Eating fast and reciting the Buddha means practicing? You really misunderstood

Let me ask a question first: Have you ever been begging? I don’t have one, but there used to be a short-term monk. He walked from Wutaishan to Emeishan. He used to be an executive of Ali. He didn’t bring a penny with him, so he set off alone and begged all the way. Walking, begging with others, walked more than two thousand kilometers to reach the destination.

is the author of Ghost Foot Seven , the author of best-selling books such as "Be Yourself" and "Love Life". Some people may think that practice is to eat fast and reciting the Buddha, meditating in the temple, and chanting mantras. Guijiaoqi said: "Cultivation is to subdue one's heart." And he believes that life is a place of practice, and that life is practiced everywhere.

"Life is Practice everywhere" is the fifth book published by the author Guijiaoqi. In this book, the author tells us his own experience and many short stories in life. He introduced us to a series of methods for practicing in life, which can enable us to learn to subdue our hearts better, face life more calmly, and look at the world.

We don't have to be far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, we can obtain the true meaning of inner cultivation in our lives. By listening to other people's stories, we can gain thoughts and insights. When the heart begins to nourish power, life will reach another height. Start practicing in our lives to help us grow.

1. Life is practiced everywhere

This question is often asked, how to balance the relationship between work and life? But in fact, there is no absolute balance between work and life. People who want to pursue this kind of balance fall into the trap of perfectionism. What we can do is to adjust our focus, make different compromises and concessions at different stages, and do the most important thing now.

For example, before giving birth, women in the workplace focus more on work. But after having children, you may have to spare more time to take care of your children.

At the same time, we devote ourselves to our work to ensure our work efficiency. After get off work, it is time to relax, give yourself a good living condition, and stretch your body and mind.

1. How to practice at work

But someone has to say it again. The boss asks to work overtime every day without giving a raise. He returns home every day so tired that he just wants to lie down. Not to mention balancing work and life.

A college student who just walked out of campus, finally went to his favorite company for an internship. After just two months of work, the boss warned him that if you fail to meet the requirements, you will not even be able to pass the probation period.

He was wondering inside. Obviously, I have completed all the tasks assigned by my boss in the past two months. I have never been late, and I have never asked for a leave. One time I worked overtime on a weekend. I have worked so hard, why do I still do this to me?

But then he became a regular one week in advance, and the boss told him that he has potential and the boss is very optimistic about him.

Do you know how he does it?

He puts aside his games and martial arts novels, and is the first to come to the company every day. Every time the boss releases a task, he can always complete it ahead of time. Not only that, he consciously learns professional knowledge every night, and makes work plans and summaries once a week. He did everything he could do, which is "Work hard until nothing can be done" .

The above is a successful example of practice in work. Work is not just about selling our time, we should pay more attention to whether we can grow in our work. Such as the improvement of ability, the accumulation of experience, the realization of self-worth and so on.

Hard work is inevitable, so why not take this as an opportunity to hone yourself? By continuously accumulating knowledge and experience in our work, we will eventually get progressive changes across the hierarchy.

For grassroots employees, practicing practice at work means not complaining.Do your job well. For middle managers, what they have to do is to manage their team well and help their employees grow.

When becoming a company executive, the most important practice is to remain calm and calm. Because the more one goes up, the easier it is to get overwhelmed. It's like the more famous a person is, the easier it is to be arrogant.

When you are the boss of a business, what you need to practice is to earn conscience money, increase your sense of social responsibility, do more good deeds, and give back to society.

By learning the secret recipes of practice at work, I believe that our career will flourish, and we will be more comfortable at work.

2. How to practice while eating

A person needs to eat as long as he is alive.

Lin Qingxuan It is very painful to be broken in love, and it is not good to eat or sleep. The Zen master told him that people need to cultivate, eat when they are hungry, and go to sleep when they are sleepy. People always think about this and that when they are eating, and turning over and over when they sleep, because they think about this and that. For practitioners, eating is eating, sleeping is sleeping, nothing else!

This tells us that we should eat well when eating, focus on the food itself, chew slowly and enjoy the taste of the food. When you calm down and concentrate on eating, you will have no distracting thoughts. When you put your mind on eating, chew slowly, not only to lose weight, but also to help our sleep and improve our temper.

3. How to practice in reading

The god of stock Buffett I once estimated that 80% of my day is spent on reading. He also recommends that everyone read at least 500 pages a day.

How to practice in reading? The author said that reading itself is practice. Try to concentrate on reading,Experience the emotions and experiences of each character. Reading can not only increase our knowledge, but also make us smarter. If getting up early is the standard for self-discipline, then reading can also be the standard for spiritual practice. Start by reading a page every day, let reading become our habit!

2. Practice in adversity

Some people have everything going well in their lives. They have good backgrounds, good looks, and good grades. After I grew up, I successfully entered the ideal university, went out to work, and my career went smoothly. This is what parents see as the "children of other people", and they are also our common enemy when we were young.

1. Don't compare with "other people's children"

Tian Xiaofei A talented girl who was famous in Tianjin when she was a child. She published a collection of personal poems at the age of ten and was admitted to Peking University at the age of 13. When the reporter interviewed her mother’s secret to educating children, her mother only said one sentence: “I never compare her with other people’s children.”

When Tian Xiaofei was 4 years old, she saw her brother brought it back. I'm very excited to write a text. He picked up a pen and scribbled on it, and showed it to the mother who had just returned, proudly saying that this is my composition! My mother saw the book that was painted beyond recognition. Not only was she not angry, she also praised Tian Xiaofei.

Imagine if at that time my mother did not praise Xiaofei, but compared her with other children. Xiao Fei's interest in learning may have been invisibly wiped out by her mother.

Parents don’t need to compare their own children with other children, just look at their own children with admiration, and gradually discover their shining points. At the same time, as children, there is no need to envy those children with better backgrounds and better grades. Every ordinary child has an extraordinary place, magnify his own advantages, and live his own wonderful life.

There is a saying: "If you go against the current, you will retreat".When a person is in adversity, he is often able to fully realize his potential, and adversity is the best teacher. Therefore, if something unsatisfactory happens to us, it must be something to teach us.

2. Adversity is the best teacher

Many people don't like to be sick, so they don’t even talk about their crimes, and even take their family to the hospital. But often those who have been seriously ill can learn to let go, making it easier to see through some things. Sometimes illness is not always a bad thing.

Ma Yun failed the college entrance examination three times, but was rejected when applying for KFC. Alibaba almost went bankrupt. People tend to grow faster in adversity, and now Alibaba has become the country's largest e-commerce company. It is precisely because of various setbacks and adversities that created the current Jack Ma.

Adversity is the best teacher. As the author said, When we have the idea of ​​"Why these things happen to me", try to turn this idea into "Those things that happened to me are thoughts." What do you want to teach me".

3. Lao Tzu's Way of Practice

In real life, there are always people who want to teach us. After the exam rankings fell back, parents would invite the excellent brothers and sisters next door to give us homework guidance; there were mistakes in the work, the boss talked to us earnestly; when there was a relationship problem, my friends would also enlighten one by one. Do these good teachings really work?

1. Hope to speak natural

The famous thinker and philosopher Lao Tzu said: "Do what you don't do, do what you don't say." In other words, if you really want to teach others, the best way is Talk less and be natural. Why is it natural to say Greek words? This is because although language is what we humans need, it cannot describe the real world.

There is a born blind man,He wanted to know what the sun looked like. Someone told him that you are now standing under the sun, do you feel his heat? That is the sun. The blind person understands that the sun is hot.

One night, the blind man passed by a stove and felt so hot, so he asked the people around him, is this the sun? Others told him that this is not the sun, the sun is round. The blind understood again that it was the sun that was round and hot.

Others explained to him, no, the sun is invisible, it is in the sky. The sun is red in the morning, it turns white at noon, and it turns red again in the afternoon. Because the sun shines, you think the sun is hot.

The blind man asked, where is the sky and what is red? What is white? What is luminescence? No one could explain it clearly, the blind said, you all lie to me, there is no sun at all!

It can be seen that language is a tool for human communication, but there are also times when it is lacking. Sometimes, the language simply cannot describe the information we want to express. And no matter how much you talk to someone who is unfamiliar, there will be no waves in his heart. This is like playing the piano to a cow, and it doesn't even have the meaning of saying it, so naturally there is no need to say more.

2. Knowing oneself knows

Knowing others is a kind of "wisdom", and knowing oneself is "bright". True practice requires constant knowledge of oneself. Everyone who comes to this world has to live a little bit more clearly. At the same time, if a person wants to become strong, it is not to defeat others, but to defeat oneself.

is not only for individuals, but also for companies. The biggest rivals of Ali, , Baidu and Tencent are not others, but themselves. Apple has beaten itself. After the return of Jobs , Apple was reborn. This is the result of knowing oneself.

There is a donkey in the monastery on the mountain. It works hard every day in the mill for a long time.The donkey began to get tired of this ordinary life. It wonders every day, if it can go out to see the outside world, don’t have to grind, how great it would be!

Soon, the opportunity finally came. There was a monk who needed to take the donkey down the mountain to carry things, and the donkey was very excited. At the bottom of the mountain, the monk put the things on the back of the donkey, and then led it back to the temple. Unexpectedly, when pedestrians on the road saw the donkey, they knelt down on both sides of the road religiously, bowing to it.

At first, the donkey felt very puzzled. It didn't know why people bowed to itself. It only knew to dodge in a hurry. There were such scenes all the way back, and the donkey couldn't help but feel proud. It thought, it turns out that people admire me so much. When it sees someone passing by, it will stand proudly in the middle of the road, walk with the wind and keep its waist straight!

Back in the monastery, the donkey thought he was noble, and he was reluctant to grind. The monk was helpless and had to let it go down the mountain. As soon as the donkey came down the mountain, he saw a group of people walking towards him with gongs and drums.

That was a team to welcome the relatives, but was blocked by a donkey. The people were so angry that they picked up sticks and beat it... The donkey fled back to the monastery in a hurry. It was dying and told the monk angrily: Sinister, people bowed their heads to me the first time I went down the mountain, but today they actually slammed me!"

The monk sighed, "It's really a stupid donkey! That day, people bowed down, and you carried your back. The Buddha statue is not you!"

This story is very ironic, and it also tells us that we should understand our own heart and see ourselves as the most important thing. Knowing oneself is the process of defeating oneself.

3. All saints are children

We, ordinary people, must constantly know ourselves in the process of practicing. Do you know what a saint is like? The saint does not care about himself. He treats the people's hearts as his own, and treats the people like children. This is "all saints are children". Whether it is a kind person or an unkind person, the saint will treat them kindly.

Whether it is a trustworthy person,Regardless of those who do not keep their promises, saints will choose to believe them. This is all because of "all saints are children", which is the virtue from saints.

How can we, as ordinary people, learn from the saints and achieve better practice?

In the future, when you encounter a beggar on the side of the road, you can give alms if you can. This is a kind behavior.

If someone hurts you, treat him like a child and don't care about him.

If you encounter someone on the street arguing and yelling, please persuade them if you can. No matter who is right or wrong, treat them as children.

Whether you are a saint or ordinary person, you can practice everywhere in your life. Be a kind person and don't be insightful with others.

Unlock the practice secrets in life. Everything you experience in life is a rare treasure. We start from understanding ourselves and experience the way of practice in life. "Life is Practice everywhere" is a book that allows us to learn to subdue our hearts better. By having a simpler heart, we can look at the world we live in more quietly from a different angle, and have a higher vision and pattern.