Everything is the projection of the human heart, and everything is in the human heart.
A person's heart is strong enough to cope with anything that happens outside.
1 Repair the heart at difficult points
Wang Yangming said: "The more difficult it is, the more time it takes to cultivate your mind."
The worse the environment you face, the more you must keep your initial heart, so that the situation will not turn. This is the way to cultivate the mind.
When Wang Yangming was twenty-four, he failed the exam again. Other candidates began to cry when they found that they didn't pass the exam. Only Wang Yangming is expressionless. Everyone thought he was too sad, so they all came to comfort him and help him open his heart.
But Wang Yangming said with a smile, "You think it is shameful to fail the list, but I think it is the most shameful to be tempted to fail the list."
There will be many hardships in life, and the more this time, the more it can reflect people's spiritual cultivation. Ordinary people just cry and moan, but truly cultured people can be calm and take it in stride.
So how can we be so indifferent? Wang Yangming once said: "People have to grind things to stand up; Only when you are still can you be calm and energetic.
Difficulties and hardships are the best training for the soul. Seek inner strength, and a person can be truly strong.
2 Meditate and nourish your heart.
The ancients said, "It is important to be calm and indifferent to sex."
Only by keeping quiet can a person relax himself and be indifferent.
Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou and built a thatched cottage for himself. He asked people to draw snowflakes on the walls of the thatched cottage and called it Tang Xue.
The outside world is complicated, but Tang Xue maintains a simple world.
When nothing happened, Su Shi sat quietly in it, facing the snow all around alone, and his heart was calm and rich.
Modern people are busy and have no leisure for a moment, and their tired hearts are always tense, and sooner or later they will collapse.
Quiet, a person has time to precipitate, reflect and sublimate.
As the ancients said, quietness makes wisdom.
Only by calming down can we have the wisdom to deal with complexity.
It is only when the mind is calm that it is possible to observe everything.
Be careful when you are alone.
The ancients thought that solitude can be "not turbid" and meditation can be "not turbid".
When you are alone, you should keep your heart clear.
Keep the inner rules and the bottom line of life when others don't know.
During Zeng Guofan's tenure as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, a county magistrate gave him a portrait of Wang Xizhi, which was priceless and precious.
Zeng Guofan took it out at night and read it carefully, and then gave it back to the county magistrate, saying, "You can't take away all the beautiful things in the world."
Zeng Guofan said: "It is reassuring to be cautious and immune."
Only by keeping one's conscience and being worthy of heaven and earth can we be frank and open to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth.
Only by keeping the temptation of interests and keeping your heart can you keep your personality and dignity.
Life is practice, and practice is mind cultivation.
Only when a person's heart is rich and firm, quiet and clear can he resist all the uneasiness and agitation in the world.
Only by repairing this heart can we live a good life.