"I have never had it before": I have never had it before, and my heart is pure and enthusiastic.

"Unexpected" is the first book published by Annie Baby after changing its name to Qingshan. The content is divided into four parts: Brewing Flowers and Picking Up Spring, Returning to Hometown, Crossing the Dream Sea of ??Reincarnation, Suqin·Guyin·Light Flavor Each part records the author's long-distance journey with the cook Liu Hanlin who loves painting and is good at cooking, the photographer Wei Bi who returns to his hometown, the young monk Sangji Gyatso and the old piano player Mr. Ye Ming. The encounters and intersections between individuals, as well as the thoughts and insights gained from them.

Happiness comes from a simple and rich inner life

Liu Hanlin, in his forties, is thin and energetic. His current job is to help a friend manage a restaurant. When he was young, he also longed for the outside world, but now he pays more attention to his inner world. He cares more about making three meals a day than the outside world.

After work, he often cooks for his family and friends. For him, cooking is a pleasant thing for his body and mind, and it is a kind of care for his heart. If you want to cook well, you need to have a full understanding of the characteristics, use and combination of ingredients. This is a long process that needs to be accumulated slowly. He enjoys the process and enjoys the feeling of being confident, unhurried, serious and focused, and calm and natural when cooking.

In addition to cooking, in his spare time, he is also interested in art and getting close to nature, appreciating the fun and joy in it. Painting, writing, drinking tea, admiring flowers, listening to the piano, making wine, swimming, watching the sea, watching the moon, etc. are all his hobbies.

He does not pursue material enjoyment, he pursues the fulfillment and abundance of his inner world. Because material standards are endless, once people fall into them, life will be tiring. It will be more pleasant to have an inner life. If you rely too much on material things, you will easily become resentful and resentful.

Indeed. There are many people in real life who, although they have status, power, fame, and a lot of money, are not happy. They have no inner life. They spend all their energy seeking worldly success, thinking that achieving worldly success means having happiness and realizing the value of life.

But happiness has nothing to do with external material things. Happiness is a subjective feeling belonging to individuals. It comes from the heart and comes from a simple and abundant inner life. If a person only has an external life but no inner life, he can only live a lively or busy life at best. He will never be able to live a fulfilling life and have real happiness. Naturally, he will not be able to realize the value of life.

The soul needs to interact and respond to nature

Wei Bi, in his forties, is a photographer who has returned to his hometown. In his opinion, the happiness of being in contact with the land is far greater than living in the city. Living in the city is not only stressful, but also meaningless. It is like being sucked into a torrent, constantly consuming oneself; while living in one's hometown is like living in one's mother's womb, which makes people feel comfortable and comfortable.

The famous Austrian psychiatrist Adler once said: "Fortunate people use their childhood to heal their lives, and unfortunate people use their lives to heal their childhood." It is true that childhood is very important to a person. Influence. Wei Bi confessed that he was where he is today because of his parents’ simple words and deeds during his childhood and the nourishment of the fields.

Wei Bi, who grew up in the countryside, has been exposed to the land since he was a child. Everything he smells, sees and touches is nature. Over time, he slowly accumulates rich perceptions and abundant energy. These are all It was of great help to him in all aspects of his life. Most of the materials in his "Dream Creek" series come from the countryside, including traditional or ancient rural utensils, discarded daily necessities, as well as plants and crops in the field, such as rice threshers, adobe houses, water The car, my mother’s old mirror, the old bed my parents used when they got married, the square table left by my ancestors, the cotton shoes made by my mother, flying birds, lake views, tidal flats, bamboo shoots, broad beans, sweet potatoes, etc.

He loves his hometown and nature from the bottom of his heart, and can live his whole life just guarding a forest. Because in the interaction with nature, human life will be nourished, and the inner world will become rich, sensitive and active, so that one can gain joy from the inside out. Soil, flowers, trees, mountains, rivers and other natural things give him far more pleasure than making one million or ten million and driving a Mercedes or BMW.

The song of hometown is a distant flute that always sounds on moonlit nights, calling the wanderers affectionately to return home. Mr. Hua Luogeng once said that although Jincheng is happy, it is better to return to his hometown; although Paradise is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time. The moon is the brightness of my hometown, and people are my relatives. Our hometown is not only the place where we were born and raised, but also the harbor where we settle our souls. If leaving one's hometown is a necessity of life, then returning to one's hometown is a necessity of life.

Buddhism and practice help people transcend themselves

Sangji Gyatso, twenty-four years old. Tibetan monks studying at Labrang Monastery. He reads, drinks tea, plays, writes, takes photos, draws thangkas, studies, plays football, has picnics, makes hot pot, reads poetry, listens to music, bask in the sun, plant flowers, modify lamps, and makes friends with wild cats... He publishes various My practice experience is like a poet, writing poem-like sentences praising my hometown, mother, guru, friends and nature.

The reason why he became a monk was so that he could transcend and gain freedom and freedom that did not depend on any conditions, or that he was not limited to these. Because people do not live completely independently in the world.

Our survival depends on any number of conditions, and the relationship between them is not fixed. Happiness, emotions, and feelings depend on one's own body, and the body itself is not free. Needs tea, needs sleep, needs more. These are all conditions, and they are all uncertain.

The self is very passive. When we rely too much on these conditions, it is easy to lose ourselves, be bound and bound, and fall into trouble. It is also easy to have greed and desire. Once the desire is not obtained Satisfaction will cause trouble, pain, even hatred and other terrible things.

Sangji believes that Buddhism and practice can help us transcend ourselves, so that our minds are not limited by changes in the outside world and the influence of the outside world on us. At the same time, it also provides us with a way to deal with pain and troubles. Solution, a path to freedom of mind and liberation of soul.

People are accustomed to arranging their lives according to inertia. It is common to use work to anesthetize oneself, and to use entertainment and material consumption to kill free time. He felt that this would bring very bad consequences, like living in a burning house, playing games in a burning house, thinking it was happiness and enjoyment, but not knowing that he was in danger.

Buddhism tells us what pain is, what happiness is, and how to transcend the emotions of pain and happiness; it tells us to be compassionate, avoid causing harm, and when we see a life being hurt, let it be as much as possible Don’t be hurt; you have to do things for your own heart, and complete things that you think are valuable and meaningful in the limited time...

Practice is about continuous learning and slow practice, so as to master the Dharma. process. In this process, you need to abide by many precepts, such as overcoming the desire for the opposite sex, not lying, etc. These precepts give people freedom, so that they do not live in limitations, are not limited by worldly habits, and can survive the dream of reincarnation and be calm. Facing all impermanence including death, get rid of self-grasping, no longer confused and painful, no longer controlled by emotions, etc.

Staying simple and sticking to what you love amidst the wanderings

Mr. Ye Ming, now eighty-four years old, has settled in Suzhou. Influenced by her father, she started learning to play the piano at the age of fourteen and has not stopped until now. He can play more than 20 pieces of music, including "Guan Shan Yue", "Yang Guan Three Layers", "Three Plum Blossom Alleys", "Long Xiang Cao", "Remembering Old Friends", "Pu'an Mantra" and "Si Xian Cao".

Guqin is a carrier for conveying beautiful emotions between people, a carrier for individuals to seek a spiritual space, and a way close to spiritual training. Mr. Ye loves the piano madly and works very hard to learn the piano. His requirement is that he must learn it well. When Mr. Ye was young, she was in an era of drastic changes in Chinese society, but no matter what her situation was, no matter where she worked, she would take the piano with her and practice in her free time. Now I play the piano every day, and I still insist on teaching. As long as her body allows, she will keep playing and teaching. She believes that the guqin, as a traditional musical instrument, should be promoted, promoted and passed on as much as possible.

The ancients said that the way to play the piano must be simple and quiet. It is believed that among the expressions of Qin music, neutrality is a higher state than bold, vigorous, upright, Liangyi, heroic, clear, bright, careful, concise, simple, angry, sad, straight, extraordinary, etc. . There is nothing better than neutrality.

There is such a simplicity and harmony in the sound of Mr. Ye's piano. What kind of heart can have what kind of sound. Mr. Ye's temperament is indifferent and simple, his heart is peaceful and calm, his life is pure and simple, and he is simple and self-sufficient in his life. Now, at the age of eighty-four, he is still simple and clean, refreshing, talkative and intelligent, with an innocent heart and doing his best for the things he loves.

Liu Xiang wrote in "The Theory of Qin": "There are seven examples of playing the qin: one is to understand morality; the other is to sense ghosts and gods; the third is to express beautiful customs; the fourth is to observe the wonderful mind; the fifth is to understand the spirit. Control the tone; the sixth day is elegance; the seventh day is good teaching. "Guqin, as an elegant traditional Chinese instrument, has rich and profound expressive power, elegant and ethereal timbre, balance of strength and weakness, and deep and lingering aftertaste. It is a pity that the artistic conception of "cold to the core and ecstatic to the body" has the effect of "arousing people to have a Taoist heart", but it has gradually declined in modern society.

Life is created by ourselves. We can completely control the direction of our lives and choose the lifestyle we like, just like the four people in the book. Although their ages, identities, experiences, and lives are completely different, they all made the best decisions within their options and lived the lives they wanted in this era that was either exciting or frustrating. Live the way you like.