Author: Phantom Brother|President Li Yuan's No. 10 scholar
Human nature is not idle, if there are no new ideas to produce and nothing new to look forward to, it will inevitably figure out something to toss.
In recent years, I have often heard the phrase: "It's too rolly...... The company's performance, the family's performance......
I ask: "At what stage in the history of mankind is it not rolled?"
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were chaotic for 500 years, and a batch of great thinkers who influenced the course of human history were rolled out;
A period of great division in Chinese history is the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in which more than 30 large and small dynasties rose and fell alternately, and the northern Saiwai ethnic groups went south, occupied the Central Plains, and drove the Han people from the Central Plains to the south, until the emergence of Yang Jian and the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, so that the north and the south were unified;
In 1840, when the Opium War broke out, after nearly a hundred years of loss of power and humiliation of the country, Chairman Mao led a group of people with lofty ideals to throw their heads and shed their blood to establish a new China in which the people were the masters of the country;
Before 1980, when the Chinese nation was poor and white, Comrade Xiaoping came out to preside over and started reform and opening up, and the Chinese people gradually moved towards all-round poverty alleviation.
History has been rolling, you think he doesn't roll just because you are not in that class, the inheritance of human civilization has always been written by countless hard-working and ambitious strugglers. So the question is? Since you are sure to roll it, what is it?......
Benjamin Franklin famously said, "I have never seen a diligent, prudent and honest man who wakes up early and complains about bad fate, and good character, good habits, and strong will, will not be defeated by the hypothetical so-called fate." ”
At some point in history, we had a lot of people who hated the rich, why did this happen? Because you think it's unfair...... But I ask you: when has human history ever been fair?
Fairness is written by the winners!
Ding Yuanying has a few words: "There are three levels of perspective society, technology, system, and culture. From a small person to a country or a nation, any kind of destiny is, in the final analysis, the product of that cultural attribute.
It is a law that a strong culture creates the strong, and a weak culture creates the weak. It can also be understood as the way of heaven, which is not subject to human will. ”
What is a strong culture and a weak culture?
A strong culture is a culture that follows the laws of things, and a weak culture is a culture that relies on the moral expectations of the strong to obtain exceptions. It is also a culture of expectation of a savior.
The strong culture is called the "cheats" in martial arts, and the weak culture has become a popular variety because it is easy to learn, understand, and use.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela once said:
"The greatest brilliance of life is not that it never falls, but that it can rise again after it falls. ”
Maybe we don't want to face the lows in our lives, but we can't pick and choose our lives.
So has anyone jumped out of a weak culture and successfully entered a strong cultural group?
Of course. For example, Zhan Qingyun, who was born in the countryside of Guizhou, was among the top three in the province in the college entrance examination, and rejected Peking University twice, but took out a loan of 100W to study law at Harvard, and easily repaid the loan after graduation.
In the past ten years, every once in a while, I have met a kind of person: "I don't have any money now, I want to make good money, and when I make money, I will have time and energy to go out and study......"
Comrades, is this right? In today's article, I will not talk about the rights and wrongs of this assumption, if there is a fate in the future, the author will talk about this study journey in a new article, maybe you will have a little enlightenment.
The other kind of people: "Deeply trapped in self-grasping and ignorance." ”
Let's talk about ignorance first, because my previous understanding of ignorance is ego. It wasn't until last week, when I was eating beef kuay teow with President Li Yuan, that I asked the president, and I said, "President, is ignorance self-grasping?"
The president took a bite of kuay teow and said, "Why do you think so, tell me your understanding?"
I said, "I read a lot of articles where ignorance is self-righteous. ”
The president said, "Self-righteousness is self-right. What is ignorance? Ignorance is the absence of a whole understanding, what is the whole understanding, the whole understanding is called the clear reason, as for the standard of the whole understanding? This ....... is a long story. But there is a logical relationship between these two, because of ignorance, I am attached. ”
Consider two questions:
Have you ever seen an elder in his 60s who often speaks hurtful and even unreasonable?
Have you ever seen a teenager in his early 20s with a thunderous chest and a face like a peaceful lake?
Why is this so? What is the difference between these two types of people.......
There is also a kind of people: "Believe in heaven, believe in earth, believe in God, and believe in ghosts...... But don't you believe in yourself?"
Why?
Because he is lazy, because he feels that it is too difficult, even difficult, to strive to move forward step by step, even difficult, he wants to take a shortcut, but please ask: "The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life......"
What are the vicissitudes of life? Vicissitudes are hardships.
But I ask, "Is there a shortcut in life?"
If there were shortcuts in life, there would not be only a few great thinkers in human history. Knowing that there is no shortcut in life, why do some people choose to take advantage of loopholes, because of low self-esteem, because of lack of bravery!
What does it mean to be brave? Legs trembling but still choose to move forward.
There is also a kind of person: "When you come into contact with a new point of view or a new thought, you instantly feel that I understand everything, I am enlightened, and I am a god, I ask: "What is enlightenment?"
Enlightenment is a state, not a result.
Why does a person have this state? Because he is missing, what is missing? Lacking a strong self, in other words, he has too few chips in his hand to prove it......
So why prove it?
The author believes: "The proof is because of the desire." ”
Have you ever met a kind of person? You tell him that you have a car, a house, you know a certain big person, and you have achieved something...... A normal logic is that after you finish speaking to most people in most cases, most people will be surprised, or most people's expressions and words will be a little uncomfortable.
But when I met one today, after you finished talking about your brilliance, he smiled slightly, no evaluation, no surprise, no praise...... Instead, I asked you one or two questions, and what about this question? You may have thought about it, but you didn't understand it, and today another stranger asked it for you, and then you fell into deep thought, and you knew that you met a master again today.......
Someone once asked me a question, and she said, "Brother Phantom, what is your motivation to struggle?"
I replied: "I have no regrets in this life, although the road ahead is hard, I will still choose that kind of hot life." You can question the results of my struggle, but you can't change my state of striving for life and working hard all the way. ”
Ladies and gentlemen, look at the past and the present in a moment, and caress the four seas in a moment. The greatest wish in life is not to be a person who makes people laugh.
Why do you have lying flat and Buddha...... The status of the state?
Because of lack of mental strength......
Why is there a lack of mental energy?
Because there is no ambition......
The last time I walked with President Li Yuan, I asked the president, and I said, "President, what does a person's sense of strength have to do with it?"
The president said, "It's about ambition......
"What does ambition have to do with it?"
Ambition is an internal drive......
How did the internal drive come about?
Internal drive is to solve one problem after another through their own efforts, and to build self-confidence through the phased achievements they have achieved.
So what do we do when a child has a problem?
Tell him repeatedly: Child, we all believe in you, as long as you work hard, you will be able to solve this problem, you can.
Not every effort is rewarded, however, every harvest must be worked on.
If your life is as firm as Zhan Qingyun, and you realize that a strong culture and a weak culture make people different, then you can also achieve it through loans.
After many of us leave the society, we gradually relax about learning, and many of us almost never pick up a book after graduation.
This is also the lifelong learning advocated by our team of scholars, through continuous growth, to contact excellent people, in order to enhance our cognition, guide us forward. Get rid of our weak cultural habits of waiting for a savior, and make ourselves strong people who move forward independently.
Every once in a while, someone in Langya Pavilion will hear someone say: "It seems that during this time, I have figured out something again......"
Why is this so? Because the vision of the future has been improved......
What is eyesight? At first glance, it is the sparkling light of gold......
What you lack is not talent but ambition, not the ability to succeed but the will to work hard.
So, comrades, do we want to roll it or not? We must ......
Roll up our laziness, roll up our ignorance, roll up our ignorance, roll up our one-sidedness, roll up our self-righteousness, roll up our Buddhahood, roll up our decadence, roll up our ignorance, roll up our narrowness....... roll up our way, roll up all the obstacles that hinder our creation.
Comrades, cherish the circle that has been rolled, the more the organization is rolled, the stronger the individual, and in the end, the rest are human spirits!
Magnificent China, thousands of ancient rivers. The Chinese nation is an ancient and great nation in the world, which has created a splendid civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years and has made indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization.
In the course of thousands of years of historical development, the Chinese nation has never been smooth sailing, and has encountered countless hardships and hardships, but we have all survived and come through, and one of the very important reasons is that generations of Chinese sons and daughters have cultivated and developed a unique, broad and profound Chinese culture, which has provided strong spiritual support for the Chinese nation to overcome difficulties and continue to thrive.
Chinese culture has a long history, and Chinese civilization is broad and profound:
Looking back at the depths of history, from the social ideal of the world for the public and the world for the great harmony, to the governance ideology of the people as the state and the government as the morality;
From the coherent and pluralistic unity tradition of Kyushu, to the feelings of the family and country that are responsible for the prosperity and death of the family;
From the spiritual pursuit of virtue and virtue to the economic ethics of enriching the people and benefiting the people, justice and benefit;
From the ecological concept of the unity of nature and man and the cultivation of all things, to the philosophical idea of seeking truth from facts and the unity of knowledge and action;
From the thinking method of dual-use and harmony to the way of communication that emphasizes trust, harmony, kindness and good-neighborliness...... Together, these elements shape the outstanding characteristics of the five aspects of Chinese civilization.
Through the smoke and clouds of history, Chinese civilization has endured thousands of years of ups and downs.
Good days come from struggle!
Phantom Brother was recorded at Langya Pavilion on the evening of June 29, 2023