With yourself: Reading Crossing the River with the Moon

I first learned about Annie Baby through an article by Hu Lin in Weibo: Have you ever had it? At that time, she changed her name to Qingshan, published "Never Have You", and bought it for the first time. After reading this book, I fell in love with Qingshan's words, her expression and her thoughts on life conveyed between the lines. This is a book with peace of mind. All four people in the book are devoted to what they like. A chef who loves painting and cooking advocates his own diet in the most natural way. A photographer who returns to the countryside lives in the mountains with his wife and children and respects his hometown and nature; A young monk, who practices poetry and Thangka, understands and worships faith; An old pianist who plays the ancient method, who is over eighty years old, is determined to do one thing. They like writing, painting, Buddhism and playing the piano. They don't want to achieve much in life, but they are enough to live a true, comfortable, beautiful and dedicated attitude. As Hu Lin said, the mission of this book is to let every reader know about his unbreakable way of life, relax and look at new possibilities, or make travelers who are already on the road of mastering their own destiny feel warm and not lonely. Life changes, always need to be the same, you can live and travel. In Zhuangzi's world, art can be accessible and enlightened.

Later, I watched Sunny Years and Dinner one after another, and I liked the word Qingshan better. I talked a lot.

The publication of The Moon Crossing the River was postponed several times. Coupled with the inadaptability from school to work after graduation, state adjustment, and two moves, I placed an order for "crossing the river on the moon" last Friday, which was completed in two days on the weekend. I read it slowly and unloaded my thoughts in order to further sort out my heart and solve my confusion these days.

The book says: Time flies. So soon. Too fast to grasp the thread of memory. But, as you said, fortunately, there is impermanence. Fortunately, we have been changing. For a while, I concentrated on reading Zongsa Jiangyang Qinzhe Rinpoche's books and learned about Tibetan Buddhism. All harmony is impermanent (impermanent behavior), which is one of the four great insights of Buddhism. In Right View: Enlightenment from the Buddha, the author said that all harmony is impermanent and a simple and scientific fact. Everything that exists or operates in this world, from all imaginations and entities, all thoughts in the heart, and even the heart itself, is absolutely unchanged. Everything will change. So accept impermanence and accept the changes in life.

Everything in life is a combination of karma, and everything is bitter and bitter. In the study and life, we should exercise our inner mind and treat all kinds of relationships and changes of things with a normal heart. At the same time, I also put forward higher requirements for myself, to adapt to change, to do it, not to complain, not to ask why, to form a habit, to stick to it, and I will meet a different self. If you don't push yourself, you won't know how strong and excellent you are.

1. How easy it is for people to live in the cage of consciousness. It takes a lot of wisdom to crush yourself.

People are easy to get old and die, and there is not enough time to do anything. We should try our best to do what we should do, and some people should take it seriously and clear up the delusion of useless waste. Only training is necessary to control the mind.

Everyone has pain hidden in his heart. We are equal in samsara. Feel it with your heart.

4. Choosing a city is like choosing a partner. There are irreplaceable parts, unadjustable parts, powerless parts and karmic parts. The harshness of life makes people finish what they are doing simply and quietly at this moment. There is no doubt that entanglement is useless.

What is produced out of ignorance and cleanliness is easy to be broken. What grows out of repeated darkness may be faith. Behind the darkness and violence, why is there a hollow and transparent light flashing?

6. There is no room for lyricism, only wait and see. Look at the world and look at yourself. All rivers are burdens, so how many dirty things to accept. The digestive function is very powerful. However, people still have to work hard to accept absurd, uncomfortable, contradictory and complicated displays and states. Acceptance is an attitude and an ability.

7. What you think is different from what others think. We just use each other as tools, and we don't really accept each other, so we can't understand each other at all. How can people expect to know and get everything from each other?

8. Precious and important things cannot be easily expressed. Take it out easily, be misunderstood, be blasphemed. It's best to take out only a part, so as to protect it. Taking everything out is my own shallowness, and I don't know what is good. Once you know it, you will keep it and respect it.

9. What people need is a balanced model with spiritual support. Sincere and effective lifestyle, spiritual and spiritual pursuit, and sincere love.

10. Art is just a kind of practice, a method, advanced, such as looking at yourself, the world and all beings. But there is only one direction, and there is no shortcut.

1 1. It rises slowly but is more valuable. That's freedom for yourself.

12. Our hearts call out the world, and then we are imprisoned in our own prison.

13. Life is your own, and wisdom and blessings should be accumulated slowly. This is a choice. Everything is just a tool to reach the other side. The important thing is to manage the soul and let it find its own way.

14. Only when you really understand the cause and effect of everything can you be bright inside and know how to choose your own thoughts, behaviors and languages.

15. Writing is for the distant other self. That may be a more essence and real existence than yourself in real life. It can also be said that it is our own hidden Buddha nature or divinity, and writing can be linked to it.

16 .. How many people can really understand and trust his core? We have never met anyone who lives in openness, nor have we really loved and been loved deeply. The subversion and destruction of ideas is a thorough education.

17. It is relatively slow and long-term that people can enter the realm of Samadhi, relying on meditation.

18. Words, colors, notes, forms ... all kinds of imagination and creation should ultimately be a support. Be careful, be rich and sensitive enough, sort out the weight of these lives and share them with others. The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, leaving behind people who know the true taste.

19. As long as someone can understand it, he should pass on his wonderful experience to him. It's not that you are giving, but that he is realizing.

20. Create beautiful things and share them with others. Through the dark tunnel, it once led to the palace in the depths. What you provide is a clean and beautiful heart at this moment. This is also the best thing that can be given.

2 1. It is too easy to detect the weakness of human nature and pay attention to evil, which is not very rewarding. Even if you see all kinds of weaknesses and limitations, whether from others or yourself, you know that all these are natural and reasonable. There is no beauty or ugliness, and there is no good or evil, just the fate of their respective attributes.

22. Thank those who have the ability to destroy our values and all kinds of paranoia. This kind of value is incomparable to those who give praise, echo, perfunctory and patience.

23. Nothing is more convenient than concentration.

24. People are not static, just like the internal molecules of an apple are changing when it is static, so it is more appropriate not to judge others.

25. Both men and women, although they don't know it, emit different gas fields. I have seen all kinds of things, and I cherish those simple, simple, warm people who live in the present. This preciousness is not out of ignorance, but out of experience.

26. An inner joy, an open mind and an unswerving compassion. Buddhist teachings need to be absorbed and accepted by practitioners through study, thinking, practice and testing. With the increase of absorption and acceptance, the personality and sensory state of the yogi gradually reach a balance. This is a natural reward.

27. Only by remoulding one's own thoughts and devoting oneself to active and profound spiritual activities can we bring about a real understanding of life.

28. For individual life, the most important thing is to experience the absolute truth directly and transcend all concepts. This is the basic face of wisdom.

29. We must find ways to train our minds so that our perception and judgment of others and inanimate objects are as firm as a piece of ice melted in water ... This makes us have a very calm attitude towards the surrounding environment. What we are, only we can be responsible. We are the result of the past and the future is in our own hands.

30. What you can say and express your feelings clearly are usually not the most important. What people have experienced and undertaken, those parts that cannot be stated, displayed or transmitted, have real meaning.

3 1. All kinds of laws are immortal and vacuum, which cannot be expressed by words, names or words, but it is the most difficult thing to explain them to all beings in language and free them.

32. Only a heart with the same attributes will feel that it is beautiful. Do not need any attraction, deliberate, futile, maintenance. Appearing in front of each other is mutual recognition.

Remember to study to prepare for going home. What is the ending? Headless is the ending. I know he means my decision. Communicate with people who have less knowledge or more knowledge than yourself, and you will gain something. Energy is flowing, whether it is up or down.

34. Get deep blessings from the qualities of others. What is a blessing? Blessing does not come from the casting of authority or supernatural power, but from the appearance and stimulation brought by external things and others to gain awareness. This requires a deep spiritual connection.

We need friends who can convince ourselves and bring inspiration and guidance, and cherish every moment together. Touched and cherished, try not to use your habits and inferiority to pollute the relationship.

36. In ancient Indian civilization, life had a high degree of cleanliness and upward consciousness. The ultimate goal of yoga is not to make the body healthy or beautiful, but to be close to God and be one with God. This is a connection.

37. All behaviors are moderate and gentle. Not greedy, or just accept the right things. Its internal system requires purity, or keeping our bodies and things around us clean and tidy. Be satisfied with what you have and what you don't have, or feel comfortable and satisfied. By maintaining correct habits, such as sleep, exercise, nutrition, work and entertainment, the pollution of physical and psychological systems can be eliminated. Study, study. Respect for higher wisdom. Accept your limitations.

37. Understand the truth from what you have done, and then live by it. What you do all the time is "your own life, practice and progress".

38. The human part is getting less and less. There is no anger, fear, desire, and the brain connects everything. This is the realm of enlightenment.

I perceive these images, sounds, smells and colors around me. If I feel a kind of eternal stability in them, I will never be isolated from what I see and hear. They will support each other and reflect on each other. Maybe I will feel calm and happy from them. Allow what happens to change, disappear and continue to grow. As natural and free as they are. Well, I, where is it? Think about it and you will find it.

40. What is more rewarding is that you can find and absorb beautiful energy from others. If not, he is not a question you can judge. The only way to be strong is to solve your own problems first.

4 1. Deep and quiet, simple and uncomplicated, pure and bright, beyond the incredible heart, this is the heart of all Buddhas. Nothing should be eliminated and nothing should be added. It just looks at itself naturally and cleanly.

42. No matter what skill you learn, when you don't want to be beautiful, you need to feel smart and pay attention, a calm and true handwriting will appear in front of you and lead the way forward.

43. Life is like dew. We are fortunate to keep moving forward in our respective lives, to feel, to practice, to practice, to cultivate, to grow, and occasionally pass by, meet and meet for a while on the road. It is an infinite blessing to get together and take books as friends.

44. Japanese people are used to paying attention to simplicity and essential details, which exist in their artistic behavior. Small enough to make a cup, big enough to build a building. I don't like to generalize and silently push small things to a sufficient depth. Objects are sometimes a kind of meditation.

45. You can't know the boundary without going over the mountains yourself. Expand the capacity of the heart and take on more things. Life is a big stage, and you will know yourself better when you see different people's interpretations.

Our egos are too subtle, so let them melt.

46. When you were young, you had many egos and strong desires. After practice and training, you become quite soft, like pure white silk. Even if you have strong desires, if you temper them deeply, you will become a strong and sharp iron. Like a Japanese knife. This is the way we train ourselves.

47. People should learn wisdom, not knowledge and concepts. Therefore, spend more time with people who exude wisdom and temperament, and spend more time with quiet and practical people.

48. Swallow what you read, hear and see, understand and digest it, and then describe and express it in another form. It means that as a tool, self-impurities need to be filtered and removed more carefully.

49. Quiet, bright, true love and faith appear in the mud flow of jealousy, hatred, siege, doubt and destruction. Kannonji was built on cliffs and prisons.

50. All the hidden pains and prayers experienced by people are closed caves. When the soul leaves, the treasure-like experience will be taken away. This is also part of the demonstration of sushi strength. Finally, open yourself up and share with the void. This is the way to achieve eternity.

In life and study, it is inevitable that there are unsatisfactory and incomprehensible places, and it is inevitable that you will encounter all kinds of confusion. To find an outlet, for example, read more favorite authors' words. Everyone has different experiences, angles, preferences and thinking. What we have to do is to expand the cognitive boundary, live with heart, improve and practice in life, and finally prove bodhicitta.

Written on 20 16.8.30.

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