Purify the mind and limit desires.
Health care experts have always believed that if you want to live a long and healthy life, you should not only be healthy physically, but also mentally. For example, Gao Lian, a health care practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, said: My wife only knows about self-cultivation, but she doesn't know about self-cultivation. She only knows how to love her body, but she doesn't know how to love God. She doesn't know that her body is carrying God's car. If God goes, people will die, and if the car loses, she will run. ? The general idea of this sentence is that people only know how to maintain their bodies, but not their spirit. They only know how to maintain their bodies, but they don't know how to maintain their spirits. They don't know that the body is like a car with a soul. When the soul goes, people will die. If the car breaks down, the horse will run away. From this point of view, in order to live a long and healthy life, we should not only pay attention to the material conditions such as diet, sleep and living environment, but also pay attention to people's mental conditions such as thoughts and emotions, both of which are indispensable.
Laozi elaborated the mental state in detail and in depth. He said:? Disaster is greater than dissatisfaction, and blame is greater than desire. ? In other words, it never rains but it pours. If people want what they see, it will be a disaster.
Why is this happening? He added:? Who is close to your name and body, who is better than your body and goods, who gets sick or dies? Therefore, loving you very much will cost a lot, hiding too much will lead to your death, contentment is not shameful, contentment is not dangerous and can last for a long time. ? Which is kinder, vanity or life? Which is more important, life or property? Which is more harmful, gain or loss? Therefore, excessive love will inevitably lead to greater expenses. The more you save, the more you will lose. The central meaning of this sentence is that if you want something, you have to pay a certain price. Greed will inevitably lead to excessive energy consumption, which is harmful to the health.
Lao Tzu advocates? Despair and emptiness, thinking less, wanting less? . In his view, human life is caused by the sexual activities of men and women, and sexual activities come from the essence of the human body. Essence is the source of human life; Thin feet, strong life; Exhaustion leads to weak life. How to preserve sperm? Is indifferent to emptiness, thinking less, thinking less. This idea is highly praised by later doctors and health experts. This important idea is widely discussed in the book Laozi, such as? Simple, think less, want less? . It means simple appearance, simple heart, less selfishness and less desire. ? Disaster is greater than dissatisfaction, and blame is greater than desire. So contentment is often enough. ? In other words, there is no greater disaster than dissatisfaction, and there is no greater sin than greed. Therefore, knowing how to satisfy such satisfaction will always be satisfied, and the idea of keeping in good health will come from this.
Lao tze repeatedly stressed? Simple and simple, selfish? It means simple in appearance and simple in heart, reducing selfishness and desire. He said he wanted it? What will you get if you don't blame? Just don't value rare goods, but? Fight for it? Just don't argue with others for anything, so as not to cause mental stress and damage your health.
Emphasis on keeping the center.
Lao tze said? It is better to be moderate than to make yourself poor. It means you can't talk too much, but you'd better keep it moderate. He also said? The wind never stops, and the rain never stops? It means that the wind can't keep blowing and the rain can't keep raining, so it's better to put it in the middle.
I think so, right? What, luxury goods, and Thailand? This means that we should get rid of those extreme, extravagant and excessive things. He asked for it? Square without cutting, cheap without embarrassment, straight without arrogance, bright without dazzling? It means square but not stiff and not forced, with edges but not scratching people. Integrity has no scruples, and light has no dazzling light. In other words, don't overdo it, so that you won't suffer.
What will happen if you don't do this? He said? Strong beam can't die? The perpetrator died of natural causes. Say it again? Go number it, no? Pursuing too much honor means no honor. So, he thinks it's for the best? Don't want to be like jade or stone? It is best not to want to be expensive jade or cheap stone.
Zunyi health care
Lao Tzu was right when he expounded his political philosophy? Quiet for health? Made a subtle and profound description. For example, Lao Tzu said: be empty, be quiet, be United in everything, and I will turn back. Everything must be traced back to the source. It's quiet after all. ? This sentence means: try to keep your mind quiet and keep quiet; Everything is growing and developing, and I observe their cycles. Although things have changed a lot, they have all returned to the starting point. What is this called? Quiet? . This has become the oldest and most classic health motto often quoted by later generations, and it also provides a good guiding role for health qigong practitioners to achieve relaxation and natural requirements in the practice process.
Judging from Laozi's many expositions, does he take qigong exercise as enlightenment? Tao? In an important way. He said:? There is often no desire to see its wonders, and there is often a desire to see its subtlety. The two have the same name, and they are called mystery, mystery, mystery, and all the wonderful doors. ? The general idea of this sentence is that people can often see the subtlety of everything from the invisible place and the ultimate of everything from the tangible place. The two are different, each has its own source, and they are far-reaching, far-reaching and profound. It is the door to all subtle things. However, how can we observe these mysteries? That is to say. Anger leads to softness? And then what? Clean up the mystery? In order to do this. In qigong, you can only see it if you put your mind on your abdomen and keep quiet? Tao? The ultimate change, okay? Tao? Mysterious. Of course, with the development of the times. Fitness qigong has developed into an independent traditional national sport, which is no longer sought after by people? Become immortal and gain enlightenment? Purpose, but we can still critically draw useful nutrition from the exposition of the sages.
In addition, there are some contents in Laozi that are directly related to the specific methods of qigong exercise. For example, he said: empty the heart, strengthen the abdomen, weaken the will and strengthen the bones. ? In other words, acrobatics should eliminate distractions, guard the abdomen, weaken the desire and strengthen the bones and muscles. At the same time emphasize? Block it, close its door, dissuade it and settle its disputes? . It means that when practicing martial arts, you should eliminate distractions and external interference, lead an honest and clean life, eliminate disputes and keep quiet for health. This can be said to be the oldest trick of health qigong, which eliminates distractions and draws it into silence. Specifically, it is necessary to strengthen the exercise of abdominal breathing when practicing, which can better achieve the purpose of strengthening the body.
As can be seen from the above, Laozi's way of keeping in good health emphasizes that to keep in good health and live a long life, it is necessary to be quiet. His views were also inherited by China ancient health experts and even Taoists and Confucianists, such as Zhuangzi, Bao Puzi, Sun Simiao and even Su Dongpo, Bai Juyi and Lu You, and similar records were handed down in their works. Therefore, Laozi is not only a great philosopher and thinker, but also a great health preserving family.
Be careful
Laozi said: The life span is 100 years, and people who take good care of them can live longer. It's like candles burning for different lengths of time, with a big core and a small core. A person speaks loudly and whispers; Too much strength and little spirit; Being grumpy and never getting angry have different consequences. Therefore, we should not worry about our lack of achievements, nor should we pursue fame and fortune to go with the flow. Indifferent and inaction, the air is naturally full. He called these? The elixir of life? .
Laozi talked about two ways of keeping in good health. He thinks that people who are good at keeping in good health don't enter? Death? And that kind of food nutrition, extravagant and lewd regimen, right? Move to the dead? . People should? Born? , should not? Die? .
Laozi believes that from birth to death, three-tenths of people can live a long life without being damaged by troubles and lust; Three-tenths of them died prematurely because of ease and wealth; Three-tenths of people who could have lived to be a hundred years old died abnormally because of careless actions. Why don't people live long? That's because some people over-nourish themselves and live in luxury. People who are good at keeping in good health can avoid disasters if they know how to act cautiously.
Laozi's theory of health preservation has profound philosophy, which has been continuously inherited and carried forward by later generations, enriching Laozi's theory of health preservation. Laozi's health preserving theory and immortal thought advocated by immortals, and Yang Zhu's? Guisheng? This theory is completely different. Laozi's philosophical thought has a far-reaching influence on the ideological, educational, medical and martial arts circles of later generations. His? Heaven and man are one, indifferent, and think less about nothingness? 、? Content? 、? Temperance, good care and regular exercise? His thoughts and methods of qigong health care still have guiding significance for modern people's health care.