This is a collection of spiritual essays written for modern people struggling with anxiety and internal friction. The author uses the daily fireworks of Lingnan as the background, and captures the gentle image of life in ordinary scenes such as loofah vines, old city moss, dusk and evening breeze, and stoneware tea bowls, and explores an emotion and life path that is "not tied up, not possessed, affectionate without losing oneself".
The book consists of six chapters and forty-two essays, starting from "observing oneself and reconciling internal conflicts", and going through "gains and losses, looking down on ups and downs", "sufferings and rising to the sun", "fireworks and ordinary healing", "human feelings and letting go of the past", and finally reaches the clear state of "times and moving forward calmly". Each article is cut with a specific object - a banyan tree, a dry well, a wall of beetles, a bowl of old fire soup - through delicate narrative and poetic language, it generates universal philosophical thoughts about self-acceptance, minimalist desires, self-healing at low points, daily practice, gathering and dispersing according to fate, and growing old peacefully.
This is not a book that provides answers, it just sits quietly by your side, like the evening breeze, like hot tea, like the moonlight under the eaves of an old house, telling you: You don't need to be perfect, you don't need to please everyone, and you don't need to live up to anyone's expectations. You just need to be gentle with yourself.
Purpose: True integrity is to learn to take a third way between loving others and loving yourself, without being bound, attached, or lost.