Tao Te Ching, Chapter 76 [Original]
Man is weak in life, but strong in death; The life of plants and trees is also brittle, and its death is withered.
Therefore the strong are dead, and the weak are alive.
If the soldier is strong, it will be destroyed, and if the wood is strong, it will be broken. Where the strong are below, the weak are above.
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 76 and the Month of Balance ^18
14. If the thinking is effective, life will be better.
The thinking of the Tao is weak and indisputable, selfless and nameless, so the Tao can give birth to all things, can flow freely between heaven and earth, and where there is Tao, there is vitality and harmony.
And people are a complex of contradictions, although we have the genes of the Great Dao in our hearts, but there is also selfishness in our minds, so people's thinking is easy to be occupied by strength and competitiveness, and everything is self-centered.
If we are not aware of this, we will allow our lives to go downhill.
Life is a battlefield of different thinking.
Choose the flexible thinking of the avenue or the rigid thinking of selfishness, how to put pen to paper, determines what script the scene of life will be played according to.
But how do we diagnose whether our thinking is in tune?
It can be through emotions – emotions are the bellwether of the mind, all of our positive emotional experiences arise from the way of harmony, and if negative emotions arise, it is time to bring up awareness.
People's failures are often caused by emotions, and when emotions come together, wisdom gives way.
But emotions are not innate, but created by the mind, and newborn babies cannot gnash their teeth and complain about indifference at the same time.
Emotions are the effect, thinking is the cause, and the two depend on each other - the mind will perform itself through emotions; When emotions fluctuate, they will inject energy into the original thinking.
For example, softness is tranquility, gratitude is joy, and loyalty is firm; The reverse is also true, impetuousness is unstable, external requests are always complaining, and attachment will be painful.
It is normal for people to have emotions, and through emotions, we can give the pulse of thought.
Therefore, what we need to change is not emotions, but the thinking that hides behind emotions, if the thinking does not change, emotions cannot be controlled, because the disease has not been eradicated.
All disasters in life come from the wrong way of thinking, we study the Tao Te Ching, the first task is to improve cognition, clean up those strong factors in the thinking - first change the thinking, and then change the behavior, this order is normal.
It's like reinstalling a computer, only by implanting the right program into your life will the results be error-free.
We live in "consequences" all our lives, and our minds have been unconsciously creating destiny:
- Flexible thinking, healing people's hearts, creating harmony;
- Rigid thinking leads to strife and creates suffering.
Therefore, if you choose selfless and flexible thinking, you will go to light and happiness; If you choose selfish and rigid thinking, you will sink in your emotions and be exhausted in creating and solving problems.
Therefore, to make your thinking effective, this is from the beginning, predestined a good outcome for life.
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