1. The ninety-seventh excerpt from the volume of Lao Tzu Xin Shuo by Teacher Xin Yiyun:
There is a French film called Le grand bain (Le grand bain, 2018), a French comedy about a group of seven or eight or nine middle-aged lost people. Some of them suffer from depression; some hope to become a business leader, but every time they create a variety of businesses, they end in failure, even if he is a rich man; some take a negative attitude towards things. Negative, critical, and denial of everything, so much so that his wife left him, his child became a stutterer with high mental stress; or one dreamed of being rock and roll Composer and singer, he devoted his life to it, but failed again and again. This group of people has their own problems, but what they have in common is that in some so-called achievement values of society, they have all become losers, become losers, and even say they are a thoroughgoing the loser.
Under such a helpless situation, they inadvertently went to the swimming pool set up by the city government to swim and exercise. They saw that the swimming pool was recruiting men's water ballet players, so such a group of middle-aged uncles, one by one. With a big belly, they didn't know how to deal with themselves when they lost their ego and didn't know what to do with themselves. Under the condition that some of them had almost denied themselves and had lost their ego, they joined the water men's ballet team. Of course, when relatives, friends and colleagues found out, everyone died of laughter and thought they were really sissies. But for them, after everything has failed - they think about it, let's try something completely new to them!
Everyone met in the swimming pool training, so they encouraged each other, and after getting to know each other, they expressed all kinds of worries in their hearts. It is in this process that they begin to see their own failures in the other's failures, they begin to understand the other's pain and see the pain they are desperately suppressing, they see the other's failure in the face of their own failures and see that they cannot. face your own failures. So they re-examined themselves, and they made this men's water ballet team the goal of their lives—without any purpose, just to try and do it. The people who came to teach them to train them were two disabled female coaches, one was a female member of the water ballet team who had won the championship, and was eliminated after being injured, and the other was actually in a wheelchair. water ballet team member. Under the encouragement and training of the two of them, they gradually opened up from their closed selves, and dared to express their emotions, and even dared to face themselves and explore within themselves. Under the strict physical training, they were led to run by that fierce female coach in a wheelchair. They saw the changes in their bodies, and they also saw what happened to their previous ideals.
Just doing nothing, without any purpose, just doing it, trying it, and letting go of all realistic requirements that there must be results, they just do it. It is in this kind of exercise that they see the changes in their bodies; even in the changes in their bodies, they see what they can actually do! This is different from their previous ideals. They saw that the previous ideals were just an illusory dream, an illusory dream-because relative to their own interests and abilities, they were actually not compatible, and everything they pursued was completely inconsistent. It is in line with one's own disposition, and it is not a part of one's own talent, talent possessed, or concentrated. For example, one of them is a cook, he works in the school kitchen, and he dreams of becoming a singer of popular rock music, like Bob Dylan, who is still one of the most popular rock singers in the UK today! But no one wants to listen to the tunes made by this cook. Everyone thinks the songs he sings are very noisy, but he said that he can at least stick to his dreams, so he devoted himself all the way and used his own money to complete the recording and make it into a CD . He sacrificed his family and then thought that all he had was the persistence of this dream. At last his daughter told him, "You will never be Bob Dylan's because you are not him, all your effort is to be a he that is not you, and even if you do, it is not you, but a different person The illusion." It was only at this time that he began to be alert, and he saw that what he wanted to strive for and worked hard for was to become a self that was not himself!
This movie is very plain and simple, showing that the self that many people want and want to establish in real life is actually just a phantom, an unreal self; and these unreal selves, unreal phantoms, are It is because the society we live in respects some successful people, some rich people, some well-known people, etc. There are a lot of them, but they are all just a vanity image and value. This makes many people yearn for and hope to have such a glory, so that many people dream of themselves as someone else's figure, forgetting that many people themselves are by no means that person, so that they cannot follow their truest self. to pursue. Many people cannot see themselves with their true self; the self that many people seek and realize is actually someone else; therefore, they encounter failures again and again, and thus become a person who has lost himself— - So, in the end, I could only deny myself, so I became Loser.
At this moment, they began to feel the power from their truest selves, so they couldn't help but sign up to make their men's water ballet team become the French representative team to participate in the European men's water ballet competition. . This power lies in the fact that he sees his own progress in activities, and sees his own efforts to change again and again - from the heart, from the body. The male protagonist, who has been suffering from depression for a long time, finally has the ability to drop the drugs he has been taking for a long time! He wanted to use this re-knowledge of himself to make himself healthy. At the same time, the roles played by the other actors also show them from all aspects what they want to achieve, which is actually impossible, because they are not based on their most real basis, and they are in such a In this study, exercise, and activity of water ballet, an eccentric man saw his truest possibility, as well as the part that he could achieve and make progress, so they relaxed their hearts, went all out, and even went to participate in Europe Men's Water Ballet Competition! I really don't know where the confidence comes from.
But they were just going to participate, and the result—they won the championship, the first place! At the same time, they were applauded enthusiastically and stood up and cheered by all the audience present, because they showed the work that such a group of middle-aged men with big stomachs could accomplish, they were very surprised themselves. When they returned to France with the championship gold medal, everyone bought newspapers and read them one by one. As a result, no French media published this piece of news and news, because all the newspapers in France are actually most of the newspapers in the world. , only reported news of commercial value. They were a little disappointed, but the disappointment this time was different from the previous disappointment-although they were a little disappointed this time, they were not disappointed, they saw themselves, and at the same time they had real confidence after seeing themselves. They established the subjectivity of their own lives!
We can say that Lao Tzu's point of view starts from here. The reason why an ideal politics follows the Dao is the so-called "good, I am good; bad, I am also good; virtue is good. Believers, I believe; Unbelievers, I also believe; Dexin", this kind of equal treatment, there is no difference, no matter whether you succeed or fail, when we can have our true self and establish the subjectivity of our true self, no matter whether we do well or not Well, we all lead ourselves, or lead people for politicians, to develop themselves according to their own true dispositions, so that they will never be lost, and this enables everyone in the world to advance on the road of self-determination and self-realization. That's why Lao Tzu said that "the saints are in the world", that is, to govern the world. Before setting up a cultural policy, he adopted the "she-she-yan" method, which means that everyone can go to the face in a down-to-earth and real way. Live for yourself, so that you have the ability to restrain your emotions and desires, so that you will not be attracted by an illusory illusion. Everyone can return to themselves at any time, starting from their own roots, instead of chasing the phantom with strong vanity that we yearn for, and wanting to become that phantom. In this way, the people of the world do not need to pursue the various lively commercial values that we are talking about in the commercial society today. The deceitful and clever pursuit of a phantom that is only vanity; the common people only need to pay attention to their self-knowledge, identify themselves, and then go all out to go on the road of self-realization and self-creation, and develop their truest life development and possibility . Sages, or sage kings, in this kind of inaction - in fact, this kind of inaction is to govern the whole world according to the way of heaven and life, and this kind of governance is what Laozi himself said "to be born without Yes, do not depend on it, grow without slaughtering.” This kind of leadership guides the people to grow according to their own nature. This is just like what Jizi, a sage of the Xia Dynasty, told Shang Tang, "Everything has its extremes, and it's just a matter of course." A few chapters, and finally conclude with this view.
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