Lu Xun has a saying that "faithfulness is a useless alias". Today, it seems that duty has become a useless alias, and it has become an alias for pus. It can be seen from this aspect that the fashion advocated by our society is indeed problematic. There is a saying called "Bitterness is bliss", which comes from Buddhism. Only by believing in the profound meaning of this sentence can we face the changing reality calmly, so as to stick to our duties and make persistent efforts in our duties.
Because I deviated from the requirements of my duties, I was at a loss for many years. I wanted to do something, but I didn't know where to start. I was exhausted and at a loss. After years of hard work, I found a profound and simple truth, that is, I forgot my duty. My understanding of duty is that returning to duty is not simple inaction, but a great wisdom. "There is no limit to the sea of suffering, and turning back is the shore." Return to duty, stick to duty, and have an accurate understanding of duty in order to be fearless. Once you deviate from your duty, your efforts will become passive water, trees without roots, unknown and impermanent fate, and simple things will be complicated and become your own.
There are many mysterious phenomena between heaven and earth in life. More often, we are wasting time and life. Because we are at a loss in the face of complex reality, from panic to panic, and finally inexplicably start and end. How to avoid a state of panic and a result of nothing? Have we ever thought about moving from complex panic to simple calm? Again, go back to your duties, keep your duties, and don't make assumptions. This seemingly simple return actually contains great wisdom, that is, we have a clear understanding of ourselves, society and the reality we face, especially some things that appear regularly. Only by recognizing these clearly can we consciously stick to our duties, work hard and settle down. Experienced people look at people not by what you say, but by what you do. You can know your future direction by observing what you say and what you do. Try to observe what we have seen around us in ten or twenty years, and you will know that this statement is correct.
From the perspective of the smallest cell family in society, as housewives, we should always think about what our duties are, what our duties as wives and what our duties as mothers are; As a husband, for the sake of this family's foothold in society, what is my duty, what responsibility I should bear, what I should do and what I should not do; Children educated by their parents in this way will think about what my duty as a student is at school. Everyone in a family works hard in their respective posts. Such a family is a model family in the general sense and sets an example for the surrounding family trees. There is no reason why such a family is not rich. By the same token, a person who abides by his duty and does his duty will not succeed.
From this point of view, we advocate loyalty to the monarch as a minister and filial piety as a son, that is, the professionalism of doing our job well, and oppose the sloppy style of doing nothing and not keeping our duties everywhere.
Stick to your duties.
The problem of duty is everywhere, but it is often ignored by us. In a sense, what a person should insist on most is the problem of duty. If he keeps his duty, he will keep the golden mean, and there will be no big mistakes in life, that is, we are "born as a teacher" in the general sense. I used to know a saying called "Zhuge Liang, a former strategist, and Liu Bowen, a later strategist". Due to the rendering of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang became the embodiment of wisdom, half god and half man, and became an example for people to learn from throughout the ages. His "A Teacher's Example" and "The Book of Ten Commandments" really make people cry. When I was reading Zi Tong Zhi Jian, I was always puzzled. In the long history of 5,000 years, there are many people whose achievements can be compared with Zhuge Liang, but why are they not as famous as Zhuge Liang or even have never heard of them? The reason is that our traditional culture advocates this problem. Only in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were many outstanding figures, such as Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, whether in the sixteen northern countries or in the sixteen southern countries. So what are the reasons why they were buried by the dust of history? The reason is that he didn't fulfill his duties as a minister.
Fu Jian, Yao Chang, you name it, heroes are everywhere, but we have only heard of a few of these great heroes, and there are many great heroes we haven't heard of. At first glance, we thought they were the elders of our village. In fact, they all have incomparable merits, some of which are definitely not under Zhuge Liang, and some may even be above Zhuge Liang. The pre-Qin period established by Fu Jian, after years of conquest, almost unified the whole north. An intriguing phenomenon is that the leaders of northern ethnic minorities who kill people without blinking an eye believe in Buddhism almost without exception. In order to welcome Kumarajiva, a monk in the western regions, Fu Jian can send hundreds of thousands of troops to wipe out several countries along the way. In the 5,000-year historical picture, there is hardly a second person who can compare with him in his attitude towards the defeated leaders of other ethnic minorities. But in the end, his failure was also due to the unwillingness of these surrendered minority leaders to fail. On his deathbed, Fu Jian forgot Wang Meng's warning that he couldn't plot the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and reconciled hundreds of thousands of troops composed of various ethnic groups known as millions. He and the Eastern Jin Dynasty staged a famous battle example "The Battle of Feishui" on the water. Politics is ruthless. He only believes in strength. The failed Fu Jian ended up being strangled by his former subordinate Yao Chang. Kumarajiva, whom he welcomed back, became a monk master in heptachord, and the translated Diamond Sutra is still read by us today, breaking the mystery and enlightening later generations. The Diamond Sutra mainly emphasizes breaking the ego, these heroes in history. Their failure led them to forget their duties, and in a sense, they failed because of their strong ego. Because of my strong ego, with my wings, I forgot my duties, coveted the artifacts of the world, then killed the king, and then sought to seize the position, which led to the rise of the world and then ruined my reputation.
Who is the hero of the world, Cao Liu, and has children like Sun Zhongmou? We turn over the history, go deep into the Tibetan scriptures, carefully study who organized the "Battle of Feishui" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, study under what circumstances Fu Jian failed, and study under what circumstances Xie Xuan won in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and you will know who is the real hero and how to judge the situation. In the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, if you spend more time walking into the depths of history from different sides and into the inner world of these heroes, you will find many interesting problems that you have never thought of before, so that you can make a relatively correct choice on the way forward, because these heroes have shown us how to do it with their endings.