The complete poem of "Sit and watch the clouds roll and relax" is: Don't be surprised by favor or disgrace, just watch the flowers blooming and falling in front of the court; you have no intention of leaving or leaving, just follow the clouds rolling and relaxing in the sky.
It means: When doing things for others, you can treat favors and disgraces as normal as the blossoming and falling of flowers, so that you will not be surprised; only if you treat the change of positions like clouds and clouds, then you will not be surprised.
This sentence originally came from a couplet written by Hong Yingming in the Ming Dynasty and was recorded in Cai Gen Tan. Hong Yingming was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and was proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. He was keen on fame in his early years, and became a Taoist in his later years. He used couplets to summarize a book called "Cai Gen Tan". Later, Chen Meigong also included it in "Youchuang Xiaoji".
Extended information
Cai Gen Tan is a collection of quotations on cultivation, life, conduct, and birth collected and compiled by Hong Yingming, a Taoist at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It is a rare treasure. training. It has incredible and subtle power in cultivating people's moral integrity and cultivating their moral character.
The writing is concise, clear and meaningful, and is both elegant and popular. It is like a quotation, but it has the interest that a quotation does not have; it is like an essay, but it has a neatness that is difficult to achieve in an essay; it is like an admonishment, but it has a kind and soberness that admonishment lacks; and it is tinged with the scenery of the mountains after the rain and the sound of bells in the quiet night. , what he said is clear and refreshing, and the wind and moon are boundless.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cai Gen Tan