Diligence: If a person is not diligent, he is no different from a grass or a tree
Diligence is also called labor. No matter how hard you work, if you do your best to stride (mǐn), you are called diligent. In all walks of life, those who are diligent and do not slacken off will definitely achieve success and become outstanding. Even monks, who are monks, who rest in the caves, who wander between the mountains and the waters, who have overcome the red earth and are not contentious with the world, have their own way of doing the hard work. Let’s take two examples.
One is the Zen master Baizhang Huaihai in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, who was close to Ma Zu when he received the Seal of the Heart and worked diligently. He formulated the “Hundred Abbot’s Rules”, which he himself practiced faithfully. “He did not work for one day and did not eat for one day. He practiced and labored on one side. When he was “out of the slope”, he led the way as an example. When he reached his twilight years, he continued to operate as usual, and his disciples were so upset that they secretly hid his farming tools. The Zen master could not find the tools and did not work that day, but he did not eat that day. His hardworking spirit touched many people.
Another one is the monk Shih, who was famous for his landscape paintings in the early Qing Dynasty. Look at his self-titled “Endless Streams and Mountains”: “All people born in heaven and earth should be diligent and self-sufficient, not lazy. If you are a lazy person, you are a lazy person, and you are useless. ……, the cassock lives in the Niushu Mountain Room, burning and chanting every day and night, and when there is a moment left, he will climb the mountain and choose the victory, and when he has something, he will make several landscapes or a paragraph of words with his pen, and in any case, he will not let idleness pass. The so-called quiet vivid, moving will make a career. The end teach a person to stand in the world without shame. If you do not know, lazy and not aware, what is different from the grass? “
People but not diligent, is no different from the grass, this sentence is very painful. To live a life of satiety and inattentiveness is called vegetate, which means to live the life of a plant. The Chinese and foreign ideas coincide.
The opposite of diligence is laziness. Lie in bed in the morning to sleep, get up to bed is still lazy not things neat and tidy, can delay until tomorrow to do things today do not do, can push to others to do things they do not do, do not want to understand things do not want to understand, will not do things do not want to learn, do not intend to do things better, do not intend to expand the results more, delay good fun, four bodies are not diligent, can not forget how to spend the weekend, how to vacation period. This is a standard lazy man’s picture.
It is common for people to work hard and to be happy. Because this is the common sense, people need to spur themselves. The positive meaning of diligence is that people should advance their virtue and cultivate their work, not only different from grass and trees, but also different from animals, and become a veritable spirit of all things.
Laziness: lazy but not aware, why is different from grass and trees
There are no people who are not lazy. Early in the morning, especially in the winter, the nest warm, it is not easy to get up to make a fight. If the chicken crows, let it crow. The alarm clock goes off, why not press the button and stay in bed for a few more minutes.
Bai Xiangshan is probably a habitual sleeper, he did not shy away from the “day high sleep is still lethargic up, the small pavilion heavy coverlet not afraid of cold”. He was not only lazy, but also gluttonous, said loudly: “Lazy gluttony is also related, happy also who knows? Bai Xiangshan lived 75 years old, but wrote 2,790 poems, and sleeps lazily in the morning, what else can we say?
The word “lazy” comes from the word “female”, and the person who created the word seems to be prejudiced against women. In fact, diligence and laziness have nothing to do with gender. Among the historical figures, JI Kang, who was lazy by nature, should be considered one. He admitted to himself: “not involved in the scriptures, the sex is lazy, the tendons worn out meat slow, head and face often January 15 not wash, not boring itch, can not wash. Every time I often urinate, but I can’t stand it, so that the cell is slightly turned, is up. “
At the same time, he is also “sleep happy to get up late” of the disciple, and “sex again more fleas, scratching endlessly”. He could not wash his hair, face or bath for a long time, so much so that he was covered with lice! He talked with lice (Note: To talk with lice literally means to hold down the lice on one side and talk about it on the other. He and Wang Meng, who talked with lice (note: to talk with lice literally means to hold down the lice while talking. Later, they were often used to describe talking calmly and fearlessly), were both famous scholars.
Bai Juyi “after years of not bathing, dust and dirt full of skin”, but not because of laziness? Su Dongpo also seems to be sloppy enough, he has “old age is lazy, body dirt still think of bathing” the sentence, lazy to the body covered with dirt when you want to do the bath.
Women do not seem to this, not yet because of laziness and ChangYin no hidden cited to do since. It is always the woman who presides over the feed, and it is always the woman who sews and pounds the anvil. “Early three light, late three panic” is the former popular female self-motivation, the so-called three light, three panic refers to the head, face, feet. Once upon a time, the woman, sleep from morning to night, no sleep deprivation, up and down are to serve thoughtful, but also grabbed the tail of the rooster on the up, to take care of her own “women’s appearance She has to get up at the tail of the rooster to take care of her “woman’s appearance”. Her head had to be combed, her face had to be washed, and her feet had to be wrapped. So the morning glory before the flowers bloom petunia, not called “diligent mother”, the lazy woman did not appreciate the points, probably she can only watch the blossoms.
Nowadays, of course, the situation is different, we look at the so-called new women to move forward, which one is not a living tiger general, the main internal and external, set of household and professional in one? If there really is a so-called lazy wife in the world, I think the number is not more than the number of men who are lazy. There was a popular children’s song in Beiping once: “No combing of the head, no washing of the face, picking up the urinal and scooping rice” is an exaggerated satire. The word “lazy” comes from the word “female”, which is a little bit wrong.
Anyone who is comfortable with laziness, most likely has his or her own set of ideas. Why do it yourself when you can push it to someone else? Why do it today when you can put it off until tomorrow? A push a drag, lazy can do everything. Thinking that occasional laziness, no harm. And the world is changing, often change is through, at the time of pushing and dragging, the situation has changed, may be some difficult problems will be solved naturally.
“Do not need to count the hard work of the heart, everything Yuan Lai has a life! “As if sometimes the pie is going to fall from the sky. This intention is only one loss, because life is impermanent, such as stone fire wind lamp, after today there is tomorrow, after tomorrow there is tomorrow, but no one knows whether they have tomorrow. Even if the life should not be, tomorrow there are things tomorrow, the more things accumulate, the more lazy to do. “Lice are not itchy, debt is not worry”, that is self-deprecating! Lazy people do things, procrastinate, in the end there is no not lose three or four wretched panic. You are lazy, others are also lazy, push again and again, push around, the result is only a mistake.
Lazy is not untreatable, but must start early, and must start from a small place. This matter needs to work as a parent to help a hand. There is a family of three children are greedy sleep, when the holiday is justified sleep, when the mother picked up a bamboo pole used for drying clothes in the three cribs sweep, the three little tricks like a carp to roll over and get up. After that they got into the habit of waking up early, until they grew up. There were several newspapers in my father’s room, and he was welcome to read them, but he had a strange problem: Anyone who finished reading the newspaper had to fold it and put it back in its place, or he would yell. So three little tricks to touch the class, not only read the newspaper immediately restore, for other household items do not dare to put it with the hands. Not lazy in small places, the big things will be easy to be diligent.
I am a rather lazy person myself, often take the path of resistance to the smallest, wasting a lot of time. “On the shelf is not no book, the lazy eye can not see” (Bai Xiangshan sentence). Waiting to know the time to use the work, in vain surprised the late years.
In the eighteenth century in England, Suifert, traveling with his servant, the road was muddy, and the next morning he called his servant to scrub his leather boots, the servant had difficulty, he said: “Today scrubbed clean, tomorrow or to mud. He said, “If you scrub them today, they will still be muddy tomorrow.” Suifert said, “Okay, you don’t want to eat breakfast today. If you eat today, you will still have to eat tomorrow. “
The Buddhist monk Baizhang of the Tang Dynasty was encouraged by the saying, “One day without work, one day without food,” to work every day as a farmer until he was too old to rest. One day, his disciples hid his farming tools on purpose so that he could not work. Those who have attained the Way outside the square all know hard work and self-discipline.
In the Qing Dynasty, the painter Shixi Monk inscribed on his picture “Endless Streams and Mountains” the following passage, which is particularly alarming: All people born in heaven and earth should be diligent and self-sufficient, not lazy. If you are a lazy person, you are a lazy person, and you will be useless. …… The cassock lives in the Niushu Mountain Room and burns chanting every day, and when there is a moment left, he will climb a mountain and choose a victory. As the saying goes, if you are quiet and lively, you will make a career out of moving. The end teach a person to stand in the world without shame. If you do not know, lazy and do not realize, what is different from the grass!
A small mimosa, but not completely “ignorant, lazy and do not realize! If a person is not as good as a grass, shame! Shame! Shame!
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