Some people may find that many excellent human cultures and human arts seem to have the breath of big handprint culture. That's right. All spirits that are beneficial to mankind and the world are the spirit of fingerprints. Because they all have three points: big, hand and seal. In other words, they not only have the wisdom beyond the limitations of human beings, but also have the realm of compassion, as well as the behavior that can reflect compassion and transcend wisdom. Therefore, no matter what their names are, they can carry the spirit of big handprints. This is the characteristic of the big handprint: the elephant is invisible.
Therefore, I often emphasize that the big handprint is not a concept, nor a rigid dogma, but a smart wisdom. It is both a world outlook and a methodology. But this methodology is also not shackles and shackles. Many people may misunderstand this point.
Someone once said to me, Xuemo, we are all secular people. Even if you think what you say is reasonable, you can't give up all worldly things and go to the mountains to practice. I told him that the real transcendence is not to keep you out of the world, but to get rid of disputes such as fame and fortune, right and wrong, and utilitarianism. And spend a lifetime to improve your mind and personality, and then do some secular things on this premise. You're talking about escaping, not the transcendence of the big handprint.
The transcendence emphasized by the big handprint culture is not to escape from reality, but to get involved in reality. If you can't get involved in reality, you won't achieve real transcendence; People who can't achieve transcendence can't really get involved in reality. Because, like a leaf floating on the sea, he can only drift with the tide and cannot change the direction of the sea; He is also like a fallen leaf in a whirlwind, swept by a huge airflow and unable to change the direction of the airflow. In other words, even if he has the intention to intervene in reality, he has no ability to intervene in reality. Even this snack will be easily swept away by reality.
Let me make an analogy. The world flows eastward, and transcendence is sailing against the current. The spray in the river is difficult to go upstream because it doesn't have enough strength. Therefore, in order to achieve transcendence, we should not care about water flow, but should care about rivers. Just like Li Bing and his son built Dujiangyan, we should build a cultural "canal" to lead the excellent human culture from history to the present and then to the future.
This "canal" is the inheritance of culture. The same is true of real participation in reality. You must look at reality from a higher angle. This means that you must jump out of your own living environment and get rid of all the restrictions brought by the environment. Only by doing this can we talk about getting involved in reality. If you are just a loach, how can you change the loach in your life?
A long time ago, when I went to Beijing, I found that some public toilets in old Beijing were dirty and there were many maggots rolling around. However, no matter how enthusiastic the maggots are, the status quo of the toilet cannot be changed. Because the only person who can change the toilet is the one who finds that the toilet needs to be changed, and it can't be a maggot trapped in the toilet. The maggot doesn't know that the toilet is dirty, but he feels very happy to swim in the cesspit. Only when they evolve into human beings and have human consciousness will they understand that what they desire is actually very dirty.
In other words, only by breaking the limitations of the environment, understanding what's wrong with reality and absorbing an advanced concept can one truly accomplish transcendence and have enough ability to intervene in reality. At this time, the intervention is called "doing the WTO with the heart of being born". That is to say, actively join the WTO, but it will not be influenced by many concepts in the world. It can be seen that if you want to contribute to society and the world, you must first practice a detached heart.
The best thing about western culture is that it advocates human beings to pay attention to their own hearts. It believes that the secret of changing fate lies in everyone's heart. As long as you transcend desire and greed, you will find the meaning of life.
People don't live for designer clothes and bags, nor for luxury houses and cars. Because clothes will break down in a few years and will soon be out of date. The same is true of bags, cars and buildings. In the same way, people don't live for beauty. Because, no matter how you take care of it, smooth skin and black hair will turn into goose skin and crane hair. When your hair is white, you stumble, your teeth are gone, and your words are always leaking, where is your beauty? At that time, the beautiful voice disappeared, and even saying "I love you" was very ugly, let alone becoming a famous singer. Therefore, when a person is old, he will always find that many things he pursued when he was young are actually meaningless. Those who truly understand this will put aside all worldly pursuits and pursue transcendence.
It seems difficult to surpass, but in fact, it is very simple, that is, constantly breaking the past self. For example, when you especially like to enjoy, you will break the "I" you like to enjoy; When I especially like to pursue fame and fortune, I will break the "I" who pursues fame and fortune ... I will constantly break myself, overcome myself, get closer to the sublime day by day, make my mind clean, simple and pure, and I will achieve transcendence. So, don't make it too complicated. Unlike some martial arts novels, it can make you invulnerable, climb over the wall and climb over the eaves, and it can't make you leave a big handprint on others from a dozen or even hundreds of meters away. On the contrary, it can make your mind strong and absorb the greatest wisdom of mankind, and then tell the world: I don't care about you! What do I care? I care about myself. What do you care about yourself? Care about whether you can beat yourself. Why care about yourself? Why did you hit yourself? Because, after caring for yourself and overcoming greed, you can live freely, happily, truly, simply and independently.
You know, the loveliest person in the world is the most simple, clean and simple person, not the most scheming, gaudy and rich person. Do you understand? When you face the world, just like a child faces his mother, you are the loveliest person. Therefore, don't face the world with greed and scheming, but with great love and tolerance, and don't let popular ideas and various phenomena bind your mind.
If you can do this, when the desire arises, you can refuse it; When faced with difficulties, you won't feel that you have no choice. If you feel that you have no choice but to live like this and feel helpless, then you are controlled by something outside your heart. You are definitely not yourself at this moment. Because, you have no heart of your own. The question is, dare you reflect on yourself? Dare to face the reflective answer? Faced with this answer, do you choose to continue living like this, or do you resist the pain of the soul experience, drive away the greed like maggots, and regain the autonomy of the soul?
If you choose the latter and act accordingly, you will make progress day by day. Finally, it can become the inheritor of the spirit of the big handprint.