Don’t complain, always be happy,
life will eventually usher in a splendid new life.
Author: Insight leyla
Yu Qiuyu said in "Where is the Hometown":
There are not a few people in Chinese history who are capable of literature and martial arts, but there are very few who are superb in both aspects. And Wang Yangming is unparalleled and can be called a miracle.
Throughout Wang Yangming's life, it was full of twists and turns:
He was originally a prodigy, but he failed twice; he wanted to serve the country loyally, but was framed by the eunuchs.
He has experienced the darkness and cruelty of life many times, but he has resolved them one by one with his outstanding wisdom.
Ups and downs in the world, ups and downs of joy and sorrow.
Each of us will also encounter countless confusions and pains.
If you are trapped by the pressure of life at the moment, you might as well calm down and watch this CCTV documentary "Wang Yangming".
When you understand Wang Yangming's ups and downs life, you will no longer blame heaven, earth, or people. The first episode of the
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documentary mentioned that Wang Yangming had top-notch configurations as soon as he was born.
His grandfather Wang Lun was a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty. He was famous all over the world and his students were either rich or noble.
's father, Wang Hua, was the number one scholar in the 17th year of Chenghua, and later served as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Nanjing. He was a role model for the people at that time.
And Wang Yangming is a genius, skilled in cavalry, art of war, classics, and poetry.
According to this life trend, Wang Yangming's career should have been smooth sailing.
However, in fact, his life path was extremely difficult.
In the autumn of 1489, Wang Yangming was deeply influenced by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and hoped to become a sage.
Inspired by "Studying things to gain knowledge", he determined to understand the truth between heaven and earth by studying his own bamboo.
So he stared at the bamboo and meditated day and night for seven whole days.
However, he never understood the secret. Instead, he became seriously ill and almost died.
Wang Yangming, who suffered failure, finally realized a truth:
There are too many things that cannot be accomplished in the world.
Just as we work hard but get nothing, there are always some regrets and setbacks in life, which are not completely under our control.
So he gave up his obsession with becoming a sage immediately, and instead devoted himself to scientific examination.
In the following year, 22-year-old Wang Yangming went to Beijing to participate in the general examination.
On the day the list was announced, he unexpectedly dropped out.
In order to wait for the next scientific examination, Wang Yangming chose to leave the bustling capital and go to the mountains of Zhejiang for retreat.
Unexpectedly, three years later, the tragic news of failure came again.
For a time, there was endless sarcasm around him, and many colleagues were secretly watching Wang Yangming's joke.
Faced with the turmoil from the outside world, Wang Yangming said extraordinarily calmly this time:
"The world is ashamed of not being ranked first, and I am ashamed of being tempted by not being ranked first."
Yes, life is long, and who has not fallen and hit a wall several times? ?
Sometimes we are full of hopes, but we get a slap in the face from reality; sometimes we try our best, but we get the end of fetching water from a bamboo basket. As
moves forward, we always try our best to achieve a satisfactory result.
But fate is so cruel. It makes you understand through trial and error:
There is no smooth life. Suffering and regret are indispensable chapters in everyone's life.
But as Wang Yangming said: In the human world, lotus grows in the mud, and all the hardships in the world are for me to learn from others.
Those bitter experiences in life will ultimately sharpen your heart and make it tougher.
Learn to deal with the changes in life with a calm heart, and you will become more mature as time goes by.
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In the second episode of the documentary, he told such a story.
Wang Yangming did not recover after failing twice.
On the contrary, he adjusted his mentality and devoted himself to the scientific examination again. Finally, he successfully passed the high school examination and officially embarked on the road of becoming an official.
But not long after he became an official, he once again faced a blow from fate.
At that time, the eunuchs in the imperial court were in power, and the eunuch Liu Jin arbitrarily impeached officials who disagreed with him.
As a court official, Wang Yangming stood up many times and spoke up for others.
However, his sincerity not only failed to win the emperor's favor, but was severely punished behind bars.
After serving his sentence, Wang Yangming was demoted to the desolate Longchang of Guizhou.
Longchang is hidden deep in the embrace of rolling mountains. It is surrounded by poisonous fog and overgrown with thorns. It is not easy for people to survive here.
At that time, the servants who were demoted together with Wang Yangming were all miserable and full of complaints about this desolate place.
But Wang Yangming said: The dangers and the barbaric plains are not stuck in the chest, so they are no different from the floating clouds passing through the space.
The dangers in the world, as long as you don't let them occupy your heart, they will pass by gently like clouds in the sky.
In Longchang, the inn where they lived was dilapidated and had no food supply.
Wang Yangming began to transform a nearby cave into a unique residence, and named it "Yangming Xiaodongtian".
Faced with the dilemma of lack of food and clothing, he personally reclaimed wasteland and planted crops.
There was no mellow wine, so he cooked a pot of light rice porridge and drank it happily.
Although life is full of obstacles, Wang Yangming is able to maintain inner peace and calmness.
He reads, meditates, meditates and practices every day, and lives his life contentedly.
Once, a demoted petty official took his son and servant to stay overnight when passing through Longchang.
They walked on the rugged mountain road for a long time and suffered a lot along the way.
So at night, I kept sighing about the rough life of my life.
Not long after the results, all three of them felt unwell and depressed, and eventually passed away with regret.
After Wang Yangming buried the three people, he said with emotion: "It has been three years, and I have survived the miasma and poison, but I have never experienced a day of suffering."
It means: Since I came here, there have been three people The main reason why I was able to survive through the miasma in those years was because I never felt sad even a day.
Life goes round and round, and no one’s world can always have clear skies.
But as "Xunzi" said: Those who know their destiny do not blame heaven, and those who know themselves do not blame others.
If you only indulge in complaints, your life will only fall into endless darkness.
As long as you always have a calm heart, you can still find a trace of peace and happiness in difficult times.
In the ups and downs of life, do not complain and always be happy, and your life will eventually usher in another splendid new life.
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At the beginning of 1510 AD, Wang Yangming's exile period expired and he finally left Longchang.
After he was reinstated, the emperor sent him to Luling, Jiangxi to manage public security.
After Wang Yangming came to Luling, he found that the local customs were arrogant, the people were prone to theft, and the government had a large backlog of cases every day.
Moreover, the people are very dissatisfied with the new officials taking office and always find ways to make things difficult.
When the attendants saw this, they all advised him to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.
Wang Yangming calmed down and dealt with the difficult issues one by one.
After in-depth investigation, he finally found the source of the problem.
It turns out that the imperial taxation was unbearable, coupled with the raging plague, the people in Luling struggled to make a living and had to join gangs to commit robberies, which ultimately created a tense situation between the government and the people.
So Wang Yangming noticed the people's suffering, immediately reduced the tax burden, and issued sixteen notices to improve people's customs.
In just half a year, Luling has been completely renewed and the people are living and working in peace and contentment.
The local people who had made things difficult for him in the past are now full of deep respect and love for him.
Wang Yangming once said: "Everyone has his own anchor, and the root of all changes is only in the heart."
Inner stability is the anchor that guides the direction of life.
If you encounter difficulties, you will complain all the time, and you will inevitably sink into impetuous decadence.
Stabilize your mentality and change secretly, everything will be very different. The
documentary mentioned that when Wang Yangming put down the rebellion, he was finally summoned back to Beijing by the emperor.
After returning to the court, he gradually became deeply tired of the complicated and hypocritical officialdom.
So he decided to leave the turbulent court and concentrate on promoting his theory of "Xin Xue".
However, when "Xin Xue" was first established, it was often slandered as heresy.
After Wang Yangming's disciples heard those bad remarks, they couldn't help complaining: "They don't understand the teacher's knowledge at all, so they make rash comments." After hearing this, Wang Yangming said: "It's because we preached too little."
Faced with the obstacles in his career, Wang Yangming did not complain blindly, but actively looked for a way out. After
arrived in the capital, he began to organize lectures and promote the views of Xinxue. If
doesn't work in one game, then use two games; if two games don't work, then use three games.
Slowly, more and more scholars followed Xinxue, gradually forming a situation that rivaled Neo-Confucianism.
And Wang Yangming finally became a sage.
In fact, each of us will experience ups and downs and turmoil in our long life.
But a truly strong person never complains about others.
Because he knows that complaining will not make the problem go away, it will only make it worse.
Instead of wallowing in complaints and being unable to extricate yourself, it is better to seize the moment and make every effort to turn things around.
The green pines do not complain about the pain of the heavy snow, but stand upright in order to gain fame through the ages;
The plum blossoms do not complain about the cold wind, but bloom in the wind, so that they can gain a proud posture.
What you can do is to transform the emotion of complaint into the power of striving for upward growth.
Only when you can make changes on the ground can you usher in a new turning point in the future.
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In the documentary "Wang Yangming", there is this passage:
More than five hundred years have passed, the world has changed dramatically, and history has forgotten too many romantic figures.
But the comments about Wang Yangming have never stopped.
Scholars rated him as the first-class figure in the Ming Dynasty;
The emperor said that he was a great man of his generation.
But I think what Wang Yangming really left to the world is his bright heart.
Despite the blows of fate one after another, he not only did not fall into despair, but became more open-minded in the face of adversity, and finally achieved the legendary life of becoming a saint.
A few hundred years from now, we will also be in trouble and experience rounds of bad luck.
However, even if the world is unpredictable, as long as we can have a calm attitude like Wang Yangming, we can deal with it calmly and watch the clouds roll and relax.
Like , I hope you and I can practice open-mindedness and detachment, never complain, and live a calm life.
