How to achieve ethereal tranquility?

"I have nothing to do, I sit and lie down at will. Although my clothes are simple and light, I feel dusty; I'm full of worries. I'm busy. Although I have rich clothes and extraordinary taste, I feel a lot of bitterness. " This is a comment by Chen Jiru, a Confucian philosopher in the Ming Dynasty, in Little Window. Indeed, you can sit and lie down as you like, although you don't have everything. And once there are too many things, you will lose yourself. It is a superb life skill to keep inner purity and tranquility, and to be free from vulgarity.

Liang Mao, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was clever from an early age. He studied the Book of Changes with Meng Xi and obtained the biography of his teacher. Before he was an adult, he began to accept students to teach the Book of Changes. Liang Maocai's brother Song Liang is very proficient in Confucianism. He was chosen by Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, to marry Princess Wuyang. Later, Song Liang was executed for his crimes, and Liang Mao was implicated and exiled for no reason.

Liang Mao attaches great importance to self-cultivation and treats life with an empty and quiet attitude. After Amnesty returned to his hometown, he studied behind closed doors and wrote a book "Seven Prefaces" for fun. Ban Gu, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, greatly praised the Seven Prefaces, saying: "The Spring and Autumn Annals written by Confucius made the rebels frightened, and the Seven Prefaces written by Liang Zang made the vegetarians ashamed."

Liang Mao is charitable by nature and doesn't like to accumulate wealth and buy industries widely. Princess royal, Wuyang's sister-in-law, admires his personality and talent and often gives him a lot of possessions. Liang Zan always gives gifts to all the people in his family and never takes them himself. He grew up in the capital and was not used to life in a remote hometown. But he often said to people: "seclusion can raise one's ambition, and poetry and books are enough to entertain oneself." Blindly indulging in official career and sending servants can only be self-defeating. " So when he was in school, although the court called him to be an official several times, he refused and never applied.

In ancient China, many scholars and writers believed in the wisdom of life. According to legend, Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, went out to travel and came to a big river. At this time, although the great river blocked his way, he was not in a hurry to find the pier crossing the river, nor was he in a hurry to go back. Instead, he sat leisurely on the grass by the river, calmly admiring the clouds in the sky and savoring the changing cases of these clouds. In this extremely quiet and distant state of mind, Wang Wei sang a famous sentence full of Zen:' I will walk until the water stops me, and then sit and watch Yun Qi. "

Keeping emptiness and keeping quiet is also regarded by some foreigners as a strategy in life. This is the case with the famous Italian music conductor and world outstanding music master Arro toscanini.

Toscanini was born in a poor tailor's family in northern Italy. At the age of 9, he was admitted to the Pama Conservatory of Music, and was soon praised as a "genius" by his classmates. He took the lead in organizing an extracurricular band at school and worked as a cellist in several opera orchestras.

1one night in June, 886, 19-year-old toscanini suddenly caused a sensation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That night, an Italian opera troupe was visiting Brazil, preparing to stage Aida. However, a few hours before the performance began, there was a dispute within the opera troupe and the conductor was dismissed. At this time, I don't know who thought of Arrow toscanini. When this wet behind the ears young man appeared on the podium, the concert hall was suddenly silent. Toscanini unconsciously closed the score when he gave the band the first hint. When the first performance was over, his talent conquered all the audience. That summer, he conducted 18 operas in Rio de Janeiro, all by memory, without reading the music.

After toscanini became famous, he always held a quiet and far-reaching attitude towards life. In the words of his son Walter toscanini, "there is no' greatest' achievement for him. Everything he did at that time was a major event in his life, whether it was conducting a symphony or peeling oranges. " He used to be one of the most profitable people in the history of music performance. 1946, the ticket price of the second Lascala concert was as high as10.5 million Li, which was equivalent to the monthly income of an Italian middle-class family at that time. But not only the audience in the theater is saturated, but also tens of thousands of people in the square outside the theater listen to the concert program under the loudspeaker. It is said that since 1937, NBC has paid him a lot of money for every hour and a half he broadcasts. Hollywood filmmakers offered him more than $250,000 to record movies, but he refused. He never cares about economic income. If he doesn't want to cooperate, he won't do it no matter how much money he pays.

Toscanini hates promoting individuals. In his opinion, compared with the music he conducted, he himself is nothing remarkable. Every performance, the applause of the curtain call often makes him feel uneasy. Often after the third curtain call, he goes backstage and greets the host: "Forget it!" " Then, the whole orchestra immediately stood up and quickly stepped down, from which toscanini could get away.

Toscanini doesn't want to go public, and he is almost shy in this respect. He often said that as long as you are in the orchestra pit that the audience can't see, you will feel infinite comfort and happiness. He has never made a public speech in his life, and he is especially disgusted with journalists and photographers. He used to say, "I'm just an ordinary citizen. What does it tell me about my appearance, where I live, what kind of tie I wear? " He never hides his humble background and falsely calls himself a "farmer".

The more so, the more people respect him. 1947, at the age of 80, he was still regarded as "the best musician in the world". His fame spread all over the world, even in the most remote corners of the earth. A woman from Bata Gogna once flew 2,000 miles to Buenos Aires and stood and listened to a concert by toscanini.