Walden and Zhuangzi have many similar views, and Thoreau's philosophy really has a great influence on the United States. In fact, I think there are quite a few Zhuangzi elements in American thinking. Many middle-class people don't save money, live in the present, have pressure but little anxiety. They are poor and happy every day, but many people in China work hard, save money to buy a house, and then buy another one. Even in the upper middle class, children's anxiety about going to school will soon scratch their heads.
Time is a long river, and I just fish in it. I drink water from the stream; But when I drink water, I can clearly see the sand at the bottom of the river, so I feel how shallow the stream is. The river is gurgling and eternal. I'd rather drink deeper or go fishing in the sky. The sky is full of stars, like pebbles. I can't even count one.
I can't say what I feel, but I think this paragraph is beautiful, especially the last sentence.
Sit down safely and gallop in the spiritual world, which is the benefit that books bring me. A glass of drunken people; I felt this kind of happiness when I drank the dew of tantric religion.
Thoreau spent more than two years in Walden Lake, except for working to maintain a basic life, reading books, chatting with distant villagers, or catching fish and having a simple meal in the weeds in the backyard when friends came. If he complains that he doesn't have enough to eat, he won't be more prepared because of the large number of people and live at his original pace.
I want to say that this attitude towards life should not be too cool. Think about others all day and take care of their emotions. How can we find time to improve ourselves and enjoy life? Nowadays, many people think that I have to maintain this kind of interpersonal relationship, and I can ask someone for help in the future if I have difficulties. In fact, most of these so-called friends are good when you are in trouble.
It is much wiser to find three or four confidants and friends with the same views, manage well and develop friendship in depth than to cast a wide net. Use this time to improve yourself and make yourself more attractive and add value, ok?
Before last year, I didn't understand that I needed the help of so-called business friends to keep my identity when I came back with my baby alone. Nobody wants to keep it. Everyone used to smile at you. I thought this little help would help, but the result was really realistic. Of course, it is understandable that Trump pushed hard at that time, but any little external pressure may break a friendship that is not very deep. Can't you understand after that?
At present, I only have three friends, two of whom are close to me, one of whom went to California, and the others didn't come to me, and I didn't care, including a classmate who used to feel good. I only found out last year that she basically didn't help me for three or four years, including when I moved, she agreed to help me, and when she came, she said that her husband didn't have time.
On the contrary, every time I go to her house, I have to look after a baby for her. She was talking about business with her mobile phone, and the TV courier arrived on the day I was invited to play, and then I couldn't help her install the TV. I have to wonder whether you want to chat with me or lend me a TV for yourself. I don't think this kind of thing happens once or twice. It's a blatant fool to treat others like this every time. She moved recently, and it's far away, just to my liking.
The so-called eloquence on the podium is often the rhetoric in the study. On impulse, the speaker made an eloquent speech to the people who came to listen to his speech; The writer pays attention to a more peaceful life, and the people and things that inspire the speaker will only distract him. The object of the writer's speech is the wisdom and mind of human beings, and he can be understood at any time.
What writers need is quiet creation, and achievements in any field need concentration and quietness, except politicians, which need to go deep into society.
An illiterate or perhaps supercilious businessman, relying on his diligence and hard work, has gained the leisure and independence he dreamed of, thus becoming a rich and fashionable society. At this point, he will eventually turn to the more advanced but unattainable fields of intellectuals and geniuses. At this moment, he will only feel that he is not cultivated enough, and that all wealth brings him only vanity and lack. In order to further prove that he still has brains, he took pains to strive for a kind of knowledge literacy for his children-he deeply felt that this was what he lacked; As a result, he became a real pioneer of the family.
This passage is too good. The accumulation of material wealth to great wealth is not the beginning of a family, nor is it that three generations are not rich. Only by turning to the morality and intellectuals based on material wealth is the founder of the family. There is an old saying in China that morality is passed down from generation to generation, followed by farming, poetry and songs, and wealth is passed down from generation to generation, but only three generations.
I think the highest moral heirloom should include sages like Zhuangzi and Confucius, as well as precious spiritual wealth that has stood the test of time in the West. China's culture is really great, but it doesn't mean that others are not great. Zhuangzi, who has been writing for so long, knows that it is impossible to be the best at home. The world is multipolar and balanced, so is his thought.
But no matter where a person goes, those dirty institutions will catch him and force him to return to that desperate mechanism. Yes, I could have resisted strongly, and no one bothered me except those who represented the country. I don't have a lock, no bolt, only a desk for manuscripts. I didn't even hammer a nail into the latch or window. Although I am going out for a few days, I never lock the door during the day or at night, even if I go to Maine Forest for two weeks next fall. However, my house is more respected than those guarded by soldiers. Tired ramblers can rest here and keep warm by the fire; Literature lovers can look through some books on my desk and enjoy themselves; Curious people can open my cupboard door and see what's left, or what to eat for dinner. However, although many people from all walks of life came to the lake, I never felt inconvenient and never lost anything-only one book, Selected Works of Homer, maybe because of the trouble of covering the cover, which I think was taken away by a soldier in the barracks. I am convinced that if all people live as simple as I do, then theft and robbery will not happen. These things will only happen in a society with uneven wealth.
Thoreau's life, when it comes to Walden Lake, everyone thinks that he has gone to practice behind closed doors. In fact, on the contrary, he is extremely open and can accept anyone to go to his home. This kind of irresistible is great, especially as Zhuangzi said, the heart is fasting, the room is empty, and the room is empty.
When the snow was deepest and the snowstorm was heaviest, a poet came all the way to see me. A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a journalist and even a philosopher may sometimes be afraid to flinch, but nothing can frighten a poet, because his motivation is pure love. Who can predict his coming and going? His profession needs him at any time.
Poets live in imagination, so they are fearless.
Looking inward, you will find that there are 1000 areas in your heart that have not been discovered yet. Travel around these areas and you will become an expert in the universe in your heart.
Identify, look inward, find a different self, read the book of life, and get to know thousands of people in Qian Qian, because we are essentially no different. Everyone was born out of secular desires, but later everyone developed their own different parts.