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Chapter 17 me and him

Thoughts on the Lake 钱穆 1451Words 2018-03-18
me and him The ideal me should be placed in everyone's mind, everyone will find that there is a him, and at the same time, everyone will find that there is a you.How to say this? It is said that there are about two hundred million human beings in the present world.You are only one in 200,000,000 of these two hundred million people.Moreover, it is said that it has been at least 500 million years since the existence of human beings.If your life is counted by a hundred years, it only accounts for one part of fifty million.Moreover, human life is still endless, so if you say that your weight in this endless life is a drop in the ocean, wouldn't that be too much of an exaggeration?Then let me ask, what is the value of throwing your tiny drop in this vast ocean?What's the point?It doesn't matter, however.Life is always such a life.There is a great unity in life, with the five senses and limbs, with the same sight, hearing, food and breath, with the same life, aging, sickness and death.Before 500 million years, until 500 million years later, within this 200 million people, if you push it outside of 200 million people, if you look at the difference and see the same, you have grasped The facial features and limbs of this seven-foot body, since you have tasted the sight, hearing, food, life, old age, sickness and death in the past hundred years, you should know that the world is as black as crows, isn't it almost the same anyway?When you see a circle, you don't have to see all the circles in the world.A circle is just such a circle after all.Now that you have seen a square, you don't have to see all the squares in the world.Fang is always just such a Fang.So don't think you are small, don't hate shortness, as long as you live like a "human", you will be an example of endless life.Changzhou Guangyu, from ancient times to the present, as long as you are alone, you will never be able to escape your scale, and you will never be able to leave your pattern.If you put your life in everyone's eyes and in everyone's heart, everyone will think that you are just like him.Looking back, even if he is like you, you should have no regrets.So if you put it in everyone's mind, you will find him.

But there is a problem here.If in this vast universe, from ancient times to present, 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, With the same compasses and rules, why should you have one more?You should know that the reason why I am valuable is that on the one hand, I can be in harmony with others, but on the other hand, I can be slightly different from others.In the endless life of Changzhou Guangyu from ancient times to present, you should know that there is only one me, and no second me is allowed.There can only be one me, and there can be no second me, so I am precious.I'm just me, I can't be him again.If you are him again, he already has another him, and he doesn't want to have another him of you.Therefore, if you put it in his eyes and in his heart, it should make him feel that you are not him in some ways. Only when you are lacking in him can he feel that you are valuable.With you in him, he thinks you are cute, so you should be like him, but at the same time you should not be like him. This is the meaning of you, and the value of you.

Therefore, the ideal me should be placed in everyone's mind, and everyone will find him, and at the same time, everyone will find you. In fact, life is like this, everyone is the same, and everyone is different.No one can be different, no one can be identical, no one can be the same, no one can be completely different.Changzhou Guangyu, the endless life from ancient times to the present, has always been like this, so why is it worth making a fuss about it for publicity and description?However, the true value and meaning of life lies here.If life is not like this in the first place, and people are required to make a fuss to make propaganda and descriptions, and people are required to deliberately implement it, and they may not be able to do it if they try their best, then it is by no means the truth of life.It's difficult for others, and who is willing to accept your propaganda?How about admitting your description?

Let's narrow the problem down to one human life.A day of my life is a day of me.The ideal day-to-day me should have some similarities with the everyday me, and at the same time have some differences.The former expresses the strength and distinctness of his personality, while the latter expresses the liveliness and dynamics of his life.There is an old Chinese saying: "Everything yesterday is like death yesterday, and everything today is like being born today." This is impossible, and it must not be possible.A part dies, a part is born again, and a part remains, this is the right track of life.In fact, this is also the common state of everyone's life, and everyone is like this.However, everyone is like this, so we can use it as the standard and ideal of everyone's life.

Confucius, Sakyamuni and Jesus, the greatness of their personalities, is only found in everyone, and there is no him in everyone.Their daily life, the inner journey of their whole life, is just always the same, and never the same. Everything should be viewed as such.
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