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Happiness is actually very simple

The blooming flowers have the joy of blooming

By William C BurgessPublished 4 years ago 4 min read

The blooming flowers have the joy of blooming, the small fish playing in the spring have the joy of playing, the grass just sprouting in spring has the joy of breaking the soil, Li Bai has the joy of raising his cup to the moon when drinking, Wang Xizhi has the joy of the Lanting post ......

Happy is to put down the baggage of the release, sincere face of the frank, spoiled and not surprised by the tyranny ...... happy is actually everywhere, happy is actually very simple.

I remember when I was a child, I heard a song "Let's swing the oar" there is a line of lyrics: after a day's work, let's enjoy the joy ...... In fact, happiness is this, no burden, in the mindset to put down everything.

The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal of money from the internet. The joy of Li Shangyin's "Yu Lang's year is the least, the grass is jealous of the spring robe", happiness is actually very simple.

I once heard this story: There was a king who owned a vast land and countless gold and silver treasures, but he did not feel happy, so he asked his ministers to help him find happiness. When he found that the poor peasants, though very poor and tired, were far less happy than himself, he finally realized that he had the pleasure of planning his own strategy, the joy of governing the country, the happiness of winning great achievements, the joy of being admired by all, and the majesty of having everything under control. The "joy of life, and not less than people".

In fact, happiness is not a golden house, but a beautiful flower that swims in the wilderness. Happiness is not hard to find, and there is no shortage of it, as long as you can let go, have a practiced mind, let go of the restraints, you can get it. Zhuang Zhou, a great thinker in China, did not have a high official position and was not rich, but he lived a very happy life, he was not bound by everything in the world, let go of all the burdens in his heart, was able to travel beyond heaven and earth, and his mind was able to travel 90,000 miles in the sky. Because he let go, he was happy, and happiness is actually very simple.

Tao Yuanming, a famous poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "did not bend his back for no rice", and "did not have the rhyme of being a mundane, but by nature loved hills and mountains. He fell into the dusty net by mistake and was gone for thirty years. The detained birds love the old forest, the pond fish think of the old abyss. Opened the wilderness in the south, and returned to the garden field. Square house more than ten acres, eight or nine grass huts. Elm and willow shade the back eaves, peach and plum rows in front of the hall. The village is ambiguous and far away, and the smoke is in the market. The dogs bark in the deep lanes, the chickens crow in the mulberry trees. There is no dust in the house and garden, and there is spare time in the empty room. I have been in a cage for a long time, but I can return to nature again." Although he was very poor in his later years and his house was "empty," he was still very happy. In fact, his happiness was not because he was far away from the officialdom, nor because he was poor, but because of his transcendent state of mind, because even if he was in the downtown area, he must be calm and transcendent, because his "heart is far away from the ground", because he understood that happiness does not cost anything, as long as there is a good state of mind, and because he knew that happiness It is actually very simple.

So far I realized: happiness is Liu Yuxi in a humble room, still according to the poor and happy, wrote the "humble room inscription" to encourage the bashful, is Li Bai in adversity still believe that only hanging clouds sail to the sea of open-mindedness, is a put down the heavy burden on the body, leisurely stroll of the comfortable, is a practice, transcendent state of mind ......, we often fly all the way forward The first thing you need to do is to look for happiness, in fact, happiness is all around us. The actual happiness is actually very simple.

Just like the wooden a heart: look at the book, read the world; make tea, taste is life; pour the wine, taste is hardship; life is like a single ticket with no return, there is no rehearsal. Each is a live broadcast. The best way to cherish each performance is to grasp it well! The tears when sad, the drunkenness when happy, are all valuable because of the pursuit. The sunset is not the passing of the years, the wind is not the fault of the woods. As long as you have loved and paid for, the laughter in heaven is not a legend. Happy is actually so simple. I'm afraid I'm an idiot if I don't have fun in spring.

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