Do what you want to do every day, enjoy life, enjoy the happiness brought by doing everything well, and once setbacks and pains come, you will have enough strength to bear them.
Normal mind is a kind of mentality that often appears in our daily life, and it is very important to what happens around us.
Some people think that it is just a confluence of ideas such as "inaction, no dispute, no greed and contentment". That's just an appearance. In fact, this is an attitude after fully understanding your own abilities. "Without ability, it is useless to fight; Without ability, greed can't be greedy. " The judgment of one's own ability requires long-term practice between success and failure in order to fully understand it.
Anyone can have a normal mind.
Normal mind should be a kind of "normality", which can only be held frequently with certain cultivation, because it belongs to a "philosophy of life" that sustains life.
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A normal heart is a pure heart. Normal mind is Tao, and emptiness is Tao. Nothing: Nothing is a substance, a tiny substance, and a substance with infinite life. Emptiness is the characteristic of this material, namely, nothingness and nature, and inaction. Empty, generate everything, decide everything. Although everything is different in phase, its essence is the same.
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There is no door to open.
There are flowers in spring, moons in autumn, cool breeze in summer and snow in winter.
If you don't mind your own business, this is a good time on earth.
Analysis and appreciation
Normal mind is the Tao.
It was first put forward by Mazu Yi Dao. From Nanquan Puyuan to Zhaozhou Congren, it developed and became his unique clan style. So, when the economist asked Zhao Zhoucong, he often answered from ordinary things in front of him, citing several famous case-solving:
The monk asked, "Scholars are confused, please ask the teacher for instructions." Zhao: "Did you eat porridge?" Monk cloud: "Eat porridge" Zhao Yun broom: "Wash dishes!" His monk suddenly realized.
The monk asked, "All laws are integrated. Where should we go?" Zhao said, "The old monk made a cloth shirt in Qingzhou, weighing seven pounds."
Others, such as going to tea and the avenue leading to Chang 'an, are all well-known Zen sayings.
Normal mind means that the present is the expression of sincerity, the present is the truth, and there is no need to go to distant places to pursue it.
This song expresses the realm of "normal mind is the Tao". If you don't mind your own business, different weather all year round has its advantages. It is an ever-changing game of Buddhism, and all enlightened people laugh at it.
The difficulty is that "if you don't mind your own business" is not a verbal statement, but a realm that you must work hard to achieve. Wumenhui commented: "Zhao Zhou spared enlightenment, and it took 30 years to get it." Although Zhao Zhou understands that "a normal mind is the Tao", it takes 30 years of practice to achieve the unity of knowledge and action and the harmony of directors!
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Feel normal
Introduction:
With simple language and detailed historical materials, Feeling Normal Heart convincingly explains eight normal mentalities of life (success or failure, wealth, indifference, happiness, serenity, kindness, humiliation and life and death). There is a book "Understanding Normal Mind" in our hand, and we can understand the true meaning of normal mind. We can't help but realize that normal mind is actually a supreme pure realm of life, and it is a very attractive philosophy of existence of China people.
What is a normal heart? If we follow the track of China's ancient culture and explain it at the level of Confucianism and Taoism, it will be somewhat mysterious. In fact, the so-called normal mind is just a state of mind in dealing with things around us in our daily life. Normal mind should be a "normal state", which can only be possessed after a certain accomplishment, and belongs to a "philosophy of life" that sustains life. As Mencius said, "Benevolence is human heart, righteousness is human way."
In the final analysis, the normal mind is just the confluence of ideas such as "inaction, no dispute, no greed and contentment". As an attitude towards life, it can be further interpreted as indifference, humiliation or kindness ... However, "inaction" does not mean advocating inaction, and "not fighting" does not mean cracking down on evil forces ... As for what some people pursue, it cannot be regarded as a realm of life, as the author commented: "When they reach the realm of pure self-care, it is morality. Vulgarizing, secularizing and simplifying the normal mind is a misinterpretation of the original intention of the normal mind.
Nowadays, both the value of goods and the evaluation of people are mostly measured by money. The more expensive things are, the more valuable they are. The richer people are, the greater they are. It can be said that money worship is rampant. The morality and values formed over the years have changed, and most people are in a state of confusion and wandering, which leads to inaccurate grasp of their own mentality and then falls into the ocean of fame and fortune.
People can't exist without reality, and people who simply put an end to desires don't exist. The key is whether they can always reflect on themselves without losing their authenticity and pursue a true and natural character. As the book says: "For a person with normal mind, it is the right and wise choice to remain true to himself and not fall into greed and struggle." Normal mind is easier said than done, and self-restraint is the most important. Take one thing we often encounter: when we attend the funeral of a colleague's deceased relatives and walk into the crematorium, many people are empty in their hearts and feel that it is really boring to compete for fame and fortune. However, when they walk out of the crematorium and reintegrate into the secular life, some people completely forget their feelings in the crematorium and still enjoy dealing with Vanity Fair, and some people will become extremely brave. When will maintaining a normal mind become a permanent concept for everyone?
To truly understand the meaning of normal mind and take it as the criterion of life, to gain infinite joy and satisfaction from it, and to be a forever happy person requires both lofty spiritual realm and wise rational thinking. In this way, the connotation of normal heart is profound, and the seemingly ordinary "normal heart" is actually unusual.