The Tao Te Ching says:
"There is no greater sin than desire, no greater evil than disobedience, and no greater blame than desire."
Therefore contented feet, always feet. ”
The only way to attain satisfaction is to be content.
People who like greed, people who are used to greed, will only end up letting themselves lose more.
In 1981, James Tobin's "portfolio theory" earned him that year's Nobel Prize in Economics, which was based on the idea that you don't put all your eggs in one basket.
This theory also tells us that those who like to put everything in the bones are "in the basket", the more the better, and do not know how to be flexible, greedily want to save everything perfectly, often when the brewing crisis.
Such people usually live in real life because of their own unsatisfied mentality, very tired, afraid that their "basket" things are not safe.
The greedy are not satisfied, they are insatiable, and they never look back.
In the end, no pole Tai came, it backfired, and tragedy was brewed.
1: Greedy people, do not understand happiness
A person's inner happiness is often not in how many precious things are earned in the outside world, but in the real feeling of happiness in the heart.
This kind of happiness and happiness felt by the heart is, in the final analysis, whether your mind is strong and content enough.
Contented people can smile every day, and greedy people can worry every day.
Some people say that true wealth is not that you have the most things at the moment, but that you become a person who needs the least.
We will find that when we are no longer obsessed with many things and do not feel that we must have something to feel happiness and happiness.
At this time, we will find that in fact, we have been pursuing those illusory things in the outer wall of "happiness".
One is bent on pursuing something unrealistic outside the "mind", but forgetting to open the door of the heart and find what you already have.
Such a life is inevitably too much of a failure.
Therefore, the spiritual experiences of abundance, happiness, happiness, are ultimately about a state of mind, not about the level of one's own status and the amount of wealth.
The German writer Fontana once said:
"Happiness has its duality: on the one hand, it is blessed to the heart, and the time comes and goes.
On the other hand, and the most practical aspect, is to live a contented and happy daily life, which means to be sober-minded and not to do stupid things. ”
But people who don't know what happiness is, and don't know how to be happy, they never ask themselves what kind of life they really want, or they have never been able to live contentedly.
Once upon a time there was a rich man who, on a cool morning, walked alone to the beach.
On the beach, seeing an old man with white hair who was fishing, the rich man stopped and looked at it for a long time, and every time he saw the old man catch a small fish, his face was very satisfied.
So, out of kindness, the rich man walked up to the old man and said, "I see that there are some big fish over there, and your side is full of small fish, so why don't you go fishing over there?" ”
After hearing this, the old man smiled and replied very casually: "Because the fish I catch here is used for breakfast." ”
The rich man suddenly understood: Although the old man knew where there were big fish to catch, the question was what happened when he caught it? I don't need it, and I can't use it to make breakfast, so wouldn't it be boring to work hard to catch some fish that are not necessary for myself?
The root cause of a lot of people's suffering is here, always focusing on something else, and then getting something that is not useful to them at all.
Then, you have to spend a lot of time dealing with these troubles yourself, which is not exactly what greedy people have always liked to do?
So, how can greedy people get happiness?
No one in this world can have everything, just as everyone cannot be separated.
Truly happy people never care about what they lack, but cherish what they have in the moment.
I like a passage that Mr. Yang Dai said:
"God does not let all happiness be concentrated on someone, and getting love does not necessarily have money;
Having money does not necessarily lead to happiness; getting happiness does not necessarily lead to health;
Having health doesn't always make it work out.
A contented and happy mindset is the best way to refine and purify the mind.
All the enjoyment of pleasure belongs to the spirit, and this happiness turns endurance into enjoyment, the triumph of the spirit over matter.
This is the philosophy of life. ”
Refuse to be a greedy person, get it in life, know how to cherish, lose, and don't regret it.
Don't be too bitter, don't be too anxious, don't be too greedy.
2: The greedy, the heart is desolate
When a person gradually becomes a greedy person, on the surface he gains more and more things, but their hearts become more and more desolate.
When a person feels that he has the most precious, valuable, and face-saving things in the world, in fact, his spiritual world has long become desolate.
Because in this world, the most precious, the most valuable, the most faceful things can never be stored in people's hearts.
The Tao Te Ching reads:
"If you love very much, you will spend a lot, and if you hide more, you will die." Contentment is not humiliating, knowledge is not lost, can be long-lasting. ”
Excessive greed consumes not only one's own energy, but also one's own mind, just as the more one is eager to achieve certain achievements, the more likely it is to bring huge losses at these levels.
People who know how to stop losses in time and retain a contented heart will neither humiliate themselves nor put themselves in danger.
Bruce Lee, a generation of martial arts masters, said:
"The biggest common disease of ordinary people is that they are too complacent, blindly thinking that they are great, so they lack self-motivation." The other is too unsatisfied, insatiable, with no self-discipline to speak of, let alone self-vigilance.
The greedy man cannot hide his ugly face, his body is transparent, he lives in a dramatic life, and as a result, he is plunged into an abyss from which he cannot extricate himself. ”
Buddha: If you want to get rid of all sufferings, be content. The unsatisfied are rich and poor; the contented are rich and rich.
A person can only quit the mentality of complacency and self-satisfaction, maintain a state of contentment and happiness, regardless of gains and losses, regardless of success or failure, and deal with it calmly.
Therefore, when doing things, people know how to look down and go low, rather than blindly looking up, they will only climb to a high place.
Because a person is likely to be accustomed to "being so ambitious", it is easy to fall into the "abyss" of desire.
To be a person and do things, we must pay attention to the fact that everything has a degree, and we must leave a ruler in our hearts, measure, measure, and hold.
Only in this way can we truly know what we want and when to know how to stop at the right time.
This is a self-conscious ability, but also a self-disciplined wisdom, but also a pattern of self-reliance.
3: Contentment and happiness
In life, we really can't do it without eating human fireworks, but we can't fall into endless desires.
The poet Xi Murong also said:
"Money is a useful thing, but it only brings you happiness when you feel content.
Otherwise, it has no positive meaning other than giving you annoyance and jealousy. ”
Everything has positive and negative sides, and a person often only treats his life and life by choosing the positive side of things, in order to experience the happiness of contentment and the happiness of satisfaction.
Just like money, it can achieve some happiness, but it cannot replace some happiness.
It's as if some people feel that poverty is a shame, a most painful life experience, so once they have the opportunity to become rich, even if it is a big price for them, they will not hesitate.
However, although some people are in a difficult situation in life, and their lives are difficult and difficult, they still have not lost this heart that allows them to breed happy experiences at any time.
I agree with Shakespeare's words:
"Voluntary poverty is better than indeterminate glitz; the poor and extravagant are far more unfortunate than the poorest and contented."
A person's greatest wealth lies in maintaining a strong ability to be rich in his heart.
To be a human being, one would rather be poor materially than spiritually;
Life, rather than suffering in poverty, rather than decadent in character;
In life, I would rather be an indifferent and pure person than a greedy person who is poor and extravagant.