On returning to the countryside to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature

When something happens, concentrate on your work.

Usually when we talk about focusing on things, we really want to focus on our own hearts.

When a person wants to finish the task easily and efficiently at work, he must train his concentration and form the habit of focusing on it. Do one thing, you can only have it in your heart, and this is the only thing left in your own world.

If you want to have a high degree of concentration, you must start to exercise your mind. It's just that we are always free and loose, and our hearts are never concentrated. Suddenly we ask it to be highly concentrated, and it will not adapt.

In response to this "concentration", Wang Yangming once said: "When eating today, although one thing is ahead, his heart is always restless, just because he is used to it, so he can't take it away."

It shows that we can't calm down and concentrate on eating while eating, and we are still thinking about other things. We can't control our hearts in such a trivial matter as eating. How can I do other things?

A man once asked the Zen master, "How do you practice?" The Zen master replied, "Eating and sleeping is my practice."

This person is puzzled: "Everyone eats and sleeps. Why are you practicing and others are not practicing? "

The Zen master said: "When others eat, they haggle over every ounce, considering whether the food is delicious or not, whether it is salty or not, and whether it is light or not." It's the same when you sleep, dreaming, not sleeping well. Unlike me, eating is eating, sleeping is sleeping, and I don't care about anything. I can practice after eating and sleeping. "

Unreasonable outside the heart, doing nothing outside the heart is doing things with your heart.

When there is something to do, the heart can carry it out, that is, "heart and heart." In view of this situation of not focusing on one thing, Wang Yangming summed up a very refined sentence, that is, "if you are determined to break your heart, you will have no time to gossip and meddle."

He also said: "People have to sharpen things before they can stand, take their time and settle down."

When a person has undergone a lot of practice and tempering in something, then his heart will have a certain concentration. Under this kind of determination, people will be very calm when they encounter anything!

As the saying goes, "a scholar with literary talent and brains will succeed."

Psychology is a knowledge to explain one's career and contribution, and it is absolutely impossible to talk on paper. Mind can be said to be profound, so only those who deeply understand it can achieve great things.

When you have nothing to do, cultivate your mind and cultivate your nature.

According to Wang Yangming, people's "heart, nature, righteousness and conscience" are all the same.

He once shared the story of a Zen master with his disciples. This Zen master has a characteristic that whenever his disciples ask him questions, he will raise the dust in his hand to show his answer.

One day, a naughty disciple deliberately hid the dust from the Zen master to embarrass the teacher. When he asked the question again, the Zen master raised his hand directly as an answer.

Wang Yangming said to his disciples, "My conscience is like this dust. Although I give it to you every day, it doesn't matter whether it exists or not. "

From then on, disciples came to ask questions such as "mind, sex, righteousness and conscience", and Wang Yangming would jokingly say, "Where is my dust?"

Wang Yangming believes that imparting knowledge to students can't make them really learn, let alone accumulate experience. Therefore, he is particularly opposed to the "hearing and hearing" in those books.

He believes that lectures can help disciples "clear their conscience" and let them distinguish right from wrong in real life and make the right choice!

Cultivating one's mind and nature means strengthening one's self-cultivation.

Only by strengthening self-cultivation, can we better "lead our conscience" and discover our own conscience.

Wang Yangming: "Things are coming, but try my best to deal with them."

To cultivate one's mind is to learn to be a good person, truly realize one's mind and grow up.

Concentrate on things when you have something to do, and cultivate your mind when you have nothing to do.