Midlife, Small Temper, Few Expectations, Good Mindset
Zeng Gong's temper was very bad when he was young, which made him offend many people.
Later in his diary, he reflected: 'After the conflict, people became more amiable, and I was more adamant. Bad words came out of my mouth, angry words did not return to my body. This is not known, let alone others? I must remember this, as a warning.'
Zeng Gong said: 'Excessive power leads to anger.'
The more unskilled a person is, the more irritable he is.
This temper is essentially the anger of one's own inability.
What temper you have is what kind of pattern you have:
First-class people, have ability, no temper;
Middle-class people, have ability, have temper;
Inferior people, no ability, big temper.
By the time he was old, Zeng Gong had cultivated a calm and composed state.
Even some people gave such evaluations:
General Left (Left Wing) is strict, people dare not offend him;
General Right (Right Wing) is bright, people cannot offend him;
General Zeng (Zeng Gong) is benevolent, people do not dare to offend him.
Temper is everyone's, bringing it out is just a instinct, suppressing it is a.
Controlling one's temper, keeping amicable relations, and thus gathering people around.
I wanted to love, eat, and instantly turn into a cloud with half-light and half-dark.
Later I realized that life is a slow hammering process.
People get older and older, and wishes fade away day by day.
Completion is the ideal state of life;
Not completing is the normal state of life.
Su Shi was very successful in his early years, and he was famous in Beijing at a young age.
But in his later years, he was displaced and exiled, not because he was dismissed from office, but because he was constantly on the move.
Arriving in Hanzhou, Su Shi lived a very frugal life.
He said: 'Here, there is no room, no meat to eat, no medicine to treat, only rice and water.'
But he was happy to hear that.
Su Shi said:
'It's okay to use little, it's okay to sleep early, it's okay to eat late, and it's okay to eat in peace.'
'As you say, a good field yields more than one meal a day, and a good house is just for sleeping.'
Su Shi's desires were not many, a bowl of rice, a simple shed, a grassy place was enough.
His son, Su Mei, accompanied him on his exile, and the father and son enjoyed their poverty together.
We all hope to live a prosperous life.
Without a prosperous life, having family companionship is good too.
Without family companionship, being healthy and safe is also good.
A good mindset brings good luck, and you will always be lucky.
Wang Yangming offended the official Liu Jin, and was chased by him to the riverbank.
He was forced to discard his personal belongings and pretended to commit suicide by drowning.
First, he deceived the pursuers, and then secretly crossed the river at night to escape into the deep mountains.
After landing, he had nowhere to stay, so he asked the temple to shelter him, but he was rejected.
Wang Yangming had to lean against the temple wall and make do with the night.
That night, there was a tiger roaming around, roaring around the temple.
The people in the temple thought he would be killed by the tiger.
The next morning, they opened the door and saw Wang Yangming still leaning against the wall, sleeping soundly.
Everyone was surprised: 'This man must be extraordinary, otherwise how could he be safe?'
Wang Yangming was indifferent, and when he left, he wrote a poem on the temple wall.
The poem said: 'Difficulties in the present are not hindered by the heart. How can you float in the sky and see the empty space?'
The difficulties and dangers in front of you are like clouds floating in the air.
As long as you have a good mindset, practice the seventy-two changes, and face the eighty-one difficulties.
No mountain can't be crossed, no flame mountain can't be crossed.
'The Doctrine of the Mean' says: 'The wind does not always end, the rain does not always end.'
Even the biggest wind will eventually stop in the morning;
Even the fastest rain will eventually stop at night.
This is the natural law of heaven and earth.
After the wind and rain, there will be a clear blue sky.
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