There is a sentence in the "Augmentation of The Sages": "Liangtian Qianqian is only three meals a day, and the Ten Thousand Rooms in Guangsha only sleep on a bed of three feet." This means that even if you have a thousand acres of land, you can eat three full meals a day. Even if you own a house of tens of millions, you only sleep in three feet of beds every day.
Of course, it is not that material things are not important, material life is equally important, but in contrast, the real wealth of life is not the money and status you have, but the wealth and pleasure of the heart.
After all, material desires never have a bottom line. We all have to accept our own ordinariness, of course, moderate desire can make us strive to advance. But excessive desires meet us only with destruction.
As the saying goes, "If virtue is not worthy, there will be disasters." ”
That is to say, you have a lot of money and a high status, but your desires are difficult to fill, then the money and status you can have are only temporary, not long-lasting.
And if we want to have something for a long time, we need to maintain our inner wealth and pleasure, in short, to understand the content. Only those who are content can be happy. After all, we all know that endless desire can only bring destruction.
It's like Shakespeare said, "Desire is like charcoal, and it must be cooled." Otherwise, the fire will scorch the soul. ”
I remember reading the protagonist Yu Lian in a book "The Red and the Black" before, he was because he did not control his inner desires, and finally led to his eventual destruction.
Yu Lian was born into a family of carpenters, and although he was handsome, he was frail and sickly since childhood, and he was never welcomed by his family. His father beat him whenever he was in a bad mood, and his two older brothers bullied him from an early age.
It is precisely because of this that Yu Lian realized from an early age that he must get ahead and let everyone look up to him. So he began to study desperately, and indeed fate did not disappoint him.
His spirit of learning was soon heard by the mayor, who decided to hire him as a governess, to teach his children Latin, and to earn 300 francs a year. The money was a huge sum of money at the time. It was his father who was able to earn it for several years.
At the same time, he also came into contact with high society through this opportunity. Originally, such a life was very happy for Lian to maintain, but he was not satisfied with such a life.
After coming into contact with high society, his inner desires began to swell. Such diligent work cannot get the life you want. He wanted to take shortcuts. He wanted more wealth and a higher status.
So he set his sights on the mayor's wife, who wanted to come to power. Only this time he was quickly discovered, his job was lost, and he was forced to flee.
But after this time he still did not restrain. After his escape, he went to Paris for further study, where he met the daughter of a marquis. With Jullien's frantic pursuit, soon the marquis's daughter fell deeply in love with him. Finally the two got married.
But this life did not last long, and he was discredited by a whistle-blowing letter written by the mayor's wife. It was precisely because of this letter that Yu Lian was completely out of control, he saw that his great future was ruined, and when he was embarrassed and angry, he directly found the mayor's wife and shot her twice. In the end, he went to jail and lost his life.
It's just a novel, but it tells us. We need to control our desires. There are no shortcuts in this world. Wealth and status should be viewed in the right light. It was as if Jullien still had two chances to change his life, but because he could not control his desires, he finally embarked on the road of no return.
It is true that each of us wants to pursue a life of abundance, but what we need to know is that on the road to happiness, we also need to be content. And to do that requires controlling our inner desires.
After all, there is nothing perfect in this world. As the saying goes, "No one has a thousand days to be good, and no flowers are red for a hundred days." "Life is like this, there are always ups and downs. And the last way to face these is to keep a normal heart, to maintain a heart of appropriate desires, so that life will be happier.
Only when we understand this will we understand that the true wealth of life is not the possession of money and status, but the wealth and pleasure of the heart.
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