Chapter 167: Spiritual Landscape
In the process of traveling through life, Wu Wei gradually felt that there was something that seemed to be nothing, boundless, formless, ethereal, and ethereal, making people feel a little ethereal; It also makes people really feel its existence, affects people's thoughts, words and deeds, makes people calm and relaxed, swaying at will, and seems to be soothed in their hearts, making people feel that they are all over the body, and their thoughts are free to stretch. This feeling is probably the soul of the program that the patriarch said, it is vast and profound, and as long as people collect and absorb a little bit of essence and spirit from it, it is enough to make us use it for a lifetime.
Wu Wei participated in a training session, and he has not had this experience for a long time. In the past, every time I traveled away from home, I would produce something thoughtful, which was really a long-lost experience. A friend said that his thinking in recent years has not been as good as before. So, what did he do in those years, he summed himself up, injected the psychoactive vaccine, faced and washed away his mistakes, and also swept away all kinds of concerns, restraints, and small things. It may be the cultural atmosphere of a certain place, and the experience of studying hard for several years has improved his thinking. There is no need to worry about food and clothing in other cities, and it is easy to calm down and think. Because I came to listen to the lectures, I sometimes felt that it was better to leave than to sit there and become a discordant landscape. Fortunately, the training supervisor was very kind to him, which gave him the legitimacy of his freedom, and he listened to it as he wished, and left as he wished, without scruples. He understands the value of freedom of thought, and increases the strength of stretching.
What is it that travels through life and is looking for? It is the soul of culture. What is the soul of culture? It is ethereal, ethereal, and calm, and it really exists in your thoughts and artistic conceptions, so that you can stretch and stretch, all over the body. It allows you to cut through the mountains, through the mountains, and soar through the skies. It can help you see and illuminate your own journey in life.
The lifting of scruples, the deterrence of taboos, the taste of punishment, but let people experience and recall the journey of life, and indeed need someone to take care of it, naturally there is less bitterness and hardship, more warmth, and a little sense of happiness, and more valuable freedom to stretch thoughts.
Wu Wei read the works of the French writer Montaigne and was unexpectedly inspired, and he painted a scene of spiritual relaxation.
In Montaigne's essay "On Leisure". He believes that "man is indeed an inconceivably illusory, ethereal animal", that "if it does not occupy it with a certain amount of attention and restrain it, it will surely drift aimlessly and fall into the empty realm of fantasy", "if the soul does not have a definite goal, it will lose itself", "being everywhere is equal to not being everywhere". He always felt that "idleness makes the mind wander".
We cannot expect sixteenth-century writers to come up with a sound conception of the activity of the mind, but we are pleasantly surprised to see that Montaigne's idea of the wandering of the mind due to idleness is a major topic in the history of the mind. For today's people, how to face the increasing pressure of survival competition, pay more and more attention to leisure life, and improve the quality of leisure reality, so that people consciously adjust their mentality and control the direction of their hearts, it is also of great significance.
The dynamics of the mind. Is it ephemeral or stretched? In Montaigne's view, ephemerality is the state of "orderlessness and purposelessness" that emerges from the mind, for the individual experience of the ephemeral. It's a kind of ease. This kind of drift is accompanied by relaxation, probably with Milan? Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Life reveals that after people are freed from the constraints of the motherland, the nation, honor, the nobility, and morality, there is an extraordinary sense of lightness, and the meaning of life is dissolved in such a relaxed state. In this way, the direction of the mind is completely guided and controlled by desire.
People can't handle it completely easily. The weight that should be borne must be beared. Ease cannot be achieved by relieving, abdicating responsibility, or by moral means, otherwise people will pay a different and heavy price for it.
In fact, is the mind wandering, completely aimless and orderless? Everyone has this kind of spiritual experience: when one's own indulgent thoughts are in a state of free association, the thoughts, thoughts, and pictures that come to mind are not related to each other, showing a state of divergence and jumping, but they are generally related to people's life experiences, life experiences, life pursuits, and appreciation preferences, and it is the root of life that potentially controls them. Just as the roots of the vines control the stretching of the vines, they can crawl forward, climb up, or entangle according to their different habits, calmly and slowly, indomitable, so that it is like a girl's makeup, hair is like a waterfall, fine as a weave, and long arms stretch out, no matter the courtyard, the field, the field, the mountain stream, whether it is flat and straight or rugged and steep, any thing and any place can become the stage for it to stretch and pave. This is very much like everyone's handwriting, unpretentious, handy, feel anywhere, pick up anywhere, interpret at will, integrate into the pen, but sprinkled, delicate and casual.
Just as the vines climb to reach the topography and landform stretch and pave, the stretch of the soul also shows its artistic conception in an orderly manner according to the root of life, and its stretch and paving has a specific ideological connotation and social content, of course, it can also be recorded, deciphered, interpreted and given by the master of the soul; It is also the collection and purification of life footprints, philosophical understanding, emotional condensation, and accumulation of life energy; It is also the combing of life, the ultimate expansion of the artistic conception of life, full of longing for the future, and becoming another catharsis and display of vitality; It has the reality of memories, the illusion of imagination, the discovery of novelty, the beauty of appreciation, and the tremor of the heart; It is boundless, vertical and horizontal, it is grandiose and magnificent than the horizon, magnificent and colorful, it is faster than meteor lightning, it can contain all things in heaven and earth, and gallop through the vast universe time and space.
The wandering of the mind, although not as good as the stretching of the freehand, but also reflects a certain characteristic of the spiritual activity, the loss of the soul, and the difficulty of finding stability. What binds the mind to it? The stretching of the soul certainly stimulates and releases desires, but such stimulation and release will make it difficult for the mind to be stable. The stability of the mind requires a heaviness. Nobility, morality, responsibility, and honor are not only the elements of civilization that bind the soul, but also the cornerstone and reassurance of the soul. Heaviness and lightness are the two balance points to achieve the stability of the soul, and the stability of the mind is achieved through the balance of the two poles. Too much weight makes the soul lose its elasticity and vitality, and goes from stability to death; Too light, it leads to an indulgence. Too much weight and too light will cause mental instability. The polar balance of the mind requires art, and the pressure cannot be pushed to the extreme, and the loss of elasticity is unbearable; Nor can it easily become difficult to contain. Life needs the kind of fullness and overflowing experience brought by heaviness, which is injecting and accumulating the energy of life, and looking forward to the burst and release of life vitality in longing; It also needs a relaxed stretch and catharsis, and tastes the incisive freedom; It is more necessary to adjust the maneuver between the two poles of heaviness and lightness, and only in this way can it be possible to give the spiritual activity the charm of art. (To be continued......)