What is spiritual cultivation? Cultivating one's mind means sticking to something and changing something in life. The external environment in which we live is complex and changeable. Once we get used to an environment, it may change. Now society requires us to adapt to the rapidly changing external environment. If we relax a little, we may fall behind. Modern mental diseases such as middle-aged crisis and anxiety are all caused by this. How not to be confused by the rapidly changing environment requires us to know what to stick to and what to change.
Chairman Mao asked commanders at all levels to command battles not only in one environment, but also in various environments. Can command not only a few troops, but also large troops. To achieve this effect, the most important way is to study. The way to learn is to understand the temper of the enemy and ourselves, which is what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War.
Therefore, Chairman Mao asked commanders at all levels not only to study the enemy's temper, but also to study the temper of their own troops, to know the enemy's weaknesses, to make good use of them, and to know their own weaknesses to improve them. The process of promotion is the process of practice, and practice becomes the best self. We have seen the Red Army soldiers practice this way, all of them have an iron will and a shrewd mind, and always put the interests of the people first.
Today, we are facing a rapidly changing world. If you want to keep up with the times without being abandoned by the times, the most important thing is to adapt to the real environment, and then you can grasp the main contradiction of the real environment, not be intimidated by the real environment, and take the initiative in life. This requires us to persist and change with the changes in the real environment. These persistence and changes are our practice, which makes us better ourselves.
What do we need to persist and change? Let's study two examples. A few years ago, some people regarded sales as a relationship, and the success of sales depended on their own alcohol consumption. I have seen many friends with my own eyes. In order to practice drinking, I will run in the playground after drinking half a catty of wine, evaporate the alcohol in my body, and then continue to drink, so as to exercise my drinking capacity. After so many years, some have made money, some have not, but the most important thing is that their health is ruined. It can be seen that the quality of sales has little to do with the level of alcohol consumption.
Once upon a time, BYD was a low-end representative, but BYD's continuous research and development, independent blade batteries, hybrid systems, and even automobile chips were also designed and produced by itself. After so many years, China people laugh at BYD's logo and the appearance of BYD cars. When BYD's core technology is combined with the improvement of appearance, let's take a look at the street again. BYD can be seen everywhere, and Tesla is also very hard in the field of electric vehicles. No one laughs at BYD anymore. BYD has become a business card in China.
Let's compare these two examples. At that time, the sales staff insisted on practicing wine consumption, and the result was that no matter how much money, the health would not work; BYD adheres to R&D and innovation, listens to consumers' opinions with an open mind, changes its appearance design and instantly changes its image, becoming synonymous with Chinese goods. Therefore, what can't be changed and what should be abandoned is very important for our spiritual practice.
Then what is persistence? What promotes social fairness and efficiency cannot be changed. Just as Red Army soldiers have a high degree of organizational discipline, they always put the interests of the collective and the people first; BYD's insistence on R&D innovation and so on. These things that promote social fairness and efficiency can never be changed. There are many unchangeable things, such as honesty, friendliness, innovation and law-abiding. This requires us to find more. We only need to firmly believe that what promotes social fairness and efficiency is what we should adhere to.
We know what we should stick to and we also know what we should give up. We must resolutely give up things that are not suitable for social development, fairness and progress. Therefore, we say that the process of cultivating the mind is to stick to something and give up something. Just like the troops surrendered by the Kuomintang, their performance in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea shocked not only the US military, but also Chiang Kai-shek. It is in the red melting pot that they persist in the good, change the bad and become the steel soldiers of the people.
Today we read Mao Xuan and learn its advanced wisdom. What is important is that in practice, in the process of practice, we can not only exercise our abilities, but also cultivate our hearts, make our hearts stronger and purer, keep us away from those modern mental diseases, keep our hearts bright and bring warmth and happiness to everyone.