of the most important reasons why Wang Yangming can be calmly handled is that he is determined to be ambitious, and all the difficulties in front of him are just scenery along the way to achieve the goal.
03
There is nothing outside the heart, and people's subjective initiative is more important
The root of being calm in the face of things lies in the strength of the heart. As Wang Yangming himself said: "The heavens do not have my spirit, who will look up to him?" The earth does not have my spirit, who will bow down to him? The ghosts and gods do not have my spirit, who will argue that he is fierce and evil."
Wang Yangming regards his mind as the root of the universe, the flow of all things is just the flow of the heart, as long as the heart does not move, then no matter how the external affairs change endlessly, it is only like "pre-court cypress tree".
"There is nothing outside the heart", only when people find their own pure heart, it is possible to have a fearless heart in the face of this complicated world.
Wang Yangming believes: "Everyone has their own fixed needle, and the root of Wanhua is always in the heart." The mind is like a "fixing needle," it is the root of things.
The reason why people panic when they encounter things is that the human heart is enslaved by external objects, the heart is in charge of emotions, and when the mind is constantly affected by external objects, of course, emotions will not be able to calm down, and people will not be able to calm down.
To maintain calmness, we must let the heart become the master of the world, enslave all things with the heart, in Wang Yangming's view, the heart is the conscience, and the conscience is the spiritual home of the people, and only then can people inhabit.
In this era of highly developed material wealth and extremely poor spiritual wealth, people are increasingly unable to find the meaning of life, so people are more and more confused, not knowing what to be happy about, what to cry for.
Because of this, Wang Yangming's thought is like a ray of sunshine, and its enlightenment significance to us is very great.
Yang Ming Xinxue tells us that the best way to live in life is that no matter how busy you are, you can reflect from the heart, visit your true thoughts, understand the truth of things, take conscience as the foundation, and rebuild your spiritual universe, so that you can fundamentally be calm and calm.
Author: Mr. Senmei
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