Life is divided into three stages

"Life is divided into three stages:

Look at the mountain is the mountain, look at the water is the water;

Look at the mountain is not the mountain, look at the water is not the water;

Look at the mountain or the mountain, look at the water or the water."

Think about these few words and try to understand it in your own way. After pondering and meditating for a few days, I could not fully understand the meaning of this sentence. Right and use my limited knowledge to understand this sentence.

Our life is all a cycle. A process from being to nothing and then from nothing to being. Take the 'sincerity' that each of us has as an example.

We have experienced infancy, adolescence, youth, until we enter the society, we are all communicating with the world with 'sincerity'. At this time, we: look at the mountain is the mountain, look at the water is the water.

It wasn't until we started to get in touch with this society that everything around us began to be different.

We treat the people around us with sincerity, but we are repeatedly beaten in the face. So we started to get cautious as if we were walking on thin ice. We try to understand a society that is completely contrary to our 'sincerity'. We stumble and stumble forward, sometimes even doubting ourselves, doubting life, and doubting everyone around us.

We are forced to change, to become pandering, to become hypocritical, to become cunning like a fox. We grind ourselves from 'square' to 'circle' – of course, society also recognizes the changes we have made for 'it' – we are like children who have found the 'rules of the game' of society, ecstatic and buried 'sincerity' in their hearts.

We are constantly accepting the 'social experience' of others, and their 'social truth' is constantly haunting our ears. 'It' makes us commit ourselves to perfection, to oppress ourselves, so that we can accept the rules of his game and integrate into the game of 'it'. In order to obtain more 'resources', we are forced to socialize, forced to obey, forced to sell ourselves at a low price – a person who is on a thief's boat, it is difficult to leave.

Until one day, we gained fame and fortune, and finally lived a 'good life' in the eyes of others. We are no longer obsessed with the truth of the matter. Everything becomes ambiguous and specious. We can accept anyone's 'referring to deer as horses' – we stop arguing and laugh in silence. 'Sincerity' has become an unrealistic luxury for us. At this time, we look at the mountain is not a mountain, and the water is not water.

Until one day, we suddenly woke up.

We find ourselves living very tired, not living like ourselves. Even those of us who want yin and yang are beginning to doubt us. So we thought about it and began to reflect on ourselves. We made up our minds and decided to find our true selves.

At first, we will be a little annoyed, complaining about the 'society': we have approached you sincerely, but you have been punched in the face again and again. You tell us 'Put away your sincerity!' Only pandering is king! ’。 We compromised. Take the initiative to give up your sincerity just to find the king's way in your mouth. And after going round and round, you tell me in turn: 'The sincerity you bury in your heart is the king'.

We give up complaining, no longer indulge in other people's opinions, and pay more attention to our own feelings. We treat people sincerely, do things sincerely, and get along with others sincerely. While we have found our sincere selves, we have also won the respect of others.

It seems like we're back in our teenage years – frank and sincere, but there are differences. As an older brother told me: We can choose to be sincere or not be sincere when dealing with people we don't like. However, only sincerity can go long.

At this time, we: look at the mountain or the mountain, look at the water or the water.

'Look at the mountain is the mountain, see the water is the water', the truth is the truth, the false is false - there is no half-truth and half-false;

'Look at the mountain is not the mountain, look at the water is not the water', the real can be false, the fake can become the real - there is no absolute truth;

'Look at the mountain or the mountain, look at the water or the water' is true, not false for the time being; false, temporarily not true - there is no eternal truth or falsehood.