The Analects say that thirty and standing, forty not confused, fifty knowing the Mandate of Heaven, sixty ears being obedient, and seventy obeying the desires of the heart without exceeding the rules, the reason why it can be passed down for thousands of years shows that it has been tested by countless people, and it is quite reasonable and practical and instructive.
The above words are what Confucius described himself, so it is also a state that is not easy for ordinary people to achieve, but it is not impossible to strive for.
In fact, it is not necessary to reach any realm at what age (of course, it is not to say that you have reached any realm, it is just an objective and neutral evaluation), is it not that someone has nothing to stand in his lifetime? Aren't there also people who come to the end of their lives and don't live to understand, don't know why they live? I don't know why I came to this world for a while, only when I was passively reincarnated to come here and go through the disaster, muddy and muddy, the tide ebbed and flowed, just going with the flow, what others liked, what he liked with the wind, what others wanted, he also wanted to grab what others grabbed, only to know it and not to know why.
After having a certain degree of understanding of life, society and the world, we stop exploring the self and the regularity of the world, and the ideological spirit stays at one level, stopping growth and digging deep. It is only in the materialization of money rights, the art of instrumentation extended, and in the end it is all red stripes that come and go without concern.
Life is never simple. The simplicity of not knowing, and the simple choice after cognition, are completely different cognitive levels and living conditions.
As someone said before, from looking at the mountain is a mountain, to seeing that the mountain is not a mountain, and then to seeing the mountain is a mountain. It seems to return to the original point, but in fact, it is a qualitative change, a process of simplifying complexity and returning to simplicity.
In the same hundred years of life, some people stay at a certain stage and stop moving, some people go astray halfway, and some people eventually return to the other shore.
Therefore, the mountain is still that mountain, looking horizontally into the peak on the side of the ridge, the people who look at the mountain are different, and the level pattern and realm seen are very different, of course, the objective level of what is presented is also very different.