Jing Pao said · Quick Comment 丨 Peng Jian: How do you "discuss" with time?

If you want to ask which sentence in the Analects is the most cruel, I think it should be "Zi is on the Sichuan: The deceased is like a husband! Don't give up day and night."

Where is the cruelty? Time is as soft as flowing, but when it rushes forward, regardless of whether you are numb or crying, it is determined to go, without taking into account and pity.

The most cruel thing is the words "do not give up day and night". Even when you are asleep, time is still struggling to move forward until you get aging and death.

Focusing and thinking about death is the starting point of human wisdom and philosophy.

So is there anything that can change the cruelty of time? Unfortunately, no. However, it may be a way to ease the relationship with it and discuss it.

Such as reading and writing. Through the text through the text through wisdom and ancient and modern, it is very similar to the empty time. Although it cannot stop the torrent of time, it can increase the thickness and width of life in disguise to "extend" the time.

Such as exercise and health. Make your body aging slightly slower, and more dignity in the face of old suffering and illness, and you are also "discussing" with time.

For example, enrich the life experience. Increasing the quality and density of life in a limited unit time is also a rational choice facing the cruelty of time.

There is a saying in Buddhism called "rare body", which means that it is too difficult to become a person in the reincarnation of life. How difficult is it? It's like "blind turtle floating wood". Imagine that in the vast sea, there is a blind turtle, and a circularly, a hole with holes in the middle. If you want this turtle to raise your head, you just wear it into the hole of this floating wood. How small is the chance!

Whether it is Confucianism or an interpretation, they spare no effort and tirelessly tell us the valuableness and passing of time of life. We can't stop the footsteps of time, but we may try to "discuss" with it.

Source 丨 Jingbao APP

Reporter: Peng Jian

Edit: Zheng Jiawen

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