"The Tale of the Small Window" is a popular reading of Chen Jiru in the Ming Dynasty, and together with Hong Yingming's "Cai Gen Tan" and Wang Yongbin's "Night Talk of the Hearth", it is called "the Three Strange Books of The World".
This is a book of famous sayings and famous sentences, all sentences have provenance, but put together in one place, and become a book of its own; the whole book is divided into twelve volumes such as "awakening, love, steep (qiào)", a total of more than 1,500 rules, involving Li Yan, Li De, Wei Xue, Zhi Shi, Li Ye, Zhi Jia and other aspects, mainly expressing indifferent fame and fortune, tranquility and far-reaching, otherworldly inner world and spiritual pursuit.
Let's take a look at the "Spirit Chapter" in this classic book:
1. If the eyes and ears are wide, the heavens and the earth are narrow, and the dispute is short, and the day and month are long
The eyes and ears are wide and the world is narrow: the eyes and ears want too much, this also likes that and likes, this also wants that and wants; is this person saying bad things about me behind my back? Was that person premeditated something against me? Then the heavens and the earth are naturally narrow. There are too many disturbing things to see and hear, how can you immerse your mind?
Short-term competition is longer: a little less competitiveness will make you feel that the years are long.
2. Those who are in a hurry, are not white, wide or self-explanatory, and do not (wú) be impatient to quickly anger (fèn); those who do not obey, indulge or self-make, do not exercise cut to benefit their stubbornness
Those who are not white in a hurry, broad or self-explanatory, do not be impatient and quickly angry: things are very urgent, but they are not clear, they may as well be relaxed and calm, naturally they can come out of the water; at this moment, we must be patient and not impatient, so as not to make our emotions excited, and even feel angry.
There are people who do not obey, indulge or self-make, and do not exercise themselves to benefit their stubbornness: some people, the more you manipulate and direct him, will not listen; but indulgence at will, perhaps you can self-enlightenment; do not be too hasty, like a machine gun, forcibly instilling what you think is right, and making him more stubborn. It's like tutoring a child with homework, the more you force him, the more he doesn't do it; you might as well let it go for a while, let him play for a while, and then talk about doing homework.
3. The change of the flesh and bones of the father and brother should be calm and not fierce; in the case of the loss of friends, it is advisable to cut (kǎi), and it is not appropriate to travel well
The change of the flesh and bones of the father and brother should be calm, not fierce: to deal with the conflict between parents and brothers, to be calm, not fierce, take a step back from the sea and the sky, home and everything.
When encountering the loss of friends and friends, it is advisable to cut through, it is not appropriate to travel: when encountering friends with faults and mistakes, they should be earnestly advised, and cannot delay and rub.
4. In the world of suffering, there are not enough obsessive people, people are hot to the intestines, my heart is cold; in the field of desire (shì), it is impossible to wake up many people (líng), people's hearts are cold, and my intestines are hot
In the world of suffering, there are not many obsessive people, people are hot to the intestines, and my heart is cold: in this troubled world, I can't wake up so many obsessive people; others are enthusiastic about this and try to get rid of it, but my heart is like water. That is, Master Huineng's sentence: Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform; there is nothing in the original, where to stir up dust.
In the field of lust, many clever people cannot be awakened, people's hearts are cold, and my intestines are hot: Vanity Fair, which covets all kinds of desires, cannot awaken so many shrewd people, people are cold about this, and I am enthusiastic about it.
5. Read to the quick end, and start all the color of perdition; speak to the heart of the cave, and break all the ambiguity (ài) and the ambiguity (mèi) of selfishness
Reading to the quick end, all the color of destruction: reading to the place of pleasure, can eliminate the feeling of frustration.
Speak to the heart of the hole, break all ambiguous privateness: When you speak thoroughly and clearly, when you point directly to the human heart, you can break all hidden thoughts.
People should always be grateful for life and nature.
Grateful for the infinite scenery brought to us by the aura of heaven and earth, grateful for the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy experienced along the way.
We must always return to nature, listen to the sounds of nature, experience the spirit of all things, and find the inner aura.
Enjoy the rare peace of life, only associate with the friends you like, but also get along with yourself often; fully realize the spirituality of the self and the world, so as to obtain happiness, so as to obtain peace.