Translation of the original text of the Analects Joy in it .

Zi said: "Eat and drink water, bend the humerus and pillow, and enjoy it." Unrighteous wealth and nobility are like floating clouds to me. ”

Confucius said, "Eating whole grains, drinking plain water, holding your arms as pillows, and the fun is in between." The wealth gained by improper means is like a floating cloud in the sky to me. ”

Confucius advocated "peace and happiness in poverty". What is happiness?

What is the happiness of the source of life? For example, a person needs to breathe, and breathing itself is the greatest miracle of life. Don't you think life is wonderful?

Exhale it in one breath and suck it back in. If you only breathe out and don't in, it won't be wonderful. When one is able to experience the joy of breathing, the happiness of the source of life, the feeling of "Dharma joy filling" (the joy of practicing enlightenment) comes.

Confucius's ability to perceive happiness was powerful, and he was able to attain happiness anytime, anywhere. Happiness is not a state, happiness is an ability. If a person thinks that happiness is the ruling party, happiness is the waist of the thousands, happiness is the standard of incense and car, etc., the soul has nothing to rely on.

Because happiness has little to do with how many things you have, but with the ability to perceive happiness. If you have the ability to perceive happiness, you can be very happy if you don't have the ability to perceive happiness, even if you have a lot, you will be restless.

I myself realized some insights from this sentence, normal thinking, "Eat and drink water, bend the humerus and pillow, and enjoy it", followed by "Wealth is like a floating cloud to me." Why is the word "unrighteousness" inserted? Logically speaking, since "eating and drinking water, bending the humerus and pillowing" is already very good, it is rich and expensive, it should be like floating clouds, and unrighteous and rich and expensive, it should be like dark clouds, which is a progressive relationship.

From this logic, it can be seen that Confucius did not reject the rich and the noble, but he rejected the unrighteous and the rich and the noble. Some people understand it more simply, saying that Confucius is a man who can live, which is cynicism. There's a good story about cynicism to illustrate:

Is there any seaside conversation with a lazy guy:

Why are you lying on the beach and doing nothing, your good youth is wasted".

So what are you busy doing? ”

Busy with work" What are you doing with your work? ”

Work to earn money" What do you do to earn money? ”

earn money to buy a house".

What do you do when you buy a house? ”

Buy a house for my son".

Bought a house and earned money for your son, and then what did you do? ”

I'm going to lie down on the beach and enjoy it."

I've done it now. ”

Cynics often say that you want to enjoy what you want to enjoy, and now you have enjoyed it, such as lying on the beach, where you won't starve to death in places like Hainan Island, and you can survive with coconuts. If we understand Confucius in this way, Confucius is not a person who can be idle at all, nor is he a cynic at all, but he does not only pursue material things.

So, how do you understand happiness?

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The explanation of having fun is that there is fun in it. The language book "Analects and Narratives": "Rice and water are sparse, and the humerus is bent and pillowed, and the joy is also in it."

Jin Huangfu Mi "The Biography of Gao Shi Chen Zhongzi": "The master is a book on the left piano and the right book, and he is happy in it." "Liang Shu An Cheng Wang Xiu Biography Model Nucleus":

or oak rice soup, but the day is not enough; Or the wall Ai Xi, enjoy it. Qing Han Taihua's "Essay on Nothing to Do for Fu Zhai Zhima Stool" is rolled down: "Wherever you are safe, and where you are happy, Confucius said:."

It's fun. So it called itself 'Suiyuan' cloud. ”

Word decomposition Explanation of 乐 乐 (乐) è joy , joy : happiness. Paradise.

Happy. Overjoyed. Fun.

Optimism (happy spirit, full of confidence in the development of things). Lotte (content with the situation of traveling on your own without any worries). Things that make people happy:

Pleasure. Amused. Something willingly willing:

Pleasure in the explanation of the inside; The middle pleasure explains this in detail; Inside. "The Analects of Politics": "Words are scarce, deeds are regretful, and Lu is in it."

Liu Bannong, "Wa Ke Collection: Self-Narrative of Generations": "Regarding language, I wrote to you last time, and there is a paragraph in it that can be rewritten. ”

1. The word "their" in the sentence is the third-person pronoun he.

2. The word "in" in the sentence is a preposition. The prepositional structure can be translated as "to".

Ye Gong asked Confucius Yu Zilu", which can be translated as: Ye Gong asked Confucius to Zilu (what kind of person is he).

To the question, add "the use of music is also in it".

The word "their" in the sentence is a demonstrative pronoun this, that.

This sentence can be translated: The fun is also in the middle.