Chapter 23 Sincerity
The ancients said that only sincerity is broken, and now people seem to be a very ridiculous sentence, because in today's era, no one can deeply understand the meaning, so the supreme knowledge of sincerity has disappeared in modern times.
But the extremes of things must be reversed, the more they lack something, the more people hope for something, so sincerity will be thought about in this era of the most chaotic etiquette and morality, will be discovered, and will be carried forward again, which is also the rule of the times to create heroes. Because only in the most turbulent era, people want peace the most, no one likes to be displaced in the midst of war, so people will have sincerity in their hearts, sincerity reaches the peak is sincerity, sincerity can make the mind firm, the mind is firm to do things will be down-to-earth and never give up, never give up the goal will be completed, the war will be quelled, peace will come. Therefore, the ancients only had sincerity and sincerity, and there was a reason for this.
The so-called sincere person is not naïve, naïve and stupid, and is in an uncivilized state, like a child and a child, such as the fourth of the Book of Changes, the beginning state of the hexagram. And sincerity is the state of great wisdom and foolishness.
We haven't used the word sincerity for a long time, which means that no one will develop in this direction for a long time, more often we will regard sincerity as superstition, or fortune-telling activities, but in ancient times, fortune-telling was not a superstitious thing, but when we encountered something we didn't understand, or something confused, ask the elderly, ask the wise man to ask the wise man to help.
The so-called authorities are confused bystanders, and the people who enter the bureau are often confused and can not analyze things clearly and calmly, at this time it is necessary to find a bystander to ask, this bystander must be a wise and experienced person, this kind of confusing thing has been done by themselves through their guidance, and then it has been solved, and has achieved the effect of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, this kind of thing is called pointing and maze, but in the process of pointing, or in the process of inquiry, because of some fear, or unspeakable things, there is something hidden in the heart, dishonest, telling a lie, will lead the bystanders in a wrong direction, and the results obtained are naturally wrong, so in this regard, the ancient sages will say that sincerity is spiritual, insincerity is not spiritual, insincerity is not spiritual, insincerity is not true, insincerity, then uncertainty, so swaying repeatedly will only harm yourself, wisdom in the case of unfirm ideas, but a joke!
The so-called sincere person, if the wise are foolish, what is the great wisdom and foolishness?
Wisdom, generally said that the wisdom of the individual rises to the wisdom of the group after the expression of the meaning, the great wisdom, and returned to the starting point, the sincerity of the appearance is like the childish, like the innocence of the elderly, the stability of the young, but the people of this era have gone in the wrong direction, abandon the sincerity, but everyone has learned a little clever, small means, but I don't know that this kind of deviation from the sincerity of the performance, is the most stupid performance, not stupid, but stupid.
With the selfish nature of human beings, human beings do not like to deal with cunning and witty people, even if he will not hurt himself, this person also has a rejection of him, because the initiative is in the hands of others, and he can only passively accept, I don't know when it will be swayed by others, so human beings like to live and deal with simple, sincere people in order to protect themselves, put in the whole human group, the wit and cunning of the whole society are ultimately harmful to others and themselves, Putting yourself in a chaotic and cunning group and not being able to extricate yourself, either being toyed with or playing with others, is like being on a battlefield and not at peace!
Everyone likes to be in a simple social environment, so how to make the society stable and everyone live a comfortable and worry-free life? Only a simple and sincere way of communication is the most correct.
Therefore, as the old saying goes: the people pay attention to their ears and eyes, and the saints are all children!
If there is a place where the people are simple and the people are sincere, then everyone will admire and yearn for it, and the managers will also live a leisurely life and rarely take care of it.
But once the clever wit is activated, it will be used by the human heart, and the witty will deceive the simple, and the simple will learn to deceive, and so on, and the society will be turbulent, and eventually it will hurt itself, so it makes sense that the simple place hates wit.
The clever and witty way of dealing with the world is the lowest way, far inferior to simplicity, how can it be compared to wisdom and foolishness!
The witty and cunning will lead the simple to the point of no return of cunning and self-harm, and the saint must understand this truth, see through the cunning, experience simplicity, wit, wisdom, great wisdom, and finally go to the holy realm and return to simplicity, then the evil will not invade, and the cunning will not dare to act rashly, so that the people will return to simplicity.
Even if the people can't understand the truth, then they must focus on themselves, strengthen their beliefs, and grasp the heart of immobility.
Ancient book cloud: If the wisdom is bent, if the great ingenuity is clumsy, if the great discernment, if the great win is dethroned, if the wisdom is foolish, everyone is more than enough, and I am alone, my fool's heart is also, chaos!
The laity is clear, I am alone and faint, the laity is observing, I am alone and depressed, everyone thinks there is, and I am stubborn and despised! I am different from others, and I am a precious mother!
Everyone in the world wants to be extremely smart, one more clever than the other, and I feel like I don't know anything, like a stupid student who can't keep up with my studies! The soul hidden in me is like a dull man, muddy, like a natural child!
This state is like a pearl in the mussel, the jade is in the stone, although the inside is clear, the outside is like a fool!
In the eyes of the saints, those ingenuity, wit and cunning are actually like children's tricks, which can be seen through at a glance, and in the eyes of the saints, these are all low-level ways of dealing with them, and wit and cleverness should be used on external objects, and must not be used on people. If you want to see through the world, it is definitely not a way to escape from the mountains and forests, or the four are empty, it is a coward's way to escape, and the person who has truly attained the Tao must be a person who lives like an ordinary person in the world, but they can always maintain their sincere and unmoved hearts, and all evil, witty and cunning, cannot be contaminated with him.
The more wisdom, the more the system, the more cumbersome, but will deviate more and more from the avenue, deviate from the sincerity, and finally the society, the crowd will be in constant turmoil forever!
The saint is the messenger of heaven and earth, who has his own atmosphere and carries into his body, not meritorious, not career, not fame and fortune, for everyone, it is just to follow the rules of nature and use it on human beings, so that human beings can settle down and reach a state of regret!
Therefore, only sincerity is broken, and it is said that everyone is simple and sincere, so all the cunning and evil in the world will not appear, so that the realm of destroying all evil has been reached!