Abandon in action
"Don't do this! You're dead hearted! Conquer yourself! "This kind of moral preaching is really annoying; the morality that makes me happy is to motivate me to do something, from morning to night, not to think about anything else, not to have other dreams, just to repeat it, to concentrate on it, to do it as independently as possible!
Whoever lives in this way abandons one by one what does not belong to this life, and sees this today, tomorrow, and says goodbye to him, like the yellow leaves that fall when the breeze blows the treetops, but he has no complaints. Or, he has no time to worry about the departure of these things at all, because his eyes are only fixed on his own goals, always looking forward, not distracting, not looking back. "Our actions determine what we abandon, and we abandon in our actions." I love this quote and that's my opinion. But I do not deliberately pursue poverty, but I do not like those moralities that are of a negative nature, that is, those that deny nature and deny the self.
Two happy people
Although this person is young, he is good at improvising in life, and the old connoisseur audience is also stunned. Although this man has been doing bold and adventurous performances, he never seems to have lost his hand. One can't help but think of the music masters who are good at improvisation, and the audience feels that their hands are like divine help, and they can't go wrong, even if they do, just like mortals. However, they are skilled, can be in a hurry, and when the emotion comes and the fingers move, they can perfunctorily pass the occasionally wrong tone and inject it into the thematic structure, and also give this flaw a new meaning and charm.
There's another one here, and the opposite is true. Whatever he decided to do, what he planned to do, was basically a failure. In this regard, he was inevitably frustrated, and the failure also forced him to the edge of the cliff, almost destroyed. If he was finally freed from his doom, the damage he suffered was by no means insignificant. You think they're unlucky, right? But he had already made up his mind that he didn't have to pay too much attention to his hopes and plans, and he said to himself: "If this fails, maybe that will succeed; in general, I should be more grateful for failure than for success." Am I born a stubborn man, a man with horns on his head? The value of my life, the fruits of my life, is in another place, and my self-esteem and pain are also in another place. I learned more from it, because I often almost lost my life, and because of this, I got more out of life than all of you! ”
What to learn from artists?
What are some ways for us to make something that is not beautiful, unattractive, and unworthy of coveting beautiful, attractive, and covetous?
In this regard, we can learn from doctors, for example, who dilute bitter things and put wine and sugar into mixed cups, but we can learn more from artists, because they are constantly committed to the creation of this kind of art.
Distance yourself from things until you can't see them; or add to them in order to see them clearly; or change the angle to observe, from a cross-sectional perspective; or put things somewhere so that they are partially deformed and camouflaged; or do perspective observation; or observe with colored glass, in the sunset afterglow; or give things a layer of incomplete transparency. All these things, we should learn from artists; it is not only learning, we should be smarter than them, because their beautiful power generally ends with the end of art, and we must become the creators of life, especially the creation of the most subtle, everyday life.
The illusion of the contemplative
The difference between the superior and the inferior is that the former is much more knowledgeable than the latter, and it is to see and listen while thinking. This is also the difference between man and animal, higher animal and lower animal.
For a person with a highly developed personality, the world is becoming richer and richer, there are more and more interests thrown at him, he is more and more excited, and all kinds of likes and dislikes are more and more instincts. The superiors are getting happier and happier, and they are getting more and more worried. An illusion always accompanied him: he had always thought that he was the audience of this great drama of life, the audience of this great concert, calling his nature to be contemplative, while ignoring that he was the creator of the play of life, continuing to be the creator, ignoring that he was very different from the actors of this play, and even more different from the pure audience in front of the stage and the guests attending the festival. Admittedly, he is a creator, whose nature is characterized by contemplativeness, but above all with the help of theoretical observation and aesthetic creativity, which is what the actors lack.
We, the people who are thinking and perceiving, are really creating and constantly creating what does not exist now, that is, to create a never-ending world, a world of evaluation, color, weight, opinion, class, affirmation, and negation. The poem we have created has been memorized, memorized, and dissolved in their flesh and blood by those who are called practitioners (i.e., the actors we call them), for practice and daily life. Everything that is valuable in the world today is not valued according to its characteristics - characteristics are always worthless - value is given by man, we are givers! We created this world of people!
What we lack is this realization, and sometimes we just grasp it, but we forget it in a flash. We misunderstand the power of the supreme good, and underestimate a level of ourselves, the contemplative meditator, and cannot always be as self-respecting and happy as we could have been.
Psychologists and pain
Taoists and theologians share a common root of inferiority: they always like to nag people that they are in poor physical and mental condition and must be treated thoroughly and painstakingly. People are always keen to listen to this kind of preaching, and for hundreds of years, they really believe in this prejudice, and feel that their physical and mental condition is indeed very bad, so they always sigh long and short, frown and face, and feel that life is hopeless, as if the impatience has reached its limit.
But what is the actual situation? In fact, they are convinced and loving of life, full of tricks and dexterity enough to break through embarrassment and remove the thorns of pain and misfortune.
I think that people's sexual preference for exaggerating pain and unhappiness seems to have become a good habit of life; on the other hand, they never mention analgesic drugs such as narcotics. The remedy for analgesia also includes hasty thinking, quiet surroundings, good and painful memories, intentions, hopes, all kinds of self-esteem and sympathy, all of which can almost achieve the effect of analgesics, and the pain reaches the extreme and naturally unconscious. We are very good at sweetening bitterness, especially in the heart, and have ancillary medicines for analgesia, both in times of bravery and nobility, and in times of submission and despair (noble sayings).
Losses are only temporary losses, and once we are damaged, there is some kind of gift that falls from the sky, such as a new power, such as just the opportunity to gain strength, which is also very good! What are the Taoists thinking about the "pain" of the hearts of our "wicked people"? What nonsense about the "misfortune" of enthusiastic people! Yes, deception is the point here: they know that people like us are blessed, but they are secretive about it, because it would be contrary to their theory. According to this theory, the source of all happiness lies in the extinction of passion, the cutting off of the will!
Finally, with regard to the prescriptions of these psychiatrists and the radical and difficult treatments they preach, we cannot help but ask: Is it really true that our lives are so miserable and overwhelmed that we have to replace them with an ascetic, sluggish lifestyle? Our condition is not so bad that we must accept the ascetic lifestyle!
Wisdom in pain
Man is as wise in pain as he is in joy. Pain and pleasure are the same primary forces that preserve human nature, and if they had not been such forces, they would have been eliminated long ago. As the name suggests, suffering is to create suffering for a person, but this cannot be a reason to oppose it, which is its essence.
I heard the captain's command in agony: "Collect the sails!" "A brave navigator must fully rehearse the crew: collect the sails in various ways, or the ocean will quickly engulf it. We live and we must save energy, and once pain sends a reliable signal, we must respond to it in a timely manner. When big crises and storms are approaching, we must try our best to avoid being "blown to the ground" and do our own thing.
Indeed, someone hears the opposite command when great pain is approaching. When the storm starts, they don't think so, they deal with it calmly, more proudly, happily, more like Takefu, yes, it is the pain itself that brings them the greatest moment! They are the heroes and great men of mankind who have endured pain and suffering. For suffering, these rare people must have their own justification. It's true! People should not reject their confessions! Suffering is the primary power to preserve and promote human nature, even if they possess it through moderation of comfort and comfort, and an unabashed aversion to joy.
Good for judgment
You now feel that something is wrong, and you have a soft spot for it, taking it as truth or believing it to be true and reliable. Now you've finally pushed it away and said your sanity had triumphed.
However, when you were another person in the first place—you could never be the same person—this error may be as inevitable to you as the "truth" you are now, because it is like a layer of skin, hiding and covering up many things that you cannot see. It's your new life and not your reason that kills that thought, it's you who don't need that opinion anymore, so it collapses, and irrationality crawls out of it like a worm.
We judge arbitrarily, never completely objectively, and at least often prove that there is still a vibrant force within us that can pierce that skin.
We have to deny, we have to deny, because there is something that lives in us and affirms itself, something that we do not yet recognize and observe! This will be in the interest of judgment.
Be cautious and cautious
Let us not put too much thought into punishing, blaming, and correcting others. It's hard for us to change a person. Even if we succeed in this, then we may be changed by others unconsciously.
It is better to wait and watch, waiting for our influence to outweigh the influence of others! Or don't get involved in a direct fight! Struggle is the will to punish, rebuke and correct others. Or elevate yourself to a higher level! Give your role models a more brilliant color! Use your own light to overshadow others! We don't want to be discouraged by others, like all punishers and dissatisfied, we would rather walk away and look away!
You have to learn to like it
When we treat music, we must first learn to see the image and melody of music, learn to treat it as a life of isolation and isolation from ourselves, and then we also need good will and effort to accept it. In spite of its strangeness and strangeness, they remain patient with its mood and its expression, and they maintain a charitable mentality toward its magic, and over time we finally get used to it, we expect it, and when we lack it, we lose something; and then it continues to exert its charm and compulsion, and it is uncontrollable, until we finally love it, bow to it, be fascinated, and even do not know what is more wonderful in the world.
That's how we learned to love music, and the same goes for everything else. We always maintain good will, patience, humility and gentleness towards strange and strange things, and thus end up being rewarded; strange and strange things slowly throw away their veils and present a new, indescribable beauty, which is its reward for our hospitality.
All self-loving people learn to love in this way, and there is no other way. People must learn to like.
Break the ignorance
Some people are perceptive and stubbornly advocating the belief that individualism is despicable and dirty. This belief clearly causes damage to individualism (and favors the instinctive consciousness of the group), because it takes away the good consciousness of individualism and identifies it as the source of all evil.
"Individualism is the misfortune of your life", which has been preached to man for thousands of years, but as mentioned above, it deprives individualism of much of its wisdom, joy, imagination, beauty, and makes it ugly, stupid, and poisonous! On the contrary, ancient philosophy teaches that the causes of unhappiness are completely different, and from Socrates onwards, thinkers teach: "You have no thoughts, no ignorance, you live by the rules, you are subordinate to the opinions of your neighbors, and this is why you have little happiness and joy, and we thinkers are the happiest and happiest." ”
Here, we shall leave aside whether this anti-ignorance teaching is more sufficient than the anti-individualistic preaching, but it is certain that it takes away the self-righteous side of the consciousness of ignorance, and these philosophers break it.
What is "knowing"?
Spinoza said in its characteristic simplicity and masterful way: "Do not laugh, do not lament, do not despise, but understand!" So how does this "understanding" differ from the first three, which we can perceive immediately? Is it the result of mocking, lamenting, and scorning these antagonistic instinctive desires? Before a kind of understanding arises, every instinct must first give a unilateral view of the thing or the situation that is happening, and then the various unilateral views fight each other, from which compromises arise, to achieve balance and agreement of all parties, to fairness and contract. These instincts, with the help of this fairness and contract, can preserve themselves and maintain each other's rights. We have only understood the final reconciliation and conclusion reached by this longer process, and on this basis we have argued that the so-called understanding is in fact a conciliatory, fair, good thing, which is essentially the exact opposite of instinct, but only a certain relationship between the various instincts.
For a long time, people regarded conscious thinking as the whole of thinking. It is only now that we have come to understand that most of the activity of the mind takes place in our unconscious, unconscious, but we also think that these instincts of struggle with each other are very sensitive to each other and try to increase the suffering of the other. This is the root cause of the sudden exhaustion that thinkers tend to feel. Yes, there may be heroism lurking within us, but it is by no means what Spinoza calls a sacred "eternal sleep."
Conscious thinking, especially the conscious thinking of philosophers, is in fact the weakest, and therefore the most gentle and tranquil way of thinking. In this way, the most error-prone to understanding of the characteristics of knowledge is the philosopher.
What is "greatness"?
If a person does not have the strength and will to add great pain to himself in his heart, how can he achieve great things? Man can endure hardship, which is really insignificant, and even weak women and even slaves have an extraordinary performance in this regard.
However, if you add great pain to yourself and hear the call of great pain, but are not destroyed by great pain and uneasiness, such a person can be called great!