? What is "happy with what you encounter and what you get temporarily"? This starts with the few sentences before this sentence. "The relationship between a lady and her lasts a lifetime." "Xiangyu" means interacting with each other, that is to say, the interaction between people, as soon as they lean down or raise their heads, a lifetime will pass by so quickly.
"Maybe take all the arms and realize the words in one room". What is "take all the arms"? "Zhu" is what it is. I think the ungrammatical literal translation is the most charming. It says that we should take "self" out of our arms and have a heart-to-heart talk with our close friends in a knee-length room. What if there is no one who understands me? Then "put your trust in things and let yourself go outside", that is, "seeking outside" and put your trust in the things you like in this life.
Similarly, about a thousand years later, Dong Qichang, an old man, wrote "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" and said, "If you don't do useless things (referring to calligraphy and painting), how can you spend your life in the future?" The eight words "Be happy with what you encounter and get what you have for the time being" describe the final outcome of all the fate of the Chinese people. Buddhism talks about "sweeping the external world and breaking the attachment internally."
The result is, "Although there are many choices and sacrifices, calmness and restlessness are different. When you are happy with what you encounter, you get what you have for the time being, and you are self-sufficient. You never know that old age is coming." This is a very long sentence. , let’s talk slowly. "There are many different choices, and calmness and impatience are different." This sentence is easy to understand. Although the above "seeking within" to find a close friend to flirt (enlightenment within a room) and "seeking outside" to be wild and unrestrained are different, when people "Be happy with what you encounter, temporarily obtain it for yourself, and be content with yourself quickly" - the charm of ancient prose lies in its omission. Xizhi did not say who the object of "happy with what you encounter" is. This encounter may be a person or an object.
However, when you meet her (it) happily, thinking that she (it) is the only one in your life, you find that you only "temporarily get it from yourself" - you only get her (it) temporarily. . Xizhi tells us that all the "impregnable" happiness that we cherish and think we will always have - a lifelong partner, a crazy hobby, even children, relatives... we all "get it temporarily from ourselves". "People can't live as long as things." We are just the temporary owners of these old objects during their thousands of years of life; what about "people"? Children will grow up, and lovers will grow old. Even if we are never separated for the rest of our lives, and we can escape the "life separation", we cannot escape the "death farewell" in the end of life.