This is Lin Zexu's couplet: "All rivers run into the sea, and you are just as strong as you want."
Big tolerance, from the history. No desire is just, from The Analects.
Shang: I'm not angry because I'm stubborn. There's nothing to prepare. Patience is necessary and helpful. Tolerance makes virtue great.
"The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang V": Confucius said, "I have never seen an upright man." Or, "Shen." Confucius said, "If you want it, why is it right?"
There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures that "no desire is just", which means that if a person has no desire, he is not afraid of anything. Monks have been practicing in monasteries all their lives, and finally there is no one who doesn't want to go to the west; The Taoist priest meditated all day behind closed doors, and finally no one didn't want to soar during the day. It can be seen that although "no desire is just", how difficult it is to achieve "no desire". Desire is actually a life goal and an ideal. The ancients often said: "All rivers run into the sea, with great tolerance;" Standing on the wall of Chiba, just without desire "is a magnificent compliment to the mountains and rivers, indicating that the sea is big and the mountains are considerable." "It can also be compared to a person's broad-minded and generous mind, that is, to have a tolerant character, to be honest, not to have any selfish desires, to be selfless, to stand firm, to do the right thing, and to be selfless and fearless.
I know an allusion. When Zuo was in Xinjiang, he passed by Lin Zexu's house. Lin sent a pair of couplets to show encouragement: tolerance is great in a hundred rivers, and rigidity is strong without desire.
Mr. Qian Mu explained in "A New Interpretation of the Analects of Confucius" that "what is right if you want to do it?" It is said that "many people are addicted to lust, so they will bend their hearts to things instead of being strong." "In this chapter, you can't just say too much, or you can't just say you don't want to. For example, Daojiazhuang has always insisted on judo without desire, which is not a virtue. " I think Lin Zexu's meaning is closer to the Analects of Confucius. It is Confucian and an official ethics, which is different from explaining "no desire".
"Tolerance is great", that is to say, to be broad-minded and broad-minded, which is also the embodiment of one's self-cultivation. China used to say that "a prime minister can sail in his stomach". No matter whether the prime minister is generous or not, people regard those who are broad-minded as the sea as respectable people.
The "desire" in "no desire is just" refers to the requirement of obtaining something or achieving a certain purpose. Desire is a physiological instinct of human beings. People have all kinds of "desires" if they want to live. However, everything must have a scale. If you have more and greater desires, you will be greedy; Too much desire is inevitable. Greedy people are often fascinated by money desire, material desire, lust and power desire. And worked hard to get nothing, and finally indulged in disaster.