Look up at the sky after the heavy rain.

After the heavy rain, there are two kinds of people: one is to look up at the sky after the rain and see rainbows, blue sky and white clouds;

One kind of person looks down at the ground and sees muddy water, which is very hard and desperate.

Wang Yangming belongs to the former.

Wang Yangming was a scholar at the age of 28, and later became an official in Beijing. At the age of 33, he became an examiner after taking the provincial examination in Shandong, and his career was smooth.

However, when he was thirty-five years old, a heavy rain in his life, a deadly rainstorm, poured down.

Out of indignation, he wrote a letter to the emperor and made a political statement, which angered eunuch Liu Jin. He was beaten by the court for forty sticks and demoted to Longchang Post Station in Guizhou.

The post station is a transit station for delivering official documents set up in ancient times. Cheng Yi is a small official in the post office, and he is not in the rank. After Wang Yangming left Beijing, Liu Jin sent someone to follow him secretly, looking for opportunities to harm him.

Wang Yangming left his clothes by the Qiantang River, pretending to drown himself, and then took a merchant ship to Zhoushan. I met a hurricane on the way and was blown to the border of Fujian by a strong wind one night.

After landing, I ran dozens of miles of mountain roads. In the evening, I knocked on the door of a temple and asked to stay overnight, but I was turned away by a monk. He had to find an unattended temple and sleep next to the incense table.

In the middle of the night, a tiger suddenly came and roared in the corridor, but didn't go in.

The next morning, the monk thought that he must have been eaten by a tiger, but found that Wang Yangming slept peacefully and woke him up.

The monk said in surprise, "You must be unusual, otherwise how could you be all right?" Invite him to the temple. In the temple, Wang Yangming met a Taoist who had met him once.

The Taoist priest divined a divination for Wang Yangming, and got the divination of "Ming Yi", telling him that "a gentleman benefits from chastity, and a villain's wealth can be made clear", which means that as long as a gentleman sticks to chastity, he can tide over the difficulties, and the darkness will eventually pass and the light will eventually come.

Wang Yangming decided to go to Nanjing to visit his father first, and then to Guizhou. When he left, he wrote a poem on the temple wall.

One of them is "Danger is not stuck in the chest, what is the difference between floating clouds and traveling through space", and the danger encountered is regarded as floating clouds in the sky.

02

Be kind to yourself and the world.

Arriving at Longchang Post Station, there are many difficulties. I have no house to live in. As a stranger, I don't understand the language of the local residents. My entourage soon became ill because of acclimatization. ...

Wang Yangming makes a fire to cook, takes care of his sick entourage and sings to relieve boredom; Land reclamation, communicate with local residents, and impart their knowledge and technology to them. ...

In the harsh environment, Wang Yangming never forgets to sit still and think about the way of being a saint he is pursuing. "What would a saint do in this environment?"

Finally, one night, he realized, "The way of a saint is self-sufficient!" "

An enlightenment thought-Wang Yangming's "Mind Learning" was born, which is the famous "Dragon Field Realizing Tao" in the history of thought.

After a long time, the relationship between local residents and Wang Yangming was very harmonious, and the "Longgang Academy" was built for him, and all the students around him came to ask for advice ... All this laid a solid foundation for his rapid comeback in the future.

Wang Yangming chose to "look up at the sky" after the heavy rain.

This simple wisdom is actually what the ancients said: "A gentleman lives in a happy place and can wait for his life." In the inevitable predicament, he kept a cool head, worked silently, adapted to the ever-changing situation and waited for the opportunity to come.

"Easy to live" means to keep a normal mind. "Death" is definitely not a negative mentality of "life and death, wealth in the sky", but a philosophical and calm wisdom.

Wang Yangming, who "looks up to the sky", finally understands that after "being alone", of course, he must "help the world." He wrote a poem in Longgang Academy: "There are two white cranes on the peak, and Ye Fu is about to go to Longchang."

He can feel that in the unremitting efforts day after day, his inner strength is getting stronger and stronger, and the small place of Dragon Field can't restrain him.

Sure enough, not long after, Wang Yangming bid farewell to the Dragon Field and embarked on a brilliant and legendary life.

It can be seen that the wisdom of "looking up at the sky after the heavy rain" is a kind of tenacity of forbearing and waiting, a gentleman's philosophy, and an open mind;

It is under certain circumstances that through self-seeking, we can understand life attentively, thus making our hearts extremely strong and compassionate.

03

When people are desperate, there is a turning point.

There is no real despair in life.

Trees put down their fallen leaves in autumn, which hurts their hearts, but all winter, they let their hearts accumulate strength in peace. Spring has come, and youth is still there.

The splendor of waterfalls is formed when there is no retreat, and the brilliance of stars spreads after the arrival of night. The road of life can't always be smooth sailing, and it is bound to encounter helpless difficulties, even a desperate life.

Despair is not only a kind of suffering, but also an awakening and sublimation of life.

The impermanence of life will stand in front of you and put you on the cliff of life turning point!

Is it shattered or miraculously survived? Is it flying pearls and splashing jade or saving the day? What kind of mentality you have in a desperate situation will determine the final outcome.

Therefore, please believe and cherish the turning point of "being in a desperate situation". Only by facing up to difficulties and tempering yourself can we produce new wisdom and turn the corner into safety.

Water to despair is a waterfall, and people to despair is a turning point.

After the heavy rain, don't look down at the ground, look up at the sky, and you will find a brand-new sky!