Where is the beauty?

The train winds through the Tianshan Mountains, and there is a regular click of the train hitting the rails. Looking out the window at the endless mountains in the distance, my mind finally calmed down. It turns out that human nature is to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and return to the numb body. Here, the mobile phone has got rid of the network in the city, but it is still trying to find a network to communicate with the world. There is no noise of the city, no rush of the city, no disorder of the city, no desire of the city. When I came here, my whole heart was silent, my whole body was nirvana, my breathing became slow, my numb and messy brain cells became active, as if I had broken free from a layer of shackles that bound it, my thoughts flew and my mind was open. . . . .

Outside the window, the afterglow of the sunset is evenly scattered on the hillside, making the whole foothills golden. Every ditch and ridge on the hillside is strewn at random. Everything is naturally formed, without any traces of artificial carving. Every gully seems unreasonable, but in fact it has a history of thousands of years. They have quietly taken root here for thousands of years. If there are really no ditches and ridges,

The train slowly passed through Tianshan Mountain, and the endless Gobi was displayed in front of us. People who are used to seeing tall buildings and trees and flowers are shocked by the emptiness here. Without tall buildings and noisy car horns, the world is so wide and big. At the end of the field of vision, the sky and the earth are integrated. Here, you can deeply feel that the sky is like a huge blue pot cover on the endless flat land, and you are standing in the center of the earth. Here, you can feel the beauty of the air, everything is natural, there is no trace of an axe, everything is the beauty presented to you by nature.

Beautiful! The beauty of nature! Shocking beauty! The beauty of tranquility! Beauty of emptiness!

Kaii Higashiyama is a famous contemporary Japanese landscape painter. Only superb landscape painters have such a keen eye: seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary and finding the true meaning in nature. However, more importantly, Dongshan has a loving heart and a beautiful soul. He once said, "Unique scenery is the impression produced by the echo of one's inner things and the outside world", "Without the touch of the soul, it is impossible to see the beauty of the scenery". Therefore, Dongshan Kayi, who is "a simple heart in harmony with nature", is integrated with the scenery in his eyes, and the scenery in Dongshan's works also shows people's feelings.

There is only one chance to meet the scenery, because nature is alive and even changing rapidly. Perhaps this is why Buddhists say "instant three". At the same time, we who appreciate the scenery are growing and changing every day. Dongshan, on the other hand, put the scenery in front of us with his pen full of life's acceptance and touching of the beauty of the scenery, making this rare moment of accidental meeting eternal.

As an outstanding essayist, Dongshan Kayi has written many essays, such as Exploring the Beauty of Japan, Dialogue with Scenery, Listening to Spring Water, Mountains and Rivers I Crossing and My Window. The book "Beautiful Feelings" was compiled by Ms. Tang Yuemei, who selected and translated some articles expressing the beauty of Japanese scenery and writing the beauty of Japanese art from the collection of Dongshan Prose. In these chapters, most of them describe the beauty of nature and scenery from the perspective of a painter, especially the mountains and seas that best represent the island country of Japan.

Listening to Spring and a Leaf reflects Kaii Higashiyama's thinking about life and the beauty of his soul. The third paragraph of A Leaf takes the gaze of a leaf growing on a branch in the yard as the cut-in angle, which makes me feel familiar and cordial. Because the novel "Ancient Capital" is haunted by faint sadness, and it is also based on Qian Baryon's gaze on the trunk of an old maple tree, Viola yedoensis. Not surprisingly, Kawabata Yasunari and Dongshan were originally a pair of rare bosom friends who trudged for beauty, and their souls may be interlinked.

Dongshan carefully observed the life and death of this leaf in the courtyard trees and found that "the death of a leaf is by no means meaningless, it is closely related to the life of the whole tree". Everything has life, and the four seasons flow. As the son of nature, human beings have to accept the same fate gladly. Dongshan recalled himself and said, "The death of one person is also related to the life of the whole human race. There is no doubt that no one likes death, but what we should think of is to cherish the life given by nature, and at the same time cherish the lives of others. At the end of life, returning to the earth is happiness. "

Listening to Springs is a prose poem, and it is also the most beautiful and pure one of Kaii Higashiyama's essays I have ever seen. In the article Listening to Springs, birds fly over Yuan Ye and the jungle, then rest by a clear spring in the forest, take photos by the water, listen to the tinkling sound of the spring, and then bow back to themselves to take care of human life. He said: "Everyone has a clear spring in his heart. But the sound of this spring is often reported in daily troubles. If you wake up in the middle of the night and hear a quiet voice from the bottom of your heart, it is undoubtedly the whisper of Qingquan. " Dongshan often receives some teachings from this clear spring of the soul: "Modesty, simplicity, giving up arrogance and paranoia", "Only by giving up on yourself can we discover the truth" ...

If you give up yourself, you can find the truth and reach beauty. Is the "realm without me" embodied by Tao Yuanming's "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely" similar to this? However, "it is extremely difficult, even impossible, to reach the realm of no self", so I will go on the road from goodness to beauty all my life, and there will be no end. And this in itself is a kind of beauty, a strong and fierce beauty!

In Kaii Higashiyama's Beautiful Essays, I met an ancient and familiar oriental beauty-a classical oriental beauty who combines Zen and poetry. In China's classical poems, we can see Yasunari Kawabata and Kaii Higashiyama. Reading Kaii Higashiyama, I appreciate the scenery in the eyes of a landscape painter, and it is a brand-new process of discovering and feeling beauty. Then keep up with Dongshan and start "beautiful feelings", just like stepping on a foreign land, feeling the beauty of exotic scenery, feeling the pure and true heart of Dongshan Kaiyi and starting a beautiful course.

The determination of the meaning of Liu Wenxue's works by People's Education Publishing House largely depends on the reader's judgment and choice. If we start from different reading angles, we can appreciate the different meanings of the text. The essay "Visiting Friends in the Mountains" is short in length and concise in description. It records the author's one-day forest trip in Shan Ye, because with his perceptual eyes, the scenery he saw has many novel colors. What is the author's vision? What kind of weird color does the work have? We try to figure out and analyze from different angles, and there will be different appreciation situations. 1. Loneliness and joy loneliness is the living form of every biological species and every life, and loneliness is the basic feeling of every intelligent life. The motivation of human heart and nature may be the desire to get rid of loneliness. The so-called "visiting friends in the mountains" is first of all the author's lonely journey. He said, "Take a secluded path and visit my friends alone." Stepping on a secluded path and entering a secluded valley, tourists become "secluded people". Su Dongpo's words "When you meet someone alone, you are lonely and have a beautiful shadow" express people's general mentality when they are lonely and unaccompanied. This is the loneliness of parting. The following description is surprising: the so-called "friends" are actually ancient bridges, trees, mountain springs, streams, white clouds ... some irrational and perceptual scenery. Being among such "friends" may add a sense of isolation and a sense of desolation in the depths of the soul. This is the loneliness when visiting. At least objectively, there is a lonely atmosphere and situation. However, this is another happy journey. The reaction of people's feelings to the objective environment often depends on people's psychological orientation and changes. The author's joy is manifested in his love for the surrounding scenery; This kind of love is realized through the magical and free association and imagination of these scenes. The strangest imagination is the passage when the author walked into the Woods: "I leaned against a tree and looked at the surrounding trees quietly with the eyes of the tree." I found every tree looking at me. " I closed my eyes and I really became a tree. My feet grew roots, and I went deep into the soil and rocks, breathing the vitality in the depths of the strata. My hair grows into a crown, my hands become branches, my thoughts become tree juice, which rotates and flows in the annual rings, and finally grows tree seeds, which are carried to distant mountains and waters by birds. "When people look at the scenery, they often imagine me as a bystander. What they see from me, this thing or this thing, I am still that me, just like Xin Qiji said," What can make the public happy? "I see how charming Castle Peak is, and I expect Castle Peak to look at me in the same way. Emotion and appearance are slightly similar "("He Xinlang "), and the boundary between subject and object is still very clear; The strangeness of imagination here is that I am an imaginary participant, not only a thing changes phase, but also I become this thing or that thing, and this thing or this thing also becomes me, just as "I don't know if Zhou's dream is harmony?" Hu Die's dream is Zhou Yu? There will be points in the weekly meeting. This is called materialization (Zhuangzi's theory of everything). Materialization is driven by happiness and joy, or materialization itself is a process of happiness and joy. Loneliness is an objective state, and happiness is an inner feeling. Second, regression and assimilation are the earliest homes of human beings. As human beings drift away on the road to civilization, the more they feel the kindness and loveliness of their hometown, the more likely they are to regard natural things as their relatives, friends, neighbors and partners. This is another meaning of "visiting friends in the mountains" that is different from the above-mentioned "loneliness and joy". The behavior of "visiting" is both virtual and real. There is no homogeneity between people and natural things, and there is no physical dialogue and communication between people and things, so "visiting" is virtual; However, people can talk with nature in the virtual dialogue situation, form a psychological field, and create a kind of free activity of their own spirit stirring, soaring, traveling far away, and "drifting away from the world and becoming immortal" (Su Shi's Red Wall Poetry). This kind of psychological activity is real, so "visiting" is real. In this sense, "visiting friends in the mountains" is a journey of spiritual return. We can realize the significance of this spiritual return from the conversation between the first and the second person who called you and me, and from the scene where all the scenery became friends and relatives: the old bridge-the old friend tree-the bosom friend mountain spring-the sister stream-the sister white clouds-the xiaogu waterfall. Philosophers have summarized the relationship between man and nature in the highest sense: "humanization of nature" and "naturalization of man". This kind of philosophical words is not difficult to understand. When people arrive here, they are all marked. Man's development should conform to his natural nature. From the perspective of changing natural scenery into relatives and friends, we have seen the humanization of nature; From the author's complete relaxation of body and mind and his closeness and appreciation of natural scenery, we can see the naturalization of human beings. Naturalization of human beings means assimilation with nature, that is, entering the assimilation situation through regression. Today, with the rapid development of material civilization, it is precious to have a hike back to nature, and it is even more precious to keep a clear and pure "nature" in your heart. In the natural wilderness, walls and fences were built and various signs marked "civilization" and "culture" were erected, and hundreds of people were trampled and polluted by tour guides. This place is no longer a natural place; It is not a natural place to plant a red and green flower tree next to the asphalt road or in the middle of the concrete ground; Enter the natural scene with all kinds of desires, and take a photo to show that you are here, not in return; Even from the perspective of painters and poets, thinking about "works" is not a real return, but just looking around like a bystander and going home to "create". The most important thing is to correct or purify the mentality and intention. People might as well give it a try. " I didn't ride a bike, didn't invite my playmates, didn't bring any gifts, just hummed a few songs with a good mood, took a secluded path and visited my friends alone. "In the face of mountains, rivers, birds and beasts, call for a friend and family, put down the load of the world of mortals, and enter the realm of spiritual nirvana easily and naturally, without knowing what I am and what I am. This is me. There is such a regression and assimilation in life, which is enough to be remembered forever.