Lin Yutang once said: "A leisurely life always needs a quiet heart, lotte's open concept and the mind to appreciate nature." ”
In today's fast-paced life, what is leisure and tranquility? It will be a puzzle for many people. Busy running around in high-rise buildings and seas of traffic every day, fatigue, anxiety and the gullies of various desires that can never be filled are always accompanied, there is no star sea and spring blossoms in the eyes, the heart is like a panic of ten thousand horses, and the return is no longer a teenager.
Can life really only be spent like this? The flowers are similar from year to year, so why are people different from year to year? What should the most authentic life look like?
The writer Kuan Kuan, who used to be in Beijing, is a typical working woman, after a long time of thinking, in the tide of people rushing to the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou, she retreated bravely and rushed to Dali, Yunnan, opening another quiet and good years she wanted. Open a café, study aesthetics, write, learn Chinese medicine, take a baby, do housework, write calligraphy... There is no longer the irritability and busyness of urban life, some are the tranquility and ease of the heart, and the kinetic energy of pruning personal branches and branches to grow better without hurrying, she has become the representative of the new immigrants in Dali.
Her choice is a kind of "broken" courage, and her current time in Dali is a kind of "standing" solid growth. In her new work "Like a Flower in the Wild", she unfolds to the reader the necessity and fundamental of a middle-aged person's "standing", that is, to constantly prune themselves, get rid of the clutter and distractions that disturb the heart, refine the "kung fu", get close to nature, and rush to the goal set without hesitation.
"As a flower in the wild" means that even a flower inserted in a vase must be inserted as if it were in full bloom in the wilderness, in a natural and unpretentious posture that does not cater to the unbridled. No matter what platform you are on, don't abandon the true nature of man, "like a flower in the wild".
The author writes in the book: "I long to be close to it, eager to prune myself day by day, to change the quiet and simple temperament." This state of mind of longing runs through the writing of this book. Perhaps, the demand for this state of mind is also the beginning of what you want.
01. Appreciate the erotic cultivation of natural beauty.
The feeling of "aesthetic imagery" in life is an indispensable way to have an authentic life. In the view of aesthetician Zhu Guangqian: "Beauty, half in things, half in you." "There is never a lack of beauty in life, but a lack of eyes to find beauty." Everything in nature has beauty to speak of.
The author and his daughter in a window rain, birds chirping in the early morning, savoring the quiet rhyme at this time, the daughter actually said: "The falling flower people are independent, the micro swifts fly twice" and the poetry that echoes the environment, the environment and the heart are integrated, at this moment, the infinite interest in life is born, the heart returns to purity, returns to the simplicity of nature, and tastes the beauty of nature, which is a kind of "enlightenment".
In ordinary life, the situation of "enlightenment" is always around, and there is no need to look around. A simple and elegant little flower on the side of the road may soothe the haze on your heart; a leisurely cloud floating in the sky may make you stop your hurried steps, stop and look up, and release the heaviness of your heart...
No matter how beautiful the situation is, it needs people of the same frequency to feel it, and the situation causes peace of mind and excitement in the mood, and the heart rejoices. Peony looks graceful and luxurious, but Su Shi sees the flower soul: "For the jun zero fall for the junkai", and the enlightenment is sublimated. Beauty is not in itself, but in the complexity of purifying people's hearts, with poetic interest, simple feelings of cultivation, this is the discovery of beauty and the extension of beauty of "half in things, half in you".
Kant said, "Beauty is a symbol of moral goodness." "Approaching nature and blending in with the beautiful state is a kind of quality cultivation, a pruning to find the most authentic self."
02. Cultivate the love of cultural beauty
"When you are impetuous, go and see Chinese paintings, it is really like a dose of cool powder." The author writes in the book.
In the traditional culture of the mainland, landscape painting occupies a place. Tasting painting is also a way to trim yourself, holding your breath in the appreciation of paintings, removing irritability, quiet and calm, which is the charm of culture, but also the "healing" of culture, which can be pleasant and nourishing, and can be indifferent.
In the book, the author created such a quiet and beautiful picture for us: in the middle of the night on a rainy day, alone in the study in front of the lamp and shadow to carefully look at the borrowed "Complete Collection of Song Paintings", see the excitement, get up and pace in the hut, eager to share with others, but only hear the dripping rain in the silent night.
The taste of life is sometimes just such a simple image, but its depth nourishes the soul, far from the network of interests in the world, and closer and closer to the true self in the world.
Chinese painting is the world of beautiful imagery, poetry is also, walking in poetry, the same thousands of world images are presented in front of us, in the rain, why not dashing like Su Shi "Do not listen to the sound of leaves through the forest, why not groan and Xu Xing"; when the spring flowers are full of garden, why not chant "peach blossom fragrance, plum flower fragrance, light white and crimson red, one by one bucket of new makeup" full of passion ... The world of poetry, the ocean of words, will make your life bland, and your impetuous heart will be calmed and gradually elegant.
Xi Zi, Flower Dao, Tea Ceremony, all of them also have the effect of meditation and healing, away from the troubles of fame and fortune.
03. Realize the erotic cultivation of the beauty of writing
The sharp increase in self-media writers has become lower and lower the threshold for entering writing, reflecting the joy of "popping" and typing the keyboard, and has become a public pleasure.
The author wrote in the book that writing this thing made me have a "sense of strength" and know where to go. In front of it, I dare to be honest, the most able to maintain effort, restraint and self-reflection, it is not a goal or goal, it is a road, it is a boat. The feeling of being sure of being "chosen" is that in front of it, one can pluck out one's heart and lungs and completely release oneself. It is now more accustomed to me, containing me, nourishing me.
Writing, is to write the real self, without reservation, if we also so all their joy and depression are appealed to the pen, if you tell a friend the same, the heavy heart also becomes brisk, but also in the text to find deficiencies and timely self-awakening, not only in the writing to refine the writing level, but also in the text to see themselves, timely trim themselves, a little bit of fun and not fun.
Writing, is the output, the smooth output to ensure the supply of input, which on the other hand, opened the door to reading, we can meet with excellent authors, famous artists in the text, acquaintance, so as to learn and improve their own cultivation in all aspects, quality to literacy, temperament to be indifferent.
Cai Yong's "Treatise on Pen" said: "The writer, scatter also." If you want the book, you will first scatter it, let it go, and then you will book it. "Scatter, express feelings, open-minded, free to write." The true meaning of a piece of writing is also the original intention and meaning of creation.
Write, summarize, comprehend, follow these three steps step by step, believe, writing together with yourself to a new ladder.
"At the beginning of man, nature is good", at first we were all the same teenagers, but walking and walking, we went our separate ways, each looking for their own favorite scenery, but no matter where they are, may the original intention still be there, or find the original heart, and find the beauty in the plainness of the day.
Life has always needed tenacious growth, but also need to be painstakingly trimmed, and then polished. The author said that if there is any expectation, it is to cultivate Xiao Xiao's solemn, cheerful and clear temperament, and the sharpness, tone, and momentum that he longed for when he was young are all gone, just a person who is natural, between heaven and earth.
Like a person's quiet, pure, crystal, jing, perhaps this like, is to constantly prune themselves, with all the beautiful things to enrich themselves, enrich themselves, feel themselves, and then be able to want to grow.
The cold winter sun, still not lacking in warmth, at this moment from the window shines in, the light spills all over the house, my heart instantly warms up, not by a sense of gratitude burst out, grateful for all such beauty, thanks to the warm words in "Like a Flower in the Wild" and the strength to give me to trim myself.
In the pruning, "the flowers on the strange have bloomed, and the king can slowly return.". Taste it, cherish it now.