Joy is also among them; Learn easy at 50.

Confucius said, "It's fun to eat and drink water and bend your arms and pillow it." . Unjust wealth is like a cloud to me. "

Confucius said, "Eating coarse grains, drinking white water, and bending your arms as a pillow will make you happy in this life! Ill-gotten wealth is like a cloud in the sky to me. "

This is Confucius' self-evaluation, talking about his own state.

"Thin food" means eating some coarse grains, which can also be understood as rough raw food. At that time, hot water turned into soup, and "water" means cold water. Drinking water means drinking cold water on weekdays. "Bend your arm and pillow it" means that you don't have a pillow, but rest it on your arm. In Confucius' view, these have their own tastes. "Music is among them."

"Ill-gotten wealth is as expensive as floating clouds to me." According to Confucius, if you do unjust things, such as planning with people like yang hu and Ji, even if you can get land, property, power and status, you will become rich and expensive, just like a cloud in the sky.

Once a student was tested and asked, "What is the happiness of Confucius and Yan?". Yan Hui's happiness is "a meal, a ladle of wine, in a mean alley, people can't bear to be worried, and they won't change their fun when they go back"; Confucius' happiness is "frugality, drinking water and thinking of the source, bending his arms and pillows."

What is the source of happiness in life? For example, a person needs to breathe, and breathing itself is the greatest miracle of life. Don't you think life is wonderful? Breathe it out in one breath, and you can breathe it back. If you just exhale and don't inhale, it won't be wonderful. When a person can feel the joy of breathing and the joy of the source of life, the feeling of "full of joy (the joy of practicing epiphany)" comes.

Confucius has a strong ability to perceive happiness, and he can get happiness anytime and anywhere. Happiness is not a state, but an ability. If a person thinks that happiness is the rule, happiness is money and happiness is a good car, then happiness is a state. Some people actually have thousands of troops, but their hearts are still wandering and their souls are helpless. Because happiness has little to do with how many things you have, but the ability to perceive happiness. If you have the ability to perceive happiness, moderate eating and drinking, and bend your arms and pillows, you will be very happy; If you don't have the ability to perceive happiness, even if you have a lot, you will be restless.

Feeling: Happiness is not a state, but an ability. Happiness has nothing to do with how much you have, but the ability to perceive happiness.

Learn easy at 50.

Confucius said, "Add me a few years old, and I will learn the Book of Changes at the age of 50. It's no big deal."

Confucius said: "If God can let me live a few more years and learn Zhouyi when I am fifty, then I can avoid making big mistakes in my life."

Four books: The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, University and The Doctrine of the Mean.

Five Classics: Poetry, Calligraphy, Ceremony, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period.

The Book of Changes: Lianshan, Ghost Stories and Zhouyi.

Lianshan and Guizang are not passed down from generation to generation, so the Book of Changes basically refers to Zhouyi.

"add me a few years", "add" is a common word, and "false" means borrowing. Confucius said: If I can borrow a few more years in my life, I will start learning Zhouyi at the age of fifty, and I won't make any big mistakes in my life. This shows that Confucius attaches great importance to Zhouyi, which is obviously a great praise for Zhouyi.

This sentence should be a nostalgic feeling that Confucius said after he was fifty years old. Confucius learned Zhouyi when he was sixty or seventy years old, and suddenly found that Zhouyi was full of the true meaning of life. The Book of Changes is not about fortune telling, but an attitude towards life, including "Never use the hidden dragon", "Seeing the dragon in the field", "Working all day", "Leaping over the abyss", "Soaring in the sky" and "Go ahead bravely and regret it".

Why is it so important to do or not to do in the Book of Changes? That is, people should keep a modest attitude whenever and wherever they are. This is a great divination. Another example is "No Great Success", which tells us that if life is desperate for a while, as long as we persist in struggle, something good will happen.

The most important knowledge provided by Zhouyi to Confucius, including all our later readers, is definitely not divination. No country can run well by fortune telling, and no enterprise can run well by fortune telling. The cultural accumulation brought by Zhouyi lies not in fortune-telling and prediction, but in letting us know the laws of the world and let us know that people should learn to control their own pace of life, not to do extreme things, but to learn the golden mean.

Confucius read the Book of Changes in his later years and found that the golden mean offered to him was a very good evidence and proof, so he felt that "if God lends me a few more years to return to 50 years old, I can learn the Book of Changes and I can be innocent".

What are the great mistakes of Confucius in this life? It's hard to draw a conclusion. But when he traveled around the world at the age of 56, he must have suffered a lot. His students also suffered a lot with him, and it is inevitable that they will blame themselves.

Feeling: After reading The Analects of Confucius, I decided to continue studying The Tao Te Ching and The Book of Changes. After a brief look at the Tao Te Ching, I feel that the pattern of life has been opened to a certain extent. After listening to several classes, I learned a lot. If you had studied a few years ago, you might have made fewer mistakes in the first two years. Of course, if my cognitive level is not improved, I may still make the same mistake, and I will make myself realize that it is very important to grow and learn from my mistakes. If you don't make mistakes, you may still muddle along and live in a daze. Everything has two sides, and growing up from mistakes is also a kind of growth. Of course, from now on, study hard by yourself, which is responsible for your future. Come on! Grateful!