Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 55 Cultivate the Ordinary Mind with the Buddha’s Heart—Three Thousands of Weak Waters, Take Only One Scoop (5)
"The part that can remain after knowledge is forgotten" can only be ability and quality.If learning is based on knowledge, especially book knowledge, in the end, some knowledge will become old and useless, and some will be forgotten. What is left?I have nothing, I can only be reduced to a poor pauper, a poor pauper.It’s not bad if you can remember it forever once you learn it, but the law of forgetting makes most of the book knowledge quickly lost under the action of the old man of time, and those knowledge that is far away from life and rarely used in reality are forgotten faster !
What is real learning?Real learning should be the change of mind (knowledge, emotion, intention) and behavior, so that part of the quality of a person and even the overall quality can be optimized and improved.Knowledge is only one level, and it cannot be counted as the main level.It can be seen that our study is so bad that we have to go beyond it!

Words are only limiting your ego wisdom.The real thing is always behind things, don't just look at the language.Only by getting out of the net of knowledge can we discover our own wisdom.

In fact, whether you encounter problems or not, wisdom is there. It just depends on how well you discover, master, and use wisdom.It's just to help you guide the way, nothing else can help you, you have to do it yourself.But blind thinking and doing is the product of lost self-wisdom.Only those who discover and master their own wisdom can have individuality and be unconventional.

Those who discover and master self-wisdom will follow their own path and will not imitate.

People who discover and master self-wisdom will not be trapped by fixed patterns and can break free.

Those who discover and master self-wisdom will have childlike innocence, because childlike innocence is closer to nature.

People who discover and master self-wisdom will be calm, not impetuous, and not follow the trend.

People who discover and master their own wisdom will be good at learning with wisdom, think independently, and find the law of learning.

Those who discover and master self-wisdom will not fill up their minds, nor will they limit their own development.

People who discover and master self-wisdom will always know what they should do and devote all their energy and enthusiasm to it.

For those who discover and master self-wisdom, self-wisdom will flash at any time, inspiration will appear at any time, and inspiration every day will become possible.

Those who discover and master self-wisdom will know how to use their heart, think with their heart, and feel with their heart.You won't be a mindless person.

People who discover and master self-wisdom will live a valuable and meaningful life.Always move in the bright direction.And not a sign of boredom.This shows that they know the direction and the place where they can drill wells to produce water, which is commendable.

What if you don't discover, master and use your own wisdom in your life?Self-wisdom is the sky, the earth, mountains and rivers, and the soul of the universe.When we don't think about gaining self-wisdom, self-wisdom will naturally come to you.

Natural people—people who don’t even think about selflessness; people who don’t even pursue love of life can be connected with self-wisdom.

Before discovering, mastering and using self-wisdom, one should first learn to be a natural person, and only then can one discover what and where self-wisdom is.This is the only way!
Scientists such as Edison and Einstein may show extraordinary talents in their research fields, but they are not necessarily wise men. A wise man generally refers to those who can discover, master and use their own wisdom.

Self-intelligence should be possessed by everyone, and in this sense it can be said to be "inborn".

The fundamental difference between ordinary people and great people is whether they can discover, master and use self-wisdom.

A great man is not necessarily a great wise man, a great wise man can become a great man, as long as it is necessary.Because one realizes wisdom does not necessarily have to be a great man.

First discover, then master, and then use self-wisdom to face life, you can definitely find your true self.

"Dream of Red Mansions" has a pair of subtitles: "An insight into the world is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is the article." Everything in the world is insightful, very thorough, and it is true knowledge. "Practicing" means having a lot of experience and understanding of the world. This is a big article.These two sentences are the most famous quotes in life.It can be said that a person who can achieve these two sentences in his lifelong cultivation is very successful. The protagonist in the book, Jia Baoyu, is not willing to study. This young master hates this pair the most. In other words, the reason why Jia Baoyu I hate this pair because I was influenced by Zhuangzi's thought of "my life has a limit, but my knowledge has no limit. If there is a limit, follow the limitless, and there is no limit."Now that it has been said that "the knowledge of the world is clear, and the understanding of human feelings is the article", it is no longer enough to understand the world and not enough.He has a real insight into the world, is really proficient, and he doesn't even have a word, that is, he is both brilliant and the most ordinary.

In the midst of great transformation, neither joy nor fear

What is the essence of life? "Nobility must lead to depravity, accumulation must dissipate, and life will perish to death." When you reach the highest level, you must fall, and if you gather together for a long time, you will inevitably disperse.This is an inevitable truth.

When a person lives in this world, he follows the flow of life and worships nature; when he grows old, when he is about to die, he also follows the flow of nature.That's why Lao Tzu also mentioned: "Things grow old when they are strong." When a thing is pretentious to the extreme, it will naturally age.In other words, the real life does not lie in the appearance. From the appearance, we can see life and death. The thing that can live and die does not care about the life and death of the flesh. Therefore, we must understand life and death. "When you are in peace, you can't get into sorrow and joy." This is the highest self-cultivation.Understand the truth of life and death, feel at ease anytime, anywhere, "go with the flow", life is nothing but death, death is the biggest problem, the problem of life and death is empty, let nature take its course, and you will not be affected by acquired feelings disturbed.

To illustrate this truth, here is a story told by Zhuangzi:
When Gong Wenxuan saw Master You, he was startled and said: "Who is it? How evil is it? Heaven and? People and?"

According to the textual research of later generations, the story quoted by Zhuangzi is said to have originated in the Song State during the Warring States Period. "Gongwenxuan", the name of a person. "Right teacher" is the title of a person's position.When Gong Wenxuan saw Teacher You, he was surprised and said, "Who is this person? Why does he only have one foot? Is this a natural appearance? Or did he become like this due to illness?"

Said: "Heaven is not human. The birth of the sky is to make it alone, and the appearance of human beings is similar. Therefore, it is known that it is the sky and not human."

Master You said: This is natural.The "heaven" here is not something in religion, but refers to nature.In other words, whether it was because of a car accident, a leg was broken, or polio was contracted as a child, or a leg was cut off due to illness and injury, no matter what the reason is, it is destiny and cannot be returned. artificial.Nature gives me life, if I want to live with one foot, I will live with one foot.Everyone has a natural life, each person's physical appearance is independent, and each has its own spirit.You think I'm ugly with only one foot, and I think it's weird that you have two feet!Or you think my nose is crooked, and I think your nose is too straight, which is not beautiful enough; if you say I have a hunchback, what is so ugly about a hunchback?You haven't yet, if you don't believe me, you look at it hunched over; laugh at me with crooked mouth, what's wrong with crooked mouth?I'm sorry, but you can't get it crooked, unless you go for an operation and get it crooked with a knife. "A person's appearance is different from each other", this sentence is very profound, here tells us a truth, the appearance of a person is relative, the appearance cannot hinder our independent personality of spiritual life, everyone should have the value of their own life, and people live Let nature take its course and not be influenced by any external environment.The right master said: I understand this truth, so I answer you, this is destiny!Everything is not artificial, it is natural.

It is impossible for a person to transcend life and death, but the spiritual realm of a person can transcend life and death.

In Chinese philosophy, no one pays more attention to the issue of life and death than Zhuangzi.

Life is rebirth, death is death.Zhuangzi's view of life and death is actually the same as Confucian philosophy, which belongs to the attitude of naturalism.Fundamentally speaking, Confucian culture cares deeply about people's emotional life in the present world. From the Confucian point of view, "being happy with heaven and knowing one's destiny" means that life and death are natural stages of life's own development, and there is nothing mysterious about it.The basic attitude of life should be: life is rebirth, death is death.When you are born, do your best, exhaust the way of being a human being, follow the Tao after hearing the Tao, cultivate yourself, regulate the family, govern the country and the world.When you die, you will naturally rest in peace and accept death peacefully and without complaint.Here, death loses its shocking horror and mysterious mystery, but is completely a kind of natural tranquility. As far as the hard work in life is concerned, what death brings is even human. The eternal rest, quiet and safe, without any worries and anxiety.

Zhuangzi's view of life and death does not just stay at the same point of view as Confucianism, but goes to the extreme of naturalism.Confucianism opposes suffering death, but mourns death very much; in Zhuangzi's view, this kind of mourning for death is also completely superfluous.Let's look at two examples.

Lao Tzu died, and his friend Qin Shi came to offer his condolences.The whole room was crying.Instead of crying, Zhuangzi criticized others.He said, it is against the nature of things for you to cry like this, you probably have forgotten that he (referring to the deceased) was born of nature, came to this world by chance, this is his fortune; Go, this is his reconciliation; and if we are reconciled to the accidents of fortune and meet these accidents with an attitude, neither sorrow nor joy can enter our hearts.Our hearts are at peace.

Zhuangzi's wife died, and his good friend Huishi went to pay her respects.When he entered the room, he saw Zhuangzi squatting on the ground, beating the basin on the ground, and singing.Hui Shi was almost angry: I said bro, it’s enough if you don’t cry, and you’re still singing "celebration" with drums here, isn’t it too much for you?Are you worthy of your wife who has lived with you for so many years?Inhumane, inhumane.Zhuangzi said: You are wrong, brother.When my wife just died.How can I not be sad?I thought about it carefully, people are lifeless, not only lifeless, they don't even have a body, not only do they have no body, they don't even have breath.Human beings are mixed in the trance and chaos at the beginning, after being changed, they have Qi, when Qi changes, they have form, and when form changes, they have life.Today my wife changes from life to death, which is the same cycle of change as the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.She was lying quietly in this huge house between heaven and earth, but I was crying, thinking that I didn't really understand the inevitability of it.So I stopped crying and instead celebrated her return to nature.

Hui Shi said in his heart: You are not afraid of being scolded to death, you old man.But he kept saying: well said, well said.

Zhuangzi said: "Life and death, survival, poverty, rich and poor, virtuous and unworthy, reputation, hunger and thirst, cold and heat, are the changes of things and the actions of fate." Downfall and so on are as inevitable arrangements of natural changes as the hunger and thirst of animals and the cold and heat of weather.In the eyes of Confucians who are deeply mourning, this is extremely inhumane. However, Zhuangzi regards this as a manifestation of "common fate".

Zhuangzi looked at people from the perspective of cosmology, seeing people only as a part of the whole universe, human life as a fragment of the universe, and everything about people as the development of natural nature, the inevitable role and the arrangement of fate.This is his understanding of people.He believes that by using this kind of rationality to guide and restrict people's emotions, people's disappointment, worry, and sadness will be reduced or even disappeared.In this way, people's spirits will be freed from pain and misfortune, and return to a state of happiness, relaxation and joy.

In the 30th chapter of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", when the little dragon girl met Master Yideng, they had this conversation:
Yideng said: "If my junior brother can't save me, it's because of the big numbers. There are some children in the world who die soon after they are born, and the little lady dies only after she gets married, so it's not a premature death."...Yang Guo widened his eyes Looking at a lamp, I thought: Whether Long Er can be cured is still uncertain, but you didn't say a word of comfort. (Yideng is an eminent monk who has attained Taoism, and he saw that Xiaolongnv is also a person who has attained life and death, so he said this. Although Yang Guo's martial arts are high, in terms of comprehending life and death, it seems that he is far inferior to Xiaolongnv who learned Taoism at a young age.)
Xiao Longnv smiled faintly, and said: "The master is right." Looking at the heavy snow, she said calmly, "These snowflakes are so white and beautiful when they fall. After a few days when the sun comes out, every snowflake will disappear without a trace .In next winter, there will be many more snowflakes, but it’s not the snowflakes of this year.” Yideng nodded, turned to look at Ci’en, and said, “Do you understand?” Ci’en nodded, thinking to himself Snow disappears at sunrise, and it snows in winter. What do you not understand about these superficial truths? (What Xiaolongnu said is exactly what we said above about Taoism’s meaning of infinite changes in all things. Yideng is an eminent Buddhist monk. Buddhism and Taoism often lead to the same goal by different routes, so it is not difficult to understand, while Ci’en and Yang Guo don’t even have the threshold touched.)
Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv were originally in love with each other, even the most obscure thoughts of each other are understood, but now she is talking to Yideng, but they are separated by a layer.It seems that she and Yideng are intimate with each other, but she has become an outsider instead. This situation has never happened since she fell in love with Xiaolongnv, and she can't help but feel very confused. (It seems that Yang Guo's practice in Taoism is relatively shallow, no wonder he didn't make much progress after obtaining the "Nine Yin Manual".)
Yideng took out an egg from his bosom, handed it to Xiaolongnv, and said, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" This is a difficult problem that no one can solve through the ages.Yang Guo thought to himself: "When life and death are at stake, why do you ask about such insignificant matters?" Xiao Longnv took the egg, it turned out to be a magnetic egg, but the color and shape were all the same.She pondered for a while, and understood what she meant, and said: "A broken egg produces a chicken, and a big chicken produces an egg. If there is life, there must be death." Gently smash the eggshell, roll out a pill, golden and round, and then Such as egg yolk.Yideng said: "Take it soon." Xiao Longnu knew that the medicine was precious, so she chewed it in her mouth and swallowed it. (What Xiaolongnv said, "A broken egg gives birth to a chicken, and a big chicken gives birth to an egg, which has its life, must have its death" is roughly the same as "Only one is born to die, and one to die is to be born", "Cultivation and transformation are endless, and the cycle is endless. All things do not want to live, they have to live; all things do not want to die, they have to die.” Something like that.)
From the point of view of Taoist cultivation, it is only a small rest to break through the barrier of fame and fortune; it is a big rest to break through the barrier of life and death.It is easy to let go of fame and fortune, but it is difficult to let go of life and death.But if fame, fortune, life and death are all put aside, it is simply "the glory of the poor, the life and death of the floating clouds, so there is no fear in this body", and only then can we truly reach the state of wandering freely without any worries.

(End of this chapter)