Some people say that there are four great joys in life: long drought and Ganlin, other hometowns meet the old knowledge, cave flower candle night, when the gold list is titled;
Some people also say that there are four major tragedies in life: the loss of mother at an early age, the loss of a father at a young age, the loss of a wife in middle age, and the loss of a son in old age.
But no one has ever said what would happen to God if almost all of these four great joys and four great sorrows were inflicted on the same person.
Wang Wei is this person who is frequently "cared for", and if heaven gives him a piece of sugar in this hand, he will definitely take away the apple in his other hand.
However, the cruel heaven still retained a little mercy and left Wang Wei with her mother, and it was precisely because of this little hope of life that Wang Wei eventually became the three great poets of the Sheng Tang Dynasty alongside Li Bai and Du Fu.
Su Shi once said: "There are paintings in the poems of the taste of the Maha, and there are poems in the paintings of the observation of the paintings." ”
Everyone knows Wang Wei's name of "Poetry Buddha", but not everyone knows his status as a "generation of masters" in literati paintings.
He became famous at a young age and was the first, stunning the Tang Dynasty, but he dedicated the second half of his life to the landscape and the countryside, blending between pen and ink and Danqing.
Wang Wei had three of the most important landscape paintings in his later years, and if you understand one, you will understand life.
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Jiang Gan Xueji: In the second half of life, subtract from life.
Different from the magnificent scene of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, this "Jianggan Xueji Map" has completely separated from the influence of other painting schools, the architecture in the painting is no longer regular and complicated, the mountain and stone lines are relaxed, there is no thick ink and color, and everything is simple.
This is the true portrayal of Wang Wei's life in his later years, being the simplest person, eating the simplest meal, and living the simplest life.
When he was young, Wang Wei was talented and sharp, so he offended many people and suffered repeated setbacks in his career.
750 AD. At the age of fifteen, Wang Wei, who was still depressed at the age of fifty, rushed home to visit his relatives, but his son wanted to raise him and did not wait.
Before her death, my mother asked Wang Wei, "Do you know why your name is Wang Wei Ma jie?" ”
Wang Wei suddenly realized.
His mother studied Buddhism, and he had read the Vimalaya Sutra since he was a child, and the name "Vimalaya" translates to "no dirt," i.e., "purity."
Who can be indifferent and pure at this moment? Who can calmly recite "Everything that has a way, like a dream bubble, like dew and electricity, should be viewed as such"?
Widowed in middle age, old and childless, Wang Wei lived alone for the next thirty years and never married.
The sad and indignant Wang Wei traveled to Jiangnan alone, and the green mountains and green waters gradually calmed his scarred heart, and he wrote the famous "Birdsong Stream" and "Mountain Residence Autumn Breeze" during his travels.
Birdsong
People idle osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet in the spring mountain sky.
The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and when the song is in the spring stream.
Deep in the mountains, birdsong. But if you are not a person with a quiet mind and far from the world, how can you feel a true peace in the noise?
"Mountain House Autumn Dawn"
After the new rain on the empty mountain, the weather came late in autumn.
Bright moon pine light, clear spring stone upstream.
The bamboo hustle and bustle returned to the raccoon girl, and the lotus moved down the fishing boat.
Feel free to rest in the spring, and Wang Sun can stay for himself.
Since then, in Wang Wei's poems, the word "empty" has appeared more and more frequently. Yes, that's exactly the word his mother gave him.
Since Heaven wants me to have nothing, then I don't want anything, I just sit and watch the landscape, enjoy the beautiful scenery, and seek a moment of inner peace.
Life is never an addition, but a subtraction.
Constantly choose to abandon those unnecessary things, so that the heart will not be shrouded in haze, the light will shine in, in order to see the road and the distance.
Lao Tzu also said that the road is simple.
Simple, is the vicissitudes of the mulberry field, after the prosperity of the return to the truth.
Simplicity is the complexity of the world and the vicissitudes of life.
Simple, is to see the mountain is still a mountain, to see the water or the wisdom of the water.
People live to the extreme, must be plain and simple.
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Snow Creek Chart: The second half of life, return to calm.
Everything in the world has its own origin, but also its own place, when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, look up at the sky and the clouds change, water will naturally become clouds, clouds will naturally become rain, mountain streams will naturally have water, why bother with where it comes from? Isn't it good to talk and chat with a mountain man you met by chance?
Thanks to this accident, we can enjoy this song that has touched countless people. When we think of the phrase "walk to the end of the water and sit and watch the clouds rise" in every moment of despair, we will have the power of calm in our hearts.
"The End of the South"
Middle-aged quite good, late home Nanshan.
Every time you come and go, you will know yourself.
Walk to the end of the water and sit and watch the clouds rise.
Occasionally valued Lin Shuo, talking and laughing without repayment.
After middle age, Wang Wei became more and more nostalgic for Yuanchuan, which is his spiritual habitat and his paradise.
He has been in business for many years, carefully designed twenty tourist sites, and his good friend Pei Di wrote poems in the name of each scenic spot, and collected these poems into a book, which is the collection of landscape poems "Yuanchuan Collection" that has been handed down to future generations.
We can see that there is a moss-covered wetland in the River:
"Luchai zhài"
There was no one in the empty mountain, but there was a sound of people.
Return to the deep forest and look back at the moss.
He would play the guqin on a moonlit night, and the bamboo around him would make a fluttering sound with the wind: "Sitting alone in the fence, playing the piano for a long time." The people of the deep forest do not know that the bright moon has come to take pictures. ”
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Everything is silent and ethereal, there is no joy of life, there is no sorrow of death, but everything is eternal and immortal, making people forget life and death, and all thoughts are silent.
Later in life, Wang Wei saw through it even more: the process of life is actually a process of continuous loss.
Since you keep losing, why not empty yourself completely? He even donated the spiritual habitat that he had been carefully managing for many years, the Renchuan Beiye, to the monastery, and from then on, he concentrated on practicing Buddhism.
Jing, not mediocre, but full of connotation of remoteness, is the thickness of life after experiencing precipitation.
In the second half of life, please return to peace, in order to truly enjoy the tranquility, ease and freedom of life.
In his old age, he was quiet and did not care about anything.
There is no long-term strategy for self-care, and the empty knowledge returns to the old forest.
The loose wind blows the belt, and the mountain moon plays the piano.
Jun asked poor reasoning, and the fishing song went deep into the pool.
Wang Wei's "Snow Creek Map" is called the "four voids", that is, people are "empty", mountains are "empty", water is "empty", and heaven is "empty", thus reaching the realm of "emptiness" of the heart and "quietness" of the heart.
This just confirms Wang Wei's poem:
In the Cai Gen Tan, it is said: "The years are long, and the busy ones promote themselves; the heavens and the earth are wide, while the contemptible ones are self-absorbed; the wind, flowers, snow, and moons are idle, and the disturbers are redundant." ”
Everything is finished, everything is dusty, and the world is prosperous, but it is a fine sand.
Life is a long journey, even if there are more bustle and noise along the way, but in the end, you may only be left with "white and really clean" like "Snow Creek Map".
As Wang Wei said, "My mind is idle, and So is Kiyokawa." ”
Only when a person is quiet inside can he calmly deal with external objects.
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Tsutomu Kawa: In the second half of life, learn to love yourself.
In his later years, when Wang Wei retired to Lantian Andichuan, he made a 4.8-meter-long "Map of The River" in the Qingyuan Temple, which showed a picture surrounded by mountains, trees, pavilions, pavilions, and pavilions, simple and dignified; outside the villa, the clouds and water flowed wildly, and occasionally there were boats passing by, a calm and self-satisfied appearance.
Four or five old monks, hanging out in the shade of pine cypress.
Towards the Fan Lin is not dawn, and the Night Zen Mountain is even more silent.
In the twilight of his life, Wang Wei carefully ran his own Villa and lived the life he liked.
When there is something to go to the dynasty, there is nothing to return home, take time to paint, study Buddhism, even if he is constantly rewarded by the emperor, he is not at all moved by fame and fortune.
After seeing through the impermanence of the world, Wang Wei no longer cared about the various rights and wrongs in the official arena. He clings to what he deserves, cherishes the happiness around him, is indisputable with the world, simple and happy.
In the second year of the First Yuan Dynasty (761), Wang Wei died. On his deathbed, he calmly wrote a letter to say goodbye to his friends, and then left this world with a calm smile.
If Li Bai is a wild horse that has lost its reins in sheng tang, and his arrogance is a dream in the hearts of every future generation to break away from the barriers, then Wang Wei is a warm, smooth and delicate pearl.
This is Wang Wei, who stands in the bustling Chang'an with a long jade body, picturesque eyebrows, noble temperament, safe and quiet, and graceful.
He experienced the great prosperity of the world, and then he had nothing. But he leaned on the door of the scepter and listened to the cicadas in the wind, not seeking glory, not seeking riches, but seeking peace of mind.
His mind is so "pure", his mind is so "calm", he completely emptied himself, the body and mind and nature are one, and the whole universe is one, and he has reached the highest "realm" of life.
In our lives, we will meet many people in our lives, experience many things, there are too many uncontrollable factors, and no one does not come to the end with regrets.
I don't know when, wrinkles have quietly crawled all over the face;
I don't know how many ideals have withered in a grand firework;
Even the flowers and applause that appeared one second, the next second people went to tea...
People's energy in this life is limited, and you can't do everything. Perhaps, only after going through the events of the world will you understand that only those who grasp in their own hands are truly cherished.
Zhuangzi said: "The way of the husband does not want to be complicated, there are many miscellaneous, many are disturbed, disturbed is worried, and worried is not saved." Ancient to man, first to himself and then to others. ”
Loving yourself is the most basic law of a person's survival.
Because, in the distance is the scenery, near is life.
May you go through half your life and love yourself like Wang Wei: look down on the vicissitudes of the world, and your heart is always unharmed.
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