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Chapter 6 spring bath

mental gymnastics 刘心武 1314Words 2018-03-18
Keep your joy for every spring coming, and wash away the dirt accumulated in your heart for a whole winter with pure water! On a spring night, you introspected and confessed frankly: For quite a long time, your life impulses have often fluctuated in vanity and jealousy, desire for wealth and indulgent consumption, and more unspeakable bold sexual fantasies.Those three factors that make you often fall into anxiety because of unavailability, do they come from the dark area deep in human nature, or are the dust flying and sticking to your heart from the outside? Take a bath with spring water, use the spring water that still contains spring ice fragments, use the warm spring water that the duck has already predicted, use the spring water that accepts the first fresh and tender fallen leaves, and use the spring water that melts and becomes more and more lively , Shower your anxious and confused heart!

The desire for vanity is the mold of life. It not only comes from the evil in human nature, but also spreads upwards due to the induction of the outside world. It will be washed away with spring water, and let the simple mood dominate your heart again!What you need is not an outburst, not a fluke, not the envious eyes and nasty flattery of others.You should be rewarded fairly for your honest efforts.Believe in the ordinary!Only in an ordinary life with dignity can your life be as beautiful and fragrant as spring flowers blooming in the fields! Jealousy must be something inherent in our human nature.Is this thing good or evil?If it is not good, then it is not necessarily evil. The question is, can you control its amount?If you let it swell and overflow, it will detonate your life, even if it does not harm others, it will definitely harm yourself; if you can make it pump into your blood vessels like trace elements, then it may be transformed into something good—— —Prompting you to actively participate in the competition under the premise of abiding by the "rules of the game" of the society, not to be easily convinced, not to give up casually, not to superstitiously believe in authority, and not to believe who can always be the first.Control the amount of jealousy in this way, and even if you never make it to the top, you will definitely continue to move forward!Use spring water to wash away the excess jealousy in your heart!But you have to be careful - it's right to pursue beauty, but don't pursue perfection, and don't hate yourself because you always have jealousy in your heart that can't be washed away. The bloodiness in the struggle of life has also been washed away!

The desire for wealth and indulgent consumption is similar to jealousy, and it is hard not to have such an element innately deposited in human nature.The question is whether you can cleanse your heart with spring water, correct the desire for wealth into the desire to create wealth, and correct the desire for indulgent consumption into healthy and legitimate consumption.Under the scouring of spring water, you should realize that the value of life lies first in creation. Wealth, fame, honor, and status cannot be obtained by stealing or embezzling. Only with creation can there be success and enjoyment.The desire to consume, as long as it is legitimate and healthy, should not be condemned by others, let alone self-restraint. What you need to wash away with spring water are those improper and unhealthy consumption desires—such as personal consumption reimbursed by public funds, pornographic consumption, etc. , Consumption that pollutes the environment, Consumption that wastes the treasures...

Ah, when it comes to sexual fantasies floating in your subconscious, you should blush, as you should, but don't get your neck swollen just because I pointed out this layer.In today's China, all adult men and women should be able to understand rationally that even if they are married, and there is indeed love and a normal sex life between the husband and wife, whether it is the husband or the wife, when they are admiring the star Sometimes, during travel or even on the way to and from get off work, because of the appearance of a certain beautiful and sexy image, at that time or afterwards, hazy and private sexual fantasies swam in the subconscious, which belongs to normal sexual psychology and cannot be condemned as Fallen, let alone harsh self-blame after being shocked.It must be something inherent in human nature.Should inherent things also be washed with spring water?Yes.to

Bathing keeps it in a dark fantasy state forever, and it needs to be washed to suppress its vicious surge. In awe of the universe, in awe of life, you and I walk hand in hand.In the four seasons of nature and life, let's not miss another spring, let us bathe our still beating hearts with spring water one after another!
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