Throughout the ages, thieves have been rampant and have never been broken.
For thousands of years, the operation of catching thieves has never stopped.
In real society, all kinds of thieves exist to varying degrees, some stealing cattle and sheep, some stealing grain, some stealing stone tools, some stealing weapons, some stealing military books, some stealing money, some stealing beauty, some stealing military secrets, some stealing trade secrets, some stealing intellectual property rights, and some stealing special talents...
These thieves have different forms and characteristics, and their rich diversity can paint a picture of the appearance of "big thieves and small thieves".
However, they all have a common feature: they all enter from the outside of the fortress and belong to external factors.
In fact, each of us has thieves in our hearts, and we live in them all the time.
This was breached from the inside of the fortress and was caused by internal causes.
Wang Yangming said: "It is easy to be a thief in a broken mountain, but it is difficult to break a thief in a broken heart." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="13" >01 What is a thief in the heart</h1>
Zen Buddhism says, "One thought, three thousand." As a high-level animal with the ability to think, man will have countless thoughts every moment and every minute, and he will live endlessly and endlessly.
There's a very popular song called "A Million Possibilities, which has a very charming lyric: "A million possibilities in an instant." That's what it means.
Yes, everything changes rapidly, and no one or one thing will stop moving. Therefore, our Most Holy Prophet Confucius stood by the river, facing the gushing river, and issued the ancient philosophical thought - "The deceased is like a sifu, who does not give up day and night"!
Su Dongpo, who has experienced the ups and downs of life, was degraded to Huangzhou, and in his famous "Former Chibi Fu", he also wrote: "The deceased is like Si, but has not tasted the past; the one who is rich and vain is like the other, and the pawn is like the long." Gai will look at it from its change, then the heavens and the earth will not be able to take a moment. ”
The same sigh of life, the same rapid change, the same impermanence.
So what exactly is a thief in the heart? The answer is: the thief in the heart is the thought.
To put it in more detail, all kinds of dark, pessimistic, negative, and negative thoughts that affect, interfere with, and hinder people's positive progress are thieves in their hearts.
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There are many variations of this thief in the heart, which can be said to have mastered the seventy-two changes of Sun Wukong.
Common thieves in the heart are: lazy thieves, arrogant thieves, hesitant thieves, suspicious thieves, jealous thieves, angry thieves, inferior thieves, careless thieves and so on.
These thieves live in their hearts, devouring people's souls, consuming people's fighting spirit, and hindering people's actions, and their harm is greater than that of tigers and beasts!
When we are ready to get up early to exercise, the lazy thief begins to do evil, striving to defeat diligence and prevent our positive action;
When we achieve a little, the arrogant thief begins to act, striving to defeat humility and showing an invincible posture;
When we decide to do something, the thief of hesitation begins to do something, striving to defeat the courage and consume our ambitions;
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Therefore, the harm of the thief in the heart is very great, it can make the king indulge in wine and not go to the dynasty, it can make the general Chong Guan angry and red, it can make the overlord hesitate to cross Jiangdong, it can cause the great enterprise to go bankrupt, and it can turn the huge wealth into nothing.
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Even our ancient sage Wang Yangming said: "It is easy to be a thief in a broken mountain, but it is difficult to be a thief in a broken heart." "You can see how hard it is to break the thief in your heart!"
It was a duel of "you die and I live", "black and white", and "win or lose". If we do not catch these thieves in our hearts, then we will become dolls in the hands of these thieves, at their mercy and at their command.
Our heart, like a mountain, is occupied by laziness, or by diligence, by pessimism and negativity, or by optimism and positivity.
Moreover, this is a protracted war, one after another, never stopping, as long as the positive thoughts of diligence, optimism, sunshine, positivity, etc. are slightly relaxed, these thieves will be foolish and rampant.
Therefore, we must always maintain righteousness, mindfulness, awareness, and enlightenment, let the light of mindfulness illuminate every corner of the heart, let the light of hope melt every ice and snow in the heart, always be ready to fight, always ready to catch the thief, only in this way can we break the thief in our hearts and achieve a deed.
Finally, let me relive Chairman Mao's impassioned poem -- When will the dragon be tied up with the long wisp in hand today?