Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
Human happiness does not depend on reason, computers, or matter, but comes from emotions, intuition, instincts, and happy actions. All eternal and great love must despair once, disappear once, and die once before it can regain love and know the value of life again.
——Mu Xin's "Literary Memoirs"
The feeling of losing and regaining naturally leads to the result of "doubly cherishing", but most of the things in the world are really lost, and there is little opportunity to experience the ups and downs of grief and joy once lost and regained.
Therefore, although there is a profound change of understanding between gain and loss, we cannot rely on this method to experience our own life, and no one will expect to feel life in an extreme way.
Sensibility is the direct basis of our experience of life, and the joy and sorrow in a person's heart are generated, brewed, accumulated and expressed through sensibility, which is the most natural way.
That's why Mu Xin said that human happiness depends on emotions and instincts.
Perceptual cognition is innately formed and does not need to be deliberately carved, compared with reason, which has a somewhat "hateful" appearance, which relies on acquired learning and cultivation.
In a sense, anything that requires deliberate effort and effort is always unpleasant. This is clear from observing the inertia of children in class and doing homework after school.
This kind of displeasure, which we also have when we are young, cannot completely disappear with the increase of age and experience.
However, there is the pleasure of patience in reason, and this feeling cannot be found in the purely sensual pleasure.
If a person is willing to endure and is not willing to accept the temptation to be happy in time, it means that he has found some kind of goal that is more ambitious than the happiness of the present moment.
We can say that he deposited his feelings of happiness in the bank and secretly accumulated his feelings of happiness in order to get greater returns in the future.
The role of reason is not to rebel against intuitive pleasures, but more like a wise steward, good at managing time, with the aim of making happiness more ambitious and lasting.
Sensual revelry remains the most extreme manifestation of our joy, but that does not mean that reason gets in the way of happiness itself.
Although the impression of rationality is always silent and deep, in everyone's life, there will be intentional or unintentional accumulation of rational ways of thinking.
Making good use of reason means reconciling the ratio of favorability and reason in life, so when sensibility rejects the position of reason by virtue of its natural advantages, it is timely to say three or two sentences for reason.