Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 26 Cultivate a Pure and Tranquil Mind with the Buddha’s Heart——A Taste of Zen and Tea, a Realm of All Saints (2)
The enterprise's corporate character shows what an enterprise is, that is, a group of unrestrained people stop, stop at a certain place, stop at a certain thing, stop at a certain project.If people don't stop, there will be no business.Most people just don't recognize this word.Just think, how can a person be successful if he can’t be quiet? It’s like a person who hasn’t even sowed the seeds, but walks around with a bag of seeds on his back, and doesn’t know where to scatter them. Can one count on an autumn harvest?If it doesn't just come down and walk on the ground all day long, can it bloom and bear fruit?Can it absorb the energy of the earth?Only when it stops, can it expand its desire and show its vitality.The roots extend to the earth, and the body begins to grow toward the blue sky. Only the air can be useful to you, the sunlight can be useful to you, and the chemical elements of the earth can be used by you. Only then can it be regarded as a new dynamic life for you.

Don't look at people who are hurrying on the street, most of them don't stop. Their hearts are higher than the sky, and they always think about what will happen to them in the future. They always believe that a certain opportunity is far away. Always on the road, always searching for one goal after another with the sun.

Among them, there is a kind of person who always thinks that he should do something big and not stop at the trivial things around him.In fact, it is completely wrong to have this kind of thinking. He doesn't know that a person can make a difference in any situation.When a person misses the present, he actually misses his whole life.Many people regret that they did not stop at one thing in their twenties and thirties, and eventually everything was wasted and nothing was achieved.

Everything can start with the matter at hand, because all roads lead to Rome in life.Some roads seem to be small roads, but when you walk, you get on the main road.Many people always do one line of work, hate one line of work, always look down on the work at hand, and never think about achieving success in the small things at hand.I don't know that there are only small people in the world, and there are no small careers or small businesses.Some people sell hamburgers all over the world, such as McDonald’s and KFC that everyone is most familiar with; some people sell hygiene products all over the world, everyone has heard of Procter & Gamble; There are thousands of examples.

Today, the society is so developed, and each of our industries has a very high starting point. Everyone can only make some achievements in a certain small link. To put it bluntly, they are just parts of a big machine.Everyone in this world should first find their own position, and then make efforts for others.Otherwise, you are a negative life, a wasted life, and a burden to this society.If this person is you, then you are ashamed of your parents, family and children.

More than not.

If you are more than one, you cannot accept everything.If you are studying how to get rich, then you have to listen to the preaching of the rich, and you have to analyze why the poor are poor.You have a lot to listen to, watch, ask, and you have to accept a lot of content related to getting rich.When you are preparing to open a store, you will accept the knowledge about the store; you will accept the correctness of the location of McDonald’s store; In terms of design and goods placement, a deep study has been made on the psychology of customers.This is something you don't care about when you don't have a storefront.Ever since you started looking for a facade, you have known exactly what shops are on that street, which street is the most popular, which road is not a one-way street, and there is no railing in the middle of the road, etc., all because of You just want to open a storefront, otherwise, you will remain the same as before, turning a blind eye to and not caring about external things.

There are many people who have amazing memories in one area and quite forgetful in another because of the difference in focus.When we walk into a team, if we want to stay in the team, then we have to accept everything that the team members have, whether it is living conditions, working environment, or some eccentric leaders, employees with various bad habits .Not only do you have to accept everyone's strengths, but you also have to accept everyone's weaknesses.

More than absent.

Anyone who stops, he is someone who was there.Huping doesn't take root because it doesn't stop, so it wanders around.Green pine stops at one point, so he is always there.Look at it in the morning, it's there, look at it in the evening, it's still there.It's there 24 hours a day, in scorching sun and heavy rain, never compromised.

Although I have learned the craft of a chef, I always look down on the coolie at hand.Because of this restless state of mind, my mind is always off work.I always overcook the vegetables, or put too much salt and MSG.It's all because I have a wavering heart.

In short, only when people stop, can they be calm, secure, worry, and gain.If the behavior always originates and cannot be stopped, everything has no foundation.More than that, it is a fruitless life; More than that, it is an illusory life; More than that, it is a life of failure!
Stop is a word, but it is the premise and cornerstone of seeking true happiness and freedom in this era.You don’t know the taste of food when you eat, you don’t know the taste of meat when you eat meat, you don’t know the taste of friends when you make friends, and you don’t know the taste of work when you work. Although you have experienced it, it’s just that your eyes, mouth, hands, and body have experienced it. The most important part, the mind, has never been there, because it has never been there, has never come home, to what you are doing.When you talk to others, you just nod in form and habitually say yes orally, your eyes and mind don’t stop, because although he is talking, you are thinking about other things, and you are always dismissed as having nothing to do with this moment Things that bother you are always out of your mind.

A person who is not in love, a person who is physically and mentally divided, a little monk who is chanting scriptures but has no heart, how can they fall in love with the work at hand?Will fall in love with the person they are communicating with, the stranger who looks at each other?How could he speak from the heart?How can we live in the infinite joy of the present moment?
After all, if you want to achieve something in life, you have to stop first. Only when you stop can you be stable.

Concentration, one is the concentration of the heart, the other is the concentration of the body, and the third is the concentration of the spirit.If you only have body concentration, but your mind is unsteady, then you are in pain, and your troubles are always around you.You look at your circle of friends, and there are a few that have been settled.No, hardly a few.Some people live in Cao Ying and their hearts are in the Han Dynasty, some people are in the Qin Dynasty and Chu Dynasty, some people have six gods and no masters, and there are people with split minds and minds swimming everywhere.Just like it is difficult for a beautiful woman to settle down before she gets married, because there are too many people chasing after her. Only when she chooses a man, can she be considered settled down, otherwise she will always be in emotional entanglement.

Only after being settled can it be related to all things.More than uncertain, the world has nothing to do with you.If you stop at education, then the educational methods of ancient and modern China and foreign countries are related to you; if you stop at table tennis, then everything that happens in global table tennis is related to you; if you stop at selling milk, then the global information about milk is related to you You are related; if you stop at inventing first-class cars, then the tools of transportation all over the world are the objects of your research; if you stop at management, then all about human behavior and thinking are your analysis scope; if you stop at advertising, Then all the publicity methods in the world are the objects of your research; if you stop at speeches, then the humorous stories all over the world are related to you; if you stop at speeches, then all the wonderful speeches in the world are related to you.

The world is a world of angles, if you don't cut an angle, you will always be just a bystander, and everything in the world has nothing to do with you.On the contrary, if you stop at one point and one thing, then immediately there will be a series of people and things related to you, and they are very related.When you start writing novels, then you are a family with novelists all over the world, and you are neighbors with poets and singers.Moreover, the publishing house will try its best to contact you people, and the events in the whole society will immediately have a relationship with your novel.

After you settle down, you can be safe.

Don't settle down, your heart is always running.When you arrive at a unit, you find that the task at hand is not so easy to do, and you become fearful or worried, so you are listening all the way for the next job, and you are afraid of missing a better opportunity.In this way, you are worried about it all day long, so you are too tired to live.If you are settled, you will no longer worry about irrelevant things.I have settled down to pray without rest this week, then your heart will be at peace.Before the death penalty is sentenced, he is in a state of mind. Once the sentencing is announced, then he will be settled.

Restlessness is the cruelest thing in the world.A mother waited at home for her son who was going to school to come home, and the son didn't come back until twelve o'clock in the evening.During this period, she searched all the places where her son would go, but they were not there, so she couldn't settle down.Only when her son stopped in front of her did she feel at ease.You will feel at ease only when a negotiation is settled, and you will feel at ease only after a large-scale event is settled.If it is not settled, you will always be full of worry and waiting.Once settled down, you are calm, you are stable, you are stable.

You are uncertain, and others are unlikely to get close to you, because you have too many variables, especially those who swim.When others cooperate with you, they also first look at where your company is established, how many people are established there, and how deep you are established.

In life, as long as you see those people with soft eyes, they must be calm people; as long as you see people who do things in an orderly manner, they must be calm people.On the contrary, as long as you see those people whose eyes are wandering, they must be people who have not yet settled down; The members of the three times family must also be those who have not yet settled down.

Not only indeterminate, indeterminate and uneasy, this is a necessary stage in life.

You can worry about it later.

It is impossible for people to have clear thinking and decision-making in the midst of agitation. Only when they stop and settle down can they formally plan for the cause they have stopped.A person with a restless mind must think superficially; a person with a restless mind must do the tasks you entrust to him in a hurry; a person with a restless mind, no matter what he does, he cannot think deeply and see clearly the nature of things.

I often hand over some planning proposals to my subordinates. Whenever I take back their respective proposals, I can clearly see who is really thinking for the company, who is thinking for myself, and whose heart is settled down.

A restless person cannot last long.I have witnessed many people who dig the first pot of gold, they often act in a hurry, and they only want to make the biggest profit quickly.As a result, although he made a lot of money for a while, it brought a series of negative effects.Someone loses credibility, someone loses all moral character, and someone gets notoriety. These are all ways of thinking that don't last forever.

It is difficult for those who have not settled down to think systematically.Many bosses only care about their own interests, and only care about temporary gains and losses. The result is a partial victory, while many other places are lost.A person has the same body, but the way of thinking is different. The way of thinking of multi-millionaires and poor people is completely different. The most basic thing is that the degree of peace of mind is different.

Think about it and get it.

Thoughts determine the way out, and the head determines the pocket.What kind of head you have, what kind of destiny and life you will have.Some people say, I also think about the problem, and maybe the successful person thinks more about a certain leader, but why is it not successful?This is normal, although they are all considered, but the psychological basis of the consideration is different, one is the thinking after stabilization, and the other is the thinking of disturbing, this base point is different, then the result will naturally be very different.Therefore, this consideration does not make much sense.

Why do people practice spiritual practice?It is our heart, "quietness" is difficult, worrying about it every day, worrying about it forever, worrying about this today, worrying about that tomorrow, especially in today's society, there are too many things to worry about.There is no peace of mind, so there is no time to think.Even if I have free time, I will do some boring things to pass the time, making myself appear in a hurry, even forgetting what I want, and not facing reality.

In the Lotus Sutra, it is likened to the fact that all living beings have a bright pearl, but due to delusional thoughts, they chase after the lock of fame and fortune day and night, so that the pure and innocent pearl is covered with six dusts, and they live in the endless night of ignorance. Among them, if you can always correct your mind and wipe away the filth in your heart, you will be able to wear away the moss marks on the ancient mirror, and not only will you be magnanimous, but even the vegetation, mountains, and rivers will be full of joy.

Once a person has reached this state, no matter how noisy the outside world is, when he can stay in a stable state, his entire wisdom will be bright.

Professor Fang Zhaohui said——

Quietness makes people feel at ease and analyze their current situation. Why are we so busy?Are we busy with purpose?Is it meaningfully busy?Or are you wasting your life?We are busy and "blind".Have we allowed ourselves to lose our bearings and our sense of purpose in our busy lives?

Jing calms us down and stops in our hearts.We must seriously think about the coordinates of our own life. We must not only see others, but more importantly, see ourselves.What exactly do we want?Where are we going?Don't run around like a headless chicken, and don't just follow others.

Jing is more than simply closing your eyes and sitting motionless.It is essential to choose a little inward force, think and analyze your own weaknesses.Sometimes, we still need to think: among the people coming and going, do we feel lonely and helpless in our hearts, and do we feel that we are living so blindly? Can we ask ourselves this way?

To be quiet is sometimes to force yourself to calm down and face up to some problems that are usually shelved, ignored for various reasons, or avoided by pretending not to care.It's always okay to forget about your personality problems and temporarily anesthetize yourself.However, the problem will come back one day in overwhelming fashion.Instead of repeatedly avoiding to seek temporary stability, it is better to take the initiative to contact it and solve it.The pace of life is so fast that we can't seem to find a complete time to think and deal with our own problems.Meditation may be a remedy!Put aside the affairs in hand, meditate quietly, concentrate, and give yourself a clean and thorough account.

We often lament that life is so hasty and have no time to recollect it; we complain that we are unfortunately living in a busy city and have no peace.Ever since, sadness comes from it.But if we can seriously think about it, is life in a hurry, or are we being held hostage by life to become in a hurry?Is it the hustle and bustle of the city, or our inner hustle and bustle because of the influence of the city?
In fact, life has become our master, not us the master of life.This is the source of our unhappiness.To get rid of this misfortune, to be the master of oneself and the master of life, one has to learn how to live and work—sneak in while busy, and take a quiet time amidst the noise. Isn't the state of "mountain Tai collapses in front of you and does not move", "regardless of the wind and waves, it is better than strolling in the courtyard"? Isn't this a vivid embodiment of this philosophy of life?

Let's start with meditation, with meditation.

Only by being quiet can one constantly reflect on oneself in the hustle and bustle of the world, so as to observe one's heart inside and outside one's appearance; only by being quiet can one constantly clarify the goal one is pursuing, so as not to deviate too far from the goal due to secular temptations.

Mr. Cheng Yingfeng said in one of his essays:
In real life, Mr. Zhou Guoping is an oddball who is not used to expressing himself in a noisy crowd.When others talk about it, he always walks away silently, and will be sensitive and excited for a little bit of true love in the world.He doesn't like being disturbed by others, and he doesn't want to integrate into the so-called interpersonal circle. In his world, he himself is a circle.His words are written for himself and for others to read.He is used to thinking, used to a quiet and simple life.He once said: "I don't like a life that is particularly lively, complicated, and has too many social interactions. I like a quiet and simple life. Simplicity is different from monotony, and it is a spiritually rich way of life."

Quiet and simple, it is the foothold of understanding and feeling happiness.There is happiness to speak of if you can taste the taste of life with your heart anytime, anywhere, and real happiness is the fulfillment of life.

A person who engages in politics, business, and writing books just for fame and fortune can achieve success, but it cannot be said that he has achieved career and happiness.To be quiet and simple is to learn to be alone, learn to endure loneliness, and with a sincere heart, embody one's ideals, thinking, and perceptions as some kind of social value.

From a philosophical point of view, quietness and innocence are not only a kind of training compared with the external hustle and bustle, but also a state of achievement in life.

We live in a world that is not very quiet, and there are always temptations around us. This requires us to constantly overcome, constantly resist, and constantly pursue the realm of "sitting alone in the secluded grove".In this realm, there is no pursuit of quick success, no intrigue competition, no vulgar and ridiculous gossip, only self-reflection and interrogation.

"Be quiet and then be at peace", after meditation, get rid of distracting thoughts, gain a heart of benevolence, and return the mind to a quiet state, that is, a peaceful and peaceful state of mind.It will make the qi and blood of the body's meridians very smooth and comfortable.Let the body and mind be in a state of peace and tranquility due to the acquisition of "quietness".Therefore, Confucius said: "The benevolent is quiet." Quietness has a very solid spiritual foundation for people to have good thoughts.

Therefore, on the basis of "being calm and then being able to be at peace", the subjective initiative of "being at ease and then being able to worry" will naturally arise.Only when the body and mind are cultivated to a peaceful and peaceful state of mind can a good state of thinking be produced.The word "consider" has the meaning of filtering, sifting, and extremely fine and fine.In this state, the result of "think before you get it" will naturally follow.

(End of this chapter)