Enlarge and relax your mind so that it is as big as space

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Usually people only see themselves, not others. All thoughts revolve around the individual, and all kinds of pursuits are related to oneself, including property, family members, honor, power, fame and so on.

In fact, people are only a little bit when they are born, a little bit when they are alive, and a little bit when they die, a little bit when they stand up, and a little bit when they lie down, no matter when they go to , is just a little bit. .

However, almost everyone feels that they are big and great, as if the world belongs to him. When we fall to the ground and become a little sensible, we will naturally regard our home as our own. After growing up, entering society will treat the company as his own, the group as his own, and the country as his own.

To solve this kind of trouble, you can only expand your mind. How to expand?

First, actually measure your weight. No matter how huge we are, we weigh at most two or three hundred pounds. Three hundred pounds is not much. If it is dehydrated and dried, only a little bit is left, not to mention one or two hundred pounds.

Second, you can imagine yourself as a small spot on the earth, like a drop in the ocean, or even worse. A body of one or two hundred pounds occupies only a little space on the earth. I think I am big, but in fact it is very small. We see that the ants are small, but in fact we are not much bigger than the ants. Compared with the earth, we are too insignificant. Then put your heart to space to see. There are countless and countless cosmic bodies in space. In space, we can't see the asteroid, the Earth, only the red sun and other luminous stars.

This is not to underestimate yourself, but to enlarge and relax your mind, so that it is as big as space. Space is not an entity, it does not have a certain range, it is vast and empty and illusory, only this kind of mind can be broad.

This article comes from the fourth volume of the eighth series of Master Shengyan's Drum Collection "You must be gentle"