infiltration

"When faced with adversity, people have only one way to deal with it. After all their plans have been exhausted, they must deal with it calmly. If someone encounters a problem, he will be obsessed with it and refuse to let it go. After all, what's the point? If you can't deal with it and let it go, it will be meaningless and lifeless."

This passage comes from "Er Cheng Yi Shu" and is collected in the seventh volume of "Jin Si Lu". This volume roughly talks about how people deal with the advancement and retreat of sources and how to face the problem of cultivating one's life.

I must honestly admit that I have been feeling uneasy for the past three or five years.

Sometimes, I also laugh and say, isn’t this worrying unfounded?

I also want to let it go, why do I always keep thinking about these meaningless things so much? But I couldn't stand firm in my heart. When something goes wrong, at most it's just a superficial calmness. Just like those embarrassing people, in public, no matter what they look like on the surface, in fact, their toes have long wanted to dig a hole in the ground. Naturally, this is not something worth talking about. I just say this because I think that when facing a problem, we must at least admit its existence. This is something that happened to you. If you don't say it out, it will still exist. Why should you feel aggrieved because others point it out?

"The Book of Changes" is a book of sorrows. When future generations faced this book, they have guessed that the author of such a book was probably a person who experienced sorrows. Today there are various studies on the "Book of Changes". I remember not long ago, there was a craze about the "Book of Changes". It seemed that this book could do everything. It can be used in all walks of life. Even if you go to the library today, you can still see a shelf of similar questions. However, the tide ebbs and flows, the more lively it is, the faster it becomes deserted. Today, it is probably the deserted season again. There's nothing wrong with that.

Therefore, what a person chooses to do is certainly influenced by the times, but in the final analysis, it is still his own destiny.

Destiny cannot be questioned. Some researchers have said that if they perform divination, they can do it only once in their lifetime. Because those things in daily life, whether the debt can be collected or not, whether there will be good luck tomorrow, are all trivial matters. Not to mention if they are not accurate, even if they are accurate, they have fallen into the wrong way and cannot be regarded as the spirit of the "Book of Changes" itself. . Therefore, only when people encounter great troubles and great confusion can they be sensitive and get a kind of warning, and this kind of divination enlightenment is by no means a kind of good or bad word. In fact, the so-called hexagrams and hexagrams really respond to our inner thoughts. If you have worries, you must have solutions, but this solution requires a little help from outside forces to be more convinced.

It is not so much that we are anxious all day long, but rather that we are very unsure of ourselves and too attached to the past. It is said that things originally flow like water and cannot be caught in the hands, like moonlight and sand, but I refuse to believe it myself, so who can I blame?

The hatred of the past life cannot be avoided in this life. The fate of the past life cannot be lost. What we ourselves experience is our own destiny, so why do we still need to ask about divination?

If you continue to ask like this, there may be no results at all, but it is like writing a diary. Nothing has changed, but those things that are troubling your heart finally have another place to store them, and your heart will feel relaxed. Some. The worries of life are not so much external as they are within ourselves. Violence and oppression are not something that people can predict. Even when it is said that they are leading beasts to eat people, there are still people who just let go and live like savages.

Confucius said that these people were in other places, but he could not ignore them.

It’s hard to tell whether this kind of thing is a fable or a history. But in the later Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi did write a poem "Linjiang Immortal":

"Drinking at Dongpo at night and waking up drunk, it's like the third watch when I return. The children's breaths are already thundering. No one knocks on the door, leaning on the stick to listen to the sound of the river. I always regret that this body is not mine, when did I forget to camp. The night wind is quiet. The lines are flat. The boat will pass away from now on, and the rivers and seas will leave the rest of my life."

It is said that people at the time thought Su Shi had escaped, but he did not leave after all. He had ups and downs, and finally passed away in the year when he returned from Hainan.

Thinking about it now, from the time he wrote this poem, Su Shi had already foreseen many years of wandering around, but what could he do?

There is no way I can be a hermit now, let alone say that my heart is as still as water and unmoved by the eight winds. But being able to face this matter, and not mind being mentioned, or speaking out frankly, may be considered a small improvement.

Life should not be vigorous and violent, and the world should be turned upside down. Then it should be a slow stream, trickling down and accumulating. In a word of Zeng Guofan, it is "respectful, quiet, pure and indifferent".