For me, loving nature is as sincere and profound as loving my own life! I like to live in the embrace of nature, and it is a great pleasure to keep close contact with nature at zero distance. When I was growing up, when I was in the lowest and most helpless mood, nature always came to help me, poured spiritual care and love into me, brought me endless spiritual strength, and made me stronger and more persistent! At this time, once I was embraced in the magnificent embrace of nature and touched the colorful world of nature, I became more awake and felt that everything was full of unspeakable significance.
Many things in life are created by people, so sometimes it is inevitable that people will have an elusive illusion. But nature is not one of them. I have never felt the illusion of nature. Whenever I am in nature, I find mountains, rivers, blue sea and blue sky in front of me; Flowers, birds, insects, fish, animals and so on are always so real and unforgettable. I even think that whether it is illusory or not seems to be the biggest difference that people in nature and society often experience. Standing in front of nature, people will not have illusory and helpless dreams, instead, they will live a lively and fulfilling life. Nature can always make people forget the messy troubles in body and mind and remind us of the pure and beautiful wishes in our hearts. Millions of people in Qian Qian who know about nature feel the same way. Nature is the root of human thought.
I admire several spiritual masters who are closely related to nature. Goethe, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Thoreau and Tagore are all sons of nature, explorers of natural secrets, and they live with the eternal beauty of nature. Rousseau's romantic feelings have always aroused my strong voice, and his words have exciting and fascinating magic. "With the taste of endless ecstasy melt in his conscious and seamless this vast and beautiful nature. Therefore, he can't see all the individual objects, and what he sees and feels is in the whole. (1) Rousseau expressed such an experience of harmonious coexistence between man and nature in the reverie of a lonely traveler. Goethe wrote poetically in young werther that nature "is a panacea for my soul" ... I really want to become a scarab, swim in the fragrant sea and suck nectar and honey to my heart's content. "(2)" For the vibrant nature, I have a strong and hot feeling in my heart. It was he who made me jump with joy ... and felt that I had become a spiritual enrichment. " (3) Emerson wrote in Meditation on Nature that "the influence of nature on human mind is the earliest and the most important in time." ④
Not only in the West, but also in the East, there has been a fine tradition of loving and advocating nature since ancient times. Taoism, which was born and raised in China, advocates "Taoism is natural" and strongly advocates the realm of nature. China's tea culture, garden culture, ancient poems and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting all exude a strong natural atmosphere. Tea art, gardening and nature are inseparable. The poet emphasizes the mutual blending of emotion and scenery, scenery and emotion, and "Kung Fu is beyond poetry"; Painters emphasize "learning from nature, learning from nature" and "learning from mountains and rivers"-from "direct aesthetic photography" to "discovering aesthetic images" and then conveying them with pen and ink; Musicians emphasize that "Yang is living water". Naturally, it has become the teacher of the artist and the treasure house of the artist's spiritual carnival. China's traditional culture and art have never been divorced from nature. ⑤
If we want to study its essence, nature can be said to be the human mind, just as air is human breath. China's old saying, naturally, can bring people aura and make people get life. What is Reiki? I think reiki refers to the fresh and flowing breath of life, and its opposite is solidified and rigid vulgarity. If a person always lives in a vulgar world, far away from the rivers, lakes, seas, sky and earth in nature, then he will easily lose the noblest, most natural and purest part of his mind. People who live in the natural environment may not have aesthetics, but at least they are simple and peaceful.
Nowadays, "the spectacular beauty in nature and books can no longer make people happy." Robbery, greed, extravagance/have become idols we admire and worship; /No more simple life and noble thoughts; /Pu Sumei, who originated from the fine ancient tradition, has/has passed away, and there is no longer peace and tranquility, awe-inspiring simplicity, and no pure religious belief embodied in daily laws. All resources and creations have become assets: fish in the water, birds in the sky and products on the ground. ..... "All landowners in selfish human there, all people have lost their own that a god-given freedom.
A large number of people are rapidly pouring into cities, and industrial civilization is rapidly devouring the true colors of nature. Pollution and destruction are everywhere, and chaotic people swim around in huge cities, wandering in the shadow of artificial nature, away from the eternal purity and truth of nature. When he is exhausted, miserable, helpless or helpless, he can no longer get long-term comfort from nature. Even a glance at the pure sky or a breath of fresh air, even such a small wish, has begun to become extremely extravagant. Away from nature, inevitably, illusion begins to suppress reality, and vulgarity begins to cover the aura. What people often experience is not the liveliness and simplicity of life, but the powerlessness and drift of life.
With an optimistic attitude, someone may confidently tell me that we will come back! When the economy develops greatly and we have money, we will come back! Yes, we will buy back nature with money again, but this is only meaningful to the macro-whole human beings, to our descendants and to those living individuals who are working day and night at present? Is it an inevitable choice for people to stay away from nature? How can we get spiritual happiness from nature!
Second, "spiritual presupposition"
As a spiritual person, material satisfaction often makes people feel superficial, but it can't bring people profound beauty and full happiness. There is always a long way to go from material to spiritual. Even if a person lives in beautiful nature, if he doesn't know how to appreciate and communicate with nature, his heart will still be far away from nature, and he still can't get aesthetic happiness and happiness from her.
Judging from the appearance of living space, although people living in rural areas are closer to nature than people living in cities, they are actually not closer to nature than urban residents, because there is still a question of whether they can really get in touch with nature at the spiritual level.
Marx preached the basic position of matter, and thought that spirit was always built on a certain material basis. There is nothing wrong with Marx's words. People are still alive, which is the premise of everything. Originally, because people have been blindly believing in it, they will enter a misunderstanding and form a mindset. Whenever "spirit" is mentioned, people in daily life immediately think of material things, so they feel that spirit is far away and unrealistic, so they avoid it. China people's attitude towards "spirit" is always irrational. For the public, few people will think about whether they have the basic premise of pursuing spiritual life and what "spirit" means to themselves.
If a person lacks the consciousness of independent exploration spirit, it is difficult for him to get in touch with the spirit. So is nature. If you don't know how to explore the beauty of nature and communicate with it actively, it will be difficult to touch the real existence of nature and its spirit. Only by being an aesthetic person can one really touch the realm of nature.
Man exists as a spiritual man, which is the fundamental basis why man is called man. Although many people do not necessarily exist in an aesthetic state now, as a person, everyone is born with this potential. As long as you are willing, people can be closer to nature. The key question is whether you are willing to pay for it. The starting means of experience are reading and thinking. As far as farmers are concerned, there is no doubt that they are relatively poor materially, but it cannot be concluded that farmers cannot move towards aesthetics.
People living in rural areas have unique conditions. Their objective distance from nature is zero, but their subjective distance is almost 108000 miles. If they can activate their sleeping aesthetic consciousness and shorten their subjective distance from nature, their spiritual life will also change. Knowing how to appreciate and appreciate nature will naturally map to their spiritual space in a brand-new aesthetic state. Tao Yuanming, self-reliant, drinking and writing poems in the countryside, can be called both a poet and a farmer. How wonderful it would be if farmers' friends could, like Tao Yuanming, experience the endless richness and beauty of nature around them and gain solid self-confidence, full spirit and happiness under the condition of insufficient material resources. This is not just a fantasy, as long as you work hard, it can become a reality. Since ancient times, there have been some people who have reached this level in rural society. They have been living a beautiful life in the embrace of nature, and Thoreau's attempt is a very representative example.
Based on the essence that a person is a spiritual person, I believe that a person can still live an aesthetic life even without artistic talent, but at different levels, they may not all reach the realm of Tao Yuanming.
When I was reading Cao Wenxuan's The Second World, I came across a theory about artistic aesthetics, which left a deep impression on me. When talking about "spiritual presupposition", he wrote: the empty subject can't feel art, and people without spiritual presupposition can't appreciate art. This reminds me of the first paragraph written by Song Lian in "Introduction to Sending Chen Ting to the Roof": "The mountains and rivers in the southwest are the strangest in Sichuan. However, if you go to Wan Li, Zhongzhou, there is a risk of Jiange plank road on land, and there is a risk of winding ponds and rolling mountains in the water. After the horse, the mountain is high and the bamboo is high. If you are tired for ten days, you won't see the top of it. If you look down on it, you will find that you can't know that you are poor, and your courage will decline. The water is flowing, the river stone will be strong, the waves will be evil and the vortex will be treacherous. When the ship loses its size, it will break into pieces and sink, and the fish and turtles will be full. It's hard to do this. Therefore, those who are not official and have no power can't swim; Illiterate people have no income from traveling; If you are not strong, you will die of old age, and those who are curious will hate it. " ⑨
"Spiritual presupposition" and "educated people have nothing to gain from traveling" are both theoretical technical terms and vivid and natural descriptions. They are concerned about a * * * similarity: if they want to have an aesthetic experience and appreciation of nature, there must be a premise, that is, the aesthetic subject must be a talented and literate person, who has already possessed the minimum artistic accomplishment and aesthetic ability.
References:
(1) The Daydream of a Lonely Walker, by Rousseau, translated by Zhang Chi, Hunan People's Publishing House, 1985, p. 1 14.
(2) young werther, by Goethe, translated by Yang, People's Literature Publishing House, 1997, p. 2.
③ Ibid., p. 52.
④ Meditation on Nature, by Emerson, translated by Bofan, Shanghai Social Sciences Press, 1993, p. 69.
⑤ Outline of the History of Chinese Aesthetics, by Ye Lang, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2005.
6 London, 1802, Wordsworth's poem, reprinted from Wang Nuo's European and American Ecological Literature, Peking University Publishing House, 2003.
⑦ Karl Marx: Early text, translation; By Basil Blackwell, David Mclellan, 197 1, 1 12.
⑧ The Second World, by Cao Wenxuan, Writers Publishing House, 2003, p. 107.
Pet-name ruby "view of ancient prose", Tianjin ancient books publishing house, volume 12 "preface to Qing Wen's sending Tiantai Chen Tingxue", Song Lian, p. 600.