The Birds is a collection of poems by Tagore written in 1913.
When I read "The Collection of Birds" when I was young, I felt that it was a poem with beautiful words, rich imagination, and far-reaching realm.
When people reach middle age, they read the "Asuka Collection" again, and what they feel is the torture of human nature, the wandering of life, and in the face of suffering, they still maintain an indomitable belief in light, justice, and love, and are a collection of poems that expose human nature, the most true, and the most natural.
One about human nature
Mencius said that human nature is inherently good, and Xunzi said that human nature is inherently evil.
Tagore said, "When man is a beast, he is worse than a beast." "
Only when we have truly experienced the goodness of human nature can we know the evil of the beast, and only when we have truly experienced the evil of the beast can we know the goodness of cherishing human nature.
1. When a man is a man, he is kind and loving.
2. Under the dual effects of external conditions and internal psychology, man can become an animal.
3. When man becomes a beast, he is more ferocious and terrifying than the beast, and more heinous.
4. Not all beasts are cruel.
5. We must constantly improve our own pattern and realm, protect the heart of a good, and at the same time create a good environment, so that we can become the source of good, so that everyone around us is good.
6. The heart of harming people must not be there, and the heart of preventing people must not be without, not only to prevent themselves from becoming beasts, but also to beware of the evil beasts that exist around you.
Two about the low points of life
1. If you cry because you miss the sun, then you will also miss the stars.
2. Little grass, your steps are small, but you have the land under your feet.
3. Not the blow of the mallet, but the song and dance of the water, making the pebbles perfect.
4. The best thing is not unique, it comes with all things.
Three about truth
1 The big one is not afraid to swim with the small one, but the center is far away and avoids it.
2. The water in the cup is glorious, but the water in the sea is black.
Xiao Li can express it in words, but Dali only has silence.
3. The River of Truth flows through the ditch of error.
If you shut all your mistakes out, the truth will be shut out.
Mistakes cannot withstand failure, but truth is not afraid of failure.
IV. About fame and fortune
Once the bird's wings are tied with gold, they can never soar in the sky.
V. About love
1. Love is a full life, like a wine glass full of wine.
2. Green leaves become flowers when they fall in love, and they become fruits when they worship flowers.
Six about the self
You can't see yourself, all you see is a shadow of yourself.
My existence is a permanent miracle, and this is life.
Seven about life and death
1. The place of death belongs to life, just like birth.
Lifting the foot is walking, and putting down the foot is also walking!
2. Make life as brilliant as summer flowers, and death as the quiet beauty of autumn leaves!
3. Let the dead have that immortal name, and the living have that immortal love!