Only by cultivating yourself and adhering to the right path can a gentleman truly be liberated.
" Zeng Shiqiang Daily Motto"
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Life is like a journey away from home and into an unknown world alone.
If a person cannot understand the mood of "travel", he cannot know how to spend his life peacefully.
Some people, for some reason, can’t stand what they see and what others do.
Not to mention villains, they look down on villains and even despise villains.
Do you know that the good and bad fortunes in life are inherently unpredictable?
Behaviors that many people do not take seriously can actually lead to disasters.
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can’t be tolerated anywhere. Why must it be evil?
" The Book of Changes " says:
If a person travels, he doesn't like everything he looks at, he doesn't like everything he looks at, and he dislikes everything.
In fact, if he looks down on the local people, he will offend the local people.
Then, if you don’t get the support of local people, there must be something evil.
Why do things always go wrong when traveling? Why are there always foreign tourists who are either cheated or beaten?
One of the reasons may be:
As a stranger, if you show off your power when you arrive on someone else's territory,
If the locals don't bully you, who will they bully? If they don’t teach you a lesson, who will they teach you?
"The Book of Changes" says: "The loss of a cow in the Book of Changes is bad luck."
Among all the animals that appear in the "Book of Changes", the cow was originally the most obedient, but
ended up losing its obedience.
In other words, if a tourist loses the mentality of cooperating with the locals and adapting to the local environment,
as a result, no one will care about him, and he must be unlucky.
Therefore, many people who understand the mood of "travel" are very low-key when going out.
However, for personal safety considerations, they will definitely choose the best hotel accommodation.
Actually, traveling abroad is a very happy thing.
However, after some people travel abroad and return to China, they feel that everything they look at becomes more and more unpleasant, and the more they look at it, the more they can’t stand it.
These people have forgotten that they charge for services.
Since you have paid the full fee, they will definitely help you choose the best season.
will take you to see the most beautiful scenery abroad and provide you with the best service.
What is the meaning of travel?
Travel lets us know that there is a better world.
Travel allows us to understand the different ecological environments and customs around the world.
Travel makes us understand that people should respect each other, not only respect others, but also respect themselves.
Do you still think that traveling abroad will give you freedom? Just do whatever you want? How is
possible?
People are unlikely to have unlimited freedom.
At this time, we need to calm down and understand why Laozi proposed "self-customer"?
What is "Zi Bin"?
"Self-customer" is much better than freedom.
"Zi Bin" means to treat yourself as a guest.
Since we are guests, we should make do with everything and not be picky.
Even if you don’t like it and don’t approve of many local things, you shouldn’t embarrass others;
you should treat it with an appreciative attitude.
Therefore, when you travel abroad and see the customs and customs that you cannot see at home, you should be grateful;
instead of being disgusted with everything after returning home and bragging about how good abroad is and how bad it is at home. Have people like
ever thought about the feelings of the listeners?
Since it’s better there, why not come back?
This is because I don’t know what “brigade” is.
The hexagram of the travel hexagram is very beautiful. Traveling, sightseeing, and traveling around the world are of course very enjoyable.
However, Lu Gua also reminds us:
If a person is in a foreign country and is arrogant, he will not tolerate it anywhere.
He will even show off his power on other people's territory and get carried away, which is highly dangerous.
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Why don’t you look down on villains?
To be honest, villains are not willing to be villains from birth, but adults look down on them and
block them out.
It can be seen from this that adults are trapping themselves.
"The Book of Changes" says: "Anyone who strands others will strand himself."
Only when we get out of trouble together can we truly get out of trouble.
trapped hexagram says: If a gentleman only cares about himself and ignores villains, or even looks down on villains, he will never be able to get out of trouble.
Because villains will always cause trouble for gentlemen.
To give an inappropriate example,
would a beggar go to another beggar to ask for money?
certainly doesn't.
They must be looking for people who look rich.
The more neatly a person is dressed, the more people will gather around him and not let him go.
This is inevitable. What to do?
Some people say that it is a way to just dress in rags and disguise yourself.
Some people say that you should just become a beggar, otherwise you will always be asked for money by beggars;
However, I believe that most people are not willing to do this, so this is another method.
So, we still have to face this fact.
Confucius Why does Confucius teach us "far from the villain"?
Does it mean that gentlemen should suppress villains and dislike villains?
Are you trying to find a way to put the villain to death?
certainly isn't.
Confucius just wanted to take the villain as a warning.
As a gentleman, you cannot look down on the villain, suppress the villain, and you cannot put the villain to death;
but you must withstand the test of the villain.
In this way, the gentleman will slowly feel:
It turns out that the tricks of the villain are nothing more than this. My heart is naturally very happy.
Why don’t you look down on villains?
The three yin lines of the trapped hexagram trap the three yang lines, which reminds us:
Villains from generation to generation are trying every possible means to besiege the gentleman. This is the task of the villain.
Therefore, a gentleman can truly be liberated only by cultivating himself and adhering to the right path.
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Why do I always feel that I am right and others are wrong?
A person who does not understand Lu Gua will always feel that he is right and others are wrong.
"The Book of Changes" says: "The eye can see, but it is not enough to have clarity.”
Don’t think that your eyes are very good. In fact, we often can’t see clearly or even see wrongly.
Because our eyes all grow outward, what we see are usually the shortcomings of others.
Therefore, we always feel that we are right and others are wrong;
Therefore, we always feel uncomfortable or even look down on others.
When we understand that everything we do is stepping on the tiger's tail,
will have a high sense of crisis, why?
Because we often cannot see the truth
Therefore, Lu Gua said:
If a person cannot see his own shortcomings, he will There is evil, and it must be evil.
In fact, we are often bitten by tigers without knowing it.
There are two types of tiger bites, one is yin and the other is yang. ml3 Yang is the kind of real tiger. If it bites us, we will die;
Therefore, we dare not mess with it.
However, there are more invisible tigers around us in society. ,
If we don't care at all, and once we step on the tiger's tail,
we will be hurt the most.
In the end, we will become sad people, and of course we will be unhappy. l3In fact, people’s whole life is to follow the way; people’s life is to follow the “way of heaven”.
What is the “way of heaven”?
“The way of heaven” is not to tell those who are frustrated about the things you are proud of. .
Otherwise, it means looking down on others and disrespecting others.
As a result, it will only make people more sad.
Therefore, the more experienced people are, the more they know how to keep a low profile and the less likely they are to express their inner feelings.
And those who are arrogant and have no other people in their eyes will be like children:
If you want to lose your temper, you will lose your temper and do whatever you want...
Such people will never grow up in their lifetime, they can only Whether you came to the world crying, or you go back crying;
life is equal to zero, but when it returns to zero, it cannot be found.
returns to the origin, doesn’t it mean returning to zero?
certainly isn't.
Returning to the origin means that we have been human beings for a lifetime and still adhere to our original intention.
We will not change our original intention and insist on fulfilling the "way of heaven".
Fulfilling the "Way of Heaven" is not about harming others to achieve your own success.
In short,
Bodhisattvas fear causes, while ordinary people fear consequences.
Each of us lives in our own cause and effect.
There are no blessings or misfortunes, but people bring them on themselves.
Why does the Tao Te Ching say, "He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise."
A person who can understand others is just wise.
Understanding yourself is really the most difficult thing.
If a person wants to understand himself, he must be virtuous.
Only when you have moral character can you know that you are wrong;
Only when you have moral character can you understand yourself calmly;
Only when you have moral character can you reflect on your own shortcomings carefully.
No, all the faults are other people's; nor will you always look down on and dislike what others do.
Mencius said: People who respect others will always respect them.
If you look down on others, others will also look down on you.
If you think highly of others, others will also think highly of you; and they will also take care of you.
Buddha said: Don’t be jealous of other people’s goodness, everyone has their own blind spots.
You must face your own mistakes bravely,
learn to understand, learn to tolerate, learn to respect,
Naturally, there will be fewer and fewer people and things that you look down on and dislike.
Planning of this article: Ruoqing
Content of this article: Compilation of Professor Zeng’s writings
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