Simple Beauty

Everyone's life will have their own unique "elements".

This "factor" is the focus of one's life,

All your activities revolve around this "factor"

It can make us feel the true meaning of life,

We should look for this "factor" with our heart,

So you need to be able to get inner peace and happiness,

Those elements are not clear enough,

It will make people fidgety, anxious and confused.

Zhuangzi said: "Simplicity, the world can't compete with it for beauty."

Simplicity is a single-minded and pure power, pointing to the essence of things and life.

This is consistent with the purpose of Zen: to see the essence of things clearly, which is an intuitive epiphany and sentiment directed at people's hearts.

It is also like Japan's loneliness: pursuing simple virtues, pointing to the original spirit, emphasizing the essence of things and the power of time.

Legend has it that Sakyamuni blooms, Ye Jia smiles, Damocles comes, and reeds cross the river.

Thus, the true meaning of Zen spread from India to China;

When the emptiness of Buddhism, the heart of Confucianism and the emptiness of Taoism collide,

It gave birth to Zen, a unique Buddhist sect in China.

Soon, Zen Buddhism in China spread to Japan in the East.

Derived the tea ceremony that influenced the Japanese spirit.

And "quietness" is precisely the spiritual core of Japanese tea ceremony.

Somewhere, whether it is the simplicity of Tao, the Zen of Buddha or the silence of tea,

All point to the same place, that is, the initial heart,

Get rid of all the complexity and peel off all the disguises.

Park is the raw state of wood;

By extension, the others have not been treated manually.

It can be called "simplicity" to present nature.

Such as Li Bai's poem: clear water gives birth to hibiscus, carved naturally.

Simple, simple, simple, simple and so on

It is the embodiment of the original meaning of the unprocessed word "park".

Because it is the most primitive,

Therefore, it will present many of the most authentic and simple internal qualities.

Whether in literary works, artistic creation or personality and morality,

It's all beautiful writing.

Not complicated, not artificial, keep natural and pure.

But that's definitely not barbaric,

It is the true nature after peeling off the decoration.

Not the ignorance of barbarism.

Returning to simplicity is a spiraling process.

This is similar to the Zen artistic conception of Qingyuan thinking:

Look at the mountain. It's a mountain, not a mountain. It's a mountain.

Look at the mountains, not the buildings.

At first, you see a plate of crispy braised pork, which smells delicious. You ordered a bowl of white rice. From then on, you know that this is the smell of braised pork.

Seeing the mountain is not a mountain, but a deconstruction.

Later, you ate a lot of braised pork and cooked it yourself. When you see braised pork again, it is no longer braised pork, but you will think: is this pork belly or ribs? Is this red fried or smoked? What is the numerical geometry of octagonal and cinnamon? Is there too much salt? ……

This braised pork is no longer braised pork in your eyes, but is broken down into countless pieces to form braised pork.

Seeing a mountain or a mountain is reconstruction,

Finally, you ordered a bowl of braised pork, and what you saw was braised pork, crispy sauce and fragrance. You ordered a bowl of white rice.

But at this time, you eat too much braised pork, and you really know the beauty of this bowl of braised pork again, so you put down the world and your own braised pork.

But in your heart, the braised pork at this time is different from the original bowl of braised pork.

It is also what Lao Tzu said, "return to simplicity."

As a category of China's classical aesthetics,

Has its unique meaning and connotation,

Presenting a unique aesthetic pursuit,

Is a true and natural aesthetic style,

It is a simple and sincere personality spirit.

It is an empty, quiet and clear aesthetic mood.

"Gone with the Wind" as a poetic style,

Pursue nature, simplicity,

Contrary to the meaning of algae decoration and traditional Chinese painting.

Chen Shidao put forward the poetic proposition of "Four Ning and Four Nothing" in "On the Poems of Houshan".

Ning Zhuo is not a coincidence, but plain rather than flashy, ugly rather than fleshy, eccentric rather than vulgar.

Emphasize that poetry should pursue a kind of

Simple and natural, leading all the beauty of China.

For example, Wang Wei's

The vast desert is lonely, and the Yellow River sets the yen.

When I arrived at the small pass, I met a spy waiting for the knight and told me that Dou Hu was in Yan.

Another example is Bai Juyi's

There is a glimmer of green in the old bottle and a hint of red in the quiet stove.

It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside? .

No pretense, no fancy, but endless charm.

It's for your truest and purest feelings,

Feel, pursue nature and truth,

Don't carve the hypocrisy of decoration.

Ci and poetry have become two wonderful flowers in the history of China literature.

There are two styles of words: simple and natural and decorative and flashy.

Poets like Bai Juyi and Su Shi,

Most lyrics are simple and natural in style.

Reflect the beauty of simplicity in language and emotion,

Sending out a strong breath of life;

As the Huajian poet wrote,

His words excessively pursue the use of skills,

Pay attention to the exquisite and gorgeous language of ci,

It looks beautiful but pale, and it looks dry in the middle.

I can't stand repeated chewing and lack sincere feelings.

Su and Xin are famous for being bold and broad-minded.

His words are gloomy, high-profile or sad and depressed,

They all exude a strong ancient style.

There is a "simple" beauty.

Such as Su Shi's Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia;

The surging river flows eastward, and those heroes of the past are gone forever.

Old camp west, people say it's the war of the Three Kingdoms, Battle of Red Cliffs.

The steep rock wall, like thunder waves lapping against the river bank, waves like rolling up thousands of snow.

The majestic rivers and mountains are picturesque, and many heroes emerge at once.

Looking back on Zhou Yu's spring breeze era, young and beautiful Joe just married him, and he was full of heroic spirit.

A white figure with a feather fan came face to face, and while talking and laughing, the enemy warships burned to ashes.

I am wandering in the battlefield today. I feel a feeling heart and give birth to white hair prematurely.

Life is like a dream, sprinkle a glass of wine to pay tribute to the bright moon on the river.

Such as Xin Qiji's "Broken Array":

Drunk in the dream of watching the sword under the oil lamp, dreaming back to the old days of the military camp, a horn sounded.

Give orders in 800 Li, cross the Great Wall in 50 strings,

This is a military parade on the battlefield in autumn.

Horses run like Ma Delu, bows and arrows fly like thunder.

It is a good idea for the emperor to complete the great cause of recovering the lost land of the country and gain a good reputation from generation to generation.

Poor hair has become a white-haired man!

Let's see a picture with a long history unfold.

Gu Zhuo is gloomy, magnificent and full of charm.

The "simple" field behind it,

True, natural and touching.

Such as Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Qiu Si":

Old vines are faint crows, small bridges are flowing, and old roads are thin horses.

When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world.

A series of simple images,

It gives us a bleak and touching picture of the sunset in the suburbs in autumn.

Calligraphy is black and white, white paper and black ink,

This is the simplest beauty of art.

The beauty of simplicity in calligraphy lies in its simple and natural style.

"Painting Zen Room Essay" said:

The most important thing in writing a book is to eliminate the edge marks, so as not to make the pen and ink engraved on the paper.

Dongpo's book says, "Innocence is my teacher."

Deliberately uninterested in nature,

Emphasize doing nothing without seeking,

Meet unexpectedly, get unspeakable charm by chance,

This is a natural fit beyond skills.

The so-called "articles are natural and wonderful."

The most concentrated expression of "simplicity" in calligraphy is Weibei.

Weibei refers to calligraphy such as stone inscriptions and cliff carvings in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Its style is extremely steep, simple and simple, and the weather is extravagant.

The simple beauty of Weibei,

It left a simple and true mark on the stone,

It lies in the richness and simplicity contained in pen, ink and knife carving.

China painter said, "It's the hardest to look at the old scene in a painting."

The old scene in the painting is also plain, naive and simple.

There is a brilliant, lovely and unique inside.

The old world is a return to the childlike innocence of life.

It is Laozi who says "return to simplicity" and "return to simplicity".

So is the old urchin.

Su Shi's painting "Strange Trees and Rocks" once sold for 41170,000.

The object of painting is not exquisite pearls and jade,

But ugly hard rocks.

He wrote a poem on the painting and said:

Pine is fragmented, self-sufficient, and insects want to entangle.

Needless to say, you can sing geese, but you have to spend all your years in the air.

Su Shi's strange stone is also Zhuangzi's loose wood;

I thought the ship was going to sink, the coffin was going to rot, and the utensils were going to be destroyed.

Think that the entrance is liquid and the pillar is moth.

It is worthless wood and useless, so it has a long life.

A strange, ugly and useless old tree, which Zhuangzi called "pine",

It is precisely because of "uselessness" and uselessness that it can last forever.

This is a kind of stupid and ingenious wisdom.

According to China's philosophy, simplicity is true,

Prosperity is too unreliable, which is exactly what Lao Tzu said:

Five colors are blind, five tones are deaf, and five flavors are refreshing.

This is another state of life,

Truth, nature and simplicity are the true colors of life.

Only the truest face of life can give people the most sincere impression.

Simplicity comes from silence, withering and disillusionment.

Seek the most primitive and true vitality of life.