01
Mr. Yang Dai wrote in the "100-year-old Testimonial":
"I can't know for sure how far I can go, and I can't help but live, but I know very well that I'm about to 'go home.'" ”
"I have to wash away the filth of this hundred years and go home. I don't have the feeling of "climbing Mount Taishan and living a small world", and I only live a peaceful life in my own small world. ”
When people are old, at a certain age, and have accomplished certain things, they will actually feel the time to "go home". People, who stay in this world, are only passers-by after all. And the result can only be "home".
Different people have different views on going home.
Some people think that it is still the best in the red dust world, and "going home" or something is nonsense. They are like naughty children wandering in the world of flowers and flowers, and they always have a great resistance to "going home" in their hearts.
Some people feel that when to "go home", it is only a matter of time, as long as they live plainly and plainly, everything is worthy of their conscience, then it is enough.
For the matter of returning home, Professor Zeng Shiqiang said that the greatest pursuit in life is to return to his hometown with peace of mind.
This earthly experience card will eventually expire. If so, why do we have to be so entangled?
A person, as long as he has completed these few things, is not far from "going home".
02
Man, as long as he sees through everything, is not far from home.
Greek philosophers believed that life is a process of continuous evolution of ideas.
From innocence and ignorance to struggle and maturity; from work struggle to thinking about the meaning of life; from thinking about life to anxiety and uneasiness; from being full of anxiety to being indifferent in heart, everything can be seen through. At this point, life is over.
The understanding of life is actually closely related to the experience of the red dust world.
And the red dust world, coming and going is just a few things, since ancient times for thousands of years has not changed.
Material money, fame and power, personal connections, family rise and fall, face and human nature... And so on, are the tests and challenges that cross our lives.
When we see these things completely through and stop tangling up, then don't we reach the realm of "washing away the filth" that Mr. Yang Dai called?
Be a person, don't see through things that don't belong to you at an age that doesn't belong to you. Sometimes, seeing through too early is not a good thing.
03
People, as long as they send their parents away, are not far from home.
Who is the closest person in this life? Children and wives are the relatives who accompany us to old age. And our parents are the ones who are closest to us.
There is a saying that is helpless, parents are here, life still has a way; parents go, life is only the way back.
Middle-aged people after the age of 50 should be able to feel that their parents have left, and their hearts have slowly "empty". Because we no longer have an earthly "home.".
We can create a new "family" for future generations, but our own "home" has long since dissipated into time with the departure of our parents.
I thought that life is a long process and has nothing to do with anyone. But what we didn't expect was that our parents were, after all, the beings that made us "inseparable".
The moment we send our parents away, our mission in this life has been 80% completed. In this life, there is only "the withering of autumn leaves", and there is only a life of "falling plum fragrance as before".
04
People, as long as they have completed the "ups and downs" of life, they are not far from home.
In the I Ching, there is such a gua xiang - Qiangua.
It can correspond to the life experience, roughly divided into these six stages: just developed - there are signs - meet nobles - become a career - to the peak - downhill road.
That is to say, our life will show the trend of "inverted U-shape". Generally speaking, the last moment on the downhill road is the beginning of our journey home.
When we are young, we constantly struggle, what is it for? It's just to achieve a career and make a certain amount of money.
In middle age, we persevere and make the family stable, what is the purpose? Just so that life can be okay and keep the status quo.
In our later years, we choose a plain life, for what? Just so that life can flow like water, slowly flowing to the end.
The flow of water, even if the water is long, will eventually reach the source of the day. The same is true of life. After experiencing the ups and downs, then we are very close to home.
05
People, as long as their hearts are satisfied and return to their true nature, they are very close to going home.
In Lao Tzu's thought, there is such a word, called "return to the basics."
What is "back to basics"? That is to wash away the lead. Man, after experiencing half a life, actually let the soul return to the pure posture, so that the whole person becomes simple, just like a baby.
Young people can not return to the truth, middle-aged people can not do back to the truth, only after enduring many tribulations, the heart is no longer entangled, gradually satisfied with the elderly, will slowly reach the realm of return to the truth.
Perhaps, we will especially hate to go back to basics and stop ourselves from behaving like this. However, as long as we are no longer hypocritical, truthful in everything, and look down upon, then we are not far from returning.
The most typical return to basics is what we often say: "Man will die, and his words will be good."
Again, life is a process of continuous enlightenment, and it is the right time to feel the right thing. To a certain extent, the train has arrived, and we all have to go home.
That's all.
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