This section is excerpted from the original book "The Original Intention Tribe, Retrieve Your Lost Home! 》Part 4: Civilization 4.0--Return to Home (continued from the previous section)
Section 7: The principle of minimalism
In the first part of this book, "Tribal Home", " Minimalist " includes 5 meanings: requires minimalism, minimalist relationships, minimalist management, minimalist links, and minimalist stories . In the new original tribe, the principle of minimalism is very important. If the "minimality" is lost, the tribe will still be another "exquisite" machine that competes with the same kind. The tribe members still cannot stay away from the complexity, and are still easily trapped, continue to compare and interpret greed.
Here we continue to make four additions to "minimal":
1. The minimalist thought of
Why does infant-like sleep make us yearn for, why does children's happiness come so simple? There are four reasons:
First, they have "nothing is done in their hearts"; second, "there is not much to ask for, it is easy to satisfy", and they can be happy for a long time with a candy, and happiness comes very simply; third, "maintain a curious heart", and can explore and discover interesting toys around them at any time; fourth, they are "simple mutual relations", they are straightforward and never bothered by dealing with complex relationships.
In the eyes of children, everything is simple, and you can be relaxed without hiding joy and tears, and only pursue things that can feel happiness. The "minimal" state is the basis for people to discover happiness. The less your physical and mental burden you have, the happier you will run. These four states of children are actually very similar to those of chimpanzees or puppies and cats, and are also very similar to the simple states of primitive tribes ten thousand years ago. These four points are derived from their instincts and harmonious relationships formed with nature. My family has fed many kinds of small animals, including puppies, rabbits, budgies , etc. They have one common feature: happiness comes in simple ways, and you can be happy with a little food. However, we adults seem to be very difficult to come in. Sometimes even if the food is full of food, we are still depressed and worried. Because our adult brains are completely disturbed by many acquired factors and missionaries. Until one day we completely see through life and return to simplicity, we can only be reversed.
After some readers read it, they may say that we are already adults and it is difficult to be as happy as children! What I want to say is that adults are more wise and able to spontaneously clean the luggage they carry on their shoulders, and will actively amplify the "self-select coefficient". In fact, it is easier to achieve "nothing in your heart and easy to be satisfied", just because most people are unwilling to let go or empty their "bags". I have seen several masters (adults) who have truly let go of their hearts, including the captain of an old orchestra. I found that most of the happiness and joy of the elderly in the orchestra exceed the frequency of children. I can feel their unhidden sense of happiness and affinity at any time. Among them are young rich and have wage earners. Although their family background and temperament are different, they all have one common characteristic: they are willing to let go, live a simple life, and are easy to be happy.
Keynes once predicted that machines would replace many people's work in the early 21st century, and people will be liberated and leisurely from then on. But the reality is completely opposite. People are getting busier and less able to control their leisure time. Because the popularity of machines cannot keep up with the expansion of desire, even if the machine expands productivity ten times, human desires may have increased by a hundred times. Therefore, a larger "desire bag" is waiting for us to fill, and more things are waiting for us to solve.Although we have long lived the heavenly life that our ancestors dreamed of 500 years ago, are we less stress and anxiety than our ancestors? When people abandon "minimal simple thinking", even if the economy is developed, it will be in vain. The descendants in 500 years will definitely not live easier than you and me now. Our current goal is to buy a house and a car, and the descendants' goal in 500 years may be upgraded to buying space shuttle to buy a virtual planet. They will also think they are "no money".
To be relaxed, you have to start with minimalist thinking like a child or like a primitive tribe. Only after being minimalist can you easily understand the meaning of living! As the tribe of Chuxin tribe, we must learn to inspire the potential role of "big sister endorphins", and constantly discover and create beauty in our inner peace, and gain new insights and touches! And the others may not be as important as imagined.
2. The minimalist relationship
Research from medical schools and psychologists has long shown that interpersonal relationships are the most important factor affecting mood and lifespan. If a person wants to live to 100 years old healthily, the role of psychological balance accounts for 50%! The so-called interpersonal relationship refers to the direct psychological relationship formed by people through interactions and effects between people in various specific social fields, mainly including interpersonal relationships such as blood, geographical, and karma. For example, relatives, couples, fellow townsmen, neighbors, church members, friends, classmates, comrades-in-arms, teachers and students, colleagues, supervision, employment relationships, etc. It seems that various interpersonal relationships are complicated, but in fact, most of these relationships have existed thousands of years ago. Even if it extends to the most primitive tribal period, the blood relationship, geographical relationship, and karmic relationships between tribesmen also exist. But compared with the primitive tribes or the villagers in remote villages, why are modern people with richer living conditions more anxious, depressed, or even painful when facing various interpersonal relationships?
If we look for the reasons in our hearts, we will find that most modern people carry two burdens when facing and maintaining various interpersonal relationships. These two burdens are: their own positioning of different "level towers" and their excessive "baskets of interests" that are too heavy in their hearts. The former allows one to have a fixed position on oneself and dare not make rash at will, and the latter allows one to calculate what they may get or lose, compare, and hide in the basket at any time. As a result, this originally simple and lightweight "net of relationships" was hung with countless burdens and became very heavy or even overwhelmed.
The five kinds of minds mentioned in Buddhism, "greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt", will cause people to commit evil karma, and like poison, it will hinder people's practice, so it is called " Five Poison Hearts ". But what is strange is that the annoying five poison hearts are not very "popular" among nearly a hundred primitive tribes in the Amazon rainforest. I have been to several remote mountain villages, and it is difficult to feel the existence of the so-called "five poisons" among the villagers who are as simple as the soil. Why is it difficult to see the "five poisonous hearts" between people in those primitive tribes that have not even appeared in words, in those communities that are so poor that they even need several families to use a furnace? It seems that even if a person's five poisons heart exists naturally, it needs suitable new soil to nourish it. In the environment where the "five poisons" are flooded, no one will be the survivor. The toxic "new soil" implies the two major burdens mentioned above: the repressed hierarchical relationship and the excessive interest relationship. They make our originally simple and light "net of relationships" heavy, and we are more or less stuck in this heavy network of relationships and are difficult to escape.
Do you think about it, besides your relatives, among the people you know, who can make you feel strong and long-lasting and can maintain a deep relationship for almost life? Most people will tell me that they are their old classmates, comrades-in-arms, childhood playmates, and old friends with similar interests, but few people say they are colleagues or partners. Even if I worked with a colleague in the company much longer than I studied with my old classmates and served with my comrades. What is the reason? We still need to observe these two relationship burdens: repressed hierarchical relationships and excessive interest relationships.Because you have almost no hierarchical relationships in the time you have with your classmates, comrades-in-arms, and playmates, both parties have equal status, almost completely symmetrical information, and you have almost no interest relationships. Therefore, even if your classmates occasionally fight and scold you, they will still be old friends when they meet again decades later!
So, if you want to maintain more relaxed, simple, long, gentle and happy interpersonal relationships, it has little to do with the other person's age and whether the thoughts are simple, but to eliminate these two major burdens in interpersonal relationships as much as possible: repressed hierarchical relationships and excessive interest relationships.
The basic principle of the original tribal solution is:
(1) Return to the tribe's "old fishing net" with the principles of equality and symmetry, and remove artificial and solidified hierarchical relationships. It is better to reduce the profits of than to maintain the underlying relationship between equal and symmetry between people first, and not to put the cart before the horse; (2) Use symbiosis, co-operation, transparency, limited quantity, and profit limit rules, and encourage complete cooperation between to avoid profit distribution falling into the "winner-takes-all" Matthew effect trap. The existing rules of the game "only a few people will obtain huge benefits" to "let the majority get the optimal solution", thereby balancing the interests.
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