The book "Heart Methods" aims to help people summarize simple principles of life, and uses Mr. Inamori's knowledge and thinking to teach people how to have a noble personality.
This article is a reflection after reading each chapter or two chapters. It is a comparison before and after. Friends who are interested can ask questions and personal opinions.
Human beings are born as the souls of all things on earth. Regardless of their value, they must have a place where they should shine; they all have the conscience to do good and avoid evil.
Life is a training ground established for the purpose of cultivating the mind: the so-called consciousness/subconscious mind dominates life, which means that these small psychological changes that you usually cannot notice can affect your mind and even your body. Therefore, the essence of life is to dominate one's consciousness/subconsciousness in the process of constantly correcting one's own character, so as to obtain true spiritual wealth and noble personality.
Improving your character, sublimating your personality, and purifying your soul is all about making yourself and even society develop in a beautiful and conscientious direction. This requires knowing how to be satisfied and controlling the irrational desires of the body and the irrational mind. desire. Here Mr. Inamori quoted the "Six Paramitas" practice method to guide how to improve the mind. 1. Giving (helping others); 2. Observing the precepts (controlling desires); 3. Patience (be patient); 4. Diligence (diligence and improvement); 5. Meditation (reviewing life); 6. Wisdom (accomplishing life).
Consciousness dominates itself and even dominates the world, and dominates biological evolution: from the initial desire to fly to the creation of airplanes; and then analyzed from Darwin’s theory of evolution, the so-called survival of the fittest does not mean that I want to live in consciousness, Becoming a certain way can help me live a better life; or it may be caused by the mind, and consciousness can slightly change the appearance and temperament within decades or even years; and I heard that there is proof that flour can be used to replace cold medicine for patients. After taking it, one-third of people recovered. This all shows that consciousness changes personal status and even social status.
Here are the four teachings of Yangming’s Xinxue: There is no good or disgusting body; there are good and evil actions; knowing good and evil is conscience; doing good and eliminating evil is observing things. Human beings are born without knowing good and evil. Consciousness is the root of good and evil thoughts. Good and evil can be distinguished through conscience (mind), and through practice, we can do good and eliminate evil to achieve a wise life. To explain that in order to develop in a good direction, we must exercise and improve our character, change our consciousness and thoughts, and thus continuously develop in a good direction.
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Keep the natural principles and get rid of human desires (that is, keep normal desires and get rid of your own selfish and abnormal desires. For example, you are hungry and want to eat. This is Normal desires, but if you don’t eat until the Manchu banquet is complete, it is an abnormal desire), which is the only way to have a noble personality. Freedom is certainly valuable, but freedom that is divorced from social moral standards and even the law means going one's own way and doing whatever one wants. Over time, one will embark on the path of breaking the law and committing crimes. Therefore, the principles of preserving heavenly principles and eliminating human desires taught by Yang Mingxin are similar to the Six Paramitas cited by Mr. Inamori. What we are talking about here is to control your abnormal desires, be patient, diligent, and diligent. Only then can people maintain a healthy personality.
Regarding the so-called fate and karma, I personally believe that fate is in one's own hands, and one can change it through constant correction and hard work. In other words, good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil. In the process of accumulating good deeds, our personality continues to flourish, our soul is purified, and our destiny naturally changes, leading to a healthy and happy life, and vice versa.
Success or failure, setbacks or success are all life practices. How you face them will determine your life. This is the so-called full recruitment, loss and modest benefit.
We often encounter all kinds of troubles in life, and even hate others because of certain things, but troubles and hatred will only bring negative effects to ourselves. There is an old saying, do your best in people and affairs and obey fate, which means to do the most thorough and clear thinking before making a decision. After making a decision, all you can do is to obey fate, because worries will not have any impact on your results. The same goes for hatred.
Regarding adversity, let’s discuss the recently popular adversity quotient: it refers to the way people react when facing adversity, that is, the ability to face setbacks, get rid of difficulties and overcome difficulties. Cultivate your character in the face of adversity, accumulate a lot of experience, and work hard to survive. It will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
When you are alive, you will be tested by emotion and reason. So should you give priority to rational thinking or emotion? Here, Mr. Inamori believes that the order of rationality first, then emotion should be followed. Because only by thinking rationally can feelings be expressed in the correct way, be sincere and reasonable, and be convincing to others.
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About diligence, about life, about work. Most people think that we work in order to make a living, thus forgetting the original starting point of diligence/diligence. Diligence/diligence is to restrain our desires. Through diligent work, we can restrain our desire for laziness and entertainment, thereby shaping our souls. If you just repeat work mechanically for survival, you will fall into a vicious cycle and live in self-pity every day. In this way, you will lose the original meaning of life.
About students and competition. Here I understand that the first thing is to be reasonable, to have a good grasp of the degree, and to control your own desires. Just like good and evil, excessive self-love will breed evil, and excessive love for others will also breed evil. Only by grasping the right balance can we develop well. Good competition will make the entire industry harmonious. This also illustrates a truth, which is contentment. The so-called contentment means being able to control one's desires well, so that society can naturally achieve the goal of harmonious development. In other words, it is also a process of cultivating one's mind.
Written at the end, I finished reading the book (Mind Method: The Philosophy of Kazuo Inamori), combined with the books on the Unity of Knowledge and Action, Yangming Xue Xue and other books that I read before, and I deeply realized that if you want to live a good life To live a wonderful life, you must practice from the heart, adhere to the principles of nature and eliminate human desires, unite knowledge and action, and achieve conscience. Only then can we find our own position, and in the training ground of life, we can develop a noble mind and a pure soul.