desire
Yuan Jun
One
In the autumn, the beginning of the autumn school has signed up for the school again, but "some people are happy and some people are worried." Those who study in the school district film are also at ease, but the parents who choose the school are all anxious one by one, anxiously waiting for the notice of the children's enrollment registration; the parents who shake the number can't help but be happy, and the parents who can't shake the number are living like years, like sitting on a needle felt, this said it was about to collapse, that said that they couldn't sleep all night...
Being able to get your children to a better school or even a prestigious school is a legitimate desire and a dream full of hope. As parents, there is nothing wrong with it, just like xinxin students want to get into Tsinghua and Peking University. After all, everyone wants their children to soar in the blue sky and wander in the sea! However, behind this painstaking school choice fever, not only does people feel a deep sadness! I don't know if this is the sadness of today's education, or a general comparison psychology that parents have formed under the impetus of the desire for school choice?
Two
The semantic meaning of the word "desire" in the Chinese Chinese dictionary is that the desire to achieve a certain purpose generated by the nature of living things is the most primitive and basic instinct of all animals in the world. From the human point of view alone, it is a desire and satisfaction of the mind to the body, which is an indispensable need for the existence of all animals. Desire is innate, but everyone has a good desire.
Normal desire is a dream, it is the crystallization of dreams and thoughts, which can bring people good hope and motivation to forge ahead. Ability is limited, desire is boundless; life is limited, and there is no end to the sea. No struggle, no youth! This kind of struggle is to promote this beautiful desire and dream to let people have a forward goal direction and the pursuit of ideal motivation, this pursuit of desire can make people feel happy, live happily, but also make their lives always able to drive freely along a correct track, become a person who is beneficial to society and serves the people.
Three
It is also difficult for a person to achieve no desire and no thought, pure heart, it is difficult to abandon the weakness of pursuing fame and fortune, and it is difficult to achieve "things are whisked away, and the merit and fame are hidden." ”
The world is wonderful, dazzling, full of temptations and chases. The desire is endless! Excessive pursuit of infinity will form greed, making people lustful. In the face of temptation, everyone will be moved, but sadly, many people shake their nature and conscience in the face of this temptation, and it is difficult to be content, so they are difficult to fill, happy and sad, and ignite the fire.
There is a saying called, "The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and the world is full of mantis to catch cicadas", and there is another sentence called, "Eating in the bowl and looking at the pot", all of which are saying that people are greedy or insatiable. Excessive pursuit of desire becomes the root of all suffering! This reminds me of the well-known parable of The Fisherman and His Wife in Grimm's fairy tale. The story is about a fisherman who catches a flounder that was originally transformed by the prince of the sea. He begged the fisherman to release him, and he could satisfy any of the fisherman's demands. The fisherman agreed to release the flounder and told his wife, who felt that they were kind to the flounder, so she asked the fisherman to ask the flounder for a building. After having a small building, she wants a big palace, and with a big palace, she wants to be a king, and when she becomes a king, her ambition is constantly expanding, and she wants to be a god, to control the sun and the moon and everything... The flounder never acceded to her request, took back everything he had given her, and beat her back to her original form. The fisherman and his wife lived in a dilapidated fishing house and became dispossessed. This story tells people that to be content, not too greedy, too greedy results will only be nothing.
There is a sentence in the "Cai Gen Tan", "With a thousand fields want to be a thousand fields, when the emperor wants to become a fairy." Once people fall into the trap of chasing material desires, it is easy to lose themselves, and only by washing away the falsehood in their hearts, letting go of greed, and returning to their plain essence will they look down on all the vanity in the world.
Four
The famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said: "Life is like a pendulum, oscillating between pain and boredom, suffering when desire is not satisfied, and boring when desire is satisfied." The Tao Te Ching says, "There is no greater misfortune than dissatisfaction, and no greater blame than desire; therefore contentment is always sufficient." The Heart Sutra also says, "Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color." "These philosophers and sages and the truths in the chinese classical scriptures are all exhortations to the world, and they all warn people how to face the glory and disgrace of gain and loss, how to face the endless desire and the philosophy of contentment and happiness in life.
In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhu Zaiyu wrote a song called "Ten Deficiencies", "Running all day long is only for hunger, so that you have to have food and clothes." I put Ayara on and looked up and felt that the house was low. Build a tall building and a building, but there is little beautiful wife in front of the bed. His wives and concubines were all married, and he was worried about going out without a horse to ride. Buy the high-headed horse with the money, and the horse will follow less before and after the horse. Dozens of family members have been recruited, and they have no power to be bullied. Yi Quanquan reached the position of Zhi County, and said that the official was inferior. Once climbing to the throne of the cabinet, the daily thought is to ascend the throne. One day, sitting in the south of the world, I wanted the gods to play chess. Dong Bin played chess with him and asked which was the ladder to heaven. The ladder to heaven was not done, and Yama issued a card to the ghost to urge. If it were not for the fact that this person had reached a large limit, it would have been too low to go up to heaven. In this song, the words "desire is difficult to fill" and "desire to smoke the heart" are fully explained and reflected.
In fact, this life is a reincarnation between gain and loss, and everything can be done: "May the moon always be full, and Hugh should be temporarily lacking." "May heaven and earth be entertained, year after year and tonight." The wonderful fragments on the road of life are temporary, more is plain and natural, victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged, such as in the "Journey to the West" Four Tang monks and apprentices have gone through hardships, still wear thorns and thorns, all the way forward, and finally get the right results, and can not be in order to chase fame and fortune, selfish desires swell, become sinners through the ages. King Youwang of Zhou smiled at Bo and played with the princes, leading to the demise of Western Zhou; the war maniac Hitler dreamed of conquering the whole world and launching the Second World War, causing deep disasters to mankind, and finally defeated under the joint attack of the Soviet Union and the Allies, and died of bullets...
Five
Master Huineng of the Six Patriarchs of Zen Buddhism in China has four famous verses, "Bodhi has no tree, and Spiegel is not a platform." Originally there was nothing, where to stir up dust! ”
People's lives rush by, some people live wonderfully, some people live mediocre, everyone has their own way of life, different desires, the realm of life is different; some people are keen on fame and fortune, some people are indifferent to fame and fortune, not bound by fame and fortune, plain and natural. In the eyes of many philosophers and sages, reducing desire and freedom of mind is true happiness. Zhuge Liang left a famous aphorism in the Book of Commandments, "There is no clear ambition without indifference, and there is no far-reaching without tranquility." ”
Don't be afraid of the floating clouds to cover your eyes, just because you are at the highest level. Everyone has desires, dreams are everyone, and not everyone who wants can get what they want. On the road of pursuing dreams, no one can be smooth sailing, hang on the cloud sails, do not be sad when frustrated, do not forget the form when proud; quiet to life ups and downs, laugh at life storms. Although we cannot determine the length of our own lives, we can broaden its breadth; although we cannot predict tomorrow, we can grasp today; although we cannot go smoothly, we can do everything we can. Mountains have the height of mountains, water has the depth of water; the wind has the freedom of the wind, the clouds have the drifting of clouds, there is no need to deliberately compare and compare with them.
In this way, desire will not dominate the course of our lives, and we will be able to correctly grasp the flame of desire at all times and everywhere in life...