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Fifty years old is a watershed in life, and the experience of the first half of life has become the experience and wealth of the second half of life, accompanying you and me to a more distant future.
If you want to divide a realm, I think that between young people and middle-aged people, there is a "state of mind". The biggest difference in each age group is not the difference in appearance and age, but the difference in "state of mind".
The anxiety of youth is like fire, and in the end it will become the calm like water in middle age. Years and experience have made us understand a truth, people, only more and more composed, not more and more impetuous.
Whether in work or in life, people are a little calmer and a little calmer, just like Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching, "The good is like water, and the water is water and all things are not disputed."
The water-like realm is worthy of our good understanding. Don't think that middle-aged people are more high-profile, better, and don't think that being a person must always be tough, sometimes, do things gently, be calm, that is the best posture in the second half of life.
In fact, the essence of Confucius's "knowing the Mandate of Heaven" is to improve the realm of being a human being, to know what you want to pursue, rather than being confused and living into the most ignorant appearance.
You know, when you reach fifty, do the following four things well, that is the greatest blessing of your life.
02
People to fifty, downtown to make money.
In this complicated earthly world, the human body must be integrated into the red dust, even if there are countless dirt in it, we must also experience it, there is no need to be too entangled.
Many people will say that red dust is so noisy, why do we need to fit in? Does this not affect a state of mind that should be calm?
Calmness is a kind of cultivation. And blending into the noise is also a kind of experience. Only the combination of dynamic and static, the kinetic energy can enter, and the ability to advance and retreat is the indestructible king's way.
Lao Tzu said, with its light, with its dust. In short, it is "with the light", let us be one with everything in this world, with everything in nature, without too much resistance.
Just like ordinary people want to make money, that is a very normal thing, we just need to do our best, do our duty, then it is enough. Don't think too much about other things.
Life must have both an elegant side and a grounded side. It is also a blessing to make good money.
03
When the man reaches fifty, he settles down in silence.
"Augmenting The Sage" has a saying: "Make money in the downtown area, settle down in a quiet place, come like wind and rain, go like dust." ”
A person, as long as he earns a certain amount of money in the downtown, then he must return to the calm little world, wash the dirt on his body, reduce the hostility on his body, and do not let bad emotions appear.
Move, it's easy. But calm down, it's hard. There is a way that "moving like a rabbit, quiet like a virgin" is the way for people to live in the world. If you can move but can't be static, it is easy to have problems.
Why do ordinary people live unhappily? I think it is not because of insufficient money and resources, but because the heart is too anxious to cultivate oneself and cultivate virtue with frugality.
The reason why people want to be quiet is because the stillness itself represents a blessing. How much calm you can have, then how much blessing you can have. Anger is easy to stain, and calmness is hard to find. If people do not have calm breath, they are all evil, and if they do not have peace of mind, they will eventually cause disease.
No matter when, keep a calm breath, you should live well, then live well, be calm, calm, that is the right way to settle down.
04
When a man reaches fifty, he knows the destiny of heaven.
When Confucius reached middle age, he said such a sentence: "Time is also fate, be cautious in beginning and end well, and know the destiny of heaven by doing one's best." ”
Timing, fate, that is indispensable in life. Only by starting cautiously, ending well, doing your best to live this life well, and then listening to the arrangement of fate, then it will be complete.
Of course, this realm of knowing heaven and destiny is really difficult to achieve. Why? Because the hearts of the people in the world are too impetuous, just like being blinded in a fog, they can't distinguish between east and west, south and north, so why talk about knowing the destiny of heaven?
The so-called "knowing the heavens" ostensibly means to let us know the rules of the operation of the heavenly path, but in fact it allows us to merge with the rules of nature.
The so-called "attainment of destiny" is to make our fate numbers accessible, so that we can clearly understand the direction of this fate, and then have self-knowledge, so as not to live in confusion.
To be a person, you only need to follow the trajectory of fate to be a person, and that is it. Don't dwell on other things.
05
When people reach fifty, they are calm about gains and losses.
Mr. Feng Zikai said that he looked down on the vicissitudes of the world and was safe and sound in his heart.
The vicissitudes of this world are nothing more than vicissitudes, things are not people, and everything has changed. In the face of all this that has changed, our hearts should be calm and self-assured, and we should not have too much pity.
How can we be at ease? That is to see through the word "gain and loss".
Whether it is gained or lost, it is inevitable that it will happen. If I am fortunate, I can't live, so why fight so much? Life is incredibly short, maybe if you fight for it, you will disappear.
Bai Juyi said that what is the dispute on the snail's horn is this life in the light of the stone fire.
Life is as small as a snail's horn, so why should we be too attached? With just a flick of a finger, life is over.
Middle-aged, like a train, passed through the middle, but also passed the heart sea, in the end where to go, all depends on our choice.
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