Dream of the Sacred Tanna

I see you have too many books on your bookshelf. Loving reading is a good habit. However, I have a better way. You can have reservations or object. The book is too complicated. Reading is actually a very pleasant thing, which may be due to your experience and habits. In fact, the book should not be too complicated to read. Someone once said, "You should read all kinds of books, and there are benefits after reading them." But they ignored the most important point, which is to have a correct and good self-understanding first. Books are the ladder of human progress, but they are also the dross left by saints. Books are written by people, and the knowledge in them is also full of the author's personal subjective views. I see that you have seen so many books. In fact, there are many that you can read again. It's not about having too many books, it's about being precise. There are one or two classics that are worth reading over and over again throughout our lives. When we read them again after going through each stage, our perceptions will be different. Avoid the kind of task-completed viewing, the kind of superficial viewing. I see that Wang Yangming's Theory of Mind, Tao Te Ching, etc. Are both classics. Believe me, if you read it again, read it carefully, and taste it carefully, you will definitely benefit more than just watching it purposely. It doesn't mean that you can become whatever you want after reading it within a specified period of time. It's right to want to improve yourself. If you don't invest in yourself in this society, you will only run into obstacles everywhere. Reading too many books is not conducive to forming a systematic understanding. On the contrary, adopting "monism" is a good approach. Only by choosing a classic as a link can you switch from taking on the role to a deeper understanding of the truth when reading other books, and at the same time, you can quickly switch to yourself to take the essence and discard the dross. Here, I want to talk to you about my understanding of life. When the spring breeze is full of joy, when I see all the flowers in Chang'an, I seem to feel that everyone respects me and smiles. Even if you know in your heart that the other person just mentioned it casually, and even if you can feel calm about it afterwards, the reason is still because of the support brought by the deep self-satisfaction and self-identity. When I cut off the water with a knife, I seemed to feel that every look and every disrespectful attitude of the people around me revealed contempt for me, and I was tortured inside. In the past, I always read what Mr. Yangming said, "The heart is the principle." Now I calm down and realize that the heart is the principle and the abyss. It seems that other people's attitude towards me has always been like this, just because I choose to be content when I am proud, and make general guesses and constantly change when I am frustrated. Being able to escape is "reason", and not being able to escape is "yuan". * The same is true in life. External objects change our hearts and make us repeatedly go back and forth between "abyss" and "reason". The depth of the truth is not directly proportional to the size of the matter, it only affects the depth in our hearts. People who can realize the truth from small things and make it profound for a long time are people with great understanding. It is said that you have to experience ups and downs in life before you can be successful, but how many people can have such experiences in their lives? Is it possible that we all want to be those people who live a hundred years in vain without knowing what the music is about? Nothingness means existence, and existence means nothingness. When we own something, its destination is to disappear. When we are not dominated by things, on the contrary, they will always exist. It seems that at this point, the meaning of life can also be involved. I believe that the meaning of life is a question that many people have asked. Even if our hearts selectively downplay the process of asking, our words and deeds are still affected by it. I will give a conclusion here, and you may reserve your opinions or choose to oppose it. "The meaning of life lies in our constant search for the meaning of life." Some people may say that I am playing a word game. To put it bluntly, there is no goal and I am always pursuing it. Is this kind of meaningless life state of being unable to get up and down still rare in our current society? Do you still want to use the term "meaning of life" to forcefully explain it to the public, so that we can paralyze ourselves? Indeed, this kind of life of lying down and lying unevenly, and being unable to roll up and down is really suffocating. From a pessimistic perspective, a large number of people are stuck in the middle. I used to think so, until one day I suddenly heard a very romantic word called "on the road" and "progressive tense". In this state of life, we choose constant short-term self-salvation in the constant separation of ideals and reality. Isn't all of this on the road? Take me as an example: The author was scolded by my parents for falling below the second line in the second mock exam by more than ten points during my senior year of high school. I looked up and saw that there were people around me who were the same as me or even worse than me. I chose to paralyze myself. When I looked down at my scores, I felt the pressure of every time my parents asked about test scores. They even chose a more laborious lifestyle. I had no reason to complain. I even thought about getting over it. But from what I see now, life is still full of challenges and difficulties, but my heart and the hearts of my parents are more positive and cheerful. At this moment, it doesn't matter if it's 985, 211 or an ordinary one or two. As long as they pass the exam, their current status is actually very different. Nothing more than being very happy in those specific moments. Suddenly I understood the meaning of life. The process from suffering to cheerfulness is the meaning of life. In this case, it will still be practical for me to take the postgraduate entrance examination in the future. I must apply for 985 and Nanjing Medical University. So that you will continue to internalize yourself. In fact, as long as I pass the exam, I will always laugh when I look back. This is not forced relief, but visible growth. Just like a point on a piece of white paper, when we focus on that point, we will not see anything else, but as long as we can let go of our obsession and stubbornness, we can see the whole picture. Life is like this, just like a game of Go. Two random moves may seem unrelated, but they often turn the whole game around at critical moments. Nothing is meaningless, everything I do has meaning, even if I stay up late and check my phone, this is still medicine for the soul. They will all repay us in some way in the future. When we understand this truth, we will no longer become as worried about tomorrow as if we were facing an abyss every day. In this way, you can become confident and brave in everything you do. Momentary ups and downs only affect the slope of the life curve at a certain moment. If time is extended, the two lines will become parallel. The final destination is the same. One day, the two random embellishments we make in our lives will finally bloom into a gorgeous flower!