What is a person's life for? Kazuo inamori has a wonderful answer to this question: be a better person than when you were born. The whole process of life is like sharpening a knife. The purpose and value of survival lies in unremitting efforts, down-to-earth actions, and serious pursuit of Tao, so as to enhance one's mind, cultivate one's spirit, and make one's soul at death a higher level than that at birth. The so-called life is the period to improve physical and mental cultivation and the place to cultivate the soul.
At first glance, some people may intuitively think that this is simply fake, big and empty, and it has no practical significance. But this is his unique view in the book "Living Law", which seems simple and vague, but actually goes straight to the essence of things. Yes Indeed, as long as people live for one day, they need money to live a minimum life. And cultivate the soul? Is it too illusory? However, from another angle, do we live only for property, status and reputation? Why are some people rich but not satisfied? Why are some people constantly pursuing power and status and unable to extricate themselves? Why can't some people satisfy food and clothing and family harmony? Why would anyone want to be the protagonist of a scandal or even commit a crime? What is the meaning and purpose of life?
The most classic line in the movie If You Are the One is "Life is a practice". The cultivation of life is to cultivate yourself, be able to adapt to different environmental conditions and learn to live. No matter what kind of environment and state you are in, you can face it calmly and will not affect your emotions because of changes in environment and state. Buddhism has a saying: If it rains, rest at home and read quietly; When the weather is fine, you can go out to bask in the sun, visit friends or do your own thing happily; It's cold, running to keep out the cold can exercise. The so-called "great wisdom is foolish" means great wisdom is foolish, broad-minded and naturally inclusive, so it is not surprising! So when you are poor, are you testing your will? Don't give up easily when you are depressed, but you need to adjust yourself when you are upset. Every environment is a test of self and a practice of life. So, how should a person's life be cultivated?
In this life, no matter how high you reach, loneliness is a necessary practice. When your strength is not strong enough, everyone is far away from you. As the saying goes, rich friends come to know you, but you can know friends without money. Loneliness is that when you are in trouble, no one will give you timely help; Loneliness is that when you achieve something, there will be many people to add icing on the cake. This is the most difficult time for most people. At this time, people are the most lonely. Successful people are doomed to be lonely all their lives, because a person who has never experienced loneliness cannot really mature; Loneliness comes from the heart and is innate. Loneliness is not lofty, but thinking; Loneliness is not to close yourself, nor to refuse.
Loneliness is waiting, accumulating strength and hair. When you learn to lick an injured person's wound, you know not only the value of getting up, but also the pace of walking when you fall from a place; You just know that it is fearless to spit out a broken tooth if you can't swallow it! You think the road to the sky is a fatal temptation, but the narrow path is guiding you to explore the light! You need to heal again and again, you need to fall and get up again and again, you need to be smart, sober and agile again and again, you need to face the darkness again and again, and you need to die again and again to meet every sunrise and sunset in life. You know that failure is the main theme of life! Loneliness leads you to be fearless step by step, or only when you are lonely can you be truly fearless.
Some people say that there are three realms in life: mountains are mountains and water is water; Seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing water is not water; See the mountain or see the mountain. See water or see water. Everyone will have his innocence at the beginning of his life in the first wet experience, so everyone's first sight of the world is not complicated. But as you get older, you will encounter all kinds of things, and the problems in this world will become more and more complicated. At this stage, people are filled with indignation. At this time, I don't want to trust anyone or anything easily. At this time, people are also sighing at the mountains and sighing at the water. If a person stays at this stage of life, it will be a bitter life. People will regard this mountain as high as that one, keep climbing, and always want to be competitive and care about others. Thinking about how to be a man, how to be a man and so on. The result is an endless day of satisfaction.
If you don't know how to practice, many people will reach the end of their lives when they reach the second realm of life. This will lead to the pursuit of a lifetime, a lifetime of hard work, and a lifetime of arrogance, only to find that you have not achieved your ideals, so you regret it for a lifetime. However, some people finally promoted themselves to the third realm of life through their own practice. Finally, enlightenment, return to nature. At this time, people will concentrate on what they should do and will not have any disputes with others. Let you roll in the world of mortals, and I will be cool and hearty. In the face of worldly things, laugh it off. What's wrong with it? At this time, people look at the mountains and see the mountains. Water is water.
It took 1700 years for the white snake essence to become a white snake. She met Xu Xian on the West Lake Bridge. In the Journey to the West, the Monkey King first practiced for more than 300 years, and then was trapped under the Five Elements Mountain for 500 years, and for more than 800 years before and after, only then did he have a chance to protect the Buddhist scriptures of the Tang Priest. Practice is not only the patent of monks and Taoists, but only by living in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests can we cultivate our mind and cultivate our nature; Everyone can practice anytime and anywhere; As the ancients said: small hidden in the wild, big hidden in the city. People's life span is only over 100 years old. If you want to live a wonderful life, you must be worthy of your life, and of course you must know how to cultivate yourself. Life is a process of improving yourself step by step while practicing constantly. Everyone must carefully understand his own ability and use it to create the brilliance of his life.