If You Displease Everyone, It’s Because of Your Lack of Cultivation!
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Life's journey is simply a struggle with oneself. When you have a clear heart, you see beauty in everything and find everything agreeable.
In real life, there is a kind of person who believes they are better than others and dislikes everyone. They are prone to anger and arrogance.
As a result, it makes others uncomfortable, and they themselves are full of resentment.
They often fail to see the beauty in life and are quick to find fault.
They might say the sky is full of dust when it's clear, or that people are mere peasants when they're beautiful.
This is actually a kind of illness.
What you see is a reflection of your inner world.
As Wang Yangming said: 'Without a moving heart, nothing is outside of it; all things are the projection of the human heart.'
This can be interpreted as: 'What you think, you will see.'
Just as there are four seasons in a year, this is human cognition. But the grasshopper lives for three seasons in spring and autumn, a lifetime, this is the cognition of the grasshopper.
Similarly, our world will be limited by cognition.
For example, a kind person sees everything with benevolent eyes;
A wicked person sees a bleak and cold world.
There is a story that fully illustrates this principle:
One day, Su Dongpo and Buddhist monk Jin Pin were meditating in the forest.As the days passed, the bamboo swayed, and the shadows danced. When there was a moment of silence, monk Jin Pin suddenly spoke to Su Dongpo, 'Your posture while meditating is like that of Buddha.'
Su Dongpo was delighted and, with a mischievous idea, looked at monk Jin's reflection and said, 'Your posture is like a pile of dung.'
Monk Jin didn't say anything, just smiled slightly.
After returning, Su Dongpo was secretly proud, thinking he had finally tricked monk Jin,
He reported the good news to Su Xiao'er. Unexpectedly, Su Xiao'er also covered her mouth and laughed, 'Brother, this time you lost.'
Su Dongpo was puzzled,
Su Xiao'er continued, 'If you have a Buddhist heart, you'll see everyone like Buddha. But what if you don't?'
Su Shi laughed heartily. Indeed, he had lost. If you have a Buddhist heart, you'll see everyone like Buddha. Compared to this, his own heart must be filthy and despicable,
Do people who constantly belittle others and only see the negative aspects of things represent a lack of inner strength?
Modern psychology research shows that we are more averse to people who are similar to ourselves in their shortcomings.
That is, if you see similar shortcomings in others, you will be more angry and reject them.
Therefore, you will find that people who constantly criticize others are actually insecure about themselves.
Those who say others are 'materialistic' are often themselves materialistic.
Because criticizing others creates a false sense of superiority: I'm not like that.
But this actually exposes their inner selves.
Thinking from another perspective can change your view of the world,
A pig and a cow were kept in the same pen.
One day, someone was going to take the pig away, and the pig let out a loud bellow, which could be heard for ten miles,
The cow was impatient and said, 'Stop making noise! We are often taken away, but not as loudly as you.'
The pig responded, 'Can't it be the same? They take us away for our milk and fur, while I'm taken away to die!'
This reminded me of a famous joke:
During the famine, the people had no grain and only dug up wild roots to eat.
The news reached the imperial palace, and Emperor Huizong sat in his study, listened to the ministers' reports, and was puzzled, 'The people have no millet to eat, why not eat meat?'
Different standpoints, different choices, and different perspectives naturally lead to different understandings.
As Tolstoy said: 'If you don't have a moving heart, how can you know what you have experienced?'
This is the mindset of a prosecutor, and it's also applicable to us.
The abbot of Dharma, said: 'If you don't move your heart, the wind cannot affect you.'
Indeed, life's journey is simply a struggle with oneself. When you have a clear heart, you see beauty in everything and find everything agreeable.
Therefore, cultivate this heart, and there is love everywhere.
This article comes from Jingbo Guoxue (ID: jingboguoxue), a stylish national studies micro-channel.
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