The attitude of de-lust
Desire is a good thing, it makes life meaningful.
Naturally, it is desire, eating when you are hungry, drinking water when you are thirsty, increasing clothes when you are cold, relaxing when you are sleepy, looking for a pillow when you are sleepy, and thinking about your daughter-in-law when you are sleepy. From mediocrity to nobility, from ordinary people to greatness, it is desire to play a role. But there is a limit to desire, and it is fire that cooks rice, and if the fire is overdone or boiled, or if the kitchen is burned, it is over-limiting, and it is transgressing. The emperors of China have a great side, but also a selfish and despicable side. For example, in the profession of eunuch, in the past, men who were engaged in service work within the "central organs" were castrated. Shaanxi vernacular castration is called castration, this word is really in place, the fundamental things of people have been removed, there is no power in the form, and the situation cannot be good. The eunuch is the evil result of the extension of the emperor's selfish desires, and if the emperor is like ordinary people, he only marries one wife, and the situation of the eunuch is preserved. "It is difficult to maintain health in desire", is a famous saying of Su Shi. When the tree grows into a pillar, it has to be pruned, and the flat-headed people want to go to the big shots. The emperor should take the lead in desiring, ordinary people's ** burns themselves, and the emperor who does whatever he wants burns the whole country. It is difficult for people to get rid of their desires, which ones to remove, and how much to remove? It is difficult to grasp. Zhu Bajie doesn't quit anything, so he is a laughing stock. It is difficult for a monk to shave his hair, remove all the top of his head and heart, and give up the real life, which can only be done by people made of special materials. It is even more difficult to make the emperor want. The TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" has a theme lyric: "I really want to live for another 500 years." "He is the emperor, he definitely wants to live for 500 years, and the common people who are suffering don't want to live more than a day. "Kangxi Dynasty" is a fun film, fabricating Kangxi's various Deqin skills. In a society in the democratic process, there is nothing good to talk about the greatness of the emperor.
Life is a lifetime, the life span is about 100 years, the temperament is less anxious, and the intestines are slightly wider. God's setting has a big picture, a person lives to be sixty or seventy years old, and sees through the basic things of life, but when he understands it, he retires, and has to pass on the "life experience" to the next generation. At this juncture, God has installed a "generation gap" device, the child does not eat Lao Tzu's set, everything has to be done again, suffer twice, suffer two sins, and fall again in life. The "generation gap" is in line with the scientific concept of development, and the pace of human evolution is prevented from going too fast. Imagine that life is 300 years, the retirement system is 260 years old, walking on the street, sitting in the house, most of them are human spirits. The human race may not last until today, and it will become extinct early. From this point of view, God is also lusting, but what he has achieved is a great thing.
"There is multiplication and division everywhere in the world", this is a sentence in Zeng Guofan's poem. Zeng Guofan is not a great poet, he writes mostly philosophical poems, and he is also a grade worse than Su Shi in philosophy. But Su Shi will not lead troops to fight, nor will he manage his own life. Poetry and articles are better and better, but being an official is getting smaller and smaller year by year, and it is degraded and depreciated. Su Shi is inflated, and he has a little more "desire" at the level of life. Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, can write poetry, can be an official, and has lived for a long time, and has both fish and bear's paws.
People die for money, birds die for food, live at home and accumulate property little by little, from food and clothing to well-off, it is an addition. People who get rich overnight do multiplication. In an orderly society, there are more people who do addition, and in the years when there are fewer rules, there are more people who do multiplication. Heroes come out of troubled times, that's what it means. Troubled times not only refer to the smoke of war, the displacement of people, and the lack of rules and regulations in a prosperous society, at least not political clarity.
To do division, start with subtraction. Subtraction is also difficult to do, the more money the better, the more famous the better, and the bigger the official hat, the better. A person from "smelling the chicken and dancing" to "wearing the moon and hoeing", getting up early and busy every day is busy in the dark, all revolving around the three words "money, fame, and official". When I was tired and sick one day and lay in bed, I hated and scolded these three words in my heart for being useless. But the body recovered, and he went on the road again to spin.
There is an old-fashioned story about a dying rich man who couldn't close his eyelids for several days, and held up two fingers, and his children and grandchildren were puzzled, and his wife knew each other all his life, and blew out one of the two oil lamps that were burning, and the rich man was relieved to die. Such a person is really hateful and cute, and he really carries out a career to the end.