A grateful heart is always needed on the road of life. Be grateful, content and cherish happiness.
1942 In late autumn, the autumn wind is bleak and leaves are falling all over the sky.
An old man in his 60s, dressed in a monk's robe, lay on his side couch and left quietly.
He is the master Hongyi-Li Shutong who "inherited the joys and sorrows of two generations and practiced all his life".
Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue.
The evening breeze blows the flute, and the sunset is beyond the mountain.
The horizon, the horizon, intimate friends are half scattered.
Life is once in a blue moon, only parting.
Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue.
When will you return this? Don't hesitate to come.
The horizon, the horizon, intimate friends are half scattered.
A pot of turbid wine will make you happy, so don't go to Meng Han tonight.
This "Farewell" was written by Li Shutong on 19 14, and almost everyone in China knows it. Many people may not know the name of Li Shutong, but most people have heard and sung this song.
Lyrics are graceful and restrained, fresh and elegant, sincere, beautiful and gentle, among which picturesque and poetic complement each other. A hundred years later, it is still a classic in farewell poems.
Li Shutong was born in 1888. His family runs a salt industry and a money house. He is a rich man in Tianjin.
In the first half of his life, he was a talented person with a variety of amorous feelings, but in the second half, he became a monk.
In China's 100-year cultural history, Li Shutong is recognized as a generalist and a wizard.
Music, drama, calligraphy, painting and poetry are all first-class, and they can be called master of all-rounders, the originator of modern art in China, and the "Twenty Earthshaking" artists.
He is a pioneer of the New Culture Movement in China, and he first introduced oil painting, piano and drama to China.
He was good at calligraphy, poetry, painting, temperament and epigraphy. At that time, the whole academic community was a god-like existence.
Mr. Feng Zikai, a famous cartoonist, is a proud disciple of Li Shutong.
However, when his fame reached its peak, he chose to abandon his wife and children and escape into an empty net. Since then, he has been punished for half his life, leaving the world with a mysterious mystery that is difficult to guess.
Yan Zheng, a master, was born in Taichung in 1937. Due to the early death of his father, his mother became ill and became a monk on 1963, with Yin Shun as his teacher. Teacher training "for Buddha, for all beings" is 26 years old. 1966, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Meritorious Society was established. She built the first Tzu Chi hospital in Hualien and extended Tzu Chi to the whole world. Over the past 30 years, * * * has raised tens of billions of Taiwan dollars in donations, and almost one fifth of the population in Taiwan Province Province, that is, more than four million people, have participated in her charitable activities to some extent. There are more than10 million volunteers all over the world, and people call her "Oriental Teresa" and "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands".
Master Yan Zheng became a monk because his father died young and his mother became ill, lamenting the impermanence of life.
However, she embarked on the road of "joining the WTO"-Tzu Chi's suffering, from an ordinary mortal woman to a generation of charity masters.
Being born is also a difficult choice. 1937, two months before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Master Yan Zheng, whose common name was "Jingyun", was born in a wealthy family in Taichung. She is very sensible and filial since she was a child. /kloc-When she was 0/5 years old, her mother needed an operation because of a perforated stomach. At that time, surgery was a very dangerous operation. Kind-hearted, she prayed to heaven and made a vow of "wishing to shorten her life by 20 years and praying for her mother's longevity". Perhaps filial piety touched God, and my mother's illness miraculously recovered.
Eight years later, her father died suddenly of a stroke. Her father's early death and her mother's illness made her confused about life, and she thought of the pain of all beings from the pain of her family. So she left home several times and wandered around Taipei, Taichung and Taitung, and finally settled in Fumiao Temple, a small temple in Lin Xiu Township, Hualien County. 1962 autumn, she was 25 years old. Without shaving Master, she lost her hair and quietly embarked on a career as a monk. Later, master gave her a dharma number to prove strict. Committed to the strict proof of the Buddha, in a simple wooden house, 10 feet square, I chanted, copied and worshipped scriptures day and night, kept company with Deng Qing Huang Juan all day, scrimped and saved, and lived a quiet life.
Now, inspired by Master Yan Zheng, Tzu Chi volunteers have spread all over the world, including many celebrities and politicians. Tzu Chi Meritorious Society has developed into a huge international charity and relief organization. Its "business" involves charity, medical care, education, humanities, environmental protection, community volunteers, bone marrow donor, international disaster relief and many other aspects. Just like the sunshine in the sky, where there is need, there are disasters and sufferings.
"Don't ask for Buddha, but ask for the personality of learning Buddha-great compassion, great wisdom and courage." Master Yan Zheng's remarks may be the best explanation for the fact that her Meritorious Society originally had only 30 followers, but now it has developed into a world-renowned charity with tens of millions of people.
Keigo Higashino wrote in Night Walk: "There are two things in this world that you can't look directly at, one is the sun and the other is the human heart".
Don't underestimate the goodness of the world, and certainly don't underestimate the evil of the world.
Crow is a black and ugly bird. People think it will bring bad news, so everyone hates it. However, this disgusting bird has a rare virtue-gratitude. When the crow's parents are old and weak and can't eat any more, the crow looks around for food and feeds it to his parents mouth to mouth after returning to the nest until the old crow dies.
This is what people often say "the crow feeds back". On the other hand, magpies and crows are completely different. Magpie is brightly colored and beautifully dressed, which often brings good news to people, so people like it very much, but magpie is an ungrateful animal. When young magpies grow up, they will pluck their parents' feathers one by one and beat them to death.
As practitioners, we should think carefully: should we learn from the ugly crow or the ugly magpie?
Psychologist Daniel said: "Your comfort determines the height you can reach."
Therefore, knowing, cherishing and benefiting again are the essential qualities and personalities of all of us, which determine the height of your life.
Life is like a trip, and I am also a pedestrian. A person's life has been in a hurry for a hundred years and passed in a blink of an eye. Some people come to the end of their lives, only to find that they are just drifting with the tide in life and feel sorry for the past. In this life, young people should cherish happiness, middle-aged people should benefit, and old people should enjoy happiness.
There is an old saying in China:
"Living in this world year after year, always look before you leap. If you have money, you often hope to live without it. Don't wait until there is no money to have money. "
Sincere and pure mind, not greedy, not angry, not stupid. Cherish what we have, including knowledge resources, health resources, natural resources and social resources. Cherish but don't waste, don't spoil, especially don't spoil your body, don't hurt your reputation, character and even your thoughts and ideals.
We should have a heart of cherishing happiness, and often think: a porridge and a meal is hard to remember; A little, always thinking about material difficulties. "I will give my cherished wealth to those who are still hungry and in urgent need of help. I think the happiness brought by this kind of effort is far from being comparable to simply enjoying material wealth.
With a heart that knows the blessings and cherishes the benefits, we will always be grateful to the people and things around us. It is not a blessing to enjoy happiness, but a blessing to benefit. Cherish clothes and food, not treasure. If you can cherish blessings and benefits, you can give blessings.