Chapter 1: The noisy and quiet reinforced concrete city, shuttling through high-rise buildings, is busy, but has never felt that kind of quiet happiness. In your spare time, will you choose to escape from the bustling city of life and rush to scenic spots or historical sites? Most people will choose this, but how many people have thought that this seems to be the reason behind conditioned reflex behavior?
If you walk in the bamboo forest, you will feel so intoxicated when you look at the overwhelming green and listen to the sound of the wind blowing the bamboo leaves. If you are by the river, along the embankment, listening to the sound of waves lapping on the shore and blowing the fresh wind with dirt, it has never been so pleasant.
These beautiful scenery are given to us by the earth, and now, the green land is covered with lifeless reinforced concrete. While lamenting the rapid progress of the city, will you feel sorry for the disappearance of these greeneries? Indeed, the land we live in is developing rapidly. What has this progress brought? Economic benefits? Or praise from outsiders? I don't know, I only know that country roads have been replaced by wide asphalt roads, and the land for growing crops has been filled up ... In the bustling city, all I can see is cars coming and going and people rushing by. Where is the peace and harmony that should belong to us?
Our home has gradually lost its proper greenery, but it is slowly covered with gray, gray sky, gray buildings, gray ... Perhaps, people nowadays are pursuing a fast-paced life and have gradually forgotten the happiness around nature. Commercial buildings and buildings have become the places that people often miss. There is no fresh air, only the sky is no longer blue. These reinforced concrete high-rise buildings are always short of something and lifeless. Our only home, our earth, is overwhelmed and exhausted, and still has to support our human home.
What can we do in the face of all this? Have you ever asked yourself, what can we do in such a rapidly developing era? We need more than just material needs. What we need is what we have always lacked. We need a green life. Without green, there is no vitality, and no one wants to live in a gray city. Civilization is constantly developing, and cities are also making progress. There are noisy cities everywhere, which are much more prosperous and less quiet. What we can do is to start from ourselves and change slowly. It may be difficult, there may be many difficulties and obstacles. ...
There is only one home, which needs our practical protection. Don't let rapid development stand in our way.
Zhou said, "The world is getting louder and louder, and my life is getting quieter and quieter." In this increasingly noisy world, every thinker like him longs for a quiet corner. Silence is a kind of freedom of thought and should exist. Silence is not silence. People who keep silent should have an open mind, walk out of a quiet room and talk to others.
Today, with such a wide range of communication channels, it is more and more difficult for us to maintain that quiet space, but we are more and more eager to maintain it. Silence brings cleanliness and a space where there is nothing but me. Thoreau built a lake, abandoned the hustle and bustle brought by the status of consul of Athens, and kept a quiet space and a calm heart; Ruan Ji's chanting of streams and mountains is also for the freedom of being undisturbed and enjoying himself, and also for the quiet in troubled times. Keeping quiet is also to maintain independence and keep the pure land of the soul.
Only in a quiet and chaotic world can we think independently. The inspiration of "be empty, be quiet and believe" comes from a quiet and wordless world, but we usually lose ourselves and get confused in the noise. There is no shortage of Sakyamuni, seven days and seven nights, only one bodhi tree, an uninhabited quiet land.
How can there be insight and a calm social atmosphere without independent thinking without interference? Still water is like a mirror, the middle reaches of koi fish; The tide beat against the coast and gradually receded. The quietness of Japan breeds unique thinking and exquisite customs. China is very noisy, and it seems that a hundred schools of thought contend. But look closely, there are only a few that match each other, but most of them are just eclectic and persistent words. Quiet, not only can let the individual calm down, but also can let the society have the wind of thinking.
However, keeping your heart is not equal to staying away from others, and being quiet is not equal to being silent. Xiong Peiyun believes that to have independent thinking in the hustle and bustle, to integrate into the group with independent thinking, and to teach yourself behind closed doors is at best to make peace; Wang Yangming can only achieve it by talking to people. Similarly, closing yourself in a quiet and happy world is not good for yourself or for others. Only by practicing the world and integrating knowledge with practice can we make ourselves more perfect and make society more harmonious. Socrates discussed in downtown, and Confucius preached in Xingtan. Four Hao entered the DPRK and Xie An came out of the mountain. Isn't it a noisy mind? If we still turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear to being "Mr. Yi Xi" today, when the "Islamic State" is rampant, gutter oil is in vogue, foreign troubles are endless, and domestic worries are endless, what good will it do to ourselves and the world?
Close your eyes, we should keep inner peace, embrace the harmony and joy of the soul, and be quiet and open in a world without interference and involvement. Pushing open the window, we should go to society and reality, and be cool and hot while perfecting ourselves. Only in this way can we be worthy of heaven and earth and finally be content with our own hearts.