Take the heavens and the earth as a cage, and listen to the voice of freedom
In our inherent impression, the cage always seems to be associated with words such as confinement, bondage and blockade, and the poem also has clouds that "know that the lock is locked to the golden cage, and it is not as easy as the forest to cry." Following the public eye, the cage is just the middle of the blocking freedom, and there is nothing for Goldman to drink. But there is not only one voice in this world, and the same is true of the voice of the cage and freedom.
That unique voice, Zhang Ailing shouted. In "Jasmine Tablets," she mentions the freedom that the cage brings to the bird, saying, "The bird in the cage, when it opens the cage, will fly out." She is a bird embroidered on the screen—a white bird in a woven golden cloud on a melancholy purple satin screen. After many years, the feathers have darkened, the mold has been moldy, the insects have been mothed, and the dead are still dead on the screen. "Compared with the birds in the cage, the birds on the screen can't be free until they die, it is extremely miserable and lonely, even people can't stand such an ending."
When I opened "The Story of Man" in boredom and happened to catch a glimpse of an essay included in it, "Freedom in the Cage", the first thing that flashed in my mind was the caged bird and the screen bird that Zhang Ailing had described, which showed how impressed she was. But this essay written by Teacher Wang Long, like Zhang Ailing's text, has touched me. I believe that after you read it, your thinking will also be clear.
Rousseau said that birds are born free, but they are not in a cage. Where there is any freedom to speak of. ”
How dare we disagree with such a famous quote? Teacher Wang Long began to dialectically deny, first affirming what the old ancestor said: "The sea is wide and the fish leaps, and the sky is high and the birds fly." In fact, it is not unreasonable for us to think about it. Immediately after, he truly revealed his thoughts, "The sky is like a vault, the cage covers the four fields, the skynet is restored, and the omission is not leaked." There are falcons in the high heavens, and there are ambushes on ten sides. ”
Yes, a seemingly infinite space, a seemingly endless freedom, a seemingly quiet village, is actually lurking with the most unknown dangers. Birds don't need that freedom, and we don't dare to ask for it.
When freedom is too much, freedom is no longer the poetic freedom, but confusion, indulgence. When you have a lot of choices, you are faced with a huge screening task, which obviously brings you not freedom, but complexity. If some ungodly people get that so-called freedom, what will happen to them? So to get real freedom on the right track, you need a cage.
Some people will say, will the freedom in the cage be a little depressing? I think it will be a little bit. At this moment, how can those chickens, ducks, birds and geese who are in captivity, those who are in prison, those emotions that have not been released be free? You say you want to enjoy the freedom in the cage, they ignore it, they don't understand, you just stand and talk without waist pain!
But outside the cage, it's not necessarily free. Just like Gandhi was kidnapped by the masses, kidnapped by politics, kidnapped by the ideal of independence and national salvation, was he free for a moment? On the contrary, in prison, Vuchik happily did mathematical problems, suddenly forgetting himself, forgetting the world, he only remembered the mathematical freedom in front of him.
Teacher Wang Long's realm was high at this time. He said:
"Everyone needs a cage to keep the world out there and keep themselves to themselves.
There is a cage outside the body, but there is no cage in the heart.
Where are the cages? It is you who imprisons you. Prisons are just four walls.
Inside the shell, there can be a universe. ”
It turns out that the pursuit of cage-like freedom means to build a small world of one's own, and this world is a cage, where the mind is cruising, the mind is jumping, and the soul is free.
When you are confused in the big cage, the small cage will give you directions; when the big cage is bored, the small cage will give you fun; when the big cage is desperate, the small cage will give you hope and spend that bad time with you. Mr. Wang Long listened to the free voice of the birds in the cage of heaven and earth, and what he realized was the philosophy of life! We also sublimated once with the light.
Life is inseparable from utopia, if in the big cage of heaven and earth, we have already surrendered our souls and dreams, then how similar are we living? Mr. Wang Kailing once said that "the attention of today's life is being most closely trapped on the contemporary interface, being held like a hostage, tied to an electronic clock." "It is precisely because we do not have a cage that belongs to our own soul that we have become so similar."
The coordinate system of life (the cage of heaven and earth) already exists, and all we can do is to constantly define and find our own soul freedom, and then live a "human life" .