? Xu Huaiqing//Wen

I saw an article "Longevity lies in rest" on the Internet, and many viewpoints in it are very positive and beneficial, which is worth studying seriously.

Modern people have a prejudice that a lot of exercise is the best expression of human life. It seems that only exercise is the need and necessity of human life. There is a saying that "life lies in sports", which obviously absolutes sports. This is a very one-sided understanding of life, a very harmful misleading, and fundamentally an ignorance.

Life needs exercise, but we must understand that the movement of any life is based on effective energy. Simply put, human movement needs the support of power. Where does the motivation of life come from? Although this is a very complicated and profound knowledge, one thing is very popular and clear, that is, the movement of life is based on rest, because we know that any movement consumes energy, and rest is the first thing to save and produce energy. The natural law is that there is no rain in the sky, no long wind in the ground, the rain stops, and the water vapor slowly gathers after the rain; When the wind has a rest, the wind stops and the trees are quiet, and everything is quiet again. And people have a combination of work and rest, work at sunrise and rest at sunset, which is quiet. Therefore, the effective combination of exercise and rest is the only natural law.

In the existence of life, motion and stillness are the manifestations of two basic different functions of life. They differ only in attributes, but not in essence. They are all indispensable in human life. Because of the different functions, the dynamic and static are limited, interdependent and cyclical, and cannot be completely separated. Motion and stillness are relative. Where there is movement, there must be stillness, and only when there is stillness can there be movement. Dynamic rooted in static, static for use. So static braking is the most natural way of life. Otherwise, there will be no restraint in sports, and it will become turmoil and disaster. As far as the essential energy of life is concerned, quietness is accumulation, storage and purification; Exercise is exertion, operation and consumption. It can be seen that in any case, life should not focus on sports and despise rest, so life will really be destroyed by sports.

A large part of a person's life needs to be spent in silence, in which sleep is a very important link. Scientists have made extensive research on people's sleep. Although there are not many positive results, there is no doubt that sleep is an important part of life. Many people think that sleeping is a waste of life, so they sleep day and night. In fact, it is stupid, at the expense of health. Any life is self-spiritual, that is to say, it has the function of self-regulation, and it has its own rules when it can move and when it needs to be quiet. For example, it is the dynamic and static principle of nature to work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Without deep sleep, it is impossible to have a clear mind, a quiet mind and no personal motivation. If you can't sleep well, you can't calm down, you can't calm down, you can't calm down, you must be in a daze and flustered; So, can you move? Do you dare to move? Don't forget that human movement is dominated and guided by God's will. If God is not clear, his heart is uneasy, the movement will be destroyed and chaos will occur. This should be the minimum common sense.

The sports we discussed above generally refer to people's physical behaviors, such as labor and physical exercise, and deep-seated sports are the foundation of life. For example, the operation of blood, the circulation of qi pulse, heartbeat and breathing are all internal movements and static movements; Mind, thought, consciousness, happiness, anger, worry, thinking, surprise, fear, sadness, etc. Are static, that is, static in motion; There are also the transport and transformation of nutrients, the birth and change of cells and so on. , are static, dynamic, static, dynamic alternating, natural, quiet, independent, self-transformation. How can the static and the dynamic be opposed and separated?

Here, we pay attention to the natural meaning of life in silence.

Man is a creature of self-spirit. Only when he calms down can his life be unconscious, active, self-adjusting and energetic. Therefore, the quiet state is the most effective, full and highest performance for people to enter the natural existence. In ancient times, it was often said that people can always be quiet, and heaven and earth will return. This means that people who are often silent can naturally assimilate with heaven and earth, and silence can correct itself. However, there is also a definition of silence. Whether it is moving or static, excessive use is harmful to body and mind. So there are dead movements and activities, and dead movements deviate from silence and die of exhaustion. Activities are mainly static, moving without loss, and moving with peace is expensive; An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life. There are stillness, quietness, passivity, loss of autonomy, quietness and initiative, all of which are under my control. Therefore, silence means that people consciously return to silence, which can also be regarded as autonomy. Nature is dynamic, and ordinary people can perceive it from the appearance, but if you can deeply perceive nature, you will understand the true meaning of natural silence. Nature in silence is full of infinite energy, omniscient and omnipotent, which is the real existence of quiet nature. This is exactly what the ancients called "doing nothing without doing anything".

I discussed Tai Chi culture before, and that's what I'm talking about. Every one of us will often unconsciously feel (wisdom), there is a huge energy in the dark, everywhere. It is this power that controls our world, our destiny and life, and promotes the development of life and society. The ancients called this power: primitive, innate, true, ancestral spirit, or the essence of the universe. That is, the ontology of time and space, the origin of the world and the motive force of things in modern scientific exploration. This is also the root of Taiji culture handed down by China for thousands of years, which we have been calling Taiji for thousands of years. Tai Chi cloth is wonderful, and personal Tai Chi can be naturally felt in silence, and it is actually applied to yourself.

When we really enter a quiet state, the energy can reach a certain level, people can move automatically, and various potential functions can be revealed. Only in this way can you be healthy and strong, and this is the real self-improvement. Strengthening oneself internally can also get twice the result with half the effort for the growth of life. Why use external exercise to force yourself? Don't waste people and money, mediocrity is self-disturbing. Then again, however, a person who has no quiet ability and lacks quiet kung fu uses his mind in a crooked place, grows up in nutrition and gradually becomes a deformed person. Really need more exercise, more hardship, more consumption and more rehabilitation.

Each of us has different ideas, and we know things from different angles and depths. Besides, everyone's physical quality is different, and the environment will also have an impact. Therefore, it is entirely your choice what kind of exercise you adapt to and what kind of quiet level you enter. I emphasize here that quietness is the foundation of life, and it is also based on personal practical experience combined with traditional health culture. I want to remind people not to put the cart before the horse, to recognize the true face of life, to care for themselves from the source of life, to work hard, to be healthy, and to have real health is a smart life.