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Unable to escape the confinement of subjective consciousness, everyone is a prisoner of his own thoughts.
Many people are happy to flaunt their ingenuity and unconditionally believe in the dogmas they believe in, but a person who excessively adheres to his own beliefs also ignores the mistakes in his own thinking.
Just like the harm caused by subjective ingenuity to life, we only pay attention to the satisfaction that ingenuity can bring to ourselves, but we never think that when wisdom exists, it disturbs our already calm body and mind and the indifferent mentality that enjoys life.
There is such a story in "Liezi":
The forest is nearly 100 years old, and in the spring, they are still wearing leather coats to pick up lost ears of wheat on the ridges of fields that have been cut, singing happily and moving forward.
Just as Confucius was passing by with his disciple, Confucius said to the disciple, "That old man may be able to talk to him, who wants to go over?" ”
Zigong volunteered at this time, and he sighed in front of the old man and said, "Old man, have you not regretted it, why are you still singing songs to collect ears of wheat?" ”
The old man did not look up and talk back, the song continued, and continued to walk forward, Zigong asked him again and again, and the old man looked up at him and said, "What do I have to regret?" ”
Zigong said: "Mr. Did not work hard when he was a teenager, and when he grew up, he did not have a good time, and when he was old, he had no wife and children, and he saw that the time of death was approaching, and you had nothing to be happy about, and you also sang while picking ears of wheat." ”
The old man said, "There are many reasons why I am happy, and everyone has them, but they are grieved." Because I didn't work hard when I was young, and I didn't have the luck when I grew up, I was able to live like this, because I didn't have a wife and children when I was old, and the time of death was approaching, so I was so happy. ”
Zigong also said: "Longevity is what people yearn for, and death is what people hate, so why are your views different?" ”
The old man said, "Death and survival are like going back and forth, so how can we say that life and death are not equal, and how do we know that the struggle for survival is not a kind of confusion?" ”
The most correct way in life is not to interfere with the natural state of life with your subjective emotions, not to let emotions infringe on the body and mind, and not to bring harm to yourself because of your own arrogance, which is the best preferential treatment for life.
Worldly people are pursuing deeds and pursuing fortune every day, so constantly acting through their own subjective means seems to be a positive effort, but when their own arrogance deviates from the objective laws, it disturbs the mind and causes harm to the body and mind; and the worldly people are very afraid of death, but they do not know that the emotion of fear itself is the greatest harm to life.
Therefore, the old man said: "Everyone has the reason for my happiness, but they are sad", and one sentence tells the boundaries of the worldly people's thinking.
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There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching that says:
Born into death, there are three out of ten who are born; there are three out of ten in the dead; and there are three out of ten in the vividness of man in the place of death. Why? With its raw thickness.
This is a natural process of existence, people who live in this world can account for three-tenths of the long-lived people, and people with short-lived life also account for three-tenths, but some people are over-dedicated to life, because of their own arrogance and lead to early death, also account for three-tenths, why? It's because the offering is too excessive.
The root of the delusion is their own subjective emotional consciousness, so when a person is unaware of the problems existing in his own thoughts and dispositions, and excessively adheres to the dogma of life, he will also inadvertently fall into the abyss of his own thoughts.
For example, we will use our subjective ingenuity to seek benefits for ourselves, but under the deception of greed, we will blind our own vision of the problem, and in the case of our own lack of reason, the decisions we make may not be right, and sometimes even deviate from the bottom line of law and morality.
This way will not only not have a good impact on yourself, but will make yourself worse, which will also hurt yourself to varying degrees.
Secondly, we can also cause harm to our own body and mind because of the disturbing emotions that arise in our nature.
There is a common characteristic in human nature, called "seeking sorrow and hatred for no reason", so there is such a sentence called: flowers fall into the water, idle and sad, wordless complaining about the east wind, which means that people still have to complain about the east wind when they are idle, which is the sad mood in human nature.
As Zhuangzi said: "The eyes are too discerning, the ears are too sensitive, the mind is too chasing foreign objects, it will cause danger to itself, all the minds will be too worried about the danger, after the danger is formed, it is too late to repent, when the disaster grows more and more, to return to the natural state needs to cultivate, and it will take a long time."
This is a common problem for worldly people, but most people are never aware of the existence of this problem, we just measure life with self-righteous erotic consciousness, and chase the life we want.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to everything, and what we see is the benefit of this thing, but what is ignored is the harm caused by emotional consciousness to the body.
Therefore, being aware of the shortcomings in one's own thoughts and not disturbing one's own physical and mental state with one's subjective emotional consciousness is the best favor for life.
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