Ni Ping: Grandma is a great philosopher

Once, the narrator of "You Shu" told a joke:

A philosopher went to visit a friend and walked to the gate of the community. The old man at the gate asked him casually Several questions made the philosopher fall into deep thought.

Is the uncle a "sweeping monk"? What enigmatic questions were asked? It stumped even a great philosopher.

Actually, the question is very simple, nothing more than a daily inquiry: Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going?

But this is precisely the basic proposition in philosophy, also known as the "Three Ultimate Questions", which has touched the speculative soul of philosophers and made people "dumbfounded".

Although it is just a joke, it should not be taken seriously. But it also reflects the fact that philosophy is all around us.

Ni Ping said in "Grandma's Quotations": Grandma is the philosopher in our family. No scholar in the family can live as clearly, soberly, and as wisely as she does.

Ni Ping, this well-known name, has long entered people's hearts. Her kind, generous and simple hosting style has influenced several generations.

Kind and loving, elegant yet dignified. She is an excellent program host who has acted in movies, plays, and TV series. She can also write books, draw, and calligraphy, and has won many awards.

And all of this, she said, was taught by her grandma, who was her lifelong teacher.

Grandma has never read a book in her life and cannot read a single big Chinese character. But this does not affect her ability to live a transparent life.

Grandma has a savings card, which stores kindness, tolerance, love, persistence, giving, suffering, giving up, gratitude, open-mindedness, cheerfulness, tolerance... too many, here Have the spirit we need to live.

The sun is so nice today. I’ll take out the items in my grandma’s savings card and dry them in the sun to prevent them from becoming damp and moldy.

Grandma often said: "When there is no one around, take out your brain and bask in the sun. Your whole body will feel lighter."

Bask in the sun and smell the smell of the sun. , our life will be more fragrant.

1. Kindness - the duty of being a human being

Grandma is getting old and dozing off all day long. Ni Ping is really afraid that grandma will fall asleep one day, so she starts to find ways to make her fall asleep. Not idle. Sorting and folding newspapers earns me fifteen yuan a day.

When I heard that there was money to be made, grandma suddenly became energetic. That was the first salary my grandma received in her life. She was so happy, even happier than us winning a big prize.

She wants to give the money she earns to those she wants to help.

Although grandma has no shortage of new clothes to wear, she is always reluctant to throw away old clothes, because frugality is our traditional virtue, and grandma has always been an excellent keeper.

How to get grandma to throw away those old clothes? Ni Ping thought of another way to recycle old clothes in the name of environmental protection.

100 yuan per item will be given back. The grandma who is "money-minded" has become more active this time. Not only did she pack away all her old clothes, but she also mobilized relatives and people in the village to sell her old clothes. Grandma was happy now, but Ni Ping was miserable.

"Grandma, we can't talk about the work everywhere. The work takes care of us and can't collect that much."

But grandma said: "When you have good things and think about others, others will always think about you. When you have good things and don't think about others, you only care about yourself. In the end, you will be alone, and there will be no communication with you. The good things a person can do in his life are limited, and they are over when they are done. The more people there are, the more good things will happen."

Ni Ping's parents divorced early in life, and her grandmother was particularly distressed because she was afraid that her nephew would not receive his father's love.

In my grandma’s eyes, my father was upright, kind and noble. She would secretly call him to tell him about the family's situation, so as to appease the father's missing children and fill in the father's love that the children lacked.

Grandma nourished the wounded hearts of our family and warmed us with love, kindness, and tolerance.

In the early days of liberation, my grandma also encountered an extremely irritating incident: a rich peasant family hid more than a dozen horses in my grandma's house. As a result, they were reported, but my grandma refused to admit it.

She said: They gave it to us because they trusted us. If these dozen pieces of cloth were classified as landlords, her five children would suffer, and their bright future would be ruined.

Who knew that a few years later, the family would come back and expose grandma. Grandma was angry, but she finally forgave her.

Because grandma said that she understood her, it was all forced by form, for the sake of her children. Don't hate her, it's enough for her to hate herself.

Grandma said: "Those who retreat will suffer temporarily. Giving others a way is equivalent to finding a way out for yourself."

Grandma is always kind and tolerant. Always think of others.

2. Giving - the magic weapon of happiness

Grandma has a magic weapon for happiness: she said that giving to others means happiness, and owing others means suffering.

My grandma’s family is going to build a big tile house. On the day when the beams are installed, many people from the village come to help. According to custom, the beams of the house are to be erected at noon. Grandma got up and started steaming steamed buns as soon as the chicken crowed. There are more than a hundred big steamed buns, and grandma will make sure everyone who comes has a delicious meal.

Everyone knows that in order to build a house, my grandma’s family ate sweet potato noodles for a year. Grandma said: “It’s better to save the face than to save the lining.

"We have been preparing wheat noodles since the first year, and every steamed bun is saved from between the teeth. No one is willing to eat it.

"The house will collapse sooner or later if there are no beams. If there is no one to help, , no matter how capable you are, you can’t live! "The beams were put up, but none of the buns were moved. Grandma cried, and she carried Xiao Lou from door to door at night.

When her son was young, Ni Ping also taught her son through words and deeds to become a caring person. When my son was in school, he would give large and small bags of food that he couldn't eat at home to the grandparents who were cleaning up the trash cans.

When the New Year came, I asked my son to give each of them a New Year's gift of 100 yuan. The next day, grandpa came with a huge toy airplane. This toy must cost at least more than 200 yuan.

At this time, I remembered what my grandma said: "You give people things." I am happy. "

Grandma has a theory: Money and things must circulate, otherwise they will be blocked. Of course, this circulation must also be measured. This is our human relationship.

Ni Ping's grandma is also everyone's grandma. When new things are on the market, everyone rushes to buy them for grandma to try.

One time, a big brother Bai guessed that he had nothing new to buy. Grandma took a bunch of colorful towels and gave them one to each person. She cut two into squares and sewed the four sides together with needlework to make them small handkerchiefs.

"Grandma, that's not the case. If you need small handkerchiefs, let's buy a bunch of them. There are plenty of them. ”

“Go buy it and try it, there’s no such thing!” This is your brother Bai's heart. Where can you buy it? ”

“If you have a bowl of rice for others to eat and you are hungry, you are helping others; if you cannot eat a pot of rice, but you serve a bowl to others, you are asking others to help you.” ”

Some people always ask: Why don’t you donate materials or money? Many people will say: To help those in need. In fact, that doesn’t ask you to help others. It means that others use you to help others. Things that cannot be used.

Grandma always said: “Don’t let people know about good deeds. Good things turn sour when people know about them. Doing good deeds is something you should do, just like if a person doesn't steal, you still praise him? ”

3. Wisdom - Grandma’s Political Debate

On the cliff of my grandma’s house, there was a bunch of wild strawberries. They were green at first, then turned yellow, and then turned blood red. , turned black in the end, so black that it was frightening.

Legend has it that a fierce woman jumped off a cliff and died wearing red clothes when she was fished out of the water. It turned black when it came up.

In order to satisfy her curiosity, Ni Ping went to the cliff again and again to see if the wild strawberries had changed color. She also wanted to try the magic of the water and deliberately let her clothes get wet. Look how red those Dulu wild strawberries are.

But in an instant, her basket of delicious things disappeared.

Ni Ping ran back to her grandma’s house crying. Grandma said with a smile: "Okay, the ghost is also greedy, she will not eat you after eating the dumplings. It’s a good deal to trade a bowl of dumplings for a little nephew! ”

Little Ni Ping believed it. Only when she grew up did she realize that this was her grandma’s dialectics. She could solve any problem smoothly. This was her grandma’s wisdom.

< p>Ni Ping often said: The ordinary is the truth, which is quite right. Don’t expect to be rich. We ordinary people are not able to withstand catastrophes. A peaceful life is a good life.

I thought that grandma would live a good life. She would agree, but she said: If you don't have the ability, why not go to the top of the mountain to see it? What's the point of wandering around in the valley all your life? What you see on the top of the mountain is different from what you see at the bottom of the mountain. , but people on the top of the mountain live for many lifetimes as those at the bottom of the mountain.

Grandma said that the top of the mountain is a different way of life. People must use their all in life. If you can't go up to the mountain, you can go up to the hill.

Grandma is so energetic.

She said to Ni Ping earnestly: "You are not only at the top of the mountain, your mountain is also a big mountain. You can see everything on the mountain. You have everything, and you are satisfied. My child, it’s very windy on the mountain and it’s not easy to climb up. If you try hard, you won’t regret it for the rest of your life. "

4. Happiness - Grandma's Little Happiness

"Ding Zhen" has become popular recently, just because of an innocent smiling face. Without any background, without any strength, just It’s so popular.

Meditate on the secret that people find the smile that comes from the bottom of their hearts. Ask yourself, are you happy today? p>

Many people’s answer is definitely “no”. They are so busy every day, so busy and bored, how can they have any time to be happy?

At work, the boss makes things difficult for me and my colleagues do it. Calculation: In life, when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are at odds, the children are disobedient, the spouse is displeased, and there is no money to buy bags or travel, how can there be any sense of happiness?

We are all calculating what we lack. , but did not count what we have.

“Grandma, your happiness index is too low. Just say that as a woman, you lack too much in your life.

As a woman, you have never worn high heels or a skirt in your life. Is that a pity? ”

“Why aren’t you wearing any?” An apron is not a skirt? "

Grandma said: "Don't be too small when it comes to happiness. If one is small, add two together, add up three. Can you try adding it to a hundred? The happiness is great. You can't always think about a hundred happiness a day. How many hundred happiness can you encounter in your life? ”

“There is no great happiness in a lifetime, small happiness comes one day at a time. ”

5. The savings card of love—Grandma’s endless gold card

Grandma has been busy taking care of the family all her life, and she didn’t get it until she was ninety-seven. When she got her first salary, she was so happy and proud.

My grandma was really too poor to buy a red headband for her nephew.

Although her daughter would say every month that she needed money, she would not say it.

Grandma always said, “I can’t live without a penny in the city. one day. You can get through the end of the year without a penny in the country. If you work hard and quickly, you can fill your stomach, and you can dig a basket of wild vegetables and eat steamed buns. It’s not easy for your mother to make money! ”

But when she got money, her generosity was different from the past. When she went back to her hometown and bought this and that for the neighbors in the village, she felt happy and refreshed, not to mention that she was very happy.

Grandma has never been to school and is illiterate, but she has two abacuses. One is in the drawer, and the other is in her heart.

Grandma’s view on money is: Money must be spent in useful places to be valuable!

I once donated money to a water shortage project in the west. I just started making money and received my first advertising fee. Ni Ping decided to donate 1 million but was afraid that no one would know about the donation, because her relatives at home were in need of money, and there were letters of help from all over the country. Ni Ping was helpless for such a big thing. No one can discuss it.

“Don’t worry, I know your difficulties. My child, you have been spending your whole life using small money as big money and big money as small money. "Grandma said: "The scale in my heart is the same as yours. ”

When Ni Ping’s niece was studying in Beijing, apart from normal daily consumption, Ni Ping never gave her a penny of pocket money.

The niece was admitted to three universities with excellent results She chose the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama. Unexpectedly, a teacher questioned: "Ni Ping's niece, hang up first. ”

In fact, Ni Ping has never used any connections to go through the back door. She hopes that her niece will realize her dream through her own efforts.

Unexpectedly, her niece will be implicated instead of getting the glory. . Ni Ping was very angry and wanted to seek justice from the principal.

Grandma stopped her and said, "Kid, remember, God is fair. Whatever he gives you, he will take away. If you look at a person carrying a load, both ends must be equally heavy to be able to go far. One head is heavy and the other is light, can you try? After a few steps, you have to stop. Xiaoni is your niece. Even if she doesn’t want to take advantage of you, shouldn’t she be aggrieved? ”

Ni Ping also wants to be like her grandma, and wants to give her niece a life gold card that stores kindness, beauty, tolerance, and diligence!

6. It’s getting dark—grandma leaves

Grandma said: "When it gets dark, you will encounter an unstoppable disaster, and you have to accept your fate.

Resigning to fate is not giving up, it is gritting your teeth and holding on until dawn. The dawn gives you hope, so get up quickly and go forward. Go forward as far as you have, God will help you.

Don’t waste time in the dark, you will exhaust your energy and you will have no energy in the morning.

Kid, remember, when good things come, they will say hello in advance, but when bad things happen, they will hit you on the head instantly and they will never notify you in advance!

The more capable people hit it, the stronger it becomes, while the incompetent people were knocked down at once. "

The sun cannot hang in the sky 24 hours a day. It also has to go back and take a rest. No one can stop this.

Grandma said: Chairman Mao is very capable. Right? His son died on the Korean battlefield, so the old man couldn’t do anything. He smoked one cigarette after another, waiting for the sun to rise.

Everyone understands the truth, but not everyone does. It can be done. The pain of a loved one’s illness tortures and engulfs our hearts, and we can only swallow the unspeakable pain.

Grandma repeatedly warned: Children, remember, you are not going to fall down. You can get over it; if you fall, no one can help you.

Everyone’s life is not smooth sailing, and we always complain about the hardships in life.

But. But grandma said: "You will have to suffer when you are born, so don't complain. Complaining is also suffering, and not complaining is also suffering. Don’t you cultural people say, ‘Life is about being born and living’? ... What is sweet? It is sweet to be free from illness and calamity, it is sweet to have arms and legs, and it is sweet to be able to read a word for an illiterate person.

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What a simple philosophy of life!

Grandma’s sky is dark, but grandma’s spirit is like a bright lamp, illuminating our hearts and our future. Way to go!