Chapter 9 Email to L 3: About Happiness
It's been Longlongago since the last email, and a bunch of trivial things in life have been delayed, and many things that should have been thought about have forgotten to make a summary in time.
In this world, we can easily recognize tangible things, we use our five senses to feel a more specific understanding, as long as we are careful enough to observe all aspects of things, then we have a deep and complete understanding of a thing, and the less doubts.
But the intangible things are not easy to grasp. As far as a character described in a literary work is concerned, there will be
The conclusion that "there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers". The more thoroughly you analyze and understand the intangibles, the less you will agree with others.
We hope that there is someone who can make happiness clear, so that we can go straight to the goal and take shortcuts to happiness.
The reality is very cruel, when I was 20 years old, I wrote in my diary: "Today the sun is shining, I stretch my arms, open my palms, the sun shines on the palms, happiness is like this sunshine, once grasped, happiness will be all missed, it is natural to stretch, but you can possess it to the greatest extent" At that time, I learned that these spiritual level things, if we want to pursue, we should first achieve calmness, after all, we feel things with our hearts, the most important thing is to find our own hearts first, and then from them
The "heart" sets out, expands and feels everything. This kind of practice of keeping the mind quiet, I can easily do it now, and we can discuss it together when we have the opportunity in the future, this practice is very similar to meditation in yoga, the whole body relaxes, and the whole body is empty.
Because it's too mysterious, I still don't continue to discuss the peace of mind of the old monk. Most of our recognized happiness needs to find a reference object, and use the unfortunate self and others as a foil to find your current happiness.
It's a bit similar to the kind of psychology of schadenfreude, although it's not very moral, but it does make you feel happy.
Outside, wind and rain, you hide in the house, wearing dry and soft pajamas, drinking hot and fragrant coffee, you will feel that life is good, you are very happy, if this is early in the morning, you have to go to work later, you have to throw yourself into the wind and rain, the sense of happiness is gone, you are ready to give up the short happiness at this moment without hesitation, suddenly received a call from the personnel department that the industrial park has a power outage, the line maintenance needs to be in the middle, and you have a day off, so you suppress the ecstasy in your heart, Pretending to be sorry, he replied with a heavy heart: "Oh, that's it, that's okay." "At this time, joy and happiness, I don't need to say too much, you may have thrown away the phone yourself and cheered and celebrated.
Even in literature, I like to use contrasts to find my own psychological balance: "I complained that I didn't have shoes, until one day, I saw a man who had no legs!" Then, he immersed himself in the happiness of his own sound legs and feet.
Most of the articles on the Internet that persuade people to live in the present are also this kind of tone that is more than enough than the top, and as long as you give full play to the more than the bottom, you will be full of happiness...... What exactly is happiness?
I'd like to break it down and take a look.
How do you understand the word "lucky"? The word that comes to mind is:
"Three lives are lucky", a kind of luck that has done good things for three lifetimes to meet this kind of good thing, and a beautiful small probability event happens to you unexpectedly and unexpectedly encountered;
How to form a sentence with the word "Fu"? Not very good words, but
"Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other", this blessing is probably the opposite of disasters, the body is fine, and life is smooth.
Taken together, the meaning of happiness is really nothing more than that
The meaning of "encountering good things and not encountering bad things" is a kind of good wish. The so-called happy home is to wish the family to be able to encounter some small probability of good things and stay away from the loss of limb property.
Life is not as expected, things are often eight or nine, and everything is often thought about one or two. As for happiness, it is, after all, a spiritual perception thing, and on the one hand, we have to be sensitive, grateful for what we have gained, and not to despise and ignore it without thinking because we have already received it.
We will not pathologically focus on finding the bottom person or thing to set off our sense of achievement, think carefully about the pain of other people's mutilation, will not bring any comfort to ourselves, others will not add a degree of Celsius warmth to ourselves, others will not eat enough to increase our own feeling of being full of food and drink.
Contentment, contentment