From the Buddhist point of view, getting and not getting are empty, and tragedy and happiness are also Empty, this belongs to the category of "ego". So it is not easy to understand this sentence.
From a philosophical point of view, the judgment of value has subject differences, and it is all changed by the subject, in this case, the individual. So whether you are happy or sad varies from person to person. But often in reality, getting it or not getting it is actually suffering.
From the point of view of ordinary people, which is what Bernard Shaw means, we were not happy, and you all know that.
Said some unknown words, in fact, to introduce "The Little Prince". At the beginning of the year, I wrote an article about the little prince, which was vague because it was written for myself.
I wrote about the little prince again because of the opportunity of Crystal, and it was recommended that I collect it and read it twice. This edition in my collection is Huang Hong’s translation. What moved me again was Huang Hong’s fine translation and the preface made by the philosopher Zhou Guoping. The last time I used "The Little Prince" to talk about Buddha, this time I used "The Little Prince" to talk about people. Talk about those happy people.
In the preface, Mr. Zhou's sentence summed up my favorite "little fox" fragment in the book very well. That is: "Responsibility comes from tameness, and love comes from responsibility. This is the right relationship that makes life meaningful."
We tend to tame only for the sake of love. Responsibility is ultimately ignored.
There are also those who love for the sake of responsibility, but never tame each other's wildness, or have not merged into each other's characters.
Rarely does the right relationship as above lead to a decline in the happiness of life. Taming, responsibility and love are the key words of happiness, and in that order, is true love.
The most important essence of "The Little Prince" is to let the tired and dirty heart of an adult return to the most innocence and find the original happiness and happiness. We can't go back, often not because we really can't go back, but because we don't want to go back.
So, let's try to walk "The Little Prince" again. It doesn't matter if you can go back or not. You will always get something along the way.
At the beginning of the book, the "I" of childhood brings his innocence to adulthood. Therefore, there is always some distance from those adults in the real society. They didn't understand me, so I just catered to them blindly, trying not to change myself.
One day, I met the little prince in the desert, and the little prince could see through the original childish heart buried in my heart in just an instant.
So I was forced to draw a lamb for the little prince, and then asked where the little prince came from. According to my inference, the little prince is from an asteroid called B612, and the astronomer who first discovered it was dressed, so his theory was not accepted. This is the first satirical segment in The Little Prince, setting the stage for more satire to follow.
Later, from the chat with the little prince, I deduced that the little prince's planet is very small. Because at most, the little prince saw forty-three sunsets in one day. Although his planet is small, he is still very busy every day, fighting against the roots and shoots of the baobab tree almost every day. Otherwise his planet will be taken over by baobabs.
Then one day, a rose seed came from nowhere on the little prince's planet. When the rose bloomed, the little prince fell in love with her at first sight. Then the little prince watered her and shielded her from the wind. Later, because of a bickering, the little prince decided to leave his planet and leave his roses. When we brought this up, the little prince regretted it. He said, "I was too young to love her."
Before leaving, the little prince cleaned the planet and said something to Rose. . They are in love with each other, but Rose has been holding back and being strong and didn't say anything. Neither did the little prince. So the little prince left sadly.
The first time I read this, I was reminded of my old roses. Yi Shu once wrote in "My First Half of My Life": "Showing off your self-esteem in front of money and love is the most stupid thing." The little prince, his rose, and I all made the same mistake, we are all too stingy In love, but all yearn to be loved. However, this is unfair to both parties. Because this kind of love is not mixed with a trace of responsibility and tameness. The little prince understood later, and so did I.
After the little prince left his planet, he passed six planets one after another. And on every planet there is someone who makes the little prince feel weird. In our opinion, these six people represent power, vanity, eccentricity, possession, duty, and knowledge. Just as the six dusts of six senses in Buddhism cover our original aspirations, we have been polluted by those six people for so long that we almost forgot the way back and how to get there.
The little prince resolutely left them and came to the seventh planet, our earth. But he found out that our earth is full of those six strange people, but he has been trapped helplessly and doesn't know what to do.
The little prince was walking alone in the African desert when he came across a snake. The snake wrapped around the little prince's ankle and said to the little prince, "The person I touched, I can send him back to his hometown."
Then the little prince asked the snake where all the humans were, and they were a little lonely in the desert. The snake said that where there are people, it is just as lonely.
Then the little prince went on, and he met a little flower, he met a high mountain, and after a long walk on deserts, rocks, and snow, the little prince came to a garden with roses. He thought of his roses, of her emotions. , so the little prince lay in the grass and cried.
Looking back now, we can often look at the entire past very calmly. In silent films, we are all laughing and crying. But at the moment, there was no emotional fluctuation at all. But when he is triggered by some external things again, he will be out of control. For example, go back to the place you passed by, hear the songs that were sung at that time, etc. Memories, like life, are mysterious and distant. But it is within reach, making people love and hate.
While the little prince was crying, a fox ran out of nowhere. The fox said to the little prince: "Please tame me". The little prince asked the fox what "taming" was. The fox said, "You are just a little boy to me, like a million other little boys. I don't need you. You don't need me either. I'm just a fox to you. , like thousands of other foxes. But if you tame me, we will be indispensable to each other. You are the only one in the world to me; I am the only one in the world to you. "The
little prince understood, and said that a flower had tamed him.
The fox went on: "My life is monotonous. I catch chickens, and people catch me. All chickens are the same, and all men are the same. So I'm a little bored. But if you tame me , my life will be joyous. I will recognize a different footstep. Other footsteps will make me hide in the ground, and your footsteps will make me like music Come out. Besides, look! Do you see the wheat field over there? I don't eat bread, and the wheat is of no use to me. I don't care about the wheat field. With blond hair. Well, once you tame me, it will be wonderful. Wheat, it's blond, and it will remind me of you. And I'll even love the sound of the wind blowing the wheat..."
The little prince said he didn't have much time, so he politely rejected the fox.
The next day the little prince went to the fox again, and the fox was subtly tamed by the little prince. But the time to leave is coming, the fox said he will cry, and the little prince said, "I didn't want to give you any pain, but you asked me to tame you." Then he told the little prince why you are suffering, on me You actually get nothing. But the fox said: "Because of the color of the wheat, I have benefited." The
fox said to the little prince, go and see the rose garden before you leave. You will know that your rose is unique in the world. When you come back to say goodbye to me, I will tell you a secret.
So the little prince came to the rose garden and said to the roses, "You are not at all like my rose, you are nothing!" Then he said, "No one will die for you. Of course, ordinary passers-by will Think my roses are about the same as yours. But she's more important than you all put together because I watered her. Because I covered her with glass. Because I shielded her from the wind. Because I wiped her out Caterpillar. Because I have listened to her complaining and boasting, and sometimes even her silence. Because she is my rose."
After speaking, the little prince returned to the fox to say goodbye to him, and the fox said that my secret was: "You can only see things clearly with your heart. Important things cannot be seen with your eyes. You must always be responsible for what you domesticate, and you must be responsible for your roses." The
little prince said silently, "I want to be for my roses ." Take charge and leave.
Next, the little prince met a switchman at the railway station. He asked why the switchman's train was full of people leaving, to follow the train that left first?
"They're not following anything," said the switchman. "They're sleeping inside, or yawning. Only the kids put their noses up against the glass windows and look out."
"Only the kids know what they're looking for." The little prince said, "They spend a lot of time on a doll, and the doll becomes a very important thing, and if someone takes their doll, they cry..."
"They are lucky." The switchman Say.
Finally, the little prince left the switchman, met another merchant, and then met me.
The little prince told me what he had seen and heard, and we chatted a lot together happily.
One night, the little prince found the snake he had met at first, let it bite him, and sent him home. Snake agreed.
Without knowing it, I saw that scene, and then flew over to hug the little prince, sadly silent.
The little prince said to me weakly: "When your sorrow has subsided, you will be glad that you have known me. You will always be my friend and will want to laugh with me. As if I did not give you stars, But many bells that laugh..."
"You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her! She's so fragile! She's so innocent. She only has four thorns to use. Protect yourself..."
At the end of the story, I've never told this story to anyone, now I'm telling you. If one day you see the little prince in the deserts of Africa, please write to me and let me know.
My writing is not yet good enough to describe The Little Prince unmistakably. There are many moving and heart-wrenching places, but I am afraid that the benevolent sees the difference. Some of the feelings the little prince gave me are in the awkwardness that I can only understand, so I won't mention it.
Our world is not perfect. Whether from a religious point of view, or from a realistic point of view, even from a fantasy point of view, it is also. So when we're sad and frustrated by imperfection, think of the little prince. Think of his roses, think of the snake, the fox, the switchman, and "me".
We all need love, and I believe that only love can make us happy and perfect. However, we should not give up our responsibility and tame ourselves in pursuit of love.
Some conspiracy theorists say that the little prince died and his roses withered in solitude. But I always believe that the little prince returns to his own planet and lives happily with Rose.
Just like in "Big Fish", my father finally turned into a fish and was happy with his many friends.
Like many fairy tales, the prince and princess live happily together.
The latest version of the movie "The Little Prince", in the first international trailer, the episode is "Somewhere Only We Know" by Lily Allen.
One of the lyrics goes like this:
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
And if you have a minute why don't we go?
Talk about it somewhere only we know.
This could be the end of everything,
So why don't we go?
Somewhere only we know.
After watching the two versions of the first trailer, I almost burst into tears. I know it won't be long before I can go back again.
Hello, unfamiliar adults, let's go back together.
——Chen Yunian 2015.7.29
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