Wang Tingxiang, president of Douchayuan in Ming Dynasty, once told the new inspector that a sedan chair bearer wore a pair of new shoes. It happened to be after the rain. At first, the sedan chair bearer carefully chose a clean piece of land to settle down, but later he accidentally stepped into the mud and never cared about his new shoes again.
The new censors understand that Wang Chuang Tingxiang wants to warn them: in official positions, we must prevent procrastination and live a completely clean life.
In fact, this is not only instructive for new examiners, but also a warning to each of us. Some people commit the most heinous crimes, often starting with a small mistake. A female civil servant surnamed Liu in Henan embezzled hundreds of thousands of public funds. It's ridiculous, because she wanted to buy a lottery ticket and had no money, so she took two yuan of public money to buy it, and the result was out of control. After taking two yuan, I want to take three yuan, four yuan, and finally take it from public funds as long as I have no money. As time goes by, the loopholes are getting bigger and bigger, and finally they become hundreds of thousands. But who would have thought that these hundreds of thousands of corruption developed from that mere two yuan? "Don't do it with small evils", as the ancients said, is true. If you had controlled yourself and didn't take the two yuan, that civil servant would certainly not have committed such a felony.
People's psychology is very subtle. A person's psychological defense line may be strong, but as long as there is a little collapse, then even the strong defense line may collapse. The bearers have been carefully protecting their new shoes at first, but once they step into the mud, they no longer have scruples. Look at those drug addicts, look at those corrupt officials, they often break the jar after taking the wrong first step, go further and further on the wrong road, and even finally embark on the road of no return.
If we want to prevent procrastination and keep ourselves at all times, we need to keep integrity in our chest. With this spirit, we will not fall into the vicious circle of greed and desire, and we will not sell ourselves short and indulge ourselves. Tao Yuanming has this meaning and is unwilling to bow down for five buckets of rice; Li Bai has this great sense of justice, refuses to obey, and bends down to serve the powerful; Yu Qian has this sense of justice, "I am not afraid of death, I want to stay in the world innocently"; Bao Zheng is honest and impartial in enforcing the law. It is with this righteousness that they stabilized themselves in the dark officialdom and went down in history.
It is not easy to have this noble spirit, and it is even harder to keep it at all times. Only by maintaining this healthy trend can we always have the ability to maintain ourselves.
Someone said, "One of the major differences between human beings and animals is that human beings have the ability to sustain themselves." The real person is to keep integrity, avoid procrastination and lead an honest and clean life.
Don't drown in filth.
We all came to this world pure and beautiful. Once polluted, some people, like bearers, accept all this numbly, give up the original cleanliness and walk into a more filthy abyss. If we want to make ourselves clean, we can't let ourselves fall into filth.
Some people say that one step is wrong and one step is wrong. Wrong that key step, no matter what, can't be redeemed. But I want to say that the really important step is not the wrong step, but the step that you bravely pulled out of the wrong hole after making a mistake. The courage of this step gives you a chance to return to the light; The decisiveness of this step gives you the strength to move on.
Tao Yuanming, with noble nature, struggled in the dark officialdom. He wants the darkness to return to the light, but the fact is that he can't breathe in the air full of death. However, the wrong step did not paralyze his heart. He resolutely pulled away from the officialdom, did not let himself fall into that darkness again, and did not let himself continue to sink. So there was a quiet life of "morning prosperity and waste, Dai Yue hoes home". It can be seen that the importance of this step: stepping on it will sink; Take it out and you'll be free.
If you are like a sedan chair bearer, you simply give up the cleanliness of your shoes with a little mud, and the beauty of cleanliness will always be covered up by filth.
Admittedly, when I say I'm not immersed in filth, I don't mean running away from the darkness. Facing the darkness, the belief that you can't let yourself sink is a sword. Hold this sword tightly, and you will have the courage to face the darkness and the power to pierce the dark chest. You stab this sword that won't sink in the filth, and you become a real Gao Shi. You didn't fall in the dark, and you didn't let yourself sink in the dark. If you fight until you are exhausted, it is not swallowed up by darkness, because you always adhere to the bright faith.
We young people, in this complicated society, should form a correct concept and stick to it. Even if you are troubled and confused, you can't give up the pursuit of light. It should be noted that mistakes should not haunt us, and dark thorns should not drag us down.
Adhere to the cleanliness of the heart and the nobility of the soul, and be a person who does not sink into darkness! You will feel the value and noble fragrance of freedom.
Take care of your "new shoes"
All people, from senior officials to ordinary people, no matter who they are, have many opportunities to "wear new shoes" in their lives. The key depends on how to protect your "new shoes" from beginning to end.
Once new shoes step into the mud pit, there will be a slack inertia in people's hearts. Anyway, they are dirty, and I am afraid they will be dirtier. It is this corrosive nature of relaxing vigilance that leads to the tragic ending of "careless start and disastrous ending". A pair of new shoes, a mud pit, how profound the meaning left to future generations!
The change of sedan-chair bearers from "choosing a place to walking" to "no longer caring" can not help but remind people of the transformation process of corrupt officials. Those who have fallen off the horse can still "choose the right place" in the right and wrong when they first come into contact with the interests. Do you have to consider whether this thing is "hot"? When they get up the courage, or inadvertently, or by luck, after the first "water", they "no longer care". Then, with the second and third times ... if there is a small one, I want to be big, and if there is a big one, I want to be big ... step by step, "no longer care"! In the end, their "water" is getting muddy and deeper, and if they can't reach the shore, they will certainly become more "indifferent". Before the incident, they all had such luck: "water" had already passed, once it was "death", twice it was "death" and three times it was also "death". It's all dead anyway. Let him go, and it will be bad luck to catch me. If I can't catch it, I'll get a big bargain.
If you want to be unknown, you must stop. In recent years, wading birds that "no longer care" have fallen off their horses, which is the best example. After the incident, they all regretted it The words of the drowning man's wife are worth pondering: "Although we didn't have much money before, we had enough money, so we had more than enough and lived a carefree life. Now that we have these stolen money, we are not happy. We are always on tenterhooks, we can't eat well, we can't sleep, and we are always worried about accidents. " In the end, their fears came true.
As the saying goes, if I had known this, why should I have? !
Don't break any windows easily.
We often read confessions of felons or death row inmates in newspapers. Although their crimes are different and their methods of committing crimes have their own characteristics, they almost all commit crimes for the same reason: they started their sinful journey from a trivial matter.
This reminds me of the story about thieves that my grandparents taught me when I was a child: it was also the first time I stole something inadvertently, and eventually I became a habitual thief who couldn't stop; I also feel that my parents scold me or even beat me because of the "bad things" I did, just telling me that "bad people all start like this."
As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs. Indeed, many times disasters, evils and sins don't crash into your world by themselves, but we are constantly destroying our windows, inviting disasters ourselves and letting evil possess us. As the famous "broken window theory" said: "Since it's a bad thing, it doesn't hurt to make it worse." So, don't break any window in your life easily!
Breaking a small window, no matter how you look at it or think about it, will not connect you with the destruction of your family or the end of your life. This is why people often don't care when they break the window for the first time. Unexpectedly, there is no second time, and it is difficult to have the first time. The window is broken, and nothing else is broken, so the window is broken. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, said: "Disasters often add up, and wisdom and courage are trapped in drowning."
A thousand miles of embankment, collapsed in the ant nest. Broken windows, like ant nests, will make the dam of life collapse sooner or later. In the past, people made excuses after failure and looked for scapegoats after national subjugation. They often say that this is a femme fatale. Now think about it, praise to your king and da ji is like a broken window, so there was a week after the death of Shang Dynasty. After all, many corrupt officials in history are the first money, and the first bad thing makes them go astray and cannot be resurrected after death.
Don't break any window in your life easily, and don't regret it until the last. Life may be full of temptations, and many dazzling things always attract us. At this time, we must not use the first time as an excuse to go astray and finally make irreparable mistakes. Every window in our life, whether honest, kind, tolerant or frank, once you abandon it, you will inadvertently get farther and farther away from them and can no longer get close. As people say, it is often much more difficult to repair something than to destroy it.
Don't break any of your windows easily, or thieves will take shape here and degenerate here.
Forgiving yourself is the beginning of depravity.
A leading cadre sighed after "falling off the horse": "After eating for a lifetime, a bowl of dog broth was stained with innocence." This remark reminds people of Laozi's famous saying: "Be careful to the end, there will never be a day of failure!" This means that being an official should be as cautious as before, and there will be no bad things.
Be cautious in the beginning, be cautious in honesty and self-discipline
Be careful at the beginning, if you are not careful at the beginning, it will be difficult to have a good ending; Be careful, it is difficult to be self-disciplined if you are not careful. The so-called "beginning" means "the first time, the first time"; The so-called "good" means "personal hobbies, hobbies."
Wang Tingxiang, the inspector general of the Ming Dynasty, told a short story when he met the new censor: Yesterday he was caught in a rain in the city. At first, the sedan chair bearer who walked in front carefully chose the right path, because the sedan chair bearer was wearing a pair of new shoes. Later, I accidentally stepped on muddy water and stopped taking care of my new shoes. Whether the road is dirty or not, my shoes are completely dirty when I step on it. Wang Tingxiang told his new subordinates to be cautious in everything. The new proposal also recognizes the meaning, and even says "I will never forget it." As can be seen from this story, Wang Tingxiang, a philosopher who is the chief inspector, brilliantly warned his new subordinate "God Chef", both in practice and in content and skills. Everything in the world is developing from small to large, from quantitative change to qualitative change. The same is true of making mistakes. If you are careless from the beginning, it will not be so easy to be cautious again. For example, people like Hu Changqing and Wang Zhaoyao only took bribes once. Often after the first time, I failed again and again and finally ruined myself. Just like a sedan chair bearer, new shoes are no longer cherished in the mud. Shoes are like this, so is the heart. Once you relax your vigilance and get stained, you will indulge yourself and break the jar. If we are firm-willed, unswerving, do not take chances when facing it for the first time, and firmly believe in the harm of greed, we can maintain integrity, refuse to pollute thousands of miles, and always "refuse to corrode and never touch", and we can be cautious from beginning to end. Therefore, prudence is the first line of ideological defense to keep clean, resist corruption and prevent change.
Be careful, it is difficult to be self-disciplined if you are not careful. Cabbage has its own hobbies, and leading cadres will also have their own hobbies, but they must be cautious. Especially for hobbies that damage the image or affect public rights, we must make up our minds to quit. Also pay attention to concealment, don't exaggerate personal hobbies, and beware of people with ulterior motives who "see maggots under the seam" and vote for you. Hu Changqing loves calligraphy, and people who want to make a difference, in the name of Suozi, send him a generous "pen transportation fee" and then make friends. With his personal wealth, he also caused irreparable losses to the country and finally sent himself to the guillotine. The lesson is profound. Therefore, state officials, especially leading cadres, should not underestimate their personal hobbies, but must carefully hide their secrets and strengthen their sense of self-discipline. We should control our desires, abstain from sex, and withstand all kinds of temptations; Control power in your hands, and use it only for the public and the people; Control your own section, pay attention to it bit by bit, and prevent it from being delayed. Therefore, prudence is the second line of ideological defense to maintain self-discipline and resist corruption and change.
At present, at the time of the change of cadres, we must be cautious, honest and self-disciplined, consciously strengthen the cultivation of internal strength, and achieve "three tubes" and "four self-control" (three tubes: control your mouth, control your legs, and control your hands. Self-esteem, introspection, self-vigilance, self-motivation), not only don't get your shoes dirty at the first step, but also be careful at every step, so as to overcome all kinds of bad styles, consolidate the ideological and moral defense line against corruption and change, be honest and diligent, work hard to build a harmonious society, and strive to achieve the goal of a well-off society in an all-round way.
Give the soul a clean "resting place"
The road was muddy after the rain. It is not surprising that the bearers put on their new shoes and got muddy on the road. What is terrible is that after stepping into the mud, the sedan chair bearer actually thought: Anyway, the shoes are wet, let it go. Because the mind has lost its clean "resting place" and no longer cares about the new shoes on its feet. This "laissez-faire" attitude towards mistakes is really not worth taking.
The shadow of reality came before my eyes. In a materialistic society, I don't know how many people have become modern "porters". At first, they carefully guarded their inner purity. Once they accidentally stepped into the muddy water-whether gambling, poisoning or stealing-they never paid attention to those "new shoes" again, thinking that even if they changed, they could not regain their inner purity. As a result, because of a mistake, I fell into the abyss of perdition.
I also thought of Jack London, a famous American novelist. He became famous at a young age because of several excellent novels such as The Call of the Wild. However, after becoming famous, he faced the temptation of money and power with a rational heart. At first, he just accepted some bribes and took advantage of his position to give some irregular green lights to those who took bribes. Some friends advised him to return to the right path of writing and stop blindly pursuing fame and fortune. However, Jack London gave up the road of rebuilding his spirit on the pretext that he had lost his "moral integrity" as a writer, and finally committed suicide because he could not bear the pressure of life and the punishment of crime. Let's not talk about why Jack London didn't refuse with righteous words when he first accepted bribes. Maybe he does have difficulties. But when he has realized that he is in a quagmire and his friends are trying to save him, why should he let himself go and give up the opportunity to repent and turn over a new leaf? I think it's probably because he has no clean place to stay in his heart.
Compared with him, Mr Feng Jicai, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, is quite different. He retired long ago, far from the quagmire of fame and fortune, and only wanted to be a watchman of China culture for a long time, caring for his soul for more than ten years and decades to ensure its purity. It is precisely because he has a heart to actively cultivate the wheat field of the mind that every step he takes is steady and successful.
Never forget to give your mind a clean foothold, which is conducive to a wrong step; Even if you make a mistake, there are still enough opportunities to make up for it. Only in this way can we take every step towards the future in a down-to-earth manner.
Can't tolerate small mistakes.
Life is like a trip on the street after rain, muddy, but there is also pure land. Everyone is kind, just like a sedan chair bearer who doesn't want to get his shoes dirty. He tiptoes forward carefully.
But once you accidentally make a mistake, just like those new shoes with mud on them, you will never be careful, never stand on tiptoe, and never try to keep your new shoes clean. "It's dirty anyway. What's the difference if it's a little dirty? " This kind of "tolerance" is precisely the tiny and crucial difference between many successes and failures.
It is true that no one is perfect, and small mistakes are inevitable. But the accumulation of quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, and irreparable big mistakes often start from such "bit by bit". Thousands of miles of levees will burst because of small ant nests; Towering trees will be eaten by humble insects; Vast rivers will be blocked by granular sediment; The ancient civilization, due to the "tolerance" of everyone day by day, suddenly declined, and finally it disappeared in a barren jungle, leaving only a few towering temples and a few unconfirmed legends.
Small mistakes are easy to save, because they are too inconspicuous, inconspicuous like dust on the table, and the letter is brushed away without leaving a trace; Because they are so slight that the law can't bind them, and the truth can't be written. Sometimes, they become a character, a habit, a kind of people and even a nation, and become a part of the psychology that connects a nation, so they are deeply rooted. This is a tiny big country. The flowing water that erodes rocks is like the valley wind that cuts rocks. In the habit and tolerance of all things, over the years, boulders finally pass through holes, mountains become cliffs, the sea becomes mulberry fields, and everything is dead.
Don't tolerate small mistakes and don't ignore such small forces. Its ever-changing face is hidden in every corner we reach. You see, it's in the sputum casually vomited by passers-by, in the waste paper casually discarded not far from the trash can, on the loose faucet, in the empty classroom with lights on ... It's like a silent plague, always lurking in the corner where everyone's moral consciousness is not so strong, and it's deeply hidden in everyone's bad roots, but it can be seen everywhere.
It should be everyone's habit to be intolerant of small mistakes. It will avoid making a big mistake and curb the spread of evil spirits. When the plague of human heart is difficult to take root in the moral environment, each of us will see the harmonious picture of society.