Everyone covets unlimited wealth, but what do those who are already rich desire? There is a story in Plato's dialogue. Maersk has a businessman who is very rich but suffers from heart disease. The businessman asked for a doctor and medicine, telling him that from now on, as long as he gets rich and gives alms, he will get a little sick, and he will be fine when his wealth is exhausted. This is not only a fable, but the contemporary stock god Buffett said frankly: "My happiest time is not to acquire wealth, but to help others with wealth." There must be many people boasting, but people have to face the fact that material wealth is hard to compare with spiritual wealth, and the most precious wealth in the world comes from people's hearts.
Looking back, did the famous "poor people" in history really go bankrupt? Think of Xu Wenchang's "Counting Plum Blossoms for Drinking". He is so poor that he never forgets romance that people have to stop his deep spiritual realm. What's more, Tang Bohu, who had a romantic life, was poor in his later years and had to beg for a living, which was really embarrassing. Are these literati really useless? Or Tang Yin's poem hit the nail on the head: "Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others for not being able to see through."
What you can't see through is too much fame and fortune. When the world is haggling over petty profits, these people are "stubbornly" guarding their spiritual home, just like an inexhaustible treasure house, from which countless inspirations gush out. Why are they slaves of silver? It is really admirable that "Peach Blossom Fairy nurtures Peach Blossom and chooses Peach Blossom Abstract Drink".
This spiritual wealth is not only your own, but also an intangible gift to society and history. Du Fu's life was turbulent, and he could not be an official, but he could shout "I can freeze to death alone", which aroused countless people's mighty feelings of compassion. Mozart did not hesitate to die in a foreign country, just to leave us a passion in our hearts in greed. It is because of these people's generous gifts that we have the first bucket of gold in this life at the moment we came to this world, which has become a part of our blood and soul.
Since the mind is rich, why do you want those things outside the body? Or boldly change Song Zhenzong's famous saying: "There is a golden house in my heart."
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