Eighty Red Treatises - Obstacles

Obstacles are a common phenomenon in society, and many people will encounter what is often referred to as "ditches and bumps". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Overcoming obstacles starts with understanding them. The course of life is generally upward. Obstacles arise when people want to leapfrog goals that they can't achieve. So, obstacles are created by goals.

Further analysis shows that obstacles arise from the size of the target, the error and whether it deviates from the target.

Small goals can also create obstacles. Setting goals in life can make people bored and lose motivation, which is also an obstacle.

Obstacles to large goals are a common phenomenon that people encounter. It is good to have ideals in life, and it is a burden to have too big ideals in life. For example, in the ancient famous story of "Cao Di's Polemic", a careful analysis of the ancient text can show that the story is obviously hierarchical. In the same way, people can step it up to achieve a goal, although it is also a step to be crossed, but this time it is one of the processes, and the meaning is completely different.

If you understand but still can't cross it, then imagine those extreme athletes. For example, extreme rock climbing, in the case of a large number of foreign blockbuster introductions, those people vividly show the process of life leapfrogging. Those towering peaks are conquered by people at their feet, and they are still achieved step by step, and there are even turns and abandonments in the middle. Whether it is hardship or peace, life passes through the steps until the goal is reached.

The wrong goal in life is a phenomenon in life. At this time, the main thing is to distinguish responsibilities, not to find reasons for yourself to exceed the rules of society, and to separate the boundaries between collective goals and individual goals. Otherwise, such a goal remains a burden.

Deviations from life goals can also occur on the way forward. This is to say: people are attracted to "false goals" in life, and thus forget their original intentions, leading to obstacles. In the middle and late stages of the martial arts novel "Dragon Babu", the famous heroes broke the Zhenlong chess game and the Shaolin bridge, and Mr. Jin Yong explained how to achieve the leap from the deviated life goal from beginning to end with the brushwork of Shenghua. Taking Shaolin as an example, Mr. Jin Yong explained in detail the methods of breaking through the barriers of knowledge. Like Shaolin abbot Xuanci's cultivation storybook, it is written: "The 'robe and demon subduing skill' that Gu Mozhi finally made, and the abbot Xuanci spent a lot of time on this martial art in his life, so that he mistook Zen study, and sometimes regretted it, and felt that it was really useless to practice for years and months in order to be pure." But thinking that his sleeve skills can be alone in the world, he also feels masturbated, at this moment, when he sees Gu Mozhi casually brushing his sleeves, chic and free, and talking and laughing in his mouth, the sleeves of his robe have moved, he is not afraid to make a sound and vent his true anger, let alone his own ability, he can't help but have mixed feelings. This is a classic example of a deviation from the purpose of life. Later, the interpretation of the sweeping monks of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion was that Shaolin was based on Buddhism, and the practice of martial arts delayed meditation was upside down. Therefore, timely detection of deviations from life goals and not being fascinated is the key to breaking down obstacles and achieving leapfrogging.

Finally, it is emphasized that manpower is poor and cannot be self-indulgent. I say this because there is indeed a "plateau phenomenon" on the way forward in life, and sometimes no matter how hard you try, you can't take a step forward. For example, whether a student's innate potential or acquired hard work is in the examination, sometimes it is difficult to score 1 point higher in the exam. At this time, people should maintain a forward heart, never slack off, not discouraged, and patiently find the way in order to move forward; At this time, you can narrow down your life goals and then look at the big goals of your life after a period of time to see if there is a way to break through; At this time, you can stop looking at your life goals, scatter your mind, go out, and admit that you let go of your burden, which is not a life choice.

I wrote these because I thought: Did Mr. Cao Xueqin encounter any obstacles in writing a book?

There should be. Like Confucius, who was a protégé of Yan Hui who died early due to poverty and illness, Mr. Cao Xueqin can see from the account left that although he has a private life of "Waste Art Zhai Manuscript", he is still poor and happy, and with his personal efforts to complete the great work of "Dream of Red Mansions", which will be cited as a model for future generations to remember and learn.

2016.6.25