It is better to persist than to have it.
If you are sharp, you can't keep it for long.
Happiness from now on, can't stay.
Being rich and arrogant is to blame.
Retirement after work is heaven.
-Chapter 9 of Tao Te Ching
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When the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses. Everything goes to extremes, and it will go to the opposite side. So is life. It is better to stop in time than to be too perfect. You don't need to show your edge too much, or you will hurt yourself.
People have birth and death, and things have success or failure. In this world, the smartest person is a human being, and the stupidest person is also a human being. From birth, our eyes have sprouted desire. Desire is a kind of motivation. Desire is also a kind of resistance.
We strive to seek the outside world and live a life of camp and service all day. We filled the room with gold bars and silver ingots, but forgot to leave a quiet corner for our hearts. No amount of wealth can make us last.
As we become rich, we also become more proud. However, God will never measure a person's value only by wealth. Wealth will not bring us real happiness, on the contrary, it often becomes the cage of our souls.
People's hearts are always so hungry. What we call success is actually a continuous road with no end. When we understand this, we will know how to stop.
Retire after success, this is heaven.
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Life is like a rainbow, colorful, but only superficial. It is an ethereal mist and illusory water vapor. It is difficult to stand the test of time. After a short period of beauty, all happiness and pain will disappear, and all achievements and fame will disappear into nothingness.
When we think about life in this way, we always feel a little pessimistic. However, if we can calm down and think carefully, we may see the profundity behind this pessimism.
Suojia Rinpoche said in Tibetan Life and Death Book: "Only those who know how fragile life is can know how precious life is." Today, we don't cherish life enough. We have become a bloody machine, constantly overdrawing our health. We spend a lot of time on material comforts, on a bunch of trivial, repetitive, monotonous and meaningless things. The original complete life was torn to pieces by desire.
Behind this seemingly prosperous world is actually a barren spiritual desert, dry, barren and lifeless. We walked aimlessly in this desert, making the yellow sand confuse our eyes and our hearts lose their way in spiritual hunger and thirst.
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Laozi said, "It is a natural way to retire after success." These seven words are extremely simple to say, but they are really not easy to do. Throughout the ages, many heroes have achieved success, but it is equally difficult for them to retire. Desire is like wildfire in the wind, burning more and more brightly in their hearts, as are Qin Shihuang and Genghis Khan.
These things happened not only in China, but also in the western world. Napoleon, who threatened to conquer the world, looked extremely beautiful on the surface, but he was extremely depressed inside. He once said, "I have never had a happy day in my life."
Why do they have hundreds or even tens of thousands of times more wealth than usual, but they still have no happiness in their hearts? I think it's because they lost their sincerity in desire.
Zhuangzi said that one should know how to "externalize without internalizing". This sentence really tells the true meaning of life. A poet in Lebanon once said, "It is only because we have gone too far that we have forgotten why we started." It's not that people can't pursue fame and fortune, but in the process of pursuing fame and fortune, they often don't forget to ask their initial heart.
We really should stop and ask ourselves, do we want enough?
How much precious wealth have we lost in pursuit of those external things?
Have we talked impatiently with our children for a long time?
Do we remember how we danced on his face and kissed his forehead when he was a child?
Have we not seen our parents for a long time?
Do we remember how they danced on our faces and kissed our foreheads when we were children?
Ji Bolun said: "The dreams of people lying on feather beds are not more beautiful than those of people sleeping on dust." "Thousands of floors, sleeping seven feet at night." What people really need in this life is not as much wealth as we think. Only love is the most precious thing in the world. Only love is worth protecting, watering and cherishing all our lives.
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Mr. Lin Yutang said: "The noblest ideal of China people is a person who can maintain his original happiness without escaping from human society and life. If a person leaves the city and lives a lonely life in the mountains, then he is only a second-rate hermit and a slave to the environment. The hermit in the city is really the greatest hermit, because he completely controls himself and is not dominated by the environment. "
As the saying goes, the small ones are hidden in the wild, the middle ones are hidden in the city, and the big ones are hidden in the DPRK. Laozi's philosophy is the philosophy of hermits. But I always feel that the real hermits are not those who are completely dust-free, but those who, although in a humble and humid world, can keep their hearts clear and unpolluted.
Emerson also said: "in the vast sea of people, it is easy to live according to the world's point of view;" When you live alone, it is not difficult to follow your own ideas. However, the great man is great because he still maintains an independent personality in public. "
I love Laozi and Zhuangzi, and I love this detachment and purity. I also deeply understand that I have always had a hermit complex in my heart. But I hope I can be a person who can keep my heart in a stormy world. In my own favorite sentence, it is: "I am on earth, I am not on earth."
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