Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
"It doesn't matter," said the Scarecrow, "I still want the brain, not the heart." A fool who has a heart doesn't know what to do with it. ”
"I want the heart," replied the tin lumberjack, "because the brain does not make people happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." ”
- The Wizard of Oz
01
The brain and the heart are a metaphor.
The brain represents rational thinking.
The heart refers to the human emotion.
Thinking makes people choose with reason in the midst of a thousand troubles, so that they have a sense of grasping autonomy.
Emotions make people feel sweet and happy, like an arrow target, so that the arrow of happiness has a definite goal.
02
Everyone has reason and emotion, unlike the Scarecrow and the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who think they lack reason, and the Tin Man thinks he has no emotion.
But the carrier of these two is not a specific brain and heart, in The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man already have what they dream of having.
The same is true for us, there is no lack of reason, there is no lack of emotion, the key is how to coordinate the two in the service of a good life.
03
When this balance favors reason and ignores emotion, life loses its self-interest.
When this balance is biased toward emotions and ignores reason, most of them brew regrets in life.
The trade-offs between the two constitute each person's distinct and unique personality.
Mencius said that fish and bear paws cannot be combined, but what is a fish and what is a bear paw is different in everyone's heart.
Raw and righteous are fish and bear paws, and reason and emotion are also fish and bear paws.
04
It is a delusion that we talk about the balance of reason and emotion. The choices of life are generally changed after some kind of enlightenment. Without an enlightening experience, there is no adjustment to balance reason and emotion.
However, there may be a possibility of compromise. The so-called balance is not necessarily the best solution to life's problems, but a balance that dominates the balance between the two.
This balance implies a perception that aims not to bias life towards one extreme.
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Read one or two, feel three or four.
I am a book turner in my spare time, and there is warmth in the text.
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