Desire is like dust, diligent sweeping is practice

September 25, 2019? Wednesday? Sunny

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Desire is like dust, diligent sweeping is practice

People must live to the extreme. It is plain and simple.

Life has always been simpler and more noble; the simpler it is, the happier it is.

In this materialistic society, the best practice is to renounce.

Wang Yangming said: "To reduce one point of human desires is to regain one point of heavenly principles. How light and free, how simple!"

What Wang Yangming said about reducing "human desires" is, It does not require us to be an otherworldly person with no desires or desires.

But understand your true needs and not be blinded by false desires.

Human beings have seven emotions and six desires. This is the law of nature. But there must be no greed.

Zhu Xi once said: "Eating is a natural principle; delicacies from mountains and seas are a human desire; husband and wife are a natural principle; three wives and four concubines are a human desire."

Desire itself is not a bad thing , people need to eat when they are hungry, and put on clothes when they are cold. These are all natural.

However, many people not only want to eat enough, but also want to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas to satisfy their appetite;

Not satisfied with the current life, they also want to endlessly pursue fame and fortune. , this is greed.

The reason why we live a tired life is because we mistake desires for needs.

This makes me exhausted and sinking deeper and deeper.

Home-cooked food, coarse clothes, and a married woman.

It seems that it is within reach, but it is a blessing that cannot be bought for money.

People always prioritize "insufficiency" over "excess".

There is an allusion in "The Book of Hundred Parables" that "a fool eats salt".

Once upon a time there was a stupid man who was a guest at someone else’s house.

The master left him to eat, but he thought the food was too bland and tasteless.

After hearing this, the master added some salt to his dishes.

The rice with salt is indeed much more delicious.

The fool secretly thought: "The reason why the food is delicious is because of the salt.

That's it with a little salt, but if there is more salt, wouldn't it be delicious in the world? ”

So the man ate salt in vain.

Unexpectedly, after eating it, my mouth was full of salt and my tongue had lost its sense of taste.

No matter how delicious something is, its wonderful taste can only be tasted in the right amount.

Once it exceeds the limit that one can bear, it can only be described as "too much is not enough".

How to achieve separation?

Wang Yangming proposed a method.

He said: "Selfish desires arise every day, like dust on the ground. If they are not swept away every day, there will be another layer."

Human desires are like dust. Desires will rise in the heart as long as they last.

If you don’t clean it for a day, your heart will be covered with a layer of dust.

It must be cleaned immediately, otherwise it will accumulate in piles, which will not only be difficult to clean, but also even more difficult to clean up.

As the Buddhist saying goes: wipe it diligently at all times to avoid causing dust.

Wang Yangming believes that the human heart is like a mirror.

If you want your mind to be like a clear mirror, you must work hard to polish it so that it can be clear and not confused.

The so-called self-cultivation is all in the effort.

Greed is reduced with each passing minute, and Taoism is increased with each passing minute.

When desires are few and far between, people enter a state of letting nature take its course.

This is the state of great freedom that Taoism calls "doing nothing without doing anything", Confucianism calls "following one's heart", and Buddhism calls "perfect enlightenment".

The soul will be completely liberated, given a little sunshine, it will be brilliant, and happiness will come without asking for it.

A good life is always about subtraction.

When you have a certain obsession, you might as well ask yourself:

Are these really important to me?

Unnecessary things should be discarded as soon as possible.

Only by cutting off the fat in life can you move forward easily.