Chinese culture is a big river that flows endlessly, not dead vines, old trees, and crows along the river! Sit in the lecture hall of Yu Qiuyu's Chinese culture compulsory course, and taste the silent and majestic vitality of Chinese culture.
Fading grass even horizontal evening sunshine, half city willow color half sound flute, green wax as red jade, full of clothes without memories, time comes and goes...
- "The Thirty-Eighth Summer Solstice"
Five minutes to gain, five minutes to lose. - Gong Jiu
An important feature of Chinese culture is called dilution of competition, which we have talked about a lot, and now it is finally time to summarize. The ultimate spiritual goal of Chinese culture experienced by ancient celebrities and contemporary literati in their articles has nothing to do with competition.
In life, we will definitely encounter many, many troubles, and when we encounter trouble, you will feel that you are talking about this, and the actual things are much more painful than we think. So in one of my speeches in Taipei, I said that a lot of our competition comes from pseudo-coordinates.
If you think about our dorm room at the university, when you sleep at night, you may have a few friends who live with the dormitory, due to some specific problems, there is a verbal dispute, and sometimes the dispute is very fierce, thinking that I will no longer pay attention to this classmate, thinking that I must prove that you are wrong, and whether we will often do this when we are in college. But when a few years have passed and we graduate, how will we feel when we see this friend again? We get the sense that the anger in the dormitory is a false coordinate.
We expand this matter and look at it again, and it is also true in our lives, and we have to see through this. You see "Good Song" in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the words at the beginning of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", all of which show that everything that is great is turned around and empty, only after slowly feeling that everything has passed, the most real thing is nature, is your own calm state of mind.
Sad old things throughout the ages, a spring breeze of laughter. Fragmentation of the short story of heroes.
Always lead for merit.
Everyone was violent, and everyone was in a hurry. Glory and wealth turned their heads empty.
It's like Nanke's dream.
——Xi Jiang Yue Twenty-one History Bullet Words Eighth Paragraph Says Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Descending Words Yang Shen [Ming Dynasty]
Regardless of whether you win or lose
I personally have a experience, such as why I am not young, have done so many things, walked so many roads, written so many books, but it is precisely the place where people see it as the most successful, but I have bought it from another thing, that is, I have not considered winning or losing at all.
I've said many times, and I said that when I was writing that very thick World Drama, I didn't expect it to be published, and I couldn't publish it, so why did you write it? Even if you don't care about winning or losing and don't think about the consequences, I feel that culture shouldn't be like this, and I will talk about drama in the future.
Who would have thought that this book would later be published and won the first prize for excellent teaching materials in the country, and it has been 30 years since then, and no other work has been able to replace it. It seems to have been a success, but I take it very lightly, and I think the reason why others have not written it now may be that I really have nothing to do at that time, so I studied more carefully, the material was more complete, I provided the material completely, then the younger generation did not need to write a new work to replace it.
Then you think about it, I resigned, this is also regardless of whether I win or lose. No one knows what I can write, no one knows what I can do in the end, they don't know. But I felt that at that time, I wanted to go through the centuries of suffering of Chinese culture and look for the millennium glory of Chinese culture, and I did not think that I would have to produce a few very best-selling books. As a result, I slowly got everything done.
There are also some people in the middle who try their best to let you lose, and I would like to advise everyone to do everything possible to let you lose, such a force seems to be very large, but in fact, if you really grasp it, it is impossible to lose. If you lose, you see through the loss. After seeing through the loss, you are completely detached, and you become a truly free person, a comfortable person.
Yu Qiuyu in the cultural journey
For example, I just talked about writing "World Drama", and many people framed me, but they wrote articles, and then wrote thousands of articles, and they couldn't say a single word that I didn't write well in this book, and this book is constantly being reprinted. This book, which I wrote during the Cultural Revolution, continues to become a teaching material. So on this issue, it seems that the reputation has been lost, but you don't argue, and after a debate you will be tired.
There are also many people who say why don't you come out and argue? For example, when the earthquake occurred, I donated several primary schools, and I didn't talk much about it, and it cost a lot of money, but some people said that it might be a fraudulent donation, and it ended up making trouble for several months. Don't get angry, don't argue, because the primary school library is really there. You don't care if it's a fraudulent donation, the truth can't be shaken by something. It doesn't matter if I really shake it, I can do something else. I'm more thorough about this, I don't take reputation as seriously.
Some people see how you can't lose, just let you lose in one thing, that is, every three months there are a few people on the website, day in and day out saying that my wife and I are divorced, and my wife keeps making divorce statements, and the tears are very, very painful. Should you be angry about this? My wife and I are not angry either. So in that sense, let's not compete, don't expend energy on this thing.
Go home
Countless facts have proved that if I compete at any point to win or lose, my energy will endlessly penetrate into the black hole, one black hole followed by the second black hole, the second black hole followed by the third black hole, and as a result you can't write so many books I have now, you can't walk so many roads I have now, and I will not become such a very healthy and happy person as I am now.
So a very important admonition is that when any frame-up attack comes, of course, you can also be angry, but don't care, as soon as you care, you raise its value, you make it the object of people's attention with you, and you have been hanging in the lawsuit for a long time, at least for a year or two, why are you bitter? Even if you win the case, you actually lose. Tired of coming out of the courtroom, you are the winner, I want to ask you are really the winner? Where have these two years gone? Where have you been happy all these two years? If none of this is there, it means you didn't actually win.
There are also some writers who, in response to people's unfriendly language to themselves, use new articles to show that they will not only write this but also write that, and the result is very sorry, your brilliant writing career has been swayed by a few very unspeakable, what we call literary. You're being swayed by the, how sad that is. You seem to have effectively hit them back, but then again, is it so important to fight back effectively?
Therefore, we cut these off and quietly do what we feel is important, choose what we like in the important things, and choose what we can do in the things we like. In this way, in the laughter of his own family, he happily finished all kinds of things, and did not care about anything that happened outside the door. Such a mentality is the mentality pursued by the philosophers, thinkers, literati, and poets of ancient China.
On the day of my resignation, I specifically read Tao Yuanming's article "Return to Xi Ci" to tell the reasons for my resignation from top to bottom, in fact, Tao Yuanming opened up a very good spiritual space. When we come back, we always have to go back, where to go? Return to our spiritual homeland. This shore is talking about the pastoral, this is called the pastoral music, and on the other shore he is talking about the peach blossom source, which is an ideal realm for him. How happy it is to live in that ideal state, and it is a kind of return.
Tao Yuanming is so clear, many thinkers are equally clear, so we don't have to deviate from the main line of Chinese culture, in the vicious competition of comparing others, costing our lives, consuming our kindness, consuming our friendship, consuming everything we have, this is completely unnecessary. So on this issue, I want to stand in my position and shout: Go back, come back. ”