Zen practitioners have a calm and calm mind. The body in the world of mortals, the heart in the pure land, the rolling world of mortals is just a floating dream. Zen Master Niao Ke said: "When you come, you leave without a trace. When you go, you will be the same as when you came. Why bother asking about floating life? This floating life is just a dream." Master Lianchi Buddha said: "The dust net clings to it for dozens of springs, and yesterday There is no need to talk about what is right or wrong now; why should we forget our close friends when we are in a relationship? "I think that in the world of mortals, we can never escape the entanglement of the world. It is better to be calm and calm like a Zen man," and "Be with lovers." ", do happy things, don't ask whether it is a calamity or fate." Live in the present, love in the present, be happy in the present, follow the fate, meet the circumstances, and follow the nature, this life is enough.
Love follows fate. It does not say that "the life and death bond is broad, and I am happy with my son. I will hold my son's hand and grow old together with him." I only ask that "at least once in my life, I will forget myself for someone, no matter what." I don’t ask for results, I don’t ask for companionship, I don’t ask for what I’ve had before, I don’t even ask for you to love me, I just ask for meeting you in my most beautiful years. “I will follow fate as my best friend,” and I will visit my only soul mate in the vast sea of ??people. "I'm lucky to get it; I'm destined to not get it." What I love most in my life is Xu Zhimo's chicness and romance. His love and poetry have fascinated me throughout my life. I love his innocence, his talent, and his fireworks. A gorgeous life. Undoubtedly, he is free and unrestrained when it comes to love and marriage.
Marriage is like a siege. Those who have not come in want to come in, and those who have come in want to get out. In life, if you can grow old slowly with the one you love, slowly savor every bit of youth, and recall the lingering sadness of rubbing your ears and temples together, then it is a blessing that has been cultivated in several lifetimes. More people just walk and walk. They dispersed, the stars dimmed, and you disappeared. Marriage is fate, and many people enter the "grave" in a daze. There is happiness, joy, entanglement, and pain in it. A master explained: When a woman loses her head and a man is imprisoned, it is marriage. In fact, having a calm heart, accepting a marriage that has become a family relationship, being indifferent to the passage of time, and being indifferent to the ordinary life, is not a kind of optimism and magnanimity that understands hardship and does not suffer. In a cup of bitter tea, savoring the sweet and sour life, savoring the trivialities of life is also a kind of Zen mind. There are always countless gatherings and partings in life. In fact, gatherings and separations are all due to our own fate. All we have to do is to cherish what can be cherished and let go of what must be let go. If you can't be calm, you should wave your hand gracefully and wish the lover who once held hands: a happy life!
Buddha's verse says: "There are hundreds of flowers in spring and a moon in autumn, and a cool breeze in summer and snow in winter. If not, Worrying about other things is a good time in the world. "For those who follow Buddhism, every day is a good day and every time is a good time. As long as there is nothing in your heart, no worries, and you are alive, you will be at ease. The flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, the cool breeze in summer, and the snow in winter are all selfless gifts from nature. As long as you have a grateful heart, everything will become beautiful. Be grateful for the wind and rain, be grateful for the sunshine, be grateful for your relatives, be grateful for your friends, be grateful for yourself. Regardless of right or wrong, regardless of honor or disgrace, I am always grateful. Because gratitude is a kind of perfection, a kind of kindness, a kind of compassion, and a kind of vast sea and sky. Gratitude is actually a state of life. Often, we are grateful for the gifts and help given to strangers and friends who are far away. Turning a blind eye to the relatives, parents, and spouse around you, no matter how much dedication and love you give, it is just normal and what you should do. In fact, we all have to be grateful for all the fate and separation in this life. Being together is happiness, but separation is a relief. Those who have insulted, deceived, and hurt us are affectionate gifts to us over time, just like wind and rain to vegetation, prompting us to grow, tempering our will, and making us change. Stronger, more mature, more charming.
Calmness and calmness are a kind of life cultivation and a general demeanor. Among the princes and generals in history, which one was not strategizing and winning thousands of miles away? Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without changing his expression. Among millions of people, it was as if he was in a deserted place. Don't be arrogant when you win, don't be discouraged when you lose. If a person ignores life and death and takes gains and losses lightly, he will often survive a desperate situation and get unexpected gains. There is a story about a tofu seller who was suddenly and unexpectedly challenged by a samurai and his life was in danger. He asked a Zen master to save his life, and the Zen master taught him to calm down and stop treating the duel as a duel, just as making tofu. When the time came for the duel, the tofu seller calmly took off his bamboo hat and put it on the stool. Without being in a hurry, he slowly untied his robe, flicked the dust on it, folded it carefully, and slowly placed it on the stool. Then he walked over calmly and slowly pulled out the long sword without even looking at the warrior. One glance.
Suddenly, the samurai fell to his knees with a plop, discarding the sword in his hand. The samurai was shocked by his calmness and completely lost confidence. Being so calm must be an expert in the world! In fact, we often fail ourselves. What makes us fail is the heart that worries about gains and losses.
Calm and calm is a state of life and an attitude towards life. The lay scholar Dongpo, a literary giant in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a good friend of the Zen master Foyin. One day, he had a sudden enlightenment and realized the Zen principle that "eight winds cannot blow". He was so proud that he immediately wrote these five words. He hurriedly sent the bookboy to send the calligraphy to Foyin on the other side of the river for correction. After reading it, Foyin wrote a word underneath: fart. Su Shi was angry and took a boat across the river to argue. Foyin smiled calmly and said: "Eight winds can't blow it, and a fart comes across the river." Dongpo experienced political ups and downs several times. After experiencing the troughs of life, he realized the true meaning of life and became free and unrestrained. "Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves in the forest, why not scream and walk slowly. The bamboo stick is lighter than the horse, who can beat the horse with mango shoes?" Afraid? You will live your whole life in the mist and rain.”
Every ordinary person’s life is mostly filled with ups and downs. Only by facing it calmly and accepting it fully will you not feel bitter. Life is inherently bitter. Only by having a heart that is not afraid of bitterness can you taste the sweetness in the midst of bitterness. Since ancient times, there has been a road in Mount Huashan. How many people can walk leisurely and leisurely on the ancient road on the cliffs? "What you read on paper always feels shallow, but you know that you have to practice it." Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Huineng, the sixth founder of Zen Buddhism, did not know a single word, but he was able to fully understand his nature and talk about Tao calmly. It can be said that Tao is in life and in nature.
In reading philosophical articles, the most read sentence is: "Don't be surprised by favor or disgrace, watch the flowers blooming and falling in front of the court; leave or stay without intention, watch the clouds roll and relax in the sky." In fact, the Tao is very simple, and life is also very simple. Simple. It's just that when it transforms into everything, it becomes very complicated and unreasonable. The principles in the world vary widely. Even Buddhism has 84,000 Dharma doors. Walking into it is like entering a vast ocean. The truth mentioned is nothing but the emptiness of dependent origination. Sometimes when you read, you get smarter; sometimes it's the opposite, and you get stupider as you read. Zhao Kuo, a bookworm in Chinese history, caused an eternal injustice just because he read too much. Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of what you say in life are nonsense, and the same goes for the words you write. Too much talk leads to tuberculosis, and too much talk leads to failure. Buddha does not speak, Zen does not speak, what he says and discusses are all lies. Writing too many articles is like fried leftover rice. Turning over and over again, there are just a few words, and there are just a few meanings after talking over and over again. Those who are really calm and composed just pick up a book, make a pillow, and sleep.
When I write prose, I like it to be eloquent and calm. I write my heart in my hand, and my heart is natural. Not hasty, not slow, calm and calm. Don't use too many flowery words, just express your meaning clearly, it doesn't look tired, the words are simple, and the philosophy is profound. "The mind of Zen has settled down and is stuck in the mud, and will not be driven up and down by the spring breeze." When encountering major events, you must be calm and calm, and you must remain calm and face it calmly. Things are often not as complicated as you imagine. Grasp the essence and solve the problem in just a few clicks. In the face of rumors and rumors, do not argue or argue; in the face of adversity and injustice, do not blame others and others; in the face of misunderstandings and grievances, do not blame yourself or sigh. As long as you remain still, let the wind from the southeast, northwest and northwest flow. If your mind is calm, everything will be calm. "The wind will thin the bamboos, but the wind will pass by but the bamboos will make no sound; the wild geese will cross the cold pond, and the wild geese will leave but the pond will leave no shadow. Therefore, a gentleman's mind will appear when things come, and his mind will become empty when things go." As long as you cultivate your mind like a clear mirror, , all phenomena in the world are like flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, the shadow passes by, leaving no trace in the heart.
Calmness is a kind of ability. Zhou Yu "feather fan and silk scarf, while chatting and laughing, the rafts and oars disappeared into ashes." Cao Cao could not calm down, mounted his horse and fled in panic. But Cao Cao still laughed in the end. Victory or defeat is nothing more than a common military strategist. The only thing that matters is having the last laugh. Only when you see through the world can you be calm; only when you look down upon the worldly world can you be calm. Like water, it is invisible and can take on all shapes. Like air, it cannot be seen or touched, but it is everywhere. When it is still, the Qi is calm and the mind is at ease, as quiet as a virgin; when it is active, it can destroy everything.
Hanshan asked Shide: "There are people in the world who slander me, bully me, humiliate me, laugh at me, belittle me, belittle me, and lie to me. How should I deal with it?" Shide replied: "Be patient with him and let him. , avoid him, let him, be patient with him, respect him, ignore him, you will see him in a few years. "Nine out of ten things will be unsatisfactory in life; two out of ten people can talk to you." Indifferent, detached, see through, let go, let things go, and be at ease. A poem by Buddhist monk Budai of the Tang Dynasty goes: "Planting green rice seedlings in the rice fields with your hands, you can see the sky in the water when you raise your head. Only when the mind is pure is the way, retreating is the way forward." For the sake of learning, it increases day by day, and for the sake of the way, it decreases day by day, and it decreases again and again. As for nothing. Simple life, simple happiness, simple wisdom, no arguing, no sadness or joy, is in the Tao.
It doesn’t matter what you gain or lose, what you have or not, what you live for is the moment, what you enjoy is the process, be calm and calm, happiness will come to your door by itself, and success will knock on your door in the middle of the night.
This is an era of materialism, and everything is inseparable from the word money. As the saying goes, "Money can make the world go round." There is a WeChat article like this: Money can buy a "house", but not a "home"; money can buy "medicines", but not "health"; money can buy a "clock", but not a "home". To "time"; money can buy "food", but not "appetite"; money can buy "bed", but not "sleep"; money can buy "jewelry", but not " "Beauty"; money can buy "entertainment", but not "happiness"; money can buy "books", but not "wisdom"; money can buy "flattery", but not "respect" ;Money can buy "partners", but not "friends"; money can buy "luxury goods", but not "culture"; money can buy "power", but not "prestige"; Money can buy "obedience", but not "loyalty"; money can buy "body", but not "soul"; money can buy "false fame", but not "real knowledge"; money can buy "virtual fame", but not "real knowledge". You can buy a "villain's heart", but you cannot buy a "gentleman's ambition". Treating money calmly and calmly can free yourself, make yourself free, and not become a slave to money and desire.
Sometimes we have to be indifferent to life. Life is painful because of me, and the mind is troubled because of desire. Everything is essentially empty. Only when you return to this empty space can you feel great freedom. Plainness is the truth, calmness is the true nature. To restore the true nature of life, there is no worry in life, no fear in death, and no fear in the heart. In the end, I was speechless. If I didn't say anything, I would say nothing. If you talk too much, it’s all nonsense; if you think too much, it’s just distracting thoughts. Being alone is a carnival for one person! Being together is a paradise for two people. Silently, just watching quietly, without saying a word, without saying a word, without leaving, without abandoning, is also happiness. Happiness is sometimes like sand in the palm of your hand. The tighter you hold it, the faster it is lost. Happiness is sometimes like the flower of the other side, vaguely visible but unable to be touched. What is happiness? Happiness is just a feeling in the soul. When you are thirsty, drink water; when you are hungry, eat; when you are sleepy, sleep. I think that true happiness is to let go, let go of the pursuit of happiness, and if your heart does not move rashly, you will not feel the pain of the world. If it is not painful, it is actually happiness. To be alive is to be happy.
A living heart will have seven emotions and six desires, joy, anger, sorrow and joy. If love hurts and hate hurts, we will choose to die. When the heart is dead, there will be no pain and nothingness. After it is empty, it will restore the true nature of the universe, neither sad nor happy, and everything will follow its fate. Then, spring comes again and the flowers bloom, full of life. Many times in life, one has to put oneself in danger to survive. Laozi said: "When you are born, you die, and when you die, you are born." Life and death are the same thing, and there is no essential difference. In fact, after too much experience, you become bearish. If you take it lightly, you won't worry about gains and losses; if you understand it thoroughly, you will see through it. Once you see through it, you won't be afraid of life and death. Having seen through life and death, what else is there to feel uncomfortable about?
There is no absolute right or absolute wrong in the world; there is no eternal hatred, and there is no hatred that cannot be resolved in a lifetime. Believe that after the storm, there will be sunny days; believe that the end of the night is dawn; believe that the sky falling will always be just a legend; believe that God treats everyone fairly, and if God closes a door for you, it will be Open another window for you. Slow down your pace, lower your posture, let go of gains and losses, be brave enough to be yourself, no matter what others say, keep a calm and normal heart, don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself, be calm and calm. As the saying goes: "Live fish will swim against the tide, but dead fish will drift with the tide." In the noisy material world, it is not a bad thing to build your own spiritual home, cut out the complex and simplify it, be indifferent to tranquility, live poetically, and live noblely. .