Elegant and dashing escape
Tanaka He
If you think about it, it's better to do Chinese. Chinese always live easily. For Chinese possess a master key to dissolve all pain and heaviness — to see through. No matter how difficult and insurmountable the spiritual crisis, once it is seen through, everything is empty, and everything does not have to be taken seriously. Isn't that what is going on in the world? Many commentators believe that Chinese lack a sense of humor, which is really a small look at our most proud traditional culture.
The humor of Westerners is a little humor, but the speech is funny and witty, and the humor of Chinese is a big humor and a big style. As big as the end of the world, as small as theft and love, war and famine, killing and setting fires, bullying and bullying... A joke, dissolved into nothing, a peaceful world, and the days continue to flow as easily as if nothing had happened. The otherworldliness of Chinese, the elegance of Chinese, lies in the fact that Chinese attach great importance to their own lives, to reality and disdain fantasy. For a person who has deeply grasped the mysteries of Chinese culture and cultivated to the home, there is no doubt that passion and fantasy are the five impurities that have not yet been seen through and have not yet been surpassed, and the ridiculous upheavals of the neuroticism of the mentally unsound. What could be more important to a Chinese who sees through the world than a relaxing day? What could be worse than destroying one's own comfortable state of mind, a calm rhythm? Looking at Socrates, Copernicus, and Galileo with our detachment, their pedantry is really funny. I couldn't think of Swann's love. Love is so serious and devoted, love completely becomes painful, it really can't be crossed. Isn't love for fun and fun? Not for ease and ease? Where in the world is there sincere love, unwavering love? He couldn't see through it. Poor ridiculous Swan!
What other people in the world can love the art of amusement and be as good at fun as Chinese? So that if there is no cross-talk sketch, even if the party is not a party, 1.1 billion people will not be able to eat it. As long as the program host is good at gags, he can be famous in Shenzhou and become a big celebrity. The works of Western humor masters painstakingly obtained by television stations have made us inexplicable, and we do not understand why foreigners love to laugh so much. In our opinion, there is really nothing ridiculous about those shows. Probably because they take humor as art too seriously, they deserve to be ridiculed by Chinese who don't take anything seriously. They don't know we've long since gone beyond humor. See through the humor. Our comedians can be worth a hundred times more than a hundred times by learning the foreign appearance of a toothless grandmother, because that is the freedom to get rid of the burden of culture. We are dashing, because nothing can make us sacred and solemn, nothing can not make us joke.
Chinese is not afraid of difficulties, because retreating in the face of difficulties is a manifestation of great wisdom and courage; Chinese is not afraid of failure, because we never fail. Thirty-six counts go up. In our philosophy, escape is the realm of wisdom, maturity, and mastery, while the courage to go forward and persistently pursue is the narrow blindness of the pedantic students who are ignorant of current affairs. No nation in the world has such a rich and long-standing philosophical paradise for the retreaters as we do. The development of modern civilization and science and technology has plunged the Western philosophy of advocating creativity, desire, and personal struggle into crisis, and Westerners who are exhausted in the difficult and fierce competition for survival and development have found that they have no retreat and no rear.
Looking back to the east, adrift in the rotation of speed and force, Eastern philosophy is undoubtedly Noah's Ark in the flood. They can't help but envy us for having old zhuang, that we can ride a donkey out of the customs, dream of becoming a butterfly, and dissolve the most harmful creative desires in human nature into the water of bai rou with purity and inaction. It is no wonder that the great historian philosopher Toynbee, after studying the general history of the world all his life and comparing the religions, philosophies, and cultures of the various ethnic groups on the earth, said very sincerely in his twilight years: "My wish is to be born in Xinjiang, China." "About this foreigner felt too tired and wanted to emulate Lao Tzu. Unfortunately, in the end, it has nothing to do with it, and can only regret it for life. We also have Zen that originated in South Asia but was sublimated by Chinese, which is more powerful and thorough than Lao Zhuang. Lao Zhuang also has a hidden and obvious intention, soft is for the sake of kegang, and nothing can be done. Zen, on the other hand, simply takes refuge in the passion of life in emptiness, silence, and contemplation, and once settled, there are seven passions and six desires, grace and resentment, and people have already ascended to heaven when they are alive. The westerners have always believed in the ancestor of man, Chagrius, who was born of the mating of the god Zeus with man, and was eaten by the demon Titan, who killed Titan with lightning and gave birth to a man in the ashes. For several years they have suffered from the inability to purify man's original sin, and can only admit that man is a mixture of God and the devil, and it is difficult to extricate themselves from this painful understanding. And our Zen only uses to say easily: "Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing in the original, where is the dust?" "It suddenly made the wisdom of Eastern philosophy a higher level, what original sin, what is the present sin, the purification of sin, it is really a philistine self-disturbance, once into Meditation, everything is rested, and there is no trouble.
Novel "Seventeen"
Tanaka He, Flower City Press
Even Confucianism, which takes joining the WTO as its responsibility, is always ready for the enterprising to retreat conveniently, and loyalty and forgiveness have taught us not to be forced to force people, "the tao is not good, floating on the sea" is tantamount to the open-mindedness and wisdom of getting out of the customs.
Paired with a rich and powerful philosophy of escape, Chinese means of self-cultivation are enough to amaze any nation in the world. Christian monasticism, Buddhist ordination, and the five virtues of Islam all carry a strict religious ritual nature, while Chinese cultivation is a non-religious ritual national spirit. It has become a concept of life that we no longer consciously consciously think of as philosophy and culture, from the emperors and secretaries of state to the three religions and nine streams of the poor people; from ruling the country and the world, to the martial arts of civil rule, to the family and making friends, eating and living, talking and behaving, all of them are among the cultivation. Once the sexual life is incorporated into the room, the confused and turbulent lust is sublimated into the formula of yin and yang, and the passion of sex becomes a transcendent artistic operation, such as the flowing water of the mountains. Not only sitting, standing, walking, but also breathing knowledge is like a must in the world. In the face of this omnipotence, foreigners are extremely ignorant. They didn't even understand the Six Laws of Tuna, they didn't know how to "blow to remove heat, exhale to remove the wind, sigh to get upset, take a breath, boo to disperse, and si to solve the pole"; of course, they did not know how to breathe through which sutra, what disease to cure, and it was even more difficult to understand the miracle of curing diseases and extinguishing fires thousands of miles away.
Most Chinese do not necessarily have to become immortals, but self-cultivation is indeed a good place for us to escape from the entanglement of the world's troubles and passions. Talented and ambitious people take advantage of this to cultivate obscurity and hide the sharp edge; the proud one cultivates the spirit and cultivates the style, and the frustrated person masturbates in poetry and wine to seek psychological balance. Preserving practical interests, protecting physical and mental health, self-cultivation, and purity of heart are the wisest choices.
What country can turn an ancient divination manual into a heavenly book for generations of people healing psychological wounds? Those who do learning study zhou yi philosophy in three lifetimes and five lives, and always have articles to do; those who make a living have been divining and selling gua for generations, and they will always have food to eat. In the 1990s, he was promoted to study, worked in business, went out to live at home, married and bereaved, and asked King Wen for gossip, which became fashionable.
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Qinqi calligraphy and painting, flowers, birds, insects and fish, tai chi, eight dan jin, five birds play... Compared to Westerners, rock jumping, cliff climbing, surfing, racing... Obviously both economical and civilized and elegant. Chinese don't need a gym. Our cultivation is "to be a furnace with the body, with the heart as the crown, with the essence and qi as the medicine, and with God as the fire." This is still the inferiority in cultivation. The superior takes heaven and earth as the furnace, the highest multiplication takes taiji as the furnace, and the too virtual is the top. That's how we get.
The paradox of Westerners is that they constantly remind people of their sense of original sin, and on the other hand, they do everything possible to mobilize people's desires and promote their vitality. Their fitness can only make them more energetic, more active in desire, more passionate, more agitated in fantasies, making each individual more restless. However, our self-cultivation is to strive for a higher level of morality, and we cultivate in order to calm people's impulses, people's fantasies become blank, and people's vitality of life is reduced to a state of hibernation. Westerners write and attach importance to the meaning of words; Chinese writing, and dissolve the meaning of words as a form of entertainment and self-amusement. Calligraphy, I am afraid, is also the national essence of the Chinese nation, which can be called the best in another world. Words are no longer symbols of thought or language, but become a technique, a skill, a game. The literati doctor vented his emotions in the dragon flying phoenix dance, and this emotion did not have to be harmed in the emotions of life. The word has lost its original meaning. Ornamentality makes the content of the writing become the decoration of life, and the meaning expressed in the words does not have to be taken seriously. It was just meant to be written to people, framed and hung there. Or in order to calm one's own ordinary thoughts, so as to jump out of the Three Realms, purify the five roots, and cultivate the heavens and the years. Calligraphy, in the current era of people's desires, for Chinese to cultivate the spirit, maintain static, maintain the oriental style is really a great contribution, calligraphy and classical poetry marriage, especially so that China's ancient and simple traditional culture does not have to become a plaything of the old.
Create mountains and make them crest; make the sea and make them vast; make flowers and plants so colorful; and make beasts and make them fierce. What about creating man? Make it fantasize, passion is unrestrained, and life is vibrant. When we flee gracefully and gracefully, will the ease of life be so easy that we will suffer in vain? I think that people who have cultivated at home must only have a faint smile when asking such questions.
This article is written by | Tanaka He
The original work is selected from Essays, No. 3, 1994
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"Seventeen"
Tanaka was grinning
Looking back at the age of seventeen, I left home
To us who live in confusion and regret
Brief introduction
Seventeen is the age at which the story takes place
Everyone begins their life travel at the age of seventeen
The loss of a donkey allowed the mother to enter her father's world at the age of seventeen. At the age of seventeen, some of us have a family, some of us have passed away, some have wandered, and some have traveled far.
The novel tells the life of an era in the Central Plains family for more than thirty years, whether it is involved in the world, or choose to be lonely, after thousands of sails, everyone will eventually meet.