I stood by the window, watching the world outside. It was the beginning of spring, and yesterday's early spring snow had cast the sky into an overcast state. The bright sunlight hid its warm smile. For most people, the mundane nature of life has long accustomed us to the noise and busyness.

We are accustomed to facing too many things: the pressure of work, the handling of interpersonal relationships, the trivialities of life, boring cocktail parties, and many irrelevant messages. These consume a large part of our daily lives. We are accustomed to this, and we relish it. We rarely stop to think about the meaning of life.

A friend who is usually very busy suddenly wrote a truly insightful passage. He wrote: 'Life is a hurried journey, and sometimes we really need to sit down and think. Calm down our restless hearts and enjoy the simple pleasures and happiness that come naturally to us. Family, friendship, and the most precious things given to us by nature. Not money, not fame or status, not the so-called impressive we show off! The simplest and most fulfilling life is when we return home on time every day to have a hot meal with our family.',

The sunlight outside swept away the overcast weather of yesterday, shining brightly. Not far away, the high-rise buildings still stood tall. The teacher asked us before: 'Why do sages not contend?' I replied: 'Only by not striving can one's mind be tranquil, and only when one's mind is tranquil can one achieve great things.' I had been reading Wang Yangming's Complete Works for several days, and I just happened to read the chapter 'Dragon Field Enlightenment.' Wang Yangming, while serving as a disgraced official in Dragon Field, often faced the harsh living environment alone. He did not let the difficulties in front of him intimidate him, but instead, he calmed his mind and enlightened himself.

Wang Yangming pondered and reflected day after day, and finally, one day, he enlightened himself: 'The Way of Sage, enlightenment comes from one's own nature, not sought externally.' When we can put aside our endless pursuit of desires, we can perceive the true happiness of life, which comes from our inner fulfillment and tranquility.

'The heart is the world.' A person's inner world is his world; when a person's heart is full of flowers blooming in a garden, he can smell the fragrance every day. When a person's heart is full of the universal principles, he will 'mourn with the world, rejoice with the world.' When a person's heart is full of grudges, his life will lose its luster. When a person's heart is full of sunshine, even in adversity, he can see the light.

The restless heart has finally calmed down. Without the pursuit of material desires, without the struggle for fame and status, without the exclusion of each other, when we start to think, we have already overcome loneliness and learned to enjoy loneliness.

Putting aside the endless pursuit of desires is not to isolate ourselves from society, but to be able to maintain our inner peace even in the most bustling and glamorous world. Just as it is now, we perceive the most original life's essence. That is the simplest daily meal, the closest companionship, and the richest spiritual life.

The teacher asked again: 'Why do sages not contend?' I typed a line of text: 'All things return to one; what is there to contend about?' It seems that life is originally a void. We are just enjoying the process of being born and dying. Brilliance and decline, glory and fall, pain and joy – all will appear in life. We can only constantly correct ourselves to reach a state of non-striving, and thus obtain inner peace.

We think deeply in loneliness. If our hearts are always filled with the spring scenery, how could there be loneliness? 'The Way of the Great Learning' says: 'To cultivate one's self, one must first rectify one's mind.' The heart is the source of all things; by guarding our original heart, we can perceive the joy of all things. The quiet time of solitude is the best time for us to examine ourselves, and it is also the time when we draw strength in silence.

Standing up to look at the outside, the sunlight is bright. The outside world is in a bright world. Love and beauty have always been in it. Without any particular business, I pick up a pen and write, and when the time slows down, it is full of quiet and gentle, the handwriting is not hurried or panicked. When there is no business, pick up a book, and you will gain the whole season. The book tells us: 'What is spring?' Spring is the vitality of the willows swaying in the wind, the bustling of singing birds and swarms of bees, the sound of children and old people flying kites.

This human spring is engraved in our hearts. As long as we slow down and perceive it. We will find that spring is in the heart. It's the beginning of spring, and all things are awakening.