Chapter 376: Simple Heart
Du Er Zhenren sighed, but he couldn't start, and said: "It's not easy to practice, you can go, I hope you won't do anything wrong again." The demon god didn't hesitate any longer and walked away.
The impact on the water fairy was small, so she woke up quickly.
"Shangxian, you returned to your position too timely, otherwise we would definitely die. The water fairy thanked him sincerely.
"You don't need to thank the poor path, how to be a qualified cultivator, you are better than the poor path. The so-called 'the road is simple, and the practice is in the heart', and the poor road is just following the teachings of the teacher. ”
"The simplicity of the road is the law of the development of all things in heaven and earth, the essence of Chinese culture, the philosophy of Taoism, and the great principle is extremely simple, so simple that one or two sentences can explain it. The so-called 'true transmission of a sentence, false transmission of ten thousand books'. 'The beginning of all things, the road to simplicity, the evolution to the complex', is this simple truth. ”
Du Erzhen said, looking at Xiang Jian, who was still unconscious, but his mind flew to hundreds of years ago.
As a registered disciple of Taishang Laojun, he firmly remembered the teachings of this cheap master.
Taishang Laojun once said to him: The road to simplicity is not only valued by cultivators, but also the state of life in the world. Cultivating the Tao does not necessarily have to be desireless.
First of all, the desire to improve is itself a desire. Or take 10,000 steps back, hoping to put aside all kinds of dust and toil, just to taste the tranquility for a while, which is also a desire.
"Desire is not a good or bad thing, when it comes, we must learn to control its direction, and when it leaves, don't feel any pity, there is a kind of 'I am lucky, I lose my life' indifference. Since everyone is in the Tao, it is natural to work hard to preach the Tao, but in the end, whether they can understand the metaphysics is not very important, what really matters is that people have spent their whole lives pursuing the mysteries of heaven and earth, trying to understand the reason why people are human. ”
The avenue is simple, the avenue is invisible, and the avenue is invisible, which is a kind of high-level state of the avenue natural and returning to the basics.
In this state of purity and inaction, selflessness and selflessness, and the unity of nature and man, we do not seek long-term merit, but naturally increase in skill, do not seek to cure diseases, and naturally adjust our body and mind; do not seek function, but function will naturally appear; people do not seek to be big or small, and all veins are naturally unimpeded, and the most profound truth is the simplest and most ordinary truth.
Turning the most complex into the simplest is the most intelligent.
The greatest people are exalted only because they are simple.
"People often say, 'One year of learning the Tao will be in front of you, two years of learning the Tao will be with you, and three years of learning the Tao will be on the edge of the sky.' I didn't understand the meaning of this passage before, but I thought it was because many people who learned the Tao had retreated, so the more they cultivated, the farther away they became. When it comes to cultivation, I don't necessarily think I'm higher than anyone else, and I don't even dare to call myself a cultivator when I ask myself. ”
"Because the more you learn, the more you feel that the avenue is mysterious, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to touch the edge of the power of a lifetime. At this time, I truly understood the meaning of 'the Tao is on the edge of the sky', so I gave birth to another layer of diligence, hoping that I could get closer to the Tao through hard work. The road is simple, and life is simple. Enlightenment, esoteric is simple, simple is profound, from looking at the mountain is a mountain, to seeing the mountain is a mountain, the realm is different, from simple to complex, and then from complex to simple, it is sublimation. ”
"The meaning of life lies in simplicity, people cultivate to a certain extent, they will be indifferent to some things, they will be simple, you can understand others, but others may not understand you, in fact, people are not understanding, they are agreeing. Good at heart, simple in form. ”
"Torture the soul is the ultimate problem of man, Jane is not only a kind of beauty, but also a kind of ability, a kind of realm. Seeing through the world is not thorough, it is a high realm; seeing through hazy, the heart is thorough; seeing through is not thorough, knowing the unknown, deliberately not seeing through, is thorough; knowing that the world cannot be seen through, that is, it is thorough, after being thorough, it is not thorough, after understanding, it is not clear, it is rare to be confused is the true realm. Life in the Taoist temple is light, but it is not bitter. ”
"It's like boiling water without any seasoning, and you can taste the original flavor of the vegetables at once. On days when you have nothing to do, you inevitably have to ask yourself again and again, why did you leave Hongchen and come to this Taoist temple, what is the meaning of burning incense and chanting sutras every day? What is your ultimate goal, I can't figure it out when you think about it. ”
"It's late at night, but I don't feel sleepy, looking at the stars in the sky, I feel too small, just a small problem can trap me in for many days. It is always at such a time that it is easiest to rise and retreat. It's not that I haven't flinched, but under the induction of my master, I stepped in again and again. ”
"The road to simplicity" is the wisdom of being a man, and it takes wisdom to turn a complex thing into a simple one. To bring complicated things back to simple, you need wisdom, ability, and determination.
Wise people like to be simple, so merit and profit should not be rushed, and fame and wealth should not be burdened by it. Indifferent to Mingzhi, quiet to far-reaching. We must be simple people, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and use wisdom to simplify the difficult.
For fame and fortune, pure as a child's innocent virginity, simple as the fertile soil cultivated by the fathers, only people with a calm mood can see the leisurely "the sun shines on the ruins, the cattle and sheep return to the poor alleys", listen to the "lotus wind sends autumn air, bamboo dew drops clear sound" of the nature, feel the emptiness of "not seeing people, but hearing the sound".
The road is simple, and life is simple. Jane is not the poverty of matter, but the freedom of spirit, and Jane is not the emptiness of life, but the simplicity of the heart.
People should learn to live simply, live simply, act simply, let go of their selfish thoughts, when beyond the cage of selfish desires, when they really forget their own thoughts, forget their own consciousness, and enter the state of forgetting themselves and things.
The complexity of life is out of confusion, resist temptation with "benevolence", and relieve confusion with "wisdom".
Not being confused is the sign that life is moving from complex to simple. There are 3,000 weak waters, and only one scoop is taken to drink; Happiness to forget worries, simplicity to preserve the truth, is the "road to simplicity" of life.
Cultivation does not have to be desireless.
First of all, the desire to improve is itself a desire. Or take 10,000 steps back, hoping to put aside all kinds of dust and toil, just to taste the tranquility for a while, which is also a desire.
"Of course, just thinking about it is still not enough, you have to do it. There are many people who have become immortals in the past generations, but there is no record that they have understood the ideal of the Tao, but they have done a lot with practical actions, and this is the process of preaching. ”
"Looking back on so many years of monastic life, it is quiet, but the mind has not settled down with the ordinary days, and this is the demonic obstacle that people should repair. Again and again, I retreated and awakened again and again, and this process was repeated over and over again. ”
"Sometimes I feel miserable, but sometimes I feel like it's an improvement in itself. Good and bad are naturally relative. When you say goodbye to your past, you have to have a qualitative change like a cicada, and this is what makes your practice have a true meaning. ”
Lu Dongbin once looked at the light of the years in a dream, and when he woke up, he realized the impermanence of life. If life is a big dream, then perhaps cultivation is the process of trying to awaken oneself. ”
"Because people's hearts have been obsessed with this world, they can't see the truth, and they are too lazy to think about the truth, so they will become muddy, and they don't even understand their own existence until they die. So, instead we have to be thankful for the times of frustration, detours, and slackness, and it is because there are some such stories that inspire us to rethink the meaning of spiritual practice. ”
"What people are afraid of is not that they don't know how to make progress, but that they don't know what direction to work into. Master Venerable once said: When you feel that you are committed to the Tao, the heavens will always send down some demonic obstacles to test you. ”
"We are not afraid of trials, nor do we care about success or failure, how far we can go on this road is not determined by heaven, but by the distance between me and my original intention. When the clouds and fog clear, at least we can say with a clear conscience: We have walked the road of cultivation with our hearts. ”
"There is a story about 'the Tao is simple, and the ordinary heart is the Tao': a practitioner asked the immortals: What did you do before you attained the Tao? The practitioner asked, "What about after attaining enlightenment?" The immortal replied, "Chop wood, carry water, and cook." The practitioner then asked, "What does that mean attainment?"
The immortal smiled: Before attaining the Tao, when chopping wood, he was thinking about carrying water, and when he was carrying water, he was thinking about cooking; after attaining the Tao, chopping wood was chopping wood, carrying water was carrying water, and cooking was cooking. In fact, the dialogue between the immortals and the practitioners enlightens us, and many of the highest and most profound truths are contained in some extremely simple thoughts. ”
"The road is simple, life is simple. A thousand people have a thousand ways of survival and life paths, go through the years, go through life, there are many emotions in their hearts, everything is down, everything is free, let go of the moment, the moment is free, many problems in life do not need to be put in the heart, and many burdens of life do not need to be shouldered. ”
"Only when you let go of your mind can you feel the joy of simple life and the pleasure of flying your soul. If you want to change something, you first have to get yourself back. ”
"People have latent energy, it's just easy: obscured by habit, lost by time, consumed by inertia. People should remember what they should remember, forget what they should forget, change what they can change, and accept what they can't. ”
"Face the past with the least regrets, the present with the least waste, and the future with the most dreams. The way of heaven and earth is simple. Life is short, I don't want to be too complicated, just live simply. Once life begins, no matter how stage fright, it has to end. ”
"The biggest challenge in the process of growing up is that there are some sections of the road, you can only walk quietly by yourself, happy work, simple life is a happy life, people must understand that they are always happy, all the sorrows, pains, all things that can not be given up, but a transition in life, people can skip it to become more exciting. “
"The best life is a simple life, a cup of tea, a table, a quiet place, a dull life, no distractions. ”
But a simple life requires a lot of hard work, so that you can enjoy life without worry. Life is generally perfect, what is imperfect is the mentality, and people who don't know how to appreciate will use pickiness to make everything incomplete. ”
"Be a simple person, act recklessly, grasp the measure, be at peace with the situation, calmly accept the reality, do things simply, do not cause trouble, do not make trouble, do not be afraid of things, do not regret, do not complain, do not hesitate to do what you do. ”
"Life is a long confrontation, some people laugh at the beginning, others win at the end. Try to smile, try to look back, relax yourself, not forced, not sluggish, not impetuous. ”
"Simple life, casually, casually, casually, be the best yourself, content, smiling, indifferent, even if you are tired and tired, as long as you insist on moving forward, your own scenery will eventually appear. Life is not easy, the key depends on how you live. ”
"The situation is in the state of mind, and if the state of mind changes, the situation will also change. The more people want to live, the more tense and complicated it becomes, and the more difficult life becomes. ”
On the contrary, the less people demand from life, the easier it is to be satisfied and the easier it is to be happy. The road is simple, living in the present, contentment can always be happy. Enlightenment into the quiet realm of no arms, a round of heart and moon is unique, showing the realm of tranquility; ”
"In life, plainness is the truest, silence is the most beautiful, and the most lasting thing in life is not prosperity, but blandness, not bustle but joy. Keep a childlike heart, when you are unhappy, confide your troubles to your friends without hindrance, and when you are happy, laugh unscrupulously, maybe all your sorrows will flow away in the confiding, and all the tension will be released in the laughter. ”
"Like a child, live simply, live happily, keep your mind intact, everything is beautiful. ”
"There is always a story in life, but it is difficult to tell it, so in the bottom of my heart, it gradually became a song. People are like this, what they can't get will always yearn for, and what they lose will feel precious. The so-called, gains and losses, love, scenery, and post stations are all in the dust and smoke of time, slowly fading. ”
"Although it is difficult to let go of some things, things that do not belong to you will eventually go away. ”
"A person's life is destined to go through a lot. On the red dust road, there are loud laughter, tears of grievances, ignorant persistence, self-confidence in success, and vigilance of failure, and every experience is destined to be precious. ”
"The abundance of life is due to the compassion of the heart, the beauty of life is due to having a normal heart, the simplicity of life makes people relaxed and happy, and the simplicity of ideas makes people peaceful and tranquil. Because of simplicity, we can deeply understand the lightness of life, and because of simplicity, we can understand the tranquility of the soul. ”
After Du Erzhen finished speaking, he then stood up and said: "Poor Dao is leaving, do what you need to do, no matter whether you live or die, you must also have faith, believe in yourself, and believe in your friends." ”