One side of the branch is swaying gently in the wind, but the other side has firm and stable strength. Regardless of the wind and rain outside, it stood firm, unhurried and unhurried.
I took a deep breath and slowly calmed down. The bus will arrive in a few minutes.
Be quiet, everything will be all right. Quiet power can make a person no longer panic, and make a person have a sense of belonging, strength and stability.
Let's walk into the power of silence.
This book is only about how a person can take care of the people he cares about, complete his work and stick to his own direction in this crazy and accelerated world.
On the cover of the book, it says: All our troubles are because we can't be alone with ourselves quietly.
With a stable heart, you can enjoy life and have everything in the moment.
Walking in the hustle and bustle of the city, we often feel that even if we go at full speed, we will never catch up with what we want to pursue. When we wake up in the middle of the night, we toss and turn, and there will be a period of confusion: is this life worth it?
The author of this book, Pique Yale, lived a dream life at the age of 29: wonderful work, living in an apartment in a busy street, traveling as he pleases ... but the author feels "like a person who clamors for world peace everywhere, but his words and deeds are not the same".
At the beginning of this book, the author went to San Gabriel Mountain to visit Cohen, who lived a still life and experienced the art of still life.
Cohen sincerely told the author that living in this remote and quiet place is not out of piety or the pursuit of purity, but the most practical way he found to get rid of the confusion and fear that have plagued him for a long time.
Going to the end is not to let you ignore the world, but to pull away from it, so that you can see more clearly and love more deeply.
Zhuangzi said that "auspiciousness stops", the first stop is endless, and the second stop is static, which means that auspiciousness will stay in the static state of everything.
In this book, the author thinks that "endless"-sitting quietly for a long time and entering the inner world-is a very simple concept in essence. Sit-in, "leading to the end is a magnificent journey to know everything in the world." Meditation is a way to love everything in the world. "
The author says that we can spend a few minutes practicing meditation every day, doing nothing but observing the feeling of surging and tumbling inside. Every season, you can take a few days off, or take a walk in the forest to recall something deeper than this moment or yourself. You can even try to find a life like Cohen's, no stage, no performance. Remind you in a more profound way than words that making a living and living are sometimes far apart.
People can always be clean, and heaven and earth will be returned. When a person is quiet, meditating or still, the power of all things in the universe will come back to you continuously. Now, be quiet and experience the feeling of falling in love with everything.
On the contrary, if a person can't live in the present and enjoy the state of selflessness, he may be consuming himself, fighting, internal friction and pulling, so he can't get the support of everything in the universe.
Be quiet. We live, not make a living.
The power of silence will gradually appear in a person. Through a person's language, skin, breathing, eyes, and even the music and photos he shared, everything he owned slowly seeped out.
The author said: I remember one day, after watching an abstract art exhibition in mark rothko, I felt as if my body was sucked under the calm water. I saw a bottomless deep pool filled with various colors.
A person's exterior is a true and complete presentation of his inner heart. We can guess what kind of person he is just by looking at his eyes, color, clothes, figure, speech and tone.
The live broadcast of Sydney's teacher gives people a quiet and stable feeling. Because Sydney teacher is observing and analyzing with a calm eye behind solving problems, and has the ability to connect with the essence of things. It can make people see things as they really are. She calmly teaches us the experience of things and gives us inner strength.
Photos can convey emotions. Zi Mu, the founder of UP Reading Club, said that Sydney's photos and stormy eyes have the power to destroy decay, so let me be honest with them. In this regard, Sydney's shooting experience is: quiet feeling, careful conception, and careful shutter pressing.
When you are quiet, your inner soul will come out.
Zi Mu shared Sydney's way to avoid investment: When the news of an investment excites your mind, you should resolutely not vote, because you should be careful not to make waves in your quiet heart. If this can make my heart feel stable, I will take the time to study familiarity.
Next time, when we encounter an investment project, don't make a hasty decision; If you don't have relevant investment knowledge and professional friends to guide you, you can still rely on your own intuition and calm down when your mind is no longer hot, which will have a much better chance of winning than when you are at the peak.
Sitting for a long time can let a person enter the inner world. Most of our problems are deep in our hearts. Many questions don't know how to solve them. Close your eyes and be quiet, and the answers will automatically emerge.
You can also try this method: think about your confusion before going to bed at night, and the dream will give you the answer. Dreams mobilize the subconscious. When it is relaxed and quiet enough, it will open the subconscious mind and mobilize all forces to help you solve a problem.
Wandering in Zhuangzi: Wild horses, dust, creatures, breath blowing each other.
When we are quiet, we can hear the rain, the wind, the rustling of leaves and so on. A chorus composed of the voices of all things in the universe is the voice of nature.
Nature exudes the breath of all kinds of creatures, and there is a wonderful chorus between heaven and earth. Only quiet, powerful, stable and calm people have a chance to appreciate it.
/kloc-Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher in the 0/7th century, famously said, "All people's unhappiness stems from the simple fact that they can't sit quietly in their rooms."
We are exposed to more information in one day than Shakespeare in his whole life. Once interrupted by the phone, it will take us 25 minutes to recover. However, such a life interruption happens every 1 1 minute, which means that we can never keep up with our own lives.
In fact, people who stand at the forefront of science and technology know best how to limit the use of scientific and technological products in their lives. People who are committed to accelerating the development of the world are also more sensitive to the value of slowing down the pace of life.
Google has many employees' self-spaces, including exercise, rest, yoga and meditation. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, will sit in an empty meditation room and let himself go, and then decide which design to use for the product.
In fact, in Silicon Valley, many people celebrate "Internet Sabbath" every week. From Friday night to Monday morning, they will turn off most electronic equipment, hoping to regain a sense of direction and balance when they start a new week.
We can also set ourselves an Internet Sabbath. Sabbath: Put down what you are doing and have a good rest.
We have no time, because we are very busy; But because I didn't take the time to rest, meditate and calm myself down, I didn't have time to think about this result.
Endless busyness will reduce the brain's judgment, make the brain feel bad and reduce efficiency. If you put yourself in a stable state every day, listen to music, exercise, leisure and meditation, which is better, and free your brain from daily chores, your brain will be smarter, more efficient, make correct judgments and save a lot of time. This is the real causal relationship.
After getting used to the endless life, a person feels more and more sense of belonging and stability, as if stepping into a road home.
The significance of returning to silence is not to contribute anything to temples or hilltops, but to bring that kind of silence into a noisy and complicated world.
When we make a decision, calm down and think, so that we can find a clearer answer.
When we write, we will find that naturally occurring ideas are fresher and more imaginative than what we are looking for.
In the last chapter, the author wrote: I began to realize that in this era of blind pursuit of speed, nothing can bring vitality to people more than slow life. In this distracting era, nothing can bring people a sense of abundance more than concentration. In this rapidly changing era, nothing is more important than sitting quietly.
Calm down, just hold your horses, "choose one thing in your life" is practice.