Chapter 10 Yang wood character

There is such a story.Zai Wo asked Confucius: "When parents die, do I have to observe filial piety for three years?" Confucius asked back, "If you don't do this, are you at ease?" After I left, Confucius said: "Killing me is not benevolent!" It also means that he is very numb. When you were a child, your parents hugged you for three years. Now they are dead. You can feel at ease after three years of filial piety. You are really heartless. what! Mencius said that everyone has a heart of compassion, and compassion is benevolence.To sum up, we can conclude that "benevolence" is a kind of sensitivity that normal people must have. It is the sensitivity of the body and the sensitivity of the soul.The insensitivity of the body can range from nerve sluggishness, numbness in parts of the body, to stroke hemiplegia, or even the feeling that certain parts of the body (such as limbs) do not exist.These can be said to be insensitive, and this kind of disease is exactly the liver system disease.Someone felt numbness on the outside of the thigh, and was terribly afraid. They were afraid that it would spread and become paralyzed, so they rushed to the hospital.And what about the numbness in the heart?Isn't it sick?

Some people say that my heart is not numb, but sensitive!Wrong, people's hearts cannot be completely numb, otherwise they would be dead.The non-numbed parts of our hearts are of course sensitive, but the numb parts mean that we can't feel them.The heart is different from the thigh. If the thigh is numb or not, you can tell it by touching it with your hands, but you can't touch the heart.How can I know the numbness of your heart?have to rely on others. The word "benevolence" is divided into "two people". Some people say that this shows that "benevolence" reflects the relationship between people, and "the benevolent loves others".In fact, not only that, a person also needs benevolence, and a benevolent person must also love things and have a benevolent heart for everything. The meaning of "two people" is also to show that the numbness of the human heart depends on others to discover and enlighten.

How to enlighten?I have a brother who is vegetarian.I asked him why he was a vegetarian, and he said it was because he couldn't bear the pain of animals dying.After I listened to it and thought about it carefully, I found it very reasonable.Animals are not afraid of death?When we slaughtered a pig, the pig was also afraid and would run for its life, but its strength was weaker than that of a human, so it was caught and held on the butcher's stool to be knifed.Would you be happy if someone did this to you?Each life is to satisfy our appetite.The fish swims freely in the water, but we are going to catch it.When the fish swallowed the bait, the hook sank deep into its throat.Just think, what's that like?But we regard fishing as an elegant thing, and use the life of fish for leisure and fun!We have never thought about this, our hearts are not sensitive enough in this area, this is insensitivity!On my own, I may never get it right, but as soon as my brother reminds me, I will understand immediately.

Compassion refers not only to human beings, but also to other animals and even all living things.Confucius had a student. When cutting firewood at home, he only cut off the dead branches every time, and he couldn't bear to cut off the living branches. Therefore, Confucius praised him very much. This is "benevolence".The benevolent loves others, and the benevolent cherishes things. With such sensitivity and compassion, it is Yangmu's character, so it is not easy to get angry. "Huangdi Neijing" summarizes the diet structure that is most beneficial to human health: "Five grains for food, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, and five vegetables for supplement." , is called benefit.It can be seen that the proportion of meat in the Chinese diet structure is actually quite small, and it is not absolutely necessary.Grains account for the largest proportion and are used as staple food.Why?The five grains are the seeds of plants, and a small seed can grow into a large plant, which can multiply endlessly, which shows that it has great "vitality".What our human body needs are starch, protein, vitamins and trace elements, etc., which are too numerous to count. Such an enumeration is the practice of Western medicine. Chinese medicine does not do this. He sums up these things in one word, then It is "vitality".Food has vitality, it can support people.The vitality of the seeds is the greatest. We have to eat countless seeds for a meal, and the vitality will naturally be there.People can obtain all the nutrients needed by the human body from grains, beans and vegetables without resorting to the meat of other animals.For thousands of years, Chinese people have been mainly vegetarian. Only nobles can eat meat every day, and they are called "meat eaters", and "meat eaters are despicable".Until more than ten years ago, when our living standard was not as high as it is now, people still mainly ate vegetarian food. Poorer families could only eat some meat during the festival.And they live a very healthy life. Don’t the old men and women in their 70s and 80s we see come from that era?They have suffered much more than we have.

Chinese people's traditional dietary structure has been mainly vegetarian since ancient times. After thousands of years, it has formed the physical characteristics of Chinese people and even affected their personality.This cannot be said to change, but in recent years, the structure of people's diet has indeed changed. Now, except in some extremely poor places, who doesn't eat meat every day?Eating meat every day is mostly not beneficial but only disadvantageous: a few years ago, a research report stated that the intestines of Chinese people are longer than those of Europeans and Americans. The longer the intestines, the better it is for digesting vegetarian food, while the shorter intestines are better for digestion. People with long intestines are more compassionate and gentler than those with short intestines.The same is true for animals. Herbivores have longer intestines than carnivores, and herbivores are more tame than carnivores.Chinese people have long intestines, and meat enters it, before it goes from one end of the intestines to the other end, it is already decomposed and digested into dross, which directly damages the stomach and intestines, and gastrointestinal diseases appear.After further digestion, the dregs will ferment and decay. At this time, what the human body absorbs is not nutrients, but toxins. Fecal poison enters the blood, causing hardening of the arteries, which is one of the causes of cardiovascular diseases and various tumors.Whether this theory is true or not remains to be further studied and confirmed, but it is worthy of warning.

In addition, meat is mainly protein, and the content of vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates is very small. The human body only needs to consume 70-90 grams of protein every day. These ingredients can be provided by vegetarians.Eating meat causes excessive protein intake, which can easily lead to liver disease and cardiovascular disease.Eating meat also hinders the metabolism of carbohydrates, which can lead to diabetes. Furthermore, eating meat will increase the acidity of the human blood.The blood of healthy people is slightly alkaline, with a pH value between 7.35 and 7.45, while the blood of cancer patients is almost 100% acidic.There are three main reasons for the acidification of the human body: 1. Mental tension or physical fatigue; 2. Age growth; 3. Meat eating.The acidic substances produced by fatigue and stress will decompose as fatigue recovers. The acidic substances produced by aging are very small and very slow. Only the acid produced by meat eating is the most difficult to decompose and grows very fast.A person with an acidic body will have dull skin, get tired easily, and get fat easily.The acidic body also provides an excellent environment for the growth of cancer cells.The vegetarian diet just enhances the alkalinity of the human body, so it can not only eliminate fatigue, but also delay aging and prevent cancer.

The last and most important point is that the reason why we eat meat every day is not because our living standards have improved, but because the technology of meat production has changed.In the past, meat was raised by farmers and was a natural food. A pig or a chicken had to be raised for at least one year before it could be marketed. This is a breeding that conforms to the life cycle of animals.Now, farms use feed containing additives such as hormones, which disrupts the growth cycle of animals, and can fatten broiler chickens, meat pigs, and vegetable cattle in a very short period of time.Moreover, in the past, most of the livestock were free-range. These livestock can run around in front of the house, in the fields, on the hills, and wander around. They live happily.Nowadays, people adopt modern large-scale breeding. Animals are kept in small cages, imprisoned for life, and finally go to the slaughterhouse collectively. Can they be happy in their hearts?They also have resentment!These emotions of theirs also generate toxins, which remain in the flesh.Therefore, the quality of the meat we eat now is not as good as before. The meat contains hormones and other residues, which is still a small problem; the real culprit of killing people is the various toxins produced by the animals themselves in the harsh breeding environment. Toxins are associated with the toxins produced by bad emotions in our body, causing countless strange diseases and strange diseases.

Green is the color of Yangmu. Especially for modern people, life pressure is high, work is tense, and unsatisfactory things happen nine out of ten, and they are particularly prone to anger and tend to develop a yin wood personality.The more so, the more people yearn for green and to be close to nature.The green of nature can soothe people's tense hearts. Therefore, the natural beauty can make "those who fly to the sky, look at the peaks and rest their minds; Busy people, when they see green in nature, their hearts calm down. This is how nature cultivates people.In this kind of edification, people can gradually change their mood and change their character.

Among the five elements, wood is blue.Cyan is an umbrella term that includes green, cyan, and even blue.Woody people tend to like this kind of color.People who are irritable will feel peaceful when they see green grass, lush trees, turquoise lakes, and blue seas. Even if they are angry, they will calm down a little. The running water is also green, and more importantly, the sound of running water is also a good medicine for protecting the liver, because water produces wood.Modern science has also proved that the specific frequency and timbre of the sound of running water can make people feel happy and calm the liver qi.

Therefore, in addition to intense work and life, we must not forget to get close to nature, and don't forget to travel and exercise.Of course, some people will say that going out to travel is spending money to pay for suffering, which is a wrong mentality again.When we focus on the hardships of the long distance journey, travel is really a heavy responsibility; if we focus on the green grass and gurgling water, appreciate and listen to our heart's content, then we You have obtained the most precious chicken soup for the soul in the world. Of course, we can’t live in nature all the time, it’s okay, we can make the office more blue, such as posting some landscape paintings on the wall, putting a few pots of green plants on the window sill, setting the background of the computer desktop or page to Cyan and so on.This can create a relaxed environment for work.When designing a home, we might as well use cyan as the main color of the living room or bedroom, which will make people relax when they come home.There is a wide range of cyan, everyone can choose according to their own preferences, it can be dark green or light blue, the one you like is the best for you.

0-15 years old is the spring of life, and it is also the best season for cultivating Renyangmu's character. We all know that this age group is a critical period for people to grow their bodies.In fact, during this period, people's minds are also growing, their personalities are also taking shape, and they tend to mature. There is a saying in China: "Seven years old is old." From a seven-year-old child, you can basically see what he will be like when he grows up.This is called "sprout", or "trend".So what do you think of "seven years old and old"?Is it to see how many Tang poems he can recite and how much English he can speak?Does it depend on his Chinese and math scores?Is it to see if he knows calligraphy and piano?No, the most important thing is to look at his character.To be precise, it depends on whether he has Yangmu personality. Yangmu's character first manifests as love, and he can face everything around him with a benevolent attitude.Children have their unique eyes to observe the world. In their world, animals can talk and little trees have feelings.We love children, care about their food and clothing, pay attention to their every move, smile and frown. This is actually teaching children. Children have an innate instinct to imitate, and they will also learn from adults to care for those around them. Everything, even a tree, a rag doll.This is "education of love".Caring children are the most promising. Parents love their children out of nature, and their purpose is to nurture their children, to make them caring and humane, not to let them enjoy life and save trouble.Many people do not understand this, so love for children becomes doting.Some parents love their children so much that they can't bear to let their children suffer a little bit, and they don't want their children to suffer any grievances.Some people even say that when a girl chooses a mate nowadays, she must choose a rich one, not for herself, but for her future children, so as not to let the children be born in poor families and suffer.This is not called loving children.For a child, being rich doesn't mean more happiness, or even better growth.As the saying goes, "Children of the poor start their own families early", but poverty makes it easier for people to be self-reliant and self-reliant, and self-reliance and self-improvement are Yangmu's character, which must be cultivated between the ages of 0-15.If the parents are very rich during this period, and let the child enjoy the wealth as much as possible, then the child will not understand the hardships of the world, and will not know how to be self-reliant.If everything is arranged for the child and done for the child, the child will become dependent and unable to stand on his own. In the future life, he will hit a wall more often. In the character of children aged 0-15, wood character accounts for a large part, so it is necessary to cultivate Yang wood character. If Yang wood character is not cultivated, then Yin wood may take advantage of it.Some children have cruel factors in their personality, such as like to abuse small animals for no reason, like to fight, and like to watch bloody scenes of murder in movies and TV.Otherwise, the yin wood personality in childhood will be very unfavorable to the future personality development, and will have many adverse effects on health and career. A few years ago, a woman complained to me that she had found a boyfriend who was born in the countryside and was the head of the family. His younger siblings were still studying, and the burden on the family was heavy, but this boy took too much care of the family and took care of the family. Brothers and sisters are gone, and a lot of money and energy are spent on this every year.I said: "This is a good thing. Why not?" Because her boyfriend, as the eldest son of the family, needs to have Yangmu personality most, and what he does is the embodiment of Yangmu personality, Yangmu personality , so that when he was young, he had a larger life pattern. Perhaps in the eyes of many people, a family is a "family of three" consisting of a husband, wife and children; a man only needs to take care of his wife and children to be considered "family care".In fact, the concept of "home" has different meanings in the eyes of different people, big and small.A family of three is the smallest family. If a man only manages the family of three and is satisfied with "wife, children, and hot kang", then I can only say that his life pattern is not big enough. The "family" in traditional Chinese culture refers to everyone, at least a big family, a family.Men are shouldering the great responsibility of "self-cultivation, family harmony, state governance, and world peace". Among them, "family harmony" is to make the big family in which they live prosper.When you regard a country as "home", your life pattern is governing the country; when you regard the whole world as "home", your life pattern is to level the world.But in our daily life, we see more men like this: Once they get married, they don’t care about their younger siblings, they quickly separate the family, and live a small life with their wives and children. This kind of man’s pattern is too small.But there are many women who want men to be like this.Just imagine, a man who can treat his younger brothers and sisters well, can't he also treat his wife and children well?A man who takes care of everyone, can't he take care of Xiao's family?If a man's life pattern is limited to a small family, then we can hardly expect his life and career to develop to a high level. This is my analysis back then.Today, the woman's former boyfriend has become a good husband with a successful career and a happy family.All this is due to the Yangmu character he developed as the eldest son at home since he was a child. The eldest son is the eldest son in a family and the hope of the family. He will soon shoulder the responsibilities of a family, so he must be self-reliant, especially not to be spoiled.But the eldest son is the most likely to be spoiled, because when the eldest son is born, there are no other boys in the family, and the pampering of everyone in the family, including grandpa, grandma, aunt, and uncle, will fall on him alone, and this attitude will continue , so that the eldest son always has a sense of superiority among his younger siblings.The eldest son must not be spoiled in this atmosphere. The Yangmu character of the eldest son in the family first manifests itself as self-reliance.The eldest son sets an example for his younger siblings. If the eldest son is self-reliant, the younger siblings will follow suit; if the eldest son is not self-reliant, the younger siblings will not be promising, but at least they will lose a good example.The eldest son should be kind, and this character is beneficial to his development in life. Now, a family usually only has one child, and men and women are the same, so this child is considered the eldest son regardless of whether it is male or female, and should have Yangmu personality, especially between 0-15 years old. In terms of age or status in the family, it is the best time to cultivate Yangmu's character, which deserves special attention from every parent in family education. Those who are familiar with agriculture know that planting crops should follow the four seasons; those who are familiar with TCM health care know that health care must also follow the four seasons... The four seasons are the laws of nature, and traditional Chinese culture advocates following the laws of nature and the four seasons.Cultivating our character should also conform to the four seasons. "Huangdi Neijing" is a big book, it is not limited to medicine, but also involves the cultivation of psychology and character. When it comes to spring, the "Huangdi Neijing" especially emphasizes: "Don't kill when you are born, don't take away when you give, reward and don't punish, this is the response to spring energy, and the way to keep in good health. Going against it will hurt the liver." This is actually It is teaching us how to cultivate the character of Yangmu by conforming to the seasons of spring. Spring is the season for all things to grow. Plants sprout branches, leaves, and bloom, and various animals begin to grow their bodies, courtship, and reproduce.Seeing a small tree thriving, do you have the heart to cut it down?Do you have the heart to break a newly grown branch when you see it is tender and tender?Seeing a newly sprouted plant poking its head out of the soil, do you have the heart to step on it?There are also various animals, which enjoy love and give birth to life in spring.The ancients often said, "Advise the king not to kill three spring birds, the son is looking forward to the mother's return in the nest." Ah, what you kill may not be just a life, but a family of birds. The starving bird is brought into the fear of death.Thinking about all this, how can we bear it!Because this is a new life, it has the right to survive and grow up, and we cannot kill a life in its infancy.This is "Be born, don't kill". Spring, with its new life, is reminding people that they should have this kind of compassion. This is Yangmu's character. Spring is also a season of hope and a good start.If you give someone some seeds, he may use them to sow seeds; if you give someone a sum of money, he may use it as a capital for the annual operating budget; if you give someone a chance, he will try his best to Do; if you give someone some encouragement or reward, it may become his motivation throughout the year... At this time, it would be too cruel to take what was given away from others, or to punish people !People's hope for a year may be ruined because of this!This is "give and don't take away, reward and don't punish". In spring, we must give people confidence and hope. "Don't kill when you are born, don't take what you give, don't punish when you reward" is the expression of benevolence and the way to cultivate Yangmu's character.The sight of hair growth and flourishing in spring makes people particularly sensitive, so it is easy to accept this concept.The soft and green yang wood of plants is growing, and the yang wood character of the human body is also being born.So spring is the best season to cultivate people's compassion and benevolence.