Chapter 23: Enlightenment in Leisure
A mediocre person is not a mediocre person, and an idler is not an idle.
You don't need to win, you just need to be at peace.
When I woke up the next morning, I felt that my mental state was not bad, and my mood was not affected by the appearance of the demon last night. Because I know very well that as long as I am on this path, all this experience is just a process.
Today's first class is the Chinese class, Mr. Song did not rush to take out his lesson plan, but stood in front of the podium very casually, and chatted with the students about some of the living habits of young people now.
This time, it aroused the interest of the students, and I listened carefully below.
The teacher said, "In modern life, there are many friends who feel involuntarily unable to help themselves. The pressure of life and economy has caused many people to live a very tense life every day, they are working non-stop and staying up late to work overtime. If this condition persists, the body is unable to overload the workload, which can lead to premature failure. My moral predecessors often taught me to be happy with poverty, to go with the flow of everything and not to force it, so that I lose my mind and go to extremes, which is a person's physical and mental endurance. ”
The students listened to Mr. Song's words, and Mr. Song continued: "Some people in their prime suddenly died of exhaustion, and some young students committed suicide because they could not bear the academic or psychological burden. When a person lives under intense pressure for a long time, studies and works with a desire to tighten the strings of life, the consequences are bound to be difficult to last. If you are exhausted by walking to the extreme, it will be very much worth the loss! ”
At this time, the teacher paused and said to the students: "So I am here to remind the students that the ancients said that 'work at sunrise and rest at sunset' is the way of life. Make yourself no longer tired during the day, and your thoughts will come and you will maintain your vigorous energy. ”
Seeing that we were all listening carefully, the teacher smiled and said: "The content we are learning today is the book "The Mean" by the ancient sage Confucius, and the essence of "The Mean" is: relaxation and relaxation, combination of work and rest. As he spoke, Mr. Song wrote the words "moderation" on the blackboard.
As I listened to the lecture below, I couldn't help but admire the high level of the Chinese teacher's lectures.
Mr. Song asked the students to turn the book to the specified number of pages, and he read it aloud to the students first. Confucius's Family Sayings. Guanxiang Shooting Twenty-Eighth", the original text is as follows: Zigong Guan Yu wax, Confucius said: "Give also, happy? He said: "The people of a country are crazy, and it is fun to give them the unknown." Confucius said: "A hundred days of labor, a day of joy, a day of Ze, is not known." Zhang Buchi, civil and military power; Chi but not open, civil and military for. One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military affairs. ”
Teacher Song explained to us the meaning of this passage, and its vernacular explanation is that it says: Once, after visiting the festival of the hundred gods in December, Zigong came back to see Confucius, and Confucius asked Zigong, "Ci, do you feel happy?" Zigong replied, "The people of a nation are so happy that they seem to be mad, but I don't think there is anything to be happy about." Confucius smiled and said, "A hundred days of hard work, a day of joy, this is the grace of the monarch, not something you can understand." Nervous and hard work every day without rest, even King Wen and King Wu can't do it; And only relax and enjoy but don't work hard, King Wen and King Wu don't do it. Being able to combine work and rest, tight and loose, is the real way of civil and military! ”
The teacher further explained that in the era of Confucius, "wax" was a festival. In this festival, the common people put down their work and turned to some entertainment activities, and Confucius also brought Zigong to watch the excitement.
Confucius asked Zigong, "Do you feel the joy of the festival?" Zigong replied, "The whole country is like crazy, and I don't see where the joy is." Confucius said: "The common people have worked hard for a long time, and finally there is such a day to relax, which you can't experience." Let the common people blindly be nervous and not relax, even King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou cannot govern the country well; Let the common people blindly relax and not make them nervous, and King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou will not do this.
Be nervous when you should be nervous, and relax when you should relax, this is how King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou govern the country. The "Wen" and "Wu" in this sentence do not refer to the study of literature and the practice of martial arts, but to King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou. In this passage, Confucius used the examples of King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou to educate Zigong: To govern the country, the common people should be relaxed and relaxed, and work and rest should be combined.
The teacher held a book in his hand and wrote a few big words on the blackboard: "Leisure comes from diligence, diligence comes from leisure." ”
I looked at the words on the blackboard, constantly magnifying in my mind, I seemed to have caught something, but this feeling was so ethereal, and a trace of realization faintly rose in my heart.
The teacher then explained, in the "Aphorisms Lianbi", it is said that the most useful word in the world is an idle word, and the idle word must be obtained from diligence. The cheapest in the world is a diligent word, and the diligent word should be made from leisure.
If we know how to combine work and rest, and have a certain degree of tightness, not only will we not waste time, but we will not be overly tired physically and mentally. Therefore, cherishing life should start from a harmonious body and mind, one piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and martial arts, that is, the golden mean. Knowing how to rest is the only way to truly know how to live, so that the river of life is inexhaustible.
The teacher was not without feeling and said: "The night shift system in modern society has reversed people's natural work and rest rules, and this kind of work mode of working day and night is very inhumane. Therefore, you should also try not to stay up late to improve the efficiency of learning. ”
At this time, some students interjected and asked, "Teacher, some things really can't be memorized without staying up late, is there any good way?" ”
The teacher emphasized: "First of all, you have a good rest, you can concentrate during class, and you have to understand what you have learned first. Secondly, it is necessary to complete the homework well and further deepen the impression. Finally, it is to memorize from the perspective of understanding. The students nodded their heads uncontrollably, and listening to Mr. Song's class also made the students feel like they were suddenly opened.
In today's class, the interaction between the teacher and the students was very frequent, and everyone did not feel bored because it was a Chinese class, but the students were very relaxed and discussed their experiences with each other. I listened to the discussion between the teachers and students, and I gained a new understanding from it.
What comes to mind is that when a person is busy with selfish desires, he is actually far from the Tao. Wise people are not busy with things, but often reflect on their mistakes to purify their minds. True cultivation is to constantly reduce and lower one's desires, so as to achieve a pure mind and few desires, and return to the basics.
When the bell rang for the end of class, the students had a feeling of unfinished business, and the Chinese teacher smiled and said to everyone: "For the teacher, the one who preaches and teaches and solves doubts." In the future, students can come to me at any time if they have any questions that they don't understand, are difficult to solve, or are distressed. ”
When the teacher's words were finished, the voice in the classroom rang out in unison, "Okay!" Some of the male students kept slapping the table, looking very excited. And so the first class ended in this harmonious and enthusiastic atmosphere.
Today, throughout the day, the students' enthusiasm for learning was unprecedentedly high, which also gave invisible encouragement to the teachers who gave lectures on the podium.
Actually, I may feel more, cultivation is permeated into daily life and study, sometimes seemingly simple or inconspicuous small things happen, unintentionally do something, may bring a kind of earth-shaking change to a person's thinking.
I thought that maybe this is my own path of cultivation, to realize the true meaning of life in a simple life, to experience the meaning of life in daily life, and to improve myself unconsciously, this may be the truth of the simplicity of the road.
When I figured this out, I was in an unusually happy mood, and my body and mind had an indescribable feeling of comfort, and the Zhou Tian energy that was running on its own in my body suddenly became rapid, followed by the opening of many sweat pores in my body.
I opened the Heavenly Eye and looked at the sweat pores on my arm, and found that the energy in my body was interacting and resonating with the free energy in the surrounding space, and the endless energy between heaven and earth poured into my sweat pores and then penetrated my whole body.
At this time, I closed my eyes, felt the energy entering my body, felt that my physical strength and spirit were pushed to the peak, and my consciousness was unusually clear.
The energy belt in the body is widening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and with the continuous expansion of the energy belt in the body, the energy stored in the body is also increasing.
When I saw this change in my body, I was also very excited in my heart, knowing that the hard work of the past few days had not been in vain, and today it finally paid off.
The last two classes in the afternoon are self-study, the students are writing the homework left by the teachers today, I put down the pen in my hand, look at the students around me who are still working hard, there is a sense of joy in my heart, the students are also striving for the goal in their hearts, this is the throbbing of youth.
This afternoon has been very rewarding for me, the energy band in my body has been further widened, the energy has been increased compared to before, and the density of energy has more than doubled before.
It wasn't until the end of school that the feeling of being filled with energy in my body gradually disappeared, and at this time I was full of energy, as if I had inexhaustible strength, my eyes were blazing, and the temperament exuded from my whole body had changed a lot from before.
After school, I came to Mr. Cao's clinic and found that Mr. Cao was not in the clinic, only Dr. Wu was watching the patient alone, and when Dr. Wu saw me come in, he asked me to come over and help him with a smile on his face.
I sat at another table and asked the patient to stretch out a hand and cut the pulse for the patient, in fact, I am not good at cutting the pulse, the key thing that works is my natural vision, and the condition of each patient's body is clearly seen under my heavenly eye.
In the end, there were only two people left in the consultation room, a man and a woman, who were letting Dr. Wu look at the patient, and I was idle when there were no patients here.
Dr. Wu was calling the man's pulse, and at this time he frowned, sometimes closing his eyes, sometimes opening his eyes to look at the man opposite.
He said to the man, "Sir, I checked your pulse just now and found that you are not sick and in good health, what do you want to see?" ”
Without waiting for the man to speak, the woman next to him rushed to say: "We are from the countryside eighty miles away, a few days ago my brother said that the arms of both hands hurt before going to bed at night, and the next day the hands could not be lifted, these days I went to many big hospitals in the city and did not look good, and also took a CT scan, the doctors said that there is nothing wrong with my brother's arms, but his two arms just can't be lifted!" In the end, there was really no recruitment, and it was introduced that there was a Chinese medicine clinic here to treat the disease very painfully, so we came to try the luck. ”
Hearing this, I couldn't help but be curious, so I came to the man's side and asked, "Sir, do you have any sensation in your arm?" The man replied, "Yes," and he felt all kinds of things, and his arm was not broken or injured, but he couldn't lift it.
Dr. Wu frowned, shook his head vigorously, and said, "I have been practicing medicine for so many years, and I have never met a patient like you, never, is there a problem with the meridians?" ”
The woman standing on the side also showed a disappointed look on her face, with tears in her eyes, and sighed: "My brother is only 26 years old this year, I am 18 years old this year, our parents are not in good health, so far he has not asked for a daughter-in-law for this family, and we have a 10-year-old brother below, we have to rely on my brother and him to support him alone, what should I do now after this hand." After saying that, he squatted on the ground and cried.
Dr. Wu hurriedly helped the woman up and kept persuading. I saw this and said to them: "In this way, I'll give your brother an acupuncture and try it, see the effect, let's be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, how about it?" ”
The brother and sister stopped their grief and immediately nodded in agreement. Dr. Wu, who was on the side, reminded me: "I have seen it just now, her brother's disease is very special, I have never encountered it, there should be no problem with the nervous system of her brother's arm, can your acupuncture work?" ”
I shook my head and said to Dr. Wu, "I don't know, let's try it, it's like this anyway." "Dr. Wu saw that I insisted, so I gave it a try.
I took out the needle, according to the direction of the acupuncture points and meridians, I did not find any problems when I opened the eye of heaven to observe his two arms, there is no black qi in the two arms, indicating that there is really no problem, that is to say, his arms are not sick.
I knew that acupuncture might not really work, and when I wanted to give up immediately, I thought about the problem with his arm, is there a factor behind it? Why don't I look at him?
Thinking of this, I turned on the Sky Eye and looked deeper into the space. Looking at it, he found that there was a space, his two arms were covered with scars, and next to his arm, there was a black spirit that swung a machete and slashed at his arm from time to time.
At this point, I withdrew my eyes and knew in my heart that I might have found the crux of his brother's arm. Therefore, I took advantage of the needle piercing to sit in my seat and pretend to close my eyes, but in fact I was ready to do further investigation.
When I slowly approached the spirit with the Celestial Eye Vision, the spirit immediately became alert, and it turned around and was about to run, when it was grabbed by the energy hand I had turned into energy, and I wanted to ask why.
After I used my consciousness to communicate with the spirit, the spirit was a little hesitant at first, seeing that there was really no way to get out of my control, so I had to tell the reason why it hurt the person's arm.
It turned out that the previous life of that spirit was called Qin Yuan, and people called her Ah Yuan, who was born in the Yan Kingdom of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and she had a younger brother named Qin Wuyang, and their sister and brother had been orphans since they were children.
Qin Wuyang's nickname is Dog, because when he was a child, his neighbors saw him lonely and weak, and he felt that it was easy to feed him with a name such as a dog and a cat, because both of them were young, and there was no way to support themselves, so since they were children, they were neighbors in the east and relatives in the west, so that they would not starve to death.
When my sister was twelve years old, she was introduced by a neighbor to a workshop not far away to help spin cloth, so that the two sisters and brothers finally didn't have to live without other people's charity, although it was very hard, but the two were still very happy, Qin Wuyang thought to himself: As long as my sister is happy, the dog will be happy.
However, Qin Wuyang's happy days didn't last long, and his sister was about to leave him.
Qin Wuyang cried and asked her sister what was going on, and her sister was also very sad and told him what happened: When Prince Dan went to see a nobleman on the street, he accidentally found his sister, and saw that his sister's hands were thin and white, and he heard that the nobleman was elegant and good at music, and he liked beauties, so he had an idea, and bought his sister into the palace with a large sum of money. The two siblings cried and agreed to meet again.
A year later, the two did meet again. Qin Wuyang was working on the street, and suddenly heard the neighbor's little tiger running over to him, "Dog, dog, your sister is back, your sister is back." ”
Qin Wuyang couldn't believe it, and ran home ecstatically, his sister was really standing in the courtyard of the house, still so good-looking, but he looked at him a little restrainedly, with a cautious smile on his face, Qin Wuyang hurriedly ran over to hug his sister, but his sister didn't touch him, he felt a little strange, so he let go of his sister, but his sister was still looking at him cautiously, but her eyes were very sad, Qin Wuyang had a bad feeling in her heart, and sure enough, the corner of his eye skipped his sister's hands.
At a glance, he froze there. My sister's sleeves were empty, the original pair of slender and good-looking hands were long gone, Qin Wuyang's mind was blank, and he couldn't say anything.
On the third day, Qin Wuyang found out what happened in the mouth of a friend: it turned out that her sister had been taught to play the piano since she was brought into the palace by Prince Yan, and finally got his praise when Jing Ke entered the mansion.
And Prince Yan saw that it was useless to keep his sister, so after giving his sister a large sum of money, he let his sister go home.
Qin Wuyang didn't say anything, just nodded, and four days later, he invited himself to follow Jing Ke to assassinate King Qin.
After that, the matter quickly spread all over the Yan Kingdom, Qin Wuyang was really unproductive, and he was so frightened that he couldn't walk in the palace, and Jing Ke's assassination failed, and the Yan Kingdom was soon attacked by the Qin State.
Everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, so they ran to Qin Wuyang's house to kill Ah Yuan, but Ah Yuan committed suicide as early as the second day after returning home, leaving a sum of money at home, hoping that his younger brother who came back from Qin State could use it.
Later, some people said that Qin Wuyang did it on purpose, deliberately dragging Jing Ke down in order to avenge his sister's hands being chopped off.
It is said that Jing Ke is also very ashamed of the girl who innocently had her hands cut off, but none of this matters.
Hearing this, I asked the spirit, "Could it be that this man whose arm you had cut off in another dimension is this?" ”
The spirit immediately sent out a thought to me, that man was the prince Dan of that life, and his sister was Jing Ke of that life.
The reason why it cut off that man's arm was to repay her revenge for being cut off in the previous life.
After I know the details of the matter, I also understand the cause and effect, and I am even more embarrassed in my heart, it seems that no matter which life the cause and effect, regardless of grievances and hatreds, it will be returned in a special period of time, but it is placed in a different way, and the cause and effect are really true.
I opened my eyes and looked at the brother and sister, and began to think of a way to resolve the grievances.
I thought for a moment, and sent a message to the spirit, saying, "I will not hurt you, but is there a solution that satisfies you and does not make that person lose their hands and labor and thus be unable to support their parents. ”
When the spirit received my message, it became a little agitated.
sent me a message of disagreement, if Prince Dan didn't cut off my hands back then, my younger brother would not have died tragically in the hands of King Qin for revenge, and the root of all cause and effect is this Prince Dan.
I sent a message to the spirit: you can make some requests, and if the conditions are allowed, I will guarantee that they will do it for you, and that will be the case.
The spirit didn't answer my question right away, presumably thinking about it, and I wasn't in a hurry, but waited quietly for its answer.
After a while, the spirit sent a message: first you have to promise to release me first, then Prince Dan has to promise me a prayer every year on my sacrifice day, and the last request is that one day in the future, when you can achieve it, you will come back and be able to cross me out of this sea of suffering. The key is this condition, if you don't agree to this last one, nothing else counts.
When I received the message, I couldn't help but feel a little bitter in my heart, because I myself was just starting out in my cultivation, and I didn't know where I would go.
Judging by the spirit's resolute tone, for the sake of the poor brother and sister relationship, in the end, I nodded in agreement.
When it received my affirmative answer, the spirit visibly shook in my hand, looking very happy. What I don't know is that my decision today saved my life in the future, which is not to be mentioned later.
As agreed, I spread my hands out and withdrew the energy, and when the spirit was free of my energy constraints, it quickly disappeared from my grasp.
When I looked at the man's arm again, his body arm in another dimension was recovering little by little due to the absence of the spirit damage.
I opened my eyes, picked up my pen and prescribed him a few pairs of medicines, mainly for muscle-building and blood-activating drugs, and brought them to the man's sister.
Seeing that the time was almost up, I raised my hand to remove the needles one by one, and said to their brothers and sisters, "Go back tonight, you drink the medicine first, and see how it works." ”
Their brothers and sisters were very grateful to me, I waved my hand and said, "I think that your family is poor, and there is a piece of filial piety, so that you can cure this disease, when you go out, I will tell you some things alone, you go to the pharmacy door and wait for me for a while." ”
The brother and sister listened attentively, and after they finished speaking, I asked them to go and get the medicine first. At this time, Dr. Wu came forward and said to me, "Xiaohyun, are you sure to cure him?" He's weird. ”
I smiled and nodded to Dr. Wu and said, "I should be fifty percent sure, try it, and I'll know how effective it will be tomorrow." ”
Dr. Wu saw that I was confident, so he didn't ask. There was nothing going on in my consultation room, so I said goodbye to Dr. Wu and went home first.
I stood at the door of the pharmacy, waiting for the brother and sister to finish grabbing the medicine, and when the brother and sister came out with the medicine, I clearly noticed that the flesh of the man's arm in the other space had recovered a large part of it.
Their brother and sister saw that I was waiting for them, and stood still at the door. I said to the man, "You can slowly raise your hand now and try it, you should be able to move a little, and you will be completely recovered by this time tomorrow." ”
The man tried to lift his arm as I commanded, and his eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at his arm, and he realized that he could really lift it slightly.
His sister also found out and hugged his brother happily, her eyes full of tears of excitement. At this time, their brother and sister looked at me, not only with gratitude but also with some admiration.
I stepped forward and pulled them to a place where no one was, and whispered to them: "Now what I said to you, I hope you will remember, this disease of yours is actually very special, and it has something to do with your past life, and you don't need to ask the reason." You have to remember that every year you have to pray incense to a girl named Ah Yuan, only then can you be completely cured of your illness. "I told them when Ah Yuan died.
The brothers and sisters were also skeptical, but since my arm was indeed healed by me, they no longer hesitated to promise me that they would pray for Ah Yuan at that time every year.
I also told my brothers and sisters to do more good deeds and help others as much as possible in the future, so that they could fully recover their arms.
I was separated from their brother and sister outside the mall, and I felt the excitement of their brother and sister, after all, the disease that was not cured in the big hospital was cured here for dozens of dollars, and it also saved them a lot of money.
I walked in the direction of home, I was very comfortable, after all, I did a good deed, unraveled their cause and effect, although I connected this cause and effect with myself, but I did not regret it, maybe this is my destined person.