Animal nature represents a certain desire and ignorance. When a person listens to the guidance of desire and does things, he is not a real person, but tends to exist like an animal; When a person yearns for divinity and approaches it step by step with practical actions, he tends to be more noble than human beings. The true believers and practitioners are the latter.
Most people can't give up their desires because they always regard emotions as real things. What is emotion? It's just a set of ideas formed by external stimuli. For example, when a person walks in the rain and sees lovers playing umbrellas together, he may think that he has no one to walk in the rain with an umbrella, and then he will think of all kinds of losses he has tasted in his life. These losses are smoldering in his heart, so he feels very sorry for himself in the rain.
In fact, like him, there are many people who walk alone in the rain. Perhaps some of them are enjoying the poetry and romance of walking quietly in the rain. It can be seen that the same thing can bring different feelings to a person, and the difference lies in how you think, from which angle and with which mentality.
If you break away from the shackles of consciousness and appearance and face the world with an upright heart, you will feel completely different. You must have seen those simple and lovely children, whether it is a pebble, a stained glass, a novel voice or a fairy tale, which can make them feel very, very happy.
What you mean is that the environment is born of the heart. Generally speaking, the adult world contains many painful factors because of thinking too much.
Why do adults always fail to appreciate the happiness of children? Why do adults always regard fairy tales as unrealistic things and can't learn the nutrition they need from them? Because they have accumulated a lot of social experience and accumulated a lot of prejudices, their consciousness and logic tell themselves that these things are no big deal, just trivial things, fairy tales are unrealistic, just things that deceive children. When they think something is worthless, they completely deny it, and even don't want to explore whether it can provide some nutrition for themselves, whether it is negative or positive. Therefore, the world of adults is far more boring than they think, but it is much more complicated than the truth of the world.
Why is the adult world so complicated? Not because the world itself is complicated, but because the thinking and prejudice of adults make the world complicated. What kind of heart, you can see what kind of world. When your heart is filled with a lot of messy things like a utility room, the world in your eyes is also a huge utility room. So some netizens asked me that China has traditionally attached great importance to reading, and the so-called "government, agriculture, industry and commerce" is the other way around. Why? I told him, not the other way around. You think so because you look at them upside down. You look at them upside down because you have a lot of expectations for the world. You must understand that there is only one reason why a person feels that life is unsatisfactory everywhere, that is, he asks too much and doesn't know how to meet it. Children will find great pleasure in simple things precisely because they don't have too many desires. One of my students had a poor family when she was a child, but she always thought it was the simplest and happiest time in her life, but her parents didn't think so. Her parents feel that they can't afford many things, so they always want to change their living conditions. Later, the living standard of her family really improved, but that simple happiness disappeared. This is a very big difference between adults and children. Children attach importance to happiness itself, while adults attach importance to how to satisfy their own desires, and then find happiness from satisfaction-the happiness of children lies in his simplicity.