If you want to climb the peak, you must first stand
Xi Murong once asked herself: Why can't I be the kind of person I want to be in my life? But I can only drift in life, playing a role that even I don’t like?
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The noisy cicadas began to cry again, becoming more and more wild with the heat of summer. I don't understand why it doesn't find a place to lie down and enjoy the summer comfortably, but instead stands on a branch and screams at the top of its lungs. Finally one day, I realized that cicadas had to survive seventeen years in the soil before they could come out and see the world, and after making noise for more than ten days, they would return to the dark world. Perhaps only by standing on the branches and singing with all your strength can you prove that this summer belongs to it and the world also belongs to it.
Things are like this, but people are not the same?
Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the emperor and ministers have sat down to discuss matters. When it came to Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the ministers had to stand, and when it came to Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers had to kneel on their knees. Words such as "humble position", "low minister" and "slave" all reflect the Chinese people's "servile" thinking. When can people stand up and be a "capital person"? When people lie down for too long and their knees are numb, they finally want to stand up. After a series of resistance, struggles, uprisings, and revolutions, in 1949, the Chinese people stood up. At that moment, the world was ours. We are fed up with the humiliating life of "being a slave to others". Only by standing up can we become stronger and have personality and dignity.
In the Golden Hall of Vienna, the song "Butterfly Lovers" made people remember Liu Wei. He lost his arms due to electric shock. Faced with the cruel reality, he said: "I feel that there are only two ways in my life, either to die quickly or to live wonderfully." Compared with him, how many of us live like They are like walking zombies, with nothing left except a frame to support them in this world. If a person doesn't even want to stand up, no one can help him, and he will eventually become an "outcast" of the times.
Nick Vujicic, the author of "Life Without Limits", is a man without limbs. After numerous suicide attempts, he "stands up" and goes around the world to give speeches, telling people: Life is really There is no limit. Everyone has countless possibilities in life. Compared to them, we are really lucky. In Shi Tiesheng's words, "the five major parts of the body are all there." Since God treats us so kindly, we should "stand up" and move forward.
Obama, who is now sitting in the White House, has also had his share of misdeeds. But by the time he decided to run for president, he had completely changed. Everyone may lie down, lie down, squat, or sit at times. These are not important. What is important is: Do you want to stand up? Do you want to change? Do you want to live the life you want? If you want, stand up!
If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight. If you want to climb the peak, you must first stand. Only when a person stands up, the world belongs to him.
Comments from Famous Teachers
This article closely follows the material. Only when one stands up can the world belong to him. The author first gives an example of how it took 17 years of energy accumulation to achieve the glorious summer chirping. Then from things to people, whether it is the ministers of the DPRK, Liu Wei who lost his arms, Hu Zhe who lost his limbs, and Obama sitting in the White House, they were all confused, but they all stood up in the end and worked hard to create their own A clear sky of my own. The full text contains detailed examples and strong arguments, giving people a positive motivation.
You must stand up to own the world
If a person wants to walk, he must first learn to stand up, and if a person wants to own the world, he must first learn to stand up.
Standing up means being self-reliant, meaning being able to get rid of other supports and rely only on yourself and the ground beneath your feet.
Here, standing up is not about standing up physically like a two-year-old child learning to walk, but about becoming strong and independent mentally and morally. Once you stand up, you no longer rely on the support and assistance of others, but on your own abilities. Therefore, only people and nations with sufficient abilities can stand up.
I remember what Premier Zhou Enlai said about "reading for the rise of China." The "rise" here is also a kind of standing up, which is the independence and self-reliance of the Chinese nation. "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement." I think self-improvement is also a kind of standing up, or at least an effort to constantly strive for self-improvement in order to stand up. However, standing up does not mean being completely helpless. After standing up, we still have the backing of the earth, giving us a sense of down-to-earth security and generous and just help when necessary. To be self-reliant and down-to-earth is to stand up.
Only by standing up with self-reliance can a person have his own world.
Giving up dependence on certain things is like giving up the stool under your buttocks. If you add the ability to be self-reliant, what you get is not falling to the ground, but standing up and owning yourself. world.
If an adult cannot be self-reliant, cannot rely on himself, and "stand up" spiritually as a complete person, then how can he become a real person? Why have your own world? Tao Yuanming was disgusted with the turbid officialdom, so he gave up his humiliating salary and relied on his poetic talent to create a world in the countryside where three paths were deserted but pine and chrysanthemums still existed. If Tao Yuanming's resignation and return to his hometown meant standing up, then the peaceful, free and poetic world of poetry was his own world.
Only by standing up with self-reliance can a nation have its own world.
If a nation wants to own the world, it does not rely on plundering, occupying or even destroying other nations, but relying on the independence and strength of the nation. A nation that is always sitting or lying down, relying on the food that comes from outside, without thinking about progress or development, will only become weaker and weaker, and eventually lose the ability to stand up and lose the ability to own the world. The only thing waiting for this nation is Suicide. The Chinese nation, after being bullied while sitting and lying down, finally worked hard, continued to grow and develop, and finally stood up and owned a beautiful world of the Chinese nation. China, which has stood up on its own feet, has its own world.
Standing up means being self-reliant, meaning that you can get rid of other supports and rely only on yourself and the ground under your feet. Everyone needs to gradually stand up as they grow up, and every nation also needs to gradually become stronger as it develops. Stand up and have your own world!
Comments from Famous Teachers
In the opening chapter, the author distinguishes between the two concepts of standing up physically and standing up mentally, and then lists Tao Yuanming’s abandonment of officialdom and return to the countryside to pursue his own He has created a large number of pastoral poems, and the peaceful and free poetic world described in his poems belongs to the beautiful world he owns. Then it rises from an individual to an entire nation, and the principles are the same. The Chinese nation has stood up from the suffering of sitting and lying down and suffered humiliation. Today, the Chinese nation once again stands in the east of the world, relying on independence and autonomy! The full text closely follows the material, progresses layer by layer, and the language is vivid and persuasive.
The world applauds those who establish a heart
Zhang Hengqu said: "Establish a heart for the heaven and earth, and a life for the people." In Zen Buddhism, there is a saying of standing under the bodhi tree. Confucius has a record of having three thousand disciples cultivate their moral character, and Su Wu has a history of standing on the North Sea holding the Jie Jie. I always think about how people should face the world when they stand in this world. Knocking on scriptures and asking about history, looking towards mountains and rivers, the answer came from a voice that said: The world belongs to those who stand, and the world applauds those who stand firm.
To build a heart is to build a heart that has suffered a lot but is strong.
When Moses and his people stood up and walked out of Egypt after enduring hardships, and when the Lord used a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire at night to guide them to the promised land, I always believed that there was such pure and free light in the world. . Because although delusions seem to be out of control, disasters often follow one after another, but the light in the world comes as promised. During this period, there is hope in the heart, the heart is strong, and the heart has the strength to stand up.
Shi Gong is in prison, Qu Zi is exiled, Gou Jian is dying on his back, Si Tong is protesting, Lu Xun is shouting, Juemin is writing to his wife, Martin Luther King is giving a speech, Gandhi is redeeming India, Mother Teresa extended love and grace under fire.
When the road was blocked and long, these people stood up with the ambition to die; when destiny was great, they stood up with strength and hope; when everyone was helpless, they dyed their little feelings into Great compassion. They established their hearts, and the world applauded them.
To establish a heart is to establish a heart that is turbid but pure in the world.
In this social theater that is constantly being distracted, spicy and strange things are passing by like a movie, but people always remember Kawabata Yasunari’s begonia flowers at four o’clock in the morning, Camus’ mountain Endless happiness, Thoreau fishing in Walden Pond, the indifference of Cangyang Gyatso's white deer walking in the snow, Wang Zengqi's flower vases and jars, Zhou Guoping's boiled beans and salting them for people to eat, Shakespeare's flying pigeons meeting the sea waves For example, Emerson's transparent eyeballs, Su Zi's misty rain, and Wang Wei's clear spring stone.
Even when the colorful petals are gone, these people still dust off their clothes and shine brightly, like the morning dew and the new tung trees. Even in the chaos of the world, they still stand clear and clear, like the bright moon among the pines. , Bodhi is slightly warm; even when the world is full of desire, the heart of meditation is still standing, like the sun and the breeze, and the light is the same as the dust.
They set their minds, and the world applauded them.
Establish a noble heart and gain happiness in the world.
Liang Shuming said: "Emotions are noble and light, and Qi is noble and harmonious. Only if they are gentle and harmonious can they be nourished. If they are nourished, nothing will grow." Peace and harmony are also the essence and necessity of establishing a heart.
To establish a heart is to establish an ordinary but high-spirited heart, a peaceful heart.
Tens of millions of people have passed away, and all living beings are mostly ordinary people. As long as we remain peaceful, we can have long years; as long as we maintain a high spirit, we can have a glorious life; as long as we stand firm With an indifferent mind, the world also applauds.
Yes, as long as a person is standing, the world belongs to him.
The world applauds those who set their minds, applauds the sages who set their minds, and also applauds ordinary people who set their minds. The noble ones are willing to throw psychic gems, and the poor also have the ambition to improve themselves.
The world applauds those who have an upright mind, applauds those who have noble integrity and keep their true intentions, and also applauds those who keep a normal mind. Only if you have a firm mind can you stand in the world.
The world applauds those who are determined, applauds for you, for me, for us.