All sentient beings, who does not love money? How many people can be transcendent?
We live in the real world, seven things to open the door, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, which one is not related to money? We have to eat, to dress, to shelter, to travel, this is the most basic need, to solve these basic needs, can not be separated from money.
People's desires are always endless, eating to eat mountain treasures and seafood, dressing to silk silk, housing to bungalows and villas, travel to BMW car, beyond normal needs, constantly upgrading, to maintain this high-end standard of living, there is no considerable amount of money is absolutely impossible.
The Jin Dynasty asked Lu Zhen to write a "Treatise on the Theory of Qian Theory", which very vividly described Qian's vast divine powers, and one of the passages was to the effect that the predecessors said that death and life have a destiny, and wealth is in the sky. I thought that life and death were not determined by fate, but that wealth was in money. Money can turn misfortune into happiness, failure into success, danger into safety, and the dead can live. The length of life, the nobility of Fulu, all lie in money.
In the eyes of secular people, money can solve many problems, so earning money has become the driving force for some people, and making more money is the goal of life. As a result, the social phenomenon of "people dying for money" has emerged in society.
When Li Si was young, he saw that the rats in the toilet were thin and small, and the rats in the official warehouse were fat and large, and he felt that people should be like the rats in the official warehouse. Therefore, I made up my mind to achieve some merit and gain a prominent position for myself.
He believes that there is nothing more seriously blamed than lowliness, and the most tragic point is poverty. Being in a lowly and impoverished situation for a long time without striving for fame and fortune, and being willing to be lonely and have nothing to gain from the world, is not the mind that a scholar should have.
Li Si learned the art of emperorhood from XunZi, and when he completed it, he went to the Qin kingdom that wanted to annex the world and was in urgent need of talents, and was appreciated and reused by the Qin king Yingzheng. In the process of unifying the world in the Qin Kingdom, Li Si showed extraordinary wisdom and wise insight.
Li Si made great contributions to the unification of the qin kingdom, and his official position was also promoted all the way to the position of chancellor, which was really a combination of wealth and fame, and it was indispensable to be eminent, and realized the wish he had originally made to be prominent in the world.
Of course, not all people can become a winner in life like Lisi and earn fame and fortune, and Lisi's subsequent fate is not good.
Li Si annoyed Hu Hai of Qin II for his advice, arrested and imprisoned, was further framed by Zhao Gao, and finally inflicted five punishments, namely stabbing the face, cutting off the nose, cutting off the tongue, cutting off the toes, and finally beheading the waist in the city, and destroying the three tribes.
Before his death, Li Si told his son that if he had known about this day, he would rather make a nameless cloth coat, and the father and son would have led the yellow dog leisurely in their hometown and gone to the suburbs to chase after the rabbit.
He was once the prime minister above ten thousand people under one man, once called the wind and rain, earned riches, but did not keep it.
Lao Tzu said, "The hall is full of gold and jade, and Mo Zhi can keep it." ”
Gold and jade are very valuable things, which refer to all high-value property, status, reputation, etc.
Full refers to many, many possessions. The full hall, that is, the home is full of countless gold and silver treasures, or the status is prominent, overshadowing many people.
Towards the Heavenly Son's Hall, Twilight is a prisoner of the steps. Lao Tzu, as a shouzang history, has seen and read the ups and downs of too many people in history, and has put forward such a thesis: Even if you have a considerable amount of wealth, can you keep it?
It takes a long time to earn some wealth, but sometimes it is a matter of minutes to destroy it.
There was a rich man surnamed Zhou, who opened a business and had millions of dollars in his family, and someone asked him how to get rich. He said that there was no other way, just accumulate and not use, save money every day, and fill the house.
There was a famine in one place, the government advised them to donate, he was not there, the manager of the business pledged 500 taels on his behalf as relief, Zhou Weng felt that the money donated was too much, and he was particularly angry. Zhou Weng lived to the age of 80 and died, leaving more than 30 million taels of silver to his descendants, but in more than ten years, this money was squandered by his descendants.
There is a saying, called "rich but not three generations", can not say that the rich will not exceed three generations, but it is a common phenomenon, generally the ancestors earn the family property, the children keep the family business, the grandchildren lose the family business. Like Zhou Weng was defeated in the second generation, Li Si destroyed the whole family before it was passed on to his son.
Throughout the ages, no one has been able to preserve their wealth and status permanently, even the princes and nobles who have spread wealth and power all over the world, and the emperor who single-handedly covers the sky cannot retain his position and wealth.
When the family was in the world, all the resources of the world were concentrated to consolidate the rule, and the longest dynasty was only a few hundred years, and some short-lived ones were only a few years. Qin Shi Huang unified the whole country how domineering, crowned himself as the first emperor, hoping that the foundation could be passed on for generations, the actual situation is that the second generation is extinct.
The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Wuyi Lane" has two poems like this: "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people." "Wang, is Wang Dao; Xie, is Xie An, they were both famous and prestigious in the Eastern Jin Dynasty." The nest where the swallows flew back is still the nest of the past, and the doorway has changed, and the once high-gate households have now decayed, changed the entrance hall, and become the most ordinary people's homes.
In the late Qing Dynasty, zuo Zongtang also accumulated a fortune when he was an official, and after returning to his hometown, he felt that he could not leave the money to his descendants, afraid that they would squander it, so he bought the best wood and stone, wanted to build a house, and wanted to leave some fixed property for his descendants and become the foundation of the ancestors.
Zuo Zongtang went to the construction site to supervise the work, and a craftsman said to him, Lord Zuo, I have been building houses for decades, and I have not seen any houses fall, but I have seen those houses always change owners. Zuo Zongtang listened to the red ears behind him and never went to supervise the work again.
The craftsman said a truth, the foundation can be passed on to future generations, the key is whether future generations can keep it. Just like Wang Xie's hall is still there, but it has changed, and the owner has also changed.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", a lame Daoist sang a "Good Song", which Zhen Shiyin commented on, and a few sentences said "Golden jade is full of halls, Mo Zhi can keep":
"The burrow was empty, full of beds; the grass withered, and it was once a song and dance venue." In front of the burrow on all four walls of the family, who had thought that in the past, this family had produced many high officials, and the wat board of the upper court filled the bed; the place that looked depressed was also a lively song and dance hall.
"Gold is full of boxes, silver is full of boxes, and beggars are slandered in the blink of an eye", not long ago, the family was rich, gold and silver were innumerable, and in the blink of an eye, they became beggars and were looked down upon.
Isn't Zhen Shiyin's family wealth ultimately burned clean? Wasn't the eminent Jia Fu defeated by his descendants?
It is difficult to pass on the prominence of the family for a long time, and if you look at the decaying families one by one, you will understand that the difficulty of keeping wealth is less than that of obtaining it?
What is Lao Tzu's intention in saying this? Is he just trying to warn people that it is difficult to keep their families' wealth, and not to let people get rich?
No, there is nothing wrong with earning money, but to warn people not to demand fullness, not to be greedy, but to stop at the right time.
Zhuangzi's "Getaway": "The wren (jiāo liáo) nests in the deep forest, but one branch; the rat drinks the river, but the belly is full." The nests in the forest and occupies only one branch; the rat drinks water by the river, and all it drinks is to fill its little belly.
And people's use is also limited, that is, living in a bungalow villa, eating is only three meals a day, sleeping is only a seven-foot bed.
People only know the preciousness of money, for money and even unscrupulous means, selling physical strength, selling out soul, selling out flesh, there is a strange phenomenon of "asking for money and not dying", but they forget what the purpose of making money is.
Of course, you can't live without money at all, and you can earn money to live well and live with dignity, but you lose your dignity for money, what is the point of earning more money?
People's needs to survive are not much, and making too much money is beyond people's needs, just numbers, and it has no meaning to people. Especially when making more money becomes a burden on life, it is better to stop in moderation and be content.
(Picture from the Internet, if there is infringement immediately deleted)
Reading to understand life, writing to inherit culture. Welcome to @Ding Xiao Wu Dian to understand the beauty of traditional culture with you.