Jiang Yang's Towards the Edge of Life: Live a transparent life in peace!

Walking to the Edge of Life is a collection of essays full of philosophy and interest. It is an essay written by 96-year-old Mr. Jiang Yang in the struggle against old age, illness and busyness, which embodies the wise old man's thinking and questioning on fundamental issues such as fate, life, life and death, spirit and flesh.

In fact, Mr Jiang Yang was very lonely in his later years. The death of her daughter Yuan Yuan and her husband Qian Zhongshu caused her great pain. Since then, the "three of us" have left her alone. For a woman, it is more or less a sigh and sorrow to spend her old age alone. However, Mr. Jiang Yang did not immerse himself in pain, even in the century, he did not immerse himself in the fear of world death. He still lives a quiet life every day and still insists on writing and thinking.

Her heart and words are still peaceful, but there is an admirable courage and sensitivity in peace. She is honest and often gets reliable truth instead of definite conclusion. This respectable and lovely old man, I clearly see that she is seriously counting her bags for her soul, in order to let this soul take all the most precious gains on the road calmly.

For such a book, no matter how profound the comments are, they are superfluous. Let's savor the classic quotations in the book together, and you will certainly benefit a lot!

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Life is really hard in this materialistic world. If you deliberately be honest, people will use you to bully you. If you are gifted and good-looking, others will envy you and crowd you out. If you give in generously, people will invade you and hurt you. If you don't fight with others, you have to be indifferent to the world, and at the same time you have to maintain your strength and be prepared for the struggle. If you want to make peace with others, you have to deal with them first, and you have to be prepared to suffer losses at any time.

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If we reflect on our life experience, we can't help it because of the situation at that time. But at the critical moment, it still depends on you. Fortune-tellers compare "fate" to a ship and "wealth" to a river. Ships can only walk in the river. But in the "destiny", is there another "destiny"? If the ship is going to run aground or capsize, there is still a "I" in the ship, which can also be said to be this person's personality. This is the so-called character determines fate.

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Feelings are hard to control, and people are pitiful.

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After different degrees of exercise, a person can obtain different degrees of self-cultivation and different degrees of benefits. Just like spices, the finer they are, the stronger the fragrance.

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Everyone can get rid of the original "self" and become a person with moral cultivation through reasonable exercise under the guidance of spiritual conscience. But people's bad habits are tenacious. Teenagers are playful, young people are obsessed with love, young people are eager to become famous and have a family, and they are content to deceive themselves in their twilight years. Life geometry, how much pure gold can stubborn iron make? However, different degrees of exercise will inevitably have different degrees of results; Different degrees of indulgence will inevitably accumulate different degrees of stubbornness. Everyone can think of Yao Shun, that he is a bad boy, and that he is a villain. Exercise is bound to leave more or less effect.

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The purpose of heaven and earth is the soul of all things. Man's value lies in himself, not in the civilization he created. After different degrees of exercise, a person obtains different degrees of self-cultivation and different degrees of benefits. People are exercised, and the soul is exercised. The body is only an intermediary, and the result of exercise only stays in the soul. Without the body, souls know each other and are familiar with each other, just like meeting in a dream. Only by believing that the soul is immortal can we have a reasonable value on life. If we believe that the soul is immortal, we must be a man of faith. With faith, life is valuable.

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You can look in the mirror. If this person's face is crooked, look in the mirror every day and get used to it, so he won't feel crooked. Ugly people look in the mirror and can't see how ugly they are, only the beauty that others can't see. A "handsome guy" who pretends to be handsome can't see whether his true face is smooth or vulgar. Because the "Byakki Smoker" in our mirror will always be the "the only thrill" in our hearts, not our true colors. The face is still like this, not to mention people's character! Everyone thinks he is who he thinks he is. Everyone deludes themselves to varying degrees, which is called "compromise". Confucius often said, "If you don't know what others don't know, you don't know what a person is."

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I stand on the edge of life, looking back and exploring the value of life. People who have lived and exercised all their lives will always achieve something more or less. If you can make achievements, you will not live in vain. Look ahead, go any further and you'll die. Since the soul is immortal, it is still in the same place as the "I" that the soul calls itself. The world is like a melting pot, burning a batch of souls with different qualities and different from the original. What can I know about these souls? I was just imagining things. I can't ask or answer. Confucius said, "If you don't know life, how can you know death?" And "if you don't know, you don't know." I can only ask myself so much.

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People are lazy and hate work, fighting. When they are tired, they want to have a rest. And human nature refuses to admit defeat. Tired, I said to myself, "All right, all right", so I stopped fighting and relaxed myself. We often say, "There are still many good people in the world". In other words, there are only a few great evils and only a few perfect saints. People in the middle position, though not saints, are mostly good people. In fact, they are just not wise enough to themselves and unconsciously tolerate themselves. They all think that they have restrained their "ego" and detached themselves from selfishness. They don't have to embarrass themselves any more, so they can feel at ease. In fact, they are far from reaching this level, just deceiving themselves to varying degrees. Self-deception was not intentional, but I didn't know myself well enough and didn't see through myself.

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Everyone has a spiritual conscience. Constantly restraining yourself with spiritual conscience is to recuperate. This is a skill, which is gradually improved and strengthened in practice. Spiritual conscience may prevail; It can be said that it is impossible for a spiritual conscience to completely eliminate sensuality.

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The confidence of ordinary people is sometimes absent. If not, or the times have changed, it will be forgotten, or the demand exceeds the supply, it will be suspected. This is the normal state of ordinary people. Without some experience, confidence will not be firm. On the road of life, if you pursue fame and power wholeheartedly, you will have no extra time to worry about others. Perhaps only on my deathbed did I feel regret and regret, but I was so regretful that I had to submit to humiliation and die. People who exercise their souls all their lives will be old and firm.

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People's situation at that time was like a fallen leaf or hay in the whirlpool, and they could not extricate themselves. Not bad. Can people make decisions?

13

God is equal in nature. No matter how rich or poor, there is a soul, a personality and a human nature. However, everyone's background and experience, as well as natural qualifications, are far from equal.

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Man has two parts, a tangible body and an intangible soul. The beauty and evil of the soul are not embodied in the body.

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Westerners say that seven evils are allowed: pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, jealousy and laziness. These seven evils also include what Buddhists call greed, anger and delusion. All these evils are rooted in human flesh and blood.

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I can't see it in my dreams when my loved ones die. But many years after the death of a loved one, you can still dream about it often. I have been alone for nearly ten years, and I often stay with my relatives in my dreams. But in my dream, I have never seen their faces and one of them. I only know it's them. I feel it's them. I often think that without the body, souls know each other, they are familiar and will never change, just like we meet in a dream.

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Fortune-tellers compare "fate" to a ship and "wealth" to a river. Ships can only walk in the river. But in the "destiny", is there another "destiny"? If the ship is going to run aground or capsize, there is still a "I" in the ship, which can be said to be the master of this person's personality, and it can also be said to be the master of this person's personality. This is the so-called character determines fate.

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An educated man can show his anger without showing his face. But not in appearance, not necessarily anger does not affect his judgment and choice. Wait for feelings to be satisfied or vented, and calm down, so that intelligence will not be driven by feelings.