Thousands of people look at Su Shi, which reminds people of the scene when Su Shi went to Pingshan Hall in Yangzhou in the second year of Yuanfeng. At that time, "red makeup became a wheel, and celebrities blocked it. Seeing them put pen to paper and looking at Wan Li, I almost want to die. "
"Should be things", so we should accept the unevenness of all things in heaven and earth, "All things nurture each other without harming each other, and the Tao is parallel without contradicting each other". Qin Guan regarded Su Shi's highest achievement as "self-satisfaction", that is, conforming to all things and not sticking to one. What Su Shi is most dissatisfied with Wang Anshi is that the latter is dissatisfied with injustice, and likes and forces others to accompany him. "Catch the legacy of six arts and break one's own will; The saying that a hundred schools of thought contend is a new deception, and he wants to learn from the world.
"Respond to things", so Su Shi's life practice and literary practice are so rich. Su Shi is always good at feeling the excitement of heaven and earth in ordinary things. Even building a bridge in the village and even burying the body can make Su Shi feel "organized" and feel the comfort of life.
Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty believed that "writing is harmful to Tao", but Su Shi regarded writing as a kind of fun and a regular hobby: "There is nothing pleasant in life, but when writing articles, the style of writing is tortuous, claiming that there is no fun in the world." Later, Yuan Hongdao accepted Su Shi's words and said, "My generation cannot live without poetry."
It is undeniable that even Su Shi, who lives in the vast spring, must spend his energy and time on literary and artistic creation. And life time is always limited, and creation will inevitably hinder other affairs. Su Shi's method is to abolish the binary opposition between literature and Taoism. There is a young monk in Qiantang who is thoughtful and obsessed with literature and art. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and poetry, and he also loves to study Huayan Sutra. Su Shi told him that for monasticism, Huayan Sutra is only a temporary retreat, and piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are rare. Enlightenment cannot enter from nothingness, but should start from practice. Su Shi believes that the only way to solve the problem of life is "willful and carefree, open-minded with the fate, but there is no other way", that is, beyond the normal heart, that is, color is empty, that is, outside the joy of the world.
Therefore, Su Shi galloped unreservedly in the literary and art circles, devoted himself to research, and opened up a great realm in history: poetry opened up a new atmosphere in the Song Dynasty, words were bold and unconstrained, calligraphy was elegant, and paintings were scholars.
Su Dongpo is a scholar and a philosopher. He left the world not only a rich literary world, but also a life philosophy with temperature, thickness and charm. In The Art of Living, Lin Yutang distinguished several attitudes towards life: reality minus dreams equals beasts, reality plus dreams equals heartache, and reality plus dreams plus humor equals wisdom. Su Shi, full of jokes and abuse, is closer to the third kind.
This is an unattainable realm. In the words of Qin Guan, it is "dealing with the world", and in the words of Zhu Guangqian, it is "doing the cause of joining the WTO with the spirit of being born". If we use the words in Su Shi's five masterpieces, Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia, Chibi Fu, Baohuatang Collection, Zuibatang Collection and Transcendent Taiji, it is: life is like sending, which means ignoring things; Travel with the creator who hides endlessly, and be safe without happiness.