When facades are worn for too long, even oneself may come to believe them.
The sadness of human nature is that we do the worst things and speak the kindest words.
Life is like a play, and the play is like life.
This sentence allows us not to be too strict with ourselves, to treat our lives with the attitude of a game, life is just an illusion, like Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly, waking up and realizing life is just like a big dream.
This sentence also tells us not to be rigid and stubborn in our emotions, not to fixate on external appearances and things.
However, there are some people in life who unconsciously live as if it were a play, placing themselves in the role of 'actors,' but not in a game-like attitude to face the world, but using pretentious and false kindness to live in a hypocritical manner.
A person is a very interesting thing, a person can do the worst things, but speak the kindest words.
While wielding a knife to stab someone, the person is still bleeding, and oneself can pretend to be a naive little lamb, showing kindness to the world, and after pretending for a long time, one even forgets what one has done, but always thinks one is kind.
Those who outwardly display kindness and pretend to be little lambs may not be truly kind, perhaps behind them lurks a wolf-like ferocity and treachery, and this pretentious and hypocritical behavior can only be done by 'people'
As said in 'The Analects'
'A pretender is not a virtuous person.'
Those who seek fame and reputation have no virtuous people, good talkers of mountain dwellings may not really understand the joy of mountain life, they only speak of hating fame and fortune out of the mouth
The worldly people strive to show their righteousness and kindness, they often make hypocritical actions to show off, this is probably the most disgusting face in the world.As said in 'The Book of Rites'
'A pretender is not a virtuous person.'
Those who seek fame and reputation have no virtuous people, good talkers of mountain dwellings may not really understand the joy of mountain life, they only speak of hating fame and fortune out of the mouth
Tang Dynasty had a person named Shi Ma Cheng, who lived in the Mountains of Zhongnan for decades, and he gave himself a pseudonym called White Cloud, indicating that he was like White Cloud, noble and pure
Tang Xuanzong knew about it and asked him to come out to serve, but he refused, and Tang Xuanzong gave him a house, and he asked him to write 'The Book of Changes' in it
When he finished the task, he went to Chang'an to meet Tang Xuanzong, after meeting Tang Xuanzong, he was about to return to Zhongnan Mountain, when he happened to meet a person who was also hiding in Zhongnan Mountain, named Lu Zhangyong
Lu Zhangyong was a person who sought fame and fortune, he deliberately hid in Zhongnan Mountain for a period of time to do fame and fortune, when the news was spread, he used it to get a position
Shi Ma Cheng saw Lu Zhangyong, and Lu Zhangyong said: 'The Mountains of Zhongnan really have endless joy'
It refers to Zhongnan Mountain is a very special place, which can help you get wealth and fame
Shi Ma Cheng listened and replied: 'Yes, I think the place is indeed a 'shortcut' to becoming an official'
It satirizes Lu ZhangyongKindness and morality should be the fundamental basis for cultivating one's own heart, but they have become the tool of ulterior motives to show offAs said in 'The Book of Changes'
''A pretender is not a virtuous person.'
Those who seek fame and reputation have no virtuous people, good talkers of mountain dwellings may not really understand the joy of mountain life, they only speak of hating fame and fortune out of the mouth
Tang Dynasty had a person named Shi Ma Cheng, who lived in the Mountains of Zhongnan for decades, and he gave himself a pseudonym called White Cloud, indicating that he was like White Cloud, noble and pure
Tang Xuanzong knew about it and asked him to come out to serve, but he refused, and Tang Xuanzong gave him a house, and he asked him to write 'The Book of Changes' in it
When he finished the task, he went to Chang'an to meet Tang Xuanzong, after meeting Tang Xuanzong, he was about to return to Zhongnan Mountain, when he happened to meet a person who was also hiding in Zhongnan Mountain, named Lu Zhangyong
Lu Zhangyong was a person who sought fame and fortune, he deliberately hid in Zhongnan Mountain for a period of time to do fame and fortune, when the news was spread, he used it to get a position
Shi Ma Cheng saw Lu Zhangyong, and Lu Zhangyong said: 'The Mountains of Zhongnan really have endless joy'
