Life is in the world, full of mundane things. Busy for life, running around for fame and fortune, coupled with the hustle and bustle of the world, quietness and tranquility have become a rare enjoyment.
Sometimes, I envy the farmers in the countryside. When they are not busy with farming, they like to hang out under the fence, move a footstool, sit under the fence, at the root of the south wall, in front of the firewood and hay stacks, carry their old cotton jackets and smoke one end of the dry tobacco bag one by one. Gossip is commonplace, or just squinting, Ren Xunuan's sun shines on his body, lazily. There is a calm and unrestrained in their lives.
In fact, these people are not rich, poor food, and old clothes, but they know how to follow nature and temperament. If you have no desires, you will be calm, and if you are calm, you will be free, and basking in the sun will become a satisfying thing. In the final analysis, these people, in the end, do not lose the truth in response to their mentality.
Hong Yingming said: "Man's heart is distorted when it is too much to follow. If a single thought does not arise, sit quietly, the clouds rise and pass away leisurely, the raindrops are cold and all are clear, the birds sing and there is a meeting, and the flowers fall and you are happy. Where there is no real state, there is no real opportunity for anything.” If the heart is moved, things want to be born; if things want to be born, the mind becomes more and more difficult to be calm; In fact, to be quiet, it is necessary to endure a loneliness. I thought that the real literati could endure loneliness. In loneliness and quietness, they burn themselves with the fire of life and illuminate themselves; in sincerity and enterprising, they create brilliance.
Qian Zhongshu is knowledgeable and intelligent. He immersed himself in the sea of books and literature all his life, climbed and combed, gathered sand into a tower, and finally made the masterpiece "Pipe and Cone". This book is liberal and accessible, all-encompassing, and the depths are like the sea. Chen Yuan commented on the Qing Dynasty's notebooks: "Qing people's notebooks are like milk powder. Modern people flush a large bowl of water, and it is a paper." Yu Yingshi took Chen Yuan's remarks and compared them to Qian Zhongshu's "Pipe Cone", sincerity is true. If you don't have a quiet heart, how can you work so hard?
In his later years, Sun Li lived a secluded life and lived a simple life in plain clothes. Sun Li that people see is only reading indoors and walking outdoors. But this is how Sun Li reads in silence, thinks in silence, and fights against the hustle and bustle of the world with a calm and peaceful heart. Take a look at the works of Sun Li in his later years, whether it is "Yun Zhai Novel" or "Old News in the Village", the length is not long, and they are extremely bland and sincere. Especially his set of "The Story of Gengtang Reading", the book is fetching pearls, the discussion is profound, and the chapters are extremely full and profound.
It is difficult to live a "quiet" life. Those who keep the peace in their hearts will be free of obstacles in their hearts and live peacefully in the world; those who have life are like water, clear and pure;