Chapter 11 Yin wood character

Anger means "angry", why is it called angry?The Chinese language has a basis for naming any kind of thing. As the name suggests, when one is angry, a puff of qi will be produced in the human body. The "Huangdi Neijing" says: "When angry, the qi rises." When angry, the qi of the human body will go up, giving people the feeling that there is a wave of qi being born.The human body is an organism with a balance of qi and blood. If some qi is regenerated out of thin air, the balance will be destroyed. Moreover, this qi will enslave us and control our emotions.When we look at the character for anger, the upper part is "slave" and the lower part is "heart". Maybe the ancients have experienced the feeling of anger carefully when man-made characters, isn't it just that the heart is enslaved!

Anger is caused by Yinmu's character.Yinmu's personality is so conceited and self-centered, but real life does not allow him to do so.You think you are great, but others don't think you are great. If you disregard others' feelings and offend others, others will definitely pay you back.At this time, the Yinmu character will feel that he has been treated unfairly, and he will be angry, so he becomes angry.We often add the word "huo" after "nu", and say "nu" as "anger".Indeed, anger, like fire, can be relentlessly fueled. When it comes to fire, I think of the mountains in my hometown.My family is in the south, where there is plenty of rain all year round and the air is humid. Although there are many trees on the mountain, there has never been a fire.Even the fire where people go to graves to burn paper during Chinese New Year is not extinguished in time, and it can only burn a small area.The trees on this mountain can be called "yang wood". They are living wood and cannot be burned.In the same way, people with Yangmu character are not easy to get angry.The character of Yinmu is different. The character of Yinmu is like a dry tree, which will catch fire.

Some anger can be uttered, which is serious anger; there is also anger that is not dared to be uttered, but can only be suppressed, which is of course uncomfortable, which is called "depression".Depression is caused by anger.Anger and depression are both harmful to people. Relatively speaking, if you can express your anger, it will cause less harm to your body; People with Yinmu personality have anger in their hearts, they can't hold it back, and they can't express it, so what should they do?Can only "appease the anger".Let's look at the word "rest", one "self" and one "heart", which means that the anger in the heart can only be calmed by the effort of one's own mind.This requires us to always pay attention to cultivating the Yang wood in our character.

There are stories about Zhuge Liang's "Three Qi Zhou Yu" and "Curse Wang Lang to Death". Is this a purely fictional plot?I don't think so.It is not uncommon for people to get sick and die from anger in real life.Many people have liver cancer, and when they are found out, they will be at an advanced stage. When they die, the insider will always say: "He, he died of anger." "Huangdi Neijing" says "anger hurts the liver", it doesn't mean that when people get angry, the liver hurts, it's not so direct.The liver governs catharsis, which is equivalent to detoxification. Once a person is angry, endocrine disorders will cause the body to produce more toxins immediately, and the pressure on the liver to detoxify will increase.Anger is born from the heart. When the heart is angry, it means that the monarch is cruel. The world will inevitably have thieves, and the pressure on the liver as the "general officer" will be greater. The capital also sent emergency documents.How can the general not be exhausted?The liver controls anger, which actually means that the seven emotions are all produced by the heart, and when the heart is angry, the liver has to be responsible for the consequences.

The liver plays a very important role in the human body.Liver belongs to wood, water produces wood, wood produces fire, water and fire are kidney and heart respectively.The liver is between the heart and kidney, and it communicates with the heart and kidney, and between water and fire, it regulates yin and yang.The liver belongs to wood, and wood produces wind, so we often talk about liver wood and liver wind, and liver qi is the wind in the human body.When the wind is blowing, the fire is also lively, the water is also passionate, and there is vitality everywhere. This is the state of the human body when the liver is working normally.And once the wind is strong, either the water will be blown dry and the fire will be blown out, or the water will be blown into stormy waves and the fire will be blown into floods.This is called "internal movement of liver wind" in Chinese medicine. When the liver wind moves, the heart fire will be blown up. When the heart fire is strong, the kidney water cannot control the fire, but will be dried by the fire.As a result, the monarch is restless, the five internal organs are restless, the kidney water is exhausted, and the whole body loses nourishment.All kinds of diseases will come to take advantage of the fire, not just liver disease and wind disease.The root cause of liver wind internal movement is that people get angry when they are angry.Anger hurts the liver. In fact, anger does not only hurt the liver. When a person is angry, the heartbeat will speed up, which means that the heart is stimulated and the burden is increased; the appetite will decrease, and even do not want to eat, which means that the spleen and stomach are affected; , especially the elderly, will wheeze and cough when they get angry. This is because the lung and kidney systems will also be disordered due to anger.

Anger can directly lead to illness and hospitalization.The Buddhists say that once we get angry, there will be a pan of oil waiting for us in hell.Buddhist scriptures, like the Ksitigarbha, describe the horrors of hell and are not intended to frighten us.Let's not discuss whether there is such a physical hell, but we can understand what is going on by looking at the pain in reality.My friends who work in hospitals always sigh: the hospital is hell!Skinning, cramps, laparotomy, amputation, throat cutting... Which one is not bloody?Isn't this like torture in hell?How did it come to the human world?What is the difference between the pain and fear brought about by radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hemodialysis, and hell?If we think about where these diseases come from, our anger in the past must be one of the reasons.From anger to hell, in fact, you don’t have to wait until after death or the next life, there will be a living hell to torture you in this life!

Think about these horrible scenes in the hospital. Don’t think that these things only happen to others. If you don’t pay attention to adjusting your personality and emotions, all the "torture" will visit each of us at any time. The ancient tyrants would kill in a fit of rage.Although ordinary people do not have the power to kill, they still have a murderous look on their faces when they are angry.Can't kill people, he can kill other animals.A spider crawls across the desk, you pick up a book and slap it to death.Why shoot to death?He must have been secretly angry.If you don't admit it, why would you kill a mosquito when it lands on your arm?Because it drank your blood and made you angry, it would kill you if it got angry, isn't it because it was secretly angry?If he didn't pat and let the mosquitoes fly away, the faint anger might be amplified.

When I was a child, I had a little friend who would lie on the ground and lick the ants on the ground without saying a word when something unpleasant happened.There are so many ants on the ground that he will strangle all he sees to death.Later, at a young age, he got hepatitis. People who are driven by anger, how can there be compassion and sensitivity?He always kills everything he dislikes.But killing cannot dispel anger. The more killing karma, the heavier the killing intention, the more numb the mind, and the more angry and angry.It's a vicious cycle. In order to cultivate compassion, we can do a spiritual training through the following even a little extreme way: When a mosquito lands on you, you should put down the slap you raised high in time.Think about it, the reason why mosquitoes bite you is because they are hungry.Moreover, ordinary mosquitoes do not bite people. Only those female mosquitoes that have just mated and urgently need nourishment to supply the fertilized eggs in their stomachs will take the risk to bite people.It is only for one bite, for your own child, you want its life, how can you bear it?Thinking of it this way, you can gently drive the mosquito away, open the window and let it fly out, or even simply let the mosquito bite and count it as a charity.This may seem pedantic, but if you can do it, it means that your heart is becoming compassionate, and no matter what happens in the future, it will no longer make you angry.Diseases of the liver system may have nothing to do with you.

And those who suffer from diseases of the liver system especially need to refrain from killing if they want to sever their anger.Cultivate reverence and compassion for all life and never kill them. Buddhism requires vegetarianism, and its purpose is also to cultivate people's compassion.Buddhism, in the final analysis, is the study of the mind. It trains people's hearts in various ways, so that people can get rid of the troubles caused by delusional thoughts and obtain the most fundamental peace and happiness.And compassion is the foundation of Buddhism.Vegetarians, if they don’t have this concept, if they don’t cultivate their compassion and sensitivity through vegetarianism, they might as well eat meat!Some Buddhists are vegetarians to avoid karmic retribution, for fear that if I eat it in this life, it will eat me in the next life.If there is only such a motive, there will be no greater benefit.

I have a classmate who taught in a very good university after graduating from graduate school.Not long ago, he told me that he had high blood pressure and blood lipids, mild fatty liver, and some other related symptoms.I said to him, "Be a vegetarian for a week, and you will be refreshed!" And I told him to cultivate compassion and so on. He said that he just ate a stewed chicken, and I said, "I put you in the pot and stewed, would you like it? When you want to eat meat, you just think like this, and compare your heart with your heart." Unexpectedly, a week later, he called me again, and he couldn't wait to protest, saying that being a vegetarian was useless, and even said that he would write an article to explain the absurdity of "vegetarian can keep fit".I asked, "Could it be that something went wrong with your vegetarian diet?"

He said, "No, it feels the same. It's neither better nor worse than before." I laughed, and I knew why he was so eager to protest. In fact, he wanted to eat meat, but he was suffocated. Where is his compassion? Can you survive? If you think about it carefully, you have to blame me for this matter.After all, he is a carnivorous person who eats an old hen without even raising his head. How can he be a vegetarian if he is a vegetarian?His body needs an adaptation process.Even I, when I first became a vegetarian, I was not used to it and got hungry easily?Am I still not a vegan?Compassion does not mean that it arises as soon as it arises. It must be cultivated while being a vegetarian.Not only should we cultivate compassion, but we should also learn to be at ease and meditate so that our hearts will be less afflicted by afflictions. Only in this way can we provide good conditions for vegetarianism.Otherwise, the energy supplied from the outside is less, but the energy consumed inside is still so much, how can people bear it, and in the end they can only be skinny and skinny.There are many benefits to being a vegetarian, but a healthy vegetarian habit needs to be cultivated slowly.