The Four Seasons of Life
Wen | Yuan Ye
"April on earth, the peach blossoms in the mountain temples began to bloom", inexplicably, thought of this verse, perhaps, can not be said to be inexplicable, because the month of April has indeed gone to the end of its end, and I am also aware of it. Even though, spring fondly called out the flowers, but the fragrance will not go far with the back of the spring girl: May rosy pink, tree mast, vine honeysuckle, potted pampered moon, are in line, ready to release. Each season has its own unique fragrance, as does our life, each age has its own flavor.
Spring ~
often remembered that year, do not realize that it has been confused.
Flowering and blossoming is just like love, and once you miss it, it's not the same as it was back then. It is for this reason that there is a milk tea Liu Ruoying's "Later".
"Later, I finally learned how to love
Unfortunately, you are already far away, disappeared in the sea
Later, finally in tears to understand
Some people once missed will not be
......
The first time I heard of "Later", was in high school, eighteen or nineteen years old, nothing worth worrying about, but the days like to moan and groan, like to listen to "Later".
Which girl is not pregnant? White skirt, long hair, shoulder-length girl, eyes like autumn water, reflecting the eyes of only one galloping on the basketball court in a robust figure. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes.
Three years of school, I finally became a "later" in the people miss the girl, but in the first half of someone's confession, I have taken back his pure love, so, harboring regrets is not me after all! I'm not sure why I'm forced to borrow a song to get drunk, but I'm sure I'll be able to find a reason to do so.
Is it true that the flavor of the first love, whether it is a love affair, a single love affair, or a love affair, is unforgettable because of the word "first"?
Suddenly recalled a few lines of poetry.
"Jun was born before I was born, and I was born when you were already old
Jun hated me for being born late, and I hated Jun for being born early
Jun was born before I was born, and I was born when you were already old
Hate not to be born at the same time, and to be with you every day
Jun was born before I was born, and I was born when I was already old
Jun was away from you, and you were separated from me at sea
I was born before Jun was born, and I was born when I was already old
Jun was not born, but I was born when I was born.
What happened then? The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Later, I happened to see a recent photo of him, he is no longer in my mind elegant sunshine warm boy, and I, too, is no longer youthful and beautiful spring breeze vaguely soft ten miles, so later later, we did not later.
Summer~
Ten years of hard work and study, and finally be able to spread wings. Originally thought that the realization of the dream of adults can be free to earn money, will be able to work in the vast world; originally thought that the community will be full of vitality everywhere, everywhere vibrant, will not be stingy release of goodwill, will be enthusiastic to extend their arms to give comfort to new rookies in the workplace; originally thought that I was this countryside weeds can be in the bustling city blossomed into the most enthusiastic summer flowers; originally thought that the ... ...
Unexpectedly, the reality is not exactly the same as my imagination.
Although I was given the opportunity to earn money freely, I still can't buy what I want to buy what I want to buy, because I have to send home a large part of my salary; although I was given the opportunity to earn money freely, but it is not easy to earn money, as a grass-roots employee, the work norm is from eight in the morning to eight in the evening, all day long in the workshop, the machine-like rotation, which have the leisure to light up the colorful sparks of life; even if the society drums up the vitality, but at the same time also exudes Vitality, but at the same time also exudes a depressed gas, those who sink all day in the slot machine, fight the landlord, fried gold flower of the hard-earned votes as a general flow of flowers; even though this society is not lack of innocent and friendly people, but there is also for their own selfish and hooking up with the people or trickery, and there are also sesame points because of the rights of the subordinates arbitrarily trampled on the dignity of the people.
The early summer of life, I did not have the splendor of a flower. Slow and inarticulate, I always huddle in the social corner, watching colleagues get together to laugh, I was lost in a daze, with their own get along is not friendly: there is no life goal, but also can not read their own true heart.
I don't know how many times I've been around the bends and tasted the pain, but I'm a little closer to what I had hoped for. The world is still the same, people are still the same, the reason why we feel different, because our cognition is not the same; the reason why we will be treated differently, because we are not the same as others .
What you want, you have to do. The way of life is to find your own way.
Life is not all good, everyone's life is destined to trek through the ups and downs, taste the bitterness and happiness. My heart aspires to the colorful roses, but got a branch of thorns of the bitter wild rose.
Autumn ~
All the way trekking staggered to the middle age, at this time, has been burdened with mortgage education mountain, think of the old and the young, do not dare to slacken off for fear of any accidents, and so a side of the work of the work of a conscientious and conscientious, and a side of the time to make time for The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
At the end of the day, I've come to realize the truth - that no matter what happens to me, what problems I face, I'm going to be able to get through to the end of the day, and I'm going to be able to get through to the end of the day.
So, they no longer have expectations of anyone, to build themselves up with the Iron Man, but also closed the window of the soul, no longer randomly reveal their real injuries to people, learned to pretend to be strong. Used to a person hiding in the dark corner of the night silently crying, silently licking? Wounds, the rotting flesh a little removed, in the pain and itching slowly healing, newborn ......
For life and hard work in the middle of the year, you catch the fate thrown to you everything, whether warm spring or cold winter, whether and wind or rain, whether flowers or flowers fall. If you are happy, you will embrace it with both hands; if you are in pain, you will not run away from it. About the road ahead may be confused, but there is always a general direction in the heart, and this direction with the flow of time more and more clear.
Middle-aged you, lonely you!
Middle-aged you, determined you!
The middle-aged you, the you that always manages to find the light!
Middle age, is the most lonely and most laborious stage of life with the greatest pressure; middle age, is also the most reflective and most suitable for precipitation and most suitable for the stage of enlightenment . Perhaps, this is the way of the mortal to the awakening of the road, the so-called practice can not be separated from the life, is probably so.
When I reached middle age, I slowly realized that happiness is not only related to wealth, but also related to mindset, family harmony, physical health, sincere friendship, and pure emotions. Certainly, our survival can not be separated from the necessary material conditions, but, in the basic survival after the solution, is it? Can we grab more money means can grab more happiness?
Money can buy the top skin care products, but can not buy ageless face; money can buy drugs, but can not buy health; money can buy enjoyment, but can not buy happiness.
Money, not everything!
The idea was amended, began to reflect, began to "cut off". The socialization of the flashy, away; bad habits, abandon; false thoughts, cut off. Always look inward and connect with your heart.
Mr. Lin Ching-hsien read these two sentences in The Supreme Upanishad:
" A person who reaches the age of thirty should spend all his time in enlightenment. When one reaches the age of thirty, if one does not spend all his time in realization, he is taking a step towards the path of death! "
At that moment, Mr. Lin was horrified, and then he put down his existing fame and fortune, gave up his worldly pursuits, and went into the mountains to practice. The first time he went, it was ten years.
I, the mother of a young child, can not do so bold as Mr. Lin, does not have his vigor, so I had to walk alone in the hustle and bustle of the red dust to repair the heart. From time to time to read books, from time to time to participate in book clubs organized by book clubs, every focus, every **** read, all help to clear the mind of contamination, all help to see the nature of the heart. After the washing of the heart, light, soft and clear, as if floating in the sky of soft clouds, but also like the dandelions scattered in the wilderness.
If one is able to dwell on the practice, one's cognition and practice will be refined. However, as an ignorant mortal, my mind is always wavering, just like the rows and rows of waves, sometimes slipping onto the beach, sometimes falling back into the sea, and I can't stay in a particular environment. Nonetheless, I am still glad that I can be plucked up at the beginning of my 30th year, although I still make confusion, but I no longer chase after fame and fortune, I learn to empty myself, learn to precipitate myself, learn to approach my own heart, and no longer live in other people's eyes. Occasionally think of the past clouds of ambition (seek fame and fortune), not to smile, intend to let go of their own, intend to put down, intend to re-define the priorities of the event. From now on, I will try to clean the dirt of the mind, try to submerge the heart to savor the "useless" things brought by the quiet and beautiful, and no longer focus on the pursuit of "useful".
In the past, I didn't understand why the chrysanthemums were so colorful and the leaves were so fat and the flowers were so colorful, and why they were so elegant. Now, I realize that the chrysanthemum is elegant, not because it is not beautiful, but because it does not compete, and it is the beauty of elegance to be indifferent and not to compete.
" All things are born of karma, all things are destroyed by karma", the realization of the dream, not only depends on the main "cause", but also depends on the secondary "cause", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma", "karma". The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Winter~ Spring and Autumn have the moon, Summer has the cool wind and winter has the snow. If you have nothing to worry about, it is a good time of life ." This poem by Zen Master Wumen Hui Kai reveals the correct view that circumstances are born from the mind. If we can be idle, no matter how the seasons change, no matter how the years change, we should be able to realize the beauty in the ordinary days. Rolling dust, rainy life, come to this world, everyone shoulders their own responsibility, all need to trek the bumps. In the student era, the students for the academic tired and involved in the world is not yet deep, so although there is occasionally leisure but can not enjoy, not know the world of young children, but also can not understand what is leisure. In the middle-aged period, people are busy making a living and satisfying materialistic desires, so they have little leisure time. The only people who know how to enjoy leisure and have the conditions to enjoy it are the old people who have gone through a thousand sails. Even though the years are unforgiving, the body has added problems, the appearance of more wrinkles, but the children have also grown up, the hard work of half a lifetime of parents can finally be relieved of the heavy burden on the shoulders. At this moment, if you can uphold the mindset of children and grandchildren, naturally, you can savor the leisure. Living in the city, reading and practicing, waiting for flowers, dancing and hiking; living in the countryside, raising a group of chickens and ducks, planting a few rows of vegetables, cultivating a few fruit trees. Spring to appreciate the flowers in front of the court, summer to listen to the frogs under the grass, fall harvest rice and fruits, winter leisure to visit relatives and friends. Day, good not happy! If you can't see through it, you always see your children as one with yourself, and you're worried about your child's marriage, your child's heir, your child's future, so you have to continue to carry the weight of the journey, and give up this piece of leisure. The same situation, different hearts, the situation is very different . The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night. The first thing you need to do is to talk about the death of a person who has been in the world for a long time and is not a person who has been in the world for a long time. There is life, there is death, from the moment of descent into the world, it is decided that we will eventually face it. Since there is no way to escape, it is better to face it head on and be honest. In addition, if you can be in the right time to leave quietly, not tired of family members and their own and do not suffer, it is not a bad thing. In the beginning of life, we need to know that the end of a life is actually the beginning of another life, karma, karma, karma, karma, no self . The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of what is going on in the world and how it works. Into the old age, through the vicissitudes of life, by then, when to eat most of the bitter also ate, when the experience of most of the robberies also experienced, because I know the taste of the bitter, so the party will cherish the sweet, the party is good from the trivial days to find the sweet. Also because of the experience of wind and rain, so the heart in the polishing of the years to get precipitation, know how to love, know how to release, calm and open-minded, not afraid of frost and snow, just like the cold and open the plum blossom. In my case, winter is still early, so the idea of winter can be described as a paper. I just hope that after walking through the youthful spring, confused summer, the internalization of the fall, after awareness, reflection, correction, realization, I can step by step towards the clear winter, then, I wish to see the mountain is still the mountain, see the water is still the water. Drafted in late April 2022 Essays in the Wilderness