1508 Spring, Mr. Yangming arrived in Longchang, Guizhou. Here, it is the end of his arduous journey in the past year and will also be the starting point of his magnificent life.
During the Zheng De period of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty ignored political affairs, and power fell into the hands of eunuchs around him. At that time, there were eight eunuchs, known as the "Eight Tigers". One of the most insidious is Liu Jin, who controls the state affairs and suppresses courtiers. Although Mr. Yang Ming was only a minister of the Ministry of War, he spoke bravely and bluntly, which offended eunuch Liu Jin. As a result, he was suppressed, beaten 40 times and put in prison. Then he was demoted to Longchang, Guizhou, where he served as a servant. Poems such as "The thatched cottage is not as good as the shoulder, and the body is tired and comfortable", "The exile life is always in the past, and the followers are disappointed" and "The long-time guest gradually pities the clothes and has a knot, and the savage sighs that there is no salt" truly show the hardships of Mr. Yang Ming's life in Longchang at that time.
Without the aura of political star, the warmth of fatherly love and filial piety, the luxurious life, the romance of singing and answering poems, even life is in jeopardy. Mr. Yangming's fate has fallen to the bottom, and heaven seems to have closed all the doors to him.
Difficulties, resentment and despair can't stop Mr. Yang Ming's progress. He asked, "What can a saint do when he is here?" ! "
This problem has been bothering him for 25 years since he was 12 years old! According to the chronicle, in the 19th year of Chenghua (A.D. 1483), Mr. Yangming asked the private school teacher, "What was the first thing?" The teacher replied, "Reading is the best." Mr. Yang Ming added, "I'm afraid not. Read and be a saint. "
Since then, he began a long journey to find a saint.
In the era when Mr. Yangming lived, learners often abused exegesis and words, but they didn't know how to understand them physically and mentally. At the age of eighteen, Mr. Yang Ming visited Zhai Yi, a great scholar's building, and heard that "all saints can learn". However, after staying for seven days, he was very ill and found nothing, so he turned to the study of Ci and Zhang. Repeated attempts and repeated failures ... did not stifle his ambition to be a saint when he was young. On the contrary, he is getting closer and closer to the ultimate truth in repeated setbacks and epiphanies.
How many days and nights did Mr. Yangming spend in Longchang, one day, two days and three days ... Suddenly, on a moonlit night, like a flash of lightning, the dark clouds suddenly dispersed. After years of searching up and down, it turned into a tearful ecstasy that night: "The sage's way is to ask for more blessings, not more things!" It turns out that justice is not outside, but in our hearts!
Since Confucius and Mencius, the Tao that many scholars have been searching for but never understood has appeared in front of Mr. Yang Ming. The humble position has made great thoughts, but the difficult situation has opened the door to universal wisdom. Since then, Mr. Yangming has reached a new peak of Confucianism.
This is the famous "Dragon Field Enlightenment" in the history of China.
Three years later, Mr. Yang Ming left Longchang and went to the glory of life. Although he is a scholar, he uses his troops like a god and has repeatedly made meritorious military service. "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, civil servants used their troops to win, and there were no benevolent people" (Biography of Wang Shouren in the Ming Dynasty)? ; He ruled this place, and the people in Jiangxi regarded him as their parents. His thoughts profoundly influenced the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and spread throughout East Asia, becoming the ideological source of Meiji Restoration in Japan. Today, it still nourishes people's hearts.
▲ Longchang Enlightenment
How to learn enlightenment in Longchang?
In order to deeply understand the mystery of Mr. Yang Ming's enlightenment in Longchang, let's first explain the connotation of the four-part "Heart-Tao-Morality-Affairs".
Heart is the source of Tao, Tao is the root of virtue, and virtue is the root of things. Only with virtue can we carry things, and the thickness of virtue determines the quality of things. What are mind, Tao, morality and things?
The heart is the master of the body. The mind is embodied in the mind, which determines consciousness, language and behavior, and consciousness, language and behavior determine things. All things together are life. The biggest secret of life is that there are endless treasures in your heart. For example, Mr. Yangming said, "The way of a saint is self-sufficient." Mencius said, "Everyone can think Yao and Shun." The great truth of life is action and reaction. For example, Lao Tzu said, "the movement against the Tao."
Tao is man's mode and realm. Heart is the source of Tao, and Tao is the presentation of heart. The quality of mind determines the level of Tao. According to the level of spiritual quality, the inflow of Tao can be roughly divided into five levels, namely, the way of scholars, the way of capable people, the way of gentlemen, the way of sages and the way of saints. Tao can be proved by practice, such as drinking water, knowing yourself well.
Virtue is all the wonderful uses of the mind. Tao is the foundation of virtue, and virtue is the embodiment of Tao. Virtues include kindness, wisdom, generosity, patriotism, gratitude, dedication, quietness, equality, vitality, harmony, strictness, honesty, respect, repentance, dedication, courage, shame, gentleness, diligence and so on. Among them, "kindness, wisdom, mind and energy" are the four most representative virtues.
Things are the results and conditions of life, things and things. Virtue is the root of all things, which can carry things, and the thickness of virtue determines the quality of things. Things include fame, career, achievement, honor, word of mouth, reputation, perfection, freedom, opinion, happiness, wealth, family, friends, karma, occupation, residence, education, position, income, appearance, eloquence and so on.
The heart is the source of things in life. Improve spiritual quality, morality and things will be improved. The secret of Mr. Yangming's enlightenment in Longchang is to improve his spiritual quality, demonstrate the sage's way and reveal the truth of "the sage's way is self-sufficient" He initially possessed the virtues of being a saint, such as supreme goodness, boundless wisdom, boundless heart and boundless energy, and advocated the unity of knowing and doing a year later. Subsequently, Mr. Yangming further improved his spiritual quality, and the level of Tao and virtue was further displayed and skillfully used, and finally the theory of conscience was established. With the heart of a saint, Mr. Yangming demonstrated the way of a saint, possessed the virtue of a saint, created the words of a saint, and achieved the things of a saint.
Clear mind and pure mind are two great efforts to make inner efforts and create spiritual quality.
The so-called clear mind is to understand and prove the big secrets and truths of life in a lasting and in-depth way. The biggest secret of life is that there are endless treasures in your heart! For example, Mr. Yangming said, "The way of a saint is self-sufficient." Mencius said, "Everyone can think Yao and Shun." The great truth of life is action and reaction! For example, Lao Tzu said, "the movement against the Tao." Behavior is the source of good or bad, and the reaction of behavior goes hand in hand. Only by persistently and deeply clarifying the mind can we continuously and deeply remove the uncertainty in our hearts. Unknown refers to biased knowledge, wrong knowledge, wrong views, evil knowledge of Jaken, and even the ignorance and proof of the truth of life caused by evil knowledge and evil views.
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The so-called purification of the mind is to purify the mind at the beginning of mind cultivation. Observing one's own thoughts is the basis of purifying the mind, reflecting on bad thoughts is the key to purifying the mind, and guiding oneself to produce better thoughts is the basis of purifying the mind. Observe, reflect, guide, circulate, actively continue, and purify the soul. In this way, through the continuous and in-depth purification of the heart, we can continuously and deeply remove the greed in our hearts, and we can get rid of all evil and do all good. Greed refers to excessive and unhealthy desires for oneself, others and society. It should be pointed out that the yearning, dreams and pursuit of a better life are not greed.
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The more ignorance and greed are removed, the higher the quality of building the mind, the more spiritual treasures are developed, and the better the role of leading behavior.
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Pure heart and pure heart complement each other. Without a clear mind, there is no motivation to clean it; Without a pure mind, a clear mind cannot go deep. Therefore, the higher the purity, the deeper the purity; The deeper the purity, the higher the purity. A clear mind and a pure mind are two great efforts to establish spiritual quality.
Understand and prove the great secrets and truths of life, and life will have the right direction and strong motivation. In order to have a happy and comfortable life, even a fully conscious life, we must go deep into a clear mind and actively and continuously purify our hearts. By deepening the purity of mind, it will promote the continuous purity of mind; Through continuous purification, we can further deepen our understanding. Pure heart and pure heart complement each other, exert their strength on each other, and continue to deepen.
The important strategy of life is to establish spiritual quality, so as to develop spiritual treasure to dominate behavior. Because the achievement in your heart is the real achievement. If you make a point in your mind, you will make things 100%, 1000%. Climbing up vertically in your heart is the biggest shortcut to success in life. Mr. Yangming built this road for us all his life. We don't need to spend another twenty or thirty years looking for it. As long as we follow the four "mind-Tao-morality-things" to practice the two great techniques of clearing the heart and purifying the heart, life will be reincarnated.
Contemporary significance of "Longchang's enlightenment"
The era in which Mr. Yangming lived was the eve of the decline of the Ming Dynasty. Monarchs who ignore state affairs, eunuchs who play politics, powerful ministers with malicious intentions and complicated war situations all test Mr. Yang Ming. In a sense, the moment Mr. Yang Ming walked out of Guizhou Dragon Farm, he entered a "dragon farm" full of more difficulties and obstacles-if we say that when he was in Guizhou Dragon Farm, the test Mr. Yang Ming faced was to crack down on the thief in his heart; Then, after walking out of the dragon field, the test he faces is the evil in the hearts of the world. Cross-flow of the sea shows the true colors of heroes, and hardships show the heart of sages. In the face of numerous tests of death and suffering, Mr. Yang Ming, with the spirit of "although thousands of people are dying" and the loving heart of "crying and climbing, jumping off the cliff naked to save him", went forward without hesitation, tempered a bright heart in the wind and rain, and achieved his own "virtue, merit and standing".
Compared with Mr. Yangming, we were born in the great era of national rejuvenation and engaged in the great cause of promoting the construction of the same human destiny. Our life has an extremely broad space to stretch; Everyone has the opportunity to grasp the strategic initiative in life, make substantial contributions to the world, and realize a happy, comfortable and even fully conscious life-on the premise of practicing the teachings of sages and building spiritual quality. Because the real "Dragon Field" is not in the horizon, but in our hearts; Establish spiritual quality in the deep heart, bravely "sword" to yourself at the beginning of your heart, develop yourself, and let life shine warmly and firmly in the process of generation!
If you are a business operator and explore and practice the strategic planning of Enterprise 3.0, you will have the opportunity to build the enterprise into a platform for educating, supporting and achieving cadres, employees, customers and partners, and then lead the enterprise to open up new development space and become a model of commercial civilization in the new era;
If you are a parent, you can also build your family into a stage for children and family, pass on your family with your heart, and be a model of the most beautiful family in the new era.
With such a 3.0 heart, no matter where you are, no matter what kind of work you are engaged in and what kind of responsibility you undertake, you can achieve a 3.0 life and career!
The heart is the source of things in life. Improve spiritual quality, morality and things will be improved. In this way, we can also learn from Longchang's enlightenment!
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