Traditional rice thresher

Wade once traveled is the first book published after Anne Baby changed its name to Qingshan. The content is divided into four parts: making flowers and picking up spring, returning to hometown, crossing the dream sea of reincarnation, Gu Yin, Su Qin, with a faint taste. It records the encounter and intersection between the author and Liu Hanlin, a chef who loves painting and is good at cooking, Wei Bi, a photographer who returned to his hometown, Sangji Gacuo, a young monk, and Mr. Ye Ming, an old violinist who played in ancient France.

Happiness comes from a simple and rich inner life.

Liu Hanlin, who is in his forties, is thin and energetic. His present job is to help his friends manage the restaurant. When he was young, he also looked forward to the outside world, but now he pays more attention to his inner world. He is more concerned about how to cook three meals a day than the outside world.

After work, he often cooks for family and friends. Cooking is a kind of enjoyment for him and a kind of care for his heart. If you want to do it well, you need to have a full understanding of the characteristics, application and collocation of ingredients. This is a long process and needs to be accumulated slowly. He enjoys this process very much, enjoying the state of certainty, calmness, serious concentration and calmness when cooking.

Besides cooking, in his spare time, he is also interested in art and getting close to nature, enjoying the fun and happiness. Painting, writing, drinking tea, enjoying flowers, listening to the piano, making wine, swimming and watching the sea and the moon are all his hobbies.

He does not pursue material comforts, but pursues the enrichment and abundance of his inner world. Because the material standard is endless, once you fall into it, you will live very tired. It will be more pleasant to have an inner life. If you rely too much on material things, you are prone to complaints and grievances.

That's true. There are many people in real life. Although they have status, power, fame and wealth and a lot of money, they are not happy. They have no inner life. They spend all their energy on pursuing worldly success, believing that worldly success means happiness and realizing the value of life.

Whether you are happy or not has nothing to do with external material. Happiness is an individual's subjective feeling, which comes from the heart and from a simple and rich inner life. If a person only has an external life without an internal life, then he can only live a busy or busy life at best, never live a full life and never have real happiness, and naturally he can't realize the value of life.

The mind needs to interact with nature.

Wei Bi, who is in her forties, is a photographer who returned to her hometown. In his view, the happiness of touching the land is far greater than living in the city. Living in the city is not only stressful, but also meaningless, just like being caught in a torrent and constantly consuming yourself; Living in my hometown is like living in my mother's womb, which makes people feel very comfortable.

Adler, a famous Austrian psychiatrist, once said, "Lucky people use their childhood to cure their whole lives, while unfortunate people use their whole lives to cure their childhood." It is true that childhood has a very important influence on a person. Wei Bi admits that she can be today because of her parents' simple words and deeds and the nourishment of her childhood fields.

Growing up in the countryside, Wei Bi has been in contact with the land since childhood, smelling, seeing and touching nature, and gradually accumulated rich perception and abundant energy over time, which is of great help to all aspects of his life. Most of the materials in his "Meng Xi" series come from rural areas, including traditional or ancient appliances, abandoned daily necessities, plants and crops in the field, such as threshing machine, adobe house, waterwheel, mother's old mirror, old bed used by parents when they got married, square table left by ancestors, cotton shoes made by mother, birds, lake view, beach, bamboo shoots, broad beans and sweet potatoes.

He loves his hometown and nature in his bones, and he can live in a forest all his life. Because in the interaction with nature, human life will be nourished, and the inner world will become rich, sensitive and active, from which we can get joy from the inside out. Natural things such as the earth, flowers, trees, mountains and rivers bring him more pleasure than earning1000000,1000000, driving Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

The song of hometown is a flute in Qingyuan, which always rings on the night with the moon, affectionately calling the wanderer home. Mr. Hua once said that although Jincheng is happy, it is better to go back to his hometown; Although heaven is good, it is not a place to stay for long. How bright the moonlight is at home! They are relatives of their hometown. Hometown is not only the place where we were born and raised, but also the harbor where we settle our souls. If leaving home is the need of life, then returning home is the need of life.

Buddhism and practice help people surpass themselves.

Shan Zhi Garcho, 24 years old. Tibetan monks studying in Labrang Temple. He reads, drinks tea, plays, writes, takes photos, draws Thangka, studies, plays football, has picnics, cooks hot pot, reads poems, listens to music, basks in the sun, grows flowers, changes lights, and makes friends with wild cats ... He also publishes various spiritual experiences and writes poems to praise his hometown, mother, guru, friends and nature.

He became a monk in order to surpass himself and gain freedom and freedom independent of any conditions, or not limited to these. Because people live in the world and are not completely independent. Our survival depends on any conditions, and the relationship between them is not fixed. Happiness, emotions, and feelings all depend on your own body, and the body itself is not free. Need tea, need sleep, need more. These are all conditions, and they are not sure.

Self is very passive. When we rely too much on these conditions, we will easily lose ourselves, be bound and bound, get into trouble, and easily have greed and desire. Once our desires are not satisfied, it will lead to troubles, pains, even hatred and other terrible things.

Shan Zhi believes that Buddhism and spiritual practice can help us surpass ourselves, make our mind free from external changes and influences, and at the same time provide us with a way to solve our pains and troubles, a way to obtain spiritual freedom and soul liberation.

People are used to arranging their lives according to inertia. It is common to anesthetize yourself with work and spend your spare time with entertainment and material consumption. He thinks this will bring very bad consequences, just like living in a fire and playing games in it, thinking it is happiness and enjoyment, but not knowing that you are in danger.

Buddhism tells us what pain is, what happiness is, and how to transcend these emotions; Tell us to be compassionate, avoid causing harm, and when we see a life being hurt, try to make it harmless; Do something for your heart and finish what you feel is valuable and meaningful in a limited time. ...

Practice is a process of continuous learning and slow practice, so as to master Buddhism. In this process, we need to abide by many commandments, such as overcoming the desire for the opposite sex, not talking nonsense and so on. These precepts give people freedom, so that people do not live in limitations, are not restricted by secular habits, cross the ocean of reincarnation dreams, calmly face all impermanence including death, get rid of self-obsession, get rid of confusion and pain, and get rid of emotional control.

Keep it simple and stick to what you love in the midst of displacement.

Mr Ye Ming is 84 years old and lives in Suzhou. Influenced by her father, she began to learn to play the piano at the age of fourteen, and she has never stopped until now. He can play more than twenty pieces of music, such as Guan Shanyue, Three Stories of Yangguan, Three Lane of Plum Blossoms, Dragon Vanilla, Remembering the Old Friend, Puan Mantra, Four-stringed Grass and so on.

Guqin is a carrier to convey the good feelings between people, a carrier for individuals to seek spiritual space, and a way close to spiritual training. Teacher Ye loves the piano and studies hard. His requirement for himself is to learn it well. When Miss Ye was young, it was the time of social unrest in China, but no matter what the situation, no matter where she worked, she would take the piano with her and practice in her spare time. Now I play the piano every day and keep teaching. As long as the body allows, she will continue to play and teach. She believes that guqin, as a traditional musical instrument, should be publicized, popularized and passed down as much as possible.

The ancients said that the method of playing the piano must be simple and quiet. It is believed that in Qin Le's expression, neutralization is a higher realm than blunt, vigorous, fair, elegant, bold, beautiful, sincere, concise, simple, ancient, angry, sad, steep and strange. There is nothing better than neutralization.

There is such simplicity and neutrality in Mr. Ye's piano sound. What kind of heart can make you sound. Mr. Ye's temperament is indifferent and simple, his heart is peaceful and calm, his life is clean and simple, and his life is simple and self-sustaining. Today, at the age of 84, he is still pure and clean, fresh and tidy, talkative and intelligent, with a childlike innocence, and devoted himself to what he loves.

Liu Xiang wrote in Qin Shuo: "There are seven situations in drumming: one is to clarify morality; Second, feel ghosts and gods; Third, the custom of beauty; Fourth, the wonderful examination; Pentaphone system; Six words are elegant; Seven good religions. " Guqin, as an elegant traditional Chinese musical instrument, is rich and profound in expressive force, elegant and ethereal in timbre, balanced in strength and profound in aftertaste. It can create an artistic conception of "chilling with cold bones and immortal in longing" and produce an effect of "invigorating the soul", but it has gradually declined in modern society.

Life is created by ourselves, and we can completely control our life direction and choose our favorite lifestyle, just like the four in the book. Although their age, identity, experience and life are completely different, they all made the best decision within their own choice in this happy or helpless era, living the life they want and living the way they like.