Self-loathing And Mediocrity Is Never a Life

To be human, no need to envy others, and no need to spend time envying how others are successful, thinking as long as they can overcome themselves, and how to become stronger than yesterday's self on the line. Their refinement and persistence, coupled with their wisdom and hard work, will be successful. Will eventually become a stone Buddha as respected by everyone.

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Life Sunday morning chatting with friends, friends said a story they had heard: "a Buddha statue in front of a paved stone road, people every day step on the stone steps to worship the Buddha. The stone steps looked at people stepping on themselves to worship the Buddha, and they were very uncomfortable in their hearts. It thought to itself that it and the Buddha came from the same stone, so why should it become a stepping stone for people to step on and worship it? It complained to Buddha that this was unfair! The Buddha said: "There is nothing unfair, you became a step only to receive four knives, while I was a thousand knives to become a statue of Buddha worship."

He said this story left a very deep impression - that people do need to hone to become successful, and that by giving differently, they certainly reap different results.

　"Since the ancient masculine more trials and tribulations, never playboy less great men," "sword sharp from sharpening out, plum blossom fragrance from the bitter cold," a person to become a person on the people, must eat the suffering of the suffering. As long as there is ambition, go hard. No effort is not paid, the stone steps can never become the statue of Buddha!

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　There was a small mountain village where it didn't rain for a long, long time. The people ran out of food and ate grass roots, and after eating grass roots, they ate tree bark, and in the end, there was nothing to fill their stomachs. Countless people around them left, old people died, weak children died, and the young people in the village didn't know what to do.

　　So they went to the wise old man, who said that it was disrespectful to the gods and that they needed to send people to collect smooth, spiritual pebbles with a seam in the middle and symmetrical left and right, and take one of them and carve it into a Buddha so that the stone Buddha could bless all beings. The young man wanted to give up and lay down on a stone to rest, but suddenly found that the stone he was lying on was very smooth, symmetrical, and different from the other stones, was this the twin stone?

　　The young man rushed to find a stonemason, who had dealt with the stone all his life and understood the language of the stone. Looking at the stone, the mason decided that this was the twin stone that the wise old man had mentioned. The mason and the young man found other people in the village and took great pains to carry the stone to the village temple.

　　The stonemason touched the twin stones with his hands and felt that the right one had spirit and texture! He asked the stone, "Are you willing to be a stone, Buddha? The stone replied "Yes" and the mason "thumped it a few times! The stone on the right said: "It hurts too much. The stonemason said: it will hurt. The right stone: I can bear it to become a stone, Buddha. The stonemason said: every chisel, you bleed and sweat beads, a day, two days, three days, ten days ...... twenty days, just before the deadline for carving the face, that piece will chisel more pain.

　　Stonemason: can you endure? The right stone: I can endure! Bang, chisel down, the stone a cry.

　　The right stone: This pain is beyond my limit. I can't stand it. Can you hold off for a while?

　　Can you come back tomorrow? The next day the stonemason picked up the hammer.

　　The right stone said: slow down, I thought yesterday all night, the wind and rain, I fell at ease, become a Buddha is just a thousand people worship, ten thousand people worship, I really can not stand ......

　　The stonemason was very sorry and said to another stone, you are willing to do is Buddha? The left stone said: as long as it can save the people, to the people to beg for rain, the enemy I am willing to do stone, Buddha. Stonemasons carve this stone into Buddha, build overnight, for a day, two days ...... left stone endured the pain of cutting and cutting, stone-faced bruises. Twenty days passed, and the stonemason finally carved the left stone into a Buddha statue.

　　Two days later, the sky rained heavily, the villagers have come to worship the stone Buddha, and the right stone as a step, step on the knees worship, late at night, the two stones began their dialogue.

　　The right stone said: We both are equally a stone on a mountain, in terms of time, shape, and opportunity I am better than you. And now you are on high, accepting people's worship, while these people step on my body to worship you and spit on me, it's so unfair.

　　Stone Buddha (the stone on the left) smiled and said: brother: in fact, everything is fair, since childhood I know, on the qualification I am not as good as you when we were also collected down the mountain, the stonemason said to carve you into a Buddha statue, you are afraid of pain refused to let the body left chisel marks, but I just want to bring happiness and beauty to the people, want my life I am willing, so I accepted a thousand hammers, before becoming a Buddha statue.

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　　In Africa, every morning when the antelope opened his eyes, the first thing he thought of was, I must run faster than the fastest lion, or I will be eaten; and at the same moment, the lion woke up from his sleep, and the first thought that came to his mind was, I must be able to catch up with the fastest antelope, or I will die of hunger. So, almost at the same time, the antelope and the lion leaped up and ran towards the sunrise.

　　This is a very common phenomenon in the biosphere, antelope and lions are tired of running for the same goal - survival. This is also the instinct of animals, and life in the world always has to work for this or that goal to chase - conscious activity and pure instinct is an important differences between humans and animals. Animals can still run for survival, let alone people? What people live in the world, is to achieve their survival value, is to let society recognize the existence of their value, this is a meaningful life. Self-loathing and self-loathing people may also be able to live, but this is never life!

　　The famous physicist Cooper said, "Life is like hitting the ball out when playing golf, to have a clear goal." Yes, one cannot live without a clear goal. Without a goal, there is no direction and power to move forward, like a ship in the sea, no helmsman, it may run aground or run aground at any time; no goal and people live a passive life, mediocrity, and inaction. For example, the monk who rings the bell in the temple never thinks about the day he will lose his job, or the day he will jump into a job, but only spends his years in misery, waiting for nirvana to return to the west. If antelopes and lions are hibernating, they will inevitably be eaten or starved to death; but they always leap up and run forward, because they have the goal of survival, which is both the direction and motivation.

　　With the goal in mind, do we have to chase it, to dive for it, even if it is for I haggard clothing belt gradually wide? In real life, we must have indomitable passion, we have to do what we can, we must have the courage to hit the water in the middle of the river and not to the Great Wall is not a good man! Cooper added, "After you throw the ball in your hand at the target, you have to run toward it with courage." This is a positive way to live. If you spend all day in fantasy, sitting on the well and not thinking about progress, then the brightest goal is ultimately just a dream.

　　However, there are always failure and success after the struggle of two results, failure is painful, but the pain of people do not fail because of the pain of stopping, but wipe the tears and go on. Just as the antelope was eaten and the lion starved to death in the wilderness and did not stop them from running forward. The famous Afghan writer Ulfat once said, "No matter what a person is, as long as he has not tasted what hunger and thirst are, he can never enjoy the sweetness of rice and water." People who do not have a goal, or who have not struggled for a goal, can never taste the happiness and joy of diving after a goal. Even if you fail, you can say to yourself, I have no regrets!

　　The survival of the fittest is an unchanging law of nature. No matter what kind of living. People should have a positive mindset to join life, to chase their goals. Whether you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun rises, you should run forward without hesitation. That's how life is.

　　This is a philosophy of life, and this story can also illustrate a lot of truths about being human. Nowadays, not compared in the 20th century, the living conditions are now fiercely competitive, everyone does not want to be eliminated, everyone wants to make their lives better, and everyone has their dreams and ideals. But the biggest difference between success and failure is that successful people do not spend much time talking about their dreams and ideals, do not spend much time complaining about their hardships and difficulties, and do not care to spend time envying and admiring other people's success and making themselves feel inferior; successful people will only do what they have to do, will only face their difficulties, there will be no complaints, let alone envy, because they have in their hearts goals, ideals, motivation and that precipitated heart.

　　Some people are like that stone step, and some are like that stone Buddha. The former think they have experienced the difficulties given to them by the relentless pressure of social life, and feel that they should deserve what he deserves because they have "experienced it", but the truth is that they are waiting for the reward, and the distance between them and the goal is still very far, not even a hint of closer, they will be on the They think they have suffered, why can't they succeed, why can't they get what they want? They think they have already suffered, so why can't they succeed and get what they want? They envy those who are like Shifu while they are disgusted. And the latter like the Stone Buddha, how much they have experienced, who can know, how many days and nights, spring, summer, autumn, and winter they spent to become such a magnificent, respected Stone Buddha, people see only his results without caring about his past and the process of success. What are the stone steps compared to the growth experience of the stone Buddha?