The opening story: a young man is lazy, not willing to work, but all day thinking about the dream of getting rich. One day he heard that there was a wise man on the mountain who could do anything, so he went to visit him. After listening to the young man's wish, the wise man smiled lightly and said that this is not difficult. The young man was so happy that he kowtowed and couldn't wait for the answer. The wise man said as long as you put in more hard work, less laziness, more gratitude, less resentment, more wisdom, less greed.... The young man interrupted the master without hearing him out. I can't wait for those, you have to give me an answer to get rich and famous fast, OK? I want to get all the money in the whole world. The wise man said, "I can fulfill that wish. Words just fell, a large amount of money from the sky, the sky to the young man smashed, the young man's wish was finally realized, but the countless money will also be his pressure to the dying, dying before the young man sighed and said, want to have more money will have to have a container that can be loaded down. This story tells us that the desire of life is endless, but the individual life in time and space is the limit, if your heart is not wide enough, these wishes can only become your burden.
001 Broad-minded, then nothing can be done.
Everyone has heard the story of Six Foot Lane. Zhang Ying, a university scholar in the Qing Dynasty, one day in his hometown, his family sent a letter saying that the neighbors want to expand the courtyard wall three feet, so that encroachment of their own yard, because of this matter, the two families are very unhappy. The family then sent a letter to Zhang Ying, hoping that he could stop the neighbor from taking the blame. The family thought that Zhang Ying, as a university scholar, could handle this matter easily, but it did not occur to him that he only sent a letter back to the family. In the letter, he wrote, "A thousand miles of letters are only for the wall, so what's the harm in letting him go three feet. The Great Wall of China is still in place, and I don't see the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang. After receiving the letter, the family felt that it was too calculating and was very ashamed. Will be three feet back of the wall, the neighbors see Zhang Ying family gave up three feet of land, but also embarrassed to expand the yard, and will be three feet back of the wall, so that a 6-foot wide alley appeared among the two families, known as Six Feet Lane, the story has been passed down to the present. Now in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, there is a stone monument of the family letter written by Zhang Ying. Six Feet Lane has become a famous tourist attraction.
Everything is so, as long as the heart to relax not to care, then the trouble has lost the basis of the boarding. Not counting the immediate minor details, in order to be able to move forward without distractions. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.
002 A broad mind is not bound by anything.
Being able to tolerate the shortness of others, as well as the length of others, to tolerate the faults of others, but also to be able to tolerate the merits of others, to listen to the words of the smooth ear, but also to be able to listen to the words of the opposite ear. You can tolerate the wrongs, you can tolerate the losses, you can tolerate the imperfections, you can fit the world.
A young man walked into a gift store, he wanted to buy a crystal turtle for his ex-girlfriend who is getting married tomorrow, because he hated his ex-girlfriend for betraying him and marrying his friend. He wants to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding. The owner of the gift store saw the problem. He then told the young man that the wrapping for this gift would not be done until tomorrow, so you should come and get it tomorrow. The next day the young man came to the gift store, picked up the gift and left in a hurry, not opening the wrapping to look at it, he panicked, handed the gift to his ex-girlfriend and left. Years later, he regretted this behavior. When he set foot on his homeland again, he met his friend and ex-girlfriend, and there was no expected displeasure, they kindly entertained him and thanked him for his forgiveness that year, he was very puzzled, and later realized that the shopkeeper did not wrap the crystal turtle as promised, but replaced it with a pair of aesthetically pleasing crystal swans. The young man went to the gift store and thanked the shopkeeper for his help that year. The owner said, young people do not need to take the mistakes of others to punish themselves, the past let it go, meet a smile to eliminate enmity, the young man left the tears of relief.
Some grudges, if not put down, may not come out in a lifetime. If you can't get out of the hurt, you will have despair. In the face of people who hurt themselves, be a smart person and relax your heart. Take new steps to live a more exciting life is what the wise person does.
These two short stories have a particularly deep feeling for me. If you can't be a wise person in this life, you can be a person with a broad heart can also make yourself more happy and less hateful. Life will be lived easily.