From Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan in the Ming Dynasty.
"The lonely cloud comes out of the hole, and the long mirror hangs." The former is carefree and spontaneous, while the latter is clean and clear. Moral: always keep inner peace, listen to your inner voice, and don't get involved in irrelevant things and lose your leisurely life.
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Hong Yingming is a hermit. He has lived in the mountains for a long time. The book may be published in the middle and late Wanli period.
At this time, Zongshen could not govern the country, the eunuch was authoritarian, the government was lax, and the party was in trouble. The Jiajing dynasty began to show signs of internal and external troubles, and people of insight were extremely dull and unable to extricate themselves from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so some people would express the voice of the times in various forms.
Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations on self-cultivation, social life, social intercourse and fertility compiled by Hong Yingming, and it is a rare and precious pre-training. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation.
The classic quotations in Caigen Tan are as follows
1, be chivalrous when making friends, and be naive when being a person.
Being a simple person is also a simple person. It is a life experience, a life wisdom and a life philosophy. Making friends should be chivalrous, courageous and childlike.
2, fish get water, forget water, birds fly with the wind, I don't know if there is wind.
Fish can swim only when there is water, but don't they know they are in the water? Birds can fly freely in the wind, but they don't know they are in the wind.
3, moths to the fire, the fire killed moths, indicating that there is no disaster; When you plant flowers and they bear fruit, you must know that there are blessings for a reason.
The moth jumped on the fire and the torch burned the moth. Don't say that the disaster didn't happen at all, you should know that it was your own disaster. Fruits will grow and bloom in the ground, and then form fruits after the flowers wither. You know, blessings come for a reason.
4, don't complain that people are too young, don't send others for personal gain, and don't leak people's old evils: the three can cultivate themselves far and harm others far.
I won't blame others for small mistakes, I won't regret exposing others' privacy secrets, and I won't regret remembering others' past mistakes. These three practices can cultivate a person's moral quality and keep people away from harm.
5, the years are long, and busy people improve themselves; The heavens and the earth are wide, and the light ones pass; Wind, flowers, snow and the moon are all idle, and those who make trouble are redundant.
Years are long, but busy people feel short. The space between heaven and earth was originally wide, but humble people found it narrow. Romance is a leisurely and beautiful thing, but people who work hard and worry are asking for trouble.
6. The world is heading for Li Rong, and the world is suffering. I don't know if Yunshan is green, mountains and rivers stand upright, flowers greet birds, valleys laugh, the world is not dusty, and the sea is not bitter.
Because ordinary people are troubled by vanity and seeking wealth, they say that the world is a sea of suffering as soon as they open their mouths. However, they don't know how green my valley is on the other side of the world under the cover of white clouds, how strange rocks there are in the rushing river, how beautiful flowers welcome the custom exhibition, how lovely birds whisper, and how mountains sing when the woodcutter sings. They will suddenly realize that the world is not noisy and miserable, but people let their hearts fall into the noisy sea.
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