Sit and watch the clouds roll up, listen to the flowers bloom and fall, and let the tide rise and fa

This article is for Chen Jiru, a native of the Ming Dynasty.

Written, the whole book begins with "awakening", and finally "Qian", a total of 12 chapters, the author uses short and incisive aphorisms to urge people to be vigilant and thought-provoking, this book and "Caigen Tan", "Fireside Night Talk".

It is also known as the three must-read books for Chinese self-cultivation. Not only that, but the book also shows the author's understanding of people, society, and relationships.

It has a certain depth of social ideological significance.

It means to sit and watch the clouds roll up, listen to the flowers bloom and fall, and let the tide rise and fall means that on the long road of life, although it is full of twists and turns, ups and downs and various difficult situations, but still can maintain a normal heart, not to be happy with things, not to be sad about themselves, not to be entangled in all kinds of mundane things, no matter how turbulent, the tide rises and falls, you can still leisurely watch the clouds roll up and stretch, and you can also calm down and listen to the sound of flowers blooming and falling.

In "The Story of a Small Window".

, the author believes that "the form is not a relative, let alone the long thing outside the form", "cloud smoke."

Seeing the real body in the shadow, the body is not worth getting close to, not to mention the things that the body can't take away, in the cloud shadow and smoke to realize the real self, only to understand that the body is a thing that restricts people, Buddhism says that "all laws have no self", "the color body is illusory", life should not be bound by the body, let alone because of pity for this, and continue to seek, since the body is "not a relative", not to mention the honor and disgrace outside the body, fame and fortune? All the sufferings of life come from people's greed for themselves and things outside of their bodies, and only by seeing through this attachment can we achieve tranquility. "When people are disturbed, what is the realm of the heart; When people meet Qingning, the weather in front of them will be separated."

The meaning of this sentence is: sit and watch the clouds roll in the sky, listen to the flowers bloom and fall, and let the tide rise and fall. This sentence is a metaphor for the calmness, stability, and indifference of life, and expresses the acceptance and appreciation of life.

Meaning: to do things for people can be as ordinary as a flower blooming and falling, in order not to be surprised, depending on the position to stay like a cloud of change, in order to be unintentional.

"Clouds roll up and clouds Shu" - it means that the clouds sometimes gather and sometimes disperse. Volume: Gathering. Shu: Spread out, spread out. Then watching the clouds is to see the clouds sometimes gather and disperse, and sometimes disperse;

The ebb and flow of the tide originally referred to the rising tide in the sea.

The ebb tide is often extended to the meaning of ups and downs and unstable life fate. Then the ebb and flow of thought refers to the ups and downs of thoughts.

From: Chen Jiru.

The original text of "Notes on the Dark Window": "Don't be shocked by the humiliation, and watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court." Go and stay unintentionally, wandering with the clouds outside the sky. ”

Revealing the truth

On the long road of life, although it is full of twists and turns, ups and downs and various difficult situations, he can still maintain a normal heart, not happy with things and sad with himself.

Don't get entangled in all kinds of mundane things, no matter how turbulent, the tide rises and falls, you can still leisurely watch the clouds roll up and stretch, and you can also calm down and listen to the sound of flowers blooming and falling.

The meaning of this sentence is to leisurely look at the white clouds and wait for the flowers to bloom and fall.

According to the query of the ancient poetry network, "watching the flowers bloom and fall, sitting and watching the clouds roll up and the clouds" is to calmly deal with all the glory and humiliation, quietly savor the time when the flowers bloom and the flowers fall again, sit leisurely and watch the white clouds roll up and bury the fight and comfort, Song Liquid is adapted from the Ming Dynasty Chen Ye Jiru's "Window Notes".

Watching the flowers bloom and fall, and watching the clouds roll up" expresses that on the long road of life, although it is full of twists and turns, ups and downs and various difficult situations, it can still maintain a normal heart, not to be happy with things, not to be sad about oneself.

Watching the tide rise and fall, looking at the clouds and rolling clouds" means: to do things for people can be as ordinary as a flower blooming and falling, so as not to be surprised; Depending on the position to stay like a cloud, it can be unintentional.

From: Chen Jiru.

The original text of "Notes on the Dark Window": "Don't be shocked by the humiliation, and watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court." Go and stay unintentionally, wandering with the clouds outside the sky. ”

The author of "The Story of the Dark Window" is known as imitating Chen Jiru. Zhusheng, secluded in the sun of Kunshan, built a room in the east of Sheshan, and Du Men wrote. Gong poetry can write, calligraphy Sumi, and can paint things, and the name is important for a while.

Repeatedly requisitioned, all with resignation. What he did was "to take trivial things and interpret them into books, and to buy and write them from far and near." Chen Jiru is now preserved, except for "The Story of the Small Window".

In addition, there is also "Records of Experiences and Experiences".

Six Contract Spring", "Chen Meigong Poems", "Tiger Hui", "Meigong Miscellaneous" and so on.

Interpretation: Leisurely watching the white clouds roll up and relax, quietly savoring the time when the flowers bloom and fall.

Adapted from Chen Jiru of the Ming Dynasty.

's "Window Notes". An excerpt from the original text is as follows:

Don't be shocked by the humiliation, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; Go and stay unintentionally, wandering with the clouds outside the sky.

Vernacular. Interpretation: Doing things for people can be as ordinary as a flower blooming and falling, so as not to be surprised; Depending on the position to stay like a cloud, it can be unintentional. Teach the world that in this chaotic world, we need to learn to treat everything around us with a normal heart.

The relevance is as follows. Historical stories.

Tang Taizong. During this period, the official Lu Chengqing was ordered to investigate the responsibility for the wreck of the Caoyun ship, and changed the evaluation of the Caoyun official three times, and the official showed favor and humiliation. Later, Lu himself also had ups and downs, and his fate was bumpy, but his mood was always as calm as water, and he did not change his principles of life because of ups and downs.

Appreciation. Don't be frightened, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; Go and stay unintentionally, and roll up the clouds in the air. The wind comes to sparse the bamboo, and the bamboo does not leave a sound when the wind passes; The geese cross the cold pool, the geese go and the pond does not exist.

Therefore, the gentleman's heart begins to appear when things come, and his heart is empty when things go. Only by looking down on everything can you calm your soul and savor the thousands of flavors of life.

The bright eyebrows of the morning sun always mean the desolation of dusk, the delicate roses will eventually wither, and the short youth will also become a memory. The flowers bloom and fall several times, and the rainy season that never returns finally becomes a nostalgia for life.

Life is a gathering and dispersion, the first cry of the first time in the world kicked off the prelude to the gathering, so in the years to come, the flowers bloom and fall, the clouds roll up, there are countless encounters, no matter which form of gathering, which form of separation, in the end is the end of the song people dispersed, and the birds returned to the forest.

Life is a mystery, we never know what the next step will be, what kind of situation will appear, so let's be an excellent actor, devote ourselves to it, laugh happily when we should laugh, cry happily when we should cry, love him vigorously when we should love, and hate him thoroughly when we should hate.

Everyone's life will always experience all kinds of ups and downs, so that after a long time, we can't bear to abandon it. It is precisely these hardships and ups and downs that have become beautiful and wonderful pictures in our lives, and have become a precious wealth for us to reminisce about our lives when we are quiet.

Watching the clouds roll up and listening to the flowers blooming and falling" means that people can do things for others as ordinary as flowers blooming and falling, so that they can be peaceful; Seeing and staying is like a cloud rolling cloud, so that it can be indifferent to nature. It is a kind of realm, derived from traditional Chinese thought, from Chen Jiru's "The Story of a Small Window".

Hong Yingming's "Caigen Tan".

Caigen Tan is a Confucian collection and compilation by Hong Yingming, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty.

Classics are a collection of quotations on self-cultivation, life, life, and birth. His writing is concise and clear, elegant and vulgar, and his words reveal the interest of mountains and forests, permeating the worldview of the unity of all things. The prescription for dealing with the world focuses on mentality and personnel, understands the truth of falsehood, points out that the rich and poor, the humble, and the poor are converted into good and evil, and good and bad because of their minds, and warns the world to change their minds in time, quit greed and less desire, and take the golden mean.

The content and depth of the work are different before and after, reflecting different experiences and realms.