Original link: http://mingxin.life/index.php/archives/342/

Because each of us has a heart, there is no need to deliberately learn it.
Because the main idea of ​​Xinxue is something that each of us should understand.

Conscience is nothing more than listening to one’s own heart

Conscience is to listen to the truest voice of the heart and act according to the instructions of the heart.
Simply put, you have to listen to your heart.
It is necessary to listen, but also to act obediently and honestly.

First of all, you must be able to hear. Some people’s voices have been suppressed for too long, so long that they can hardly hear them, and even forget that they still have their voices.
Some people can hear it, but the other voices are too loud, too many, and they don’t pay attention to distinguishing them, so they follow the other voices in a daze.

We know in our hearts what we don’t want, what we don’t like, and what we shouldn’t do, but we always worry about this and that, think about it, and finally give up our persistence, wrong our mind, and follow blindly unwillingly. Not very good, just make do at best. Looking back, I always regret not being able to persist.

We clearly know in our hearts that we should make our own decisions, but we still habitually listen to the advice of our parents, friends, and teachers, and even the gossip of strangers can make you hesitate. Save yourself, people who don’t listen to persuasion now won’t starve to death!

Also, before listening to someone else’s advice, see where they are standing and talking! ! ! Is it yours, or theirs.

The unity of knowing and doing is to try boldly and allow yourself to make mistakes

We need to acknowledge our own limitations, but we also need to see the limitations of others. No one is an all-knowing and omnipotent god. Everyone is just a seed at the beginning, which grows in different soils, with different water, soil, light, and wind speed.

In this ever-changing era, past experience is becoming invalid every minute and every second. All knowledge and experience are just our reference, not our creed.
We should be bold enough to try, as long as we take responsibility for our actions.
We should allow ourselves to make mistakes, allow ourselves to fail, because everyone makes mistakes and everyone fails.

Just like when we want to eat delicious food, all the evaluations and recommendations are just for reference. The easiest way is to eat it. The moment the food is in our mouths, we know whether it is delicious or not.

But this is also a risk, even a gamble. We may fail, not only wasting money, but also losing our appetite, or even poisoning or choking to death. But no one will give up eating because of choking, but there are so many people who are afraid of making mistakes and dare not do things. Even if he wants to do that thing, he is already scratching his head and scratching his head, but he still stops. So he became a sage, a sage who never makes a mistake, who does nothing and is never wrong.

But we don’t want to be saints, we have to try boldly and allow ourselves to make mistakes.
As long as we are always vigilant and bravely correct after making mistakes, then we will definitely do better and better.

Heart is reason——Wang Yangming did not explain clearly

The heart is reason, which is the so-called “nothing outside the mind, nothing outside the mind, and irrationality outside the mind”. In my opinion, there are two meanings, but Wang Yangming didn’t explain it clearly. He stayed in the realm of understanding, but he couldn’t explain it clearly, because No suitable language. So it’s so mysterious and mysterious, and those who have half-understood this thing are basically drifting away.

Let me explain today.

Our subjective world is constructed by our hearts, the material comes from our personal experience, we all see the world with prejudice

Everyone’s heart is the same, but their bodies, families, and growth experiences are different, so they form a similar but different concept system. These things form a shell around the heart. This shell is a tool for us to identify and interfere with the external world and the shell itself, and the core of manipulating this shell is the heart.

That is to say, the subjective world of each of us is constructed by our mind, the tool of construction is our body, the material of construction is everything captured by our body’s five senses and six senses, and the way of construction is our concepts system, thus forming our entire subjective world, which is both real and conscious. Reality is because its materials are all derived from our real feelings, and consciousness is because the results of all activities are only at the level of consciousness and are all in the concept system.

A plant is a different thing in the cognition of different people, it can be a weed, a herb, a plant of a certain family and a certain genus… That is to say, even if your cognition of a certain thing, even in a certain aspect That’s right, it’s also a prejudice, because you don’t know the whole picture of things, and all the prejudices add up to the whole. Of course, we don’t need to be perfect, we only need to know the attributes of a certain aspect according to the actual needs, so that we can grasp the main aspects of things.

The relationship between the mind and the body is like the relationship between a person and a mecha in a science fiction novel. Relying on a two-way connection, the heart drives the body’s five senses and six senses. The heart can control the five senses and six senses. Compared with the knob, it can be adjusted up or down or even shut down the body. function.

And the five senses and six senses are constantly reacting to the heart, just like the signal system of the mecha is constantly feeding back signals. Hunger tells us to eat, cold tells us to keep warm, and heat tells us to cool down. We take care of our bodies just like maintaining our mechs, and exercising our bodies is like upgrading mechas. Giving up the mechas when necessary is sacrificing one’s life for righteousness. The so-called free will is to control the body freely and not be reversely controlled by the body’s signals.

Everyone’s subjective world comes from language, and language is the accumulation of human history and is in the process of development and change. Everyone constructs their own subjective world in the process of language acquisition.

Where does each of our conceptual systems come from? In fact, it all comes from language. This language is developed from scratch, from less to more.

Even as we grow into adults, we still babble. The sensory connection corresponding to a vocabulary and concept is constantly expanding. For example, beer, when I was a child, was a bottle of iced drink after doing farm work, the kind of cold soaked in well water. And now, it has been expanded to include sweet pineapple spleen, and IPA with different bitterness every time, as well as the headache and feeling of urinating the next day.

All words and concepts are ultimately connected with our feelings before entering our hearts, not just our heads.

When I was 14 years old and celebrated the Lantern Festival by myself for the first time at school, I looked up at the bright moon and instantly understood what it means to “think about family members every festive season”. It was a real and unspeakable feeling , not just a poem.

I tried my best to imagining all my senses, and put myself into the situation of “After the new rain in the empty mountain, the weather is late to autumn. The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone flows up”. The moist and fresh air brings a cool touch to my skin, and the silence In the empty mountain, the moonlight shines, illuminating the pines, while the clear spring flows slowly. This situation is Wang Wei’s state of mind. Under the clear light of the mind, thoughts flow slowly like a clear spring.

Why don’t you understand

Although the above two points are similar, there is still a big difference. Instead of clarifying them separately, we only give the conclusions “There is nothing outside my heart, nothing outside my heart, and irrationality outside my heart”, “My heart is the universe, and the universe is me.” “Heart” is a bit magical, and it is easy to have various problems halfway through learning.

What is the use of psychology? Or what is the use of philosophy?

Thinking through all these things is actually just knowing in your heart that it does not directly improve our practical ability, nor does it immediately improve our real situation. The improvement of ability, the harmonious relationship with others, and the acquisition of wealth still depend on our continuous learning and continuous work. We will continue to make mistakes, but we are no longer afraid of making mistakes, and we are able to admit and correct them.

To put it bluntly, understanding these things is just to let us get rid of the confusion of life. If you have a clear heart, you don’t need to learn this trouble at all.

After you understand it, you will put your heart into everything in the future, do things with your heart, and get along with people with your heart. If you don’t do well, you should learn with your heart, and if you do something wrong, you should correct and make up for it with your heart.
In short, live with heart, live seriously, let your heart grow bright, no longer be muddled, no longer blindly act according to your previous habits, no longer what you did before, what you will do in the future; what you did before, you will do in the future How to do it; what life was like before, what life should be like in the future. If this is the case, if nothing unexpected happens, it will be like that for the rest of my life.

But there are bound to be accidents in life. When we are awakened by accidents, let’s jump out bravely! !
Let your life no longer be repeated day by day, and let every day be a new beginning. It used to be like this, but it doesn’t have to be like this in the future; everyone does that, not necessarily me.

Don’t cling to what you already know, spend some time trying new things! ! ! Draw pictures, write poems, make your own coffee, ice cream, sing your own songs, go to your favorite places, and do the things you have always wanted to do! ! ! Let those desires buried in your heart come out and breathe! ! !

Shout loudly, sing loudly in the open place, walk barefoot on the ground, in the mud, wade into the stream, feel the softness and smoothness of the mud, the coolness and liveliness of the water, the softness and cheerfulness of the wind, the coolness and moistness of the rain , the blazing heat and warmth of the sun. Let your heart feel the freedom even for a moment, break free from all shackles, let go of all scruples, and liberate yourself from the cage. It has been suppressed for too long, the rules, morality, preaching, expectations, vision and gossip outside, and even our own past and future, have suppressed it layer by layer to the bottom, even to the darkest hell, The heavy burden of the mountain made it unable to breathe. How long has it been since it breathed freely?

This article is transferred from: http://mingxin.life/index.php/archives/342/
This site is only for collection, and the copyright belongs to the original author.