Contentment is a judgment of retreating from difficulties. Just like some people think it's better than expected now, but it's too difficult to keep fighting. Forget it. Some people feel that there is still a distance compared with others. If they can still struggle, they will never be satisfied.
People really have to be content. When you have tens of millions, you can be satisfied. But you only have a few hundred dollars. Why should you be satisfied? People are greedy, but it is this dissatisfaction that promotes social progress and inspires people to constantly strive for more privileges. Only when you reach a certain height can you be satisfied.
There is only one room in the huge building and only one ladle in the fertile land. You will find that real happiness can never be given by the material world.
A leisure poor man said: Money is happiness. An anxious rich man said: Idleness is happiness. A laid-off worker said: Being able to go to work is happiness. A man who lost his parents said: Parents are happy. A blind girl said: Seeing is happiness. A garbage collector said: Most garbage collected is happiness. A pupil said: There is a lot of homework every day, and no homework is happiness. ...
Those who can't climb mountains and those who reach the top can never communicate with the scenery on the top of the mountain. People who can't wait for the top of the mountain think it's good to see the scenery under the mountain, so she often entertains herself under the mountain! People who climb to the top of the mountain will want to conquer higher peaks.
Everyone has his own ambition. If the contented are happy, they will be satisfied with the status quo. If they think it's fun to fight, they will fight.
Without enough knowledge and insight, there will be a correct attitude towards things and fame and fortune. Why do modern people have more and more money and richer materials, but we are more and more unhappy? The reason is that people's desires can never be satisfied. Therefore, a contented heart is true joy, true peace and true happiness.
We should look at the problem of contentment from two aspects. Contentment can make people treat everything with peace of mind. Stay away from troubles. But from another point of view, contentment is also content with the status quo, an inactive state of life.
Knowing and cherishing what you have now will bring happiness. There is no contradiction between pursuing a higher career and a better life. A contented person can also strive for higher goals and a better life. So, what is not enough? A discontented person thinks that what he has is what he deserves, and what he pursues is what he deserves. Once you lose what you have, or you can't get what you want, you will blame others and complain that God is unfair to you. Such people are doomed to be unhappy.
Patience is not weakness, but a kind of precipitation, a kind of accumulation, a kind of preparation, a kind of attitude towards life, and it is better to accumulate patiently.
Confucius said: "A little tolerance leads to great mischief"; Taoism says that patience is a magic weapon to stay away from disaster.
Gou Jian, the King of Yue, accumulated confidence through patience and finally achieved great things. Han Xin, a first-generation famous soldier, could endure the humiliation of his legs in his early years, but he got carried away when he became a general and was finally tricked into being put to death in the palace.
He who achieves great things must be ambitious. Patience is a challenge to fate, a measure, tolerance and great wisdom.
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He who is content is not humiliated. What they say is that if you get a certain degree, you should be satisfied, so that you won't be in bring disgrace to oneself, that is, enough is enough, so that you can maintain long-term peace. For a contented person, not much, but he will say a lot; There are many greedy people, but he will say very little.
I think this is also a realm of human beings, which teaches us not to be too greedy and to leave room for everything.
Being a ninja is an understanding patient, and his mood will be very calm. He can stand loneliness far from home, work alone, and endure boredom and hardship.
Take the essence, discard the dross, and don't misinterpret the exercise.
In my humble opinion, don't spray if you don't like it, thank you.
Contentment is a kind of life wisdom, a person who has experienced the baptism of wind and rain, and a rational self-cognition. One of the principles advocated by Taoism is contentment. If you are satisfied, naturally many things can be tolerated. However, there should be more than one way to live. Accurately speaking, contentment is a mode of life.
I appreciate this kind of life.
In particular, decades of ups and downs can also be said to have experienced vicissitudes. When we were young, the period of being competitive was over. The original world is far from the original imagination, and the rush of time is far from the long feeling of youth. Seriously, the real style of live high is a realm of life that others can't take away or even imitate. How big and beautiful is the life pattern in Dont Ask For Help.
I once wrote a sentiment about life, called "Art is alive". I design my life as a work of art, and every day is a drop of colored ink. Where should I decorate her, where is the most harmonious and beautiful color and light?
In fact, the so-called big can also be understood as beauty. In Chinese, beauty, greatness and semantics have many logical overlaps. I pursue beauty more than greatness.
When beauty is at its best, it is the overall situation.
Self-satisfied, nothing but nothing, I spent the rest of my life. While making a living, I drive for a few days from time to time besides writing and singing. Such a beautiful life, such a life pattern, is not small. Hee hee hee hee hee hee.
A contented man does not humiliate himself, but he can endure and save himself. This is a warning to people to settle down all their lives. A contented person is not greedy or extravagant. As long as they work hard, they will live their own lives without comparison and enjoy themselves. You can be a ninja if you endure a knife in the head. You've heard the old man lecture the fighting children like this. "He gave you a punch, you don't strike back, don't play. As soon as you hit back, both of them were injured. " After listening to the old man's words and thinking for a long time, can you get a punch from him for nothing? Is this the Confucian way of education? The old man also said: "If someone hits you on the left face, if you put your right face together again, he will definitely not hit him again. If you fight back, you will fight to the death, and no one will die in the end. "
I thought at that time, what if I put my right face together and he called again? But you can't just put up with it! Endure can only pretend to be the weak, and the brave fight the weak. In this regard, the word "want to endure" is of great significance, which can ensure the safety of one party, but the price is not low. If everyone endures, if foreign enemies invade, will there still be a home country? Therefore, for patience, if you can endure it, you can't bear it.
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As we all know, there is no end to desire. Only contentment can make you happy, and simplicity can make you happy. But most people use it as a slogan. Few people are really satisfied. When I say content, I really feel that I don't lack anything, I don't lack anything. There is only gratitude and happiness in my heart. In my opinion, the above "forbearance" does not mean forbearance, let alone making people swallow their voices, because they have been suppressing their negative emotions. First, it is not conducive to your physical and mental health, and second, the long-term outbreak of depression will make you fall into a worse situation. The above meaning tells us that we can keep inner peace in the face of wind and rain. The heart is peaceful, without any anger. As the saying goes, a leopard cannot change his spots. To achieve the state I mentioned above, we must rely on practice. Wang Yangming, a great thinker in the Ming Dynasty, said: Everything should be based on cultivating the mind. It means that before doing anything, only through self-cultivation can we cultivate our temperament and mood. Only by maintaining a good attitude can we do things well. There are many ways to practice, including 84,000 Buddhists. Every way can calm people's hearts, realize the truth of life in the universe inside and outside the body and mind, transcend binary opposition and integrate into an integrated world. Then it dawned on me that I could live without desire, live to death and be free. In this way, you will not do anything from your own selfishness, selfish desires and self-interest. The meaning of your life can really come into play.
I hope my answer will satisfy you, because I prefer traditional Chinese studies and Buddhism, so I hope like-minded friends can pay more attention.
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In today's fast-paced lifestyle, when it comes to the big picture of life, the elderly will have a deep understanding, and most of them will be dismissive of young people. After all, life is very specific, and everyone is a mortal in life. It seems that the mode of talking about life is somewhat illusory.
Not really. To put it another way, we need to follow some life rules and beliefs, such as "those who are satisfied are not humiliated, but can be complacent", which may sound more acceptable. It may be more useful to change "those who are satisfied are not humiliated and can be complacent" to "those who are satisfied are always happy and can be complacent"
In fact, they all say the same thing, and there is no change in essence. It is said that if a person can easily understand or be satisfied, he will not be humiliated, or he will be happier and safer if he can endure or endure.
So why do we seldom talk about these things in our life now, or do we seldom get told about them?
Probably because of the discontinuity of traditional culture and the current trend of high-quality and fast-paced life, everyone is pursuing individuality and fashion. The so-called unified life rules and beliefs have lost their original binding role, especially in the new era of the rule of law society, as long as they are legal, they can be self-sufficient.
However, in today's rapid development of living materials, we seem to feel that something is missing mentally, or something is missing. At the same time, we are also pursuing something or where we come from.
In view of this, we only say that we want to revive Chinese culture now, which is also due to our need for material civilization and spiritual civilization progress.
So what does the overall progress of civilization depend on? That is to say, it needs the progress of individual spiritual civilization, and it can also be said that it needs to establish the spiritual model of individual life, go deep into concrete life and implement it in words and deeds.
Therefore, we should establish life rules and beliefs in life, and abide by them, fear them and practice them. We can be tolerant and gentle when facing the unpleasant turbulent struggle in life. Although many things may not change in many cases, we can be content and be patient, so as to help us enjoy life and be safe. At the very least, we can feel at ease. Only in this way can we gradually improve our life pattern and look higher.
Of course, in life, in addition to "those who are satisfied are not humiliated, those who can endure are at ease", there are many life rules and beliefs that we need to abide by and fear. The more we persist, the higher the pattern of life, and the more energy we radiate around us. A high level of spiritual civilization and cultural revival will be closer and closer to us.
Friends, let's work together and encourage each other!
Life is alive, between heaven and earth, there is heaven above and earth below. Legal people often say that law is the bottom line of morality, and I also use lines to explain the relationship between this sentence and my life pattern.
We have heard many truths since childhood, and every sentence is very reasonable, but sometimes it is contradictory. For example, rabbits don't eat grass near their nests, and they get the moon near the water first. Everything is inferior, and only reading is high and useless is a scholar. In order to solve this conflict, I divide them into two categories, that is, two lines, one is "attack" and the other is "defense". In the title, the phrase "those who are satisfied are not humiliated, and those who can endure are safe" is the reason why I classified it as "defense". This sentence is well founded. But I don't think oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he wants to go, and never point his golden cup at the moon empty! I classified it as an "attack" line, which is wrong.
The reason is good, but it depends on the time and place. If we adhere to the life creed that the contented are not humiliated and the ninja can be complacent, we will definitely be biased. When you have a better chance to fight for your career, will you lose a good opportunity because of this sentence? And when your rights and interests are infringed, will you give up protecting your legitimate rights and interests because this sentence can become a ninja? Under such circumstances, is it more applicable to shoot when it is time to shoot?
But when our own ability is insufficient, but we want higher income or return, and we bite the bullet and do our duty, bring disgrace to oneself is not far away. At this time, people have self-knowledge, and those who are satisfied are not humiliated. It is really the best truth.
Therefore, the same reason is good, but it depends on the time and place. Our knowledge, vision and truth are all lines that make up our cognitive world. If we use a single line to explore the world, the consequences will inevitably be single, either the world is good and warm or bad and cold. So this truth came into being, let us know that there are good and evil in the world. There are many reasons to support the pattern of life, and it is always good to have both offensive and defensive.
Finally, write a sentence that I like very much. Good idea, both offensive and defensive, taking offense as defense and defending as attack.
"I don't believe in promises, so I don't keep them. I live up to them. "
First of all, personally, there is no definite standard or answer to the big pattern of life, because people's personalities, pursuits and values are different. Secondly, it only represents individuals.
Life is a big game. In fact, we run our own games every day. I like a sentence from teacher Chen Guo, who said: We can be ourselves, more natural and more real. Anyway, some people will like you and some will not. But at least you'll like yourself better.
Therefore, we don't have to envy others' success or wealth. They will have a big race, but they may not run better than us. What we have to do is to run our own bureau well. If we have the ability, you can expand your bureau. No matter how big or small things are, if they are well managed, they will be winners in life.
What is contentment? One can go straight to the heart and be honest with others and things. Know your weight, know what you really want and what you can get. Such people are easy to satisfy and happy all their lives. What is a ninja? The sage said: endure a moment of anger, not for a hundred days of suffering. Still the same sentence: take a step back and broaden the horizon. There are generally two kinds of people who can bear it: those who are open-minded by nature and don't remember what they lost. Such people can be healthy, peaceful and happy all their lives. There is also a weak person who has no ability to settle down and have no capital to compete with others. If you want to live, you have to endure. Such people are generally mediocre all their lives. ……………………………………
Can people really be satisfied? Five thousand years of culture, four great inventions at home and abroad, the launch of satellites, the landing of spacecraft on the moon, means of transportation, and the ever-changing high-tech inventions are all products of contentment. A contented person can be happy forever, and a contented person can also be decadent.
Laozi once said: Who is the opposite of name and body? Which is more important, health or goods? What kind of disease is acquisition or death? Love deeply, cost much, hide much, and die thick. Therefore, knowing enough is not humiliating, and knowing for a long time is not humiliating.
On the whole, they said the same thing. Wealth, fame and power in the world are just floating clouds in the past. Not alive, not dead. If you blindly pursue these things, you will soon lose them and may have to pay too much. Only by knowing enough is enough can we achieve long-term happiness.
I think we are ordinary people, not as open-minded as those saints, and we can put everything down, so we can't be saints. We can't completely give up our desire for wealth and fame. However, we must be clear that there are many things in the world that are more important than these, such as family and friends, people who love you and people you love. These are all things that we can't let go of all our lives. The rest, appropriate enough, excessive pursuit will definitely lose sincerity.
Life is so short, why do you have to intrigue for these? You can be happy if you are plain.