Looking back over a decade, times have changed and the seas have turned into mulberry fields. Time flows swiftly, stripping away the recklessness of youth and leaving behind a wealth of experience and the imprints of time. Those remaining marks are the scenery gifted by the years: thick with the vitality of life's journey, light with the emotions of daily existence, coarse with the traces of time upon the soul, and fine with the tender memories held deep within. In the blink of an eye, beautiful scenes stir ripples in the heart.
To know cause and effect is to know when to advance and when to retreat; to understand nature is to find joy.
Keep kind thoughts, and sunlight will shine upon you.
Being busy is a state of life, but if one can only find vexation and turmoil in busyness, it is difficult to maintain a composed and free spirit. In the hustle of worldly life, maintaining a calm mind—letting the exhaustion and frustration settle in the heart and allowing time to dry them into memories of struggle—is the way to find happiness in work.
The thirty-seven factors of enlightenment, the four right efforts, the four bases of success, the five faculties, the five powers, the seven factors of awakening, and the eightfold path... these encompass all healing methods, just as one medicine does not cure all ailments. Countless other practices are all contained within this.
Live modestly and do not always show your sharpness to others. Excessive sharpness can make one feel unapproachable. By staying low-profile and unassuming, you become easier for others to connect with.
The joys and sorrows of life change constantly, much like the passing of the seasons.
Learning from failure is for future success; without deep self-reflection after a fall, the higher one climbs, the harder the crash.
Mud cannot hide the radiance of a gem.
The weak always complain about a cruel fate, while the strong rarely lament being born at the wrong time.
Stop staying up late and stop dwelling on unhappy thoughts. Let go of the obstacles you cannot overcome and the people you cannot forget. On your new journey, may you not love too intensely, and may you not sleep too late.
One can become famous easily, but one cannot become successful easily.
I know you do not miss me, yet I still love you, because I am foolish. My heart has never been cut by a knife, yet the pain is so clear. Perhaps sometimes, escape is not about fearing confrontation, but about waiting for something.
"Through a thousand years of reincarnation, may we not be strangers in another life. Though things change and people transform, the kindness shown remains." Even if others have a thousand flaws, they also have merits. Rather than harboring resentment over perceived harms, it is better to "lay down the knife and become a Buddha," using a "muddled" heart to dissolve sorrows and embrace the beauty of the world with gratitude.
Remaining unperturbed by glory or disgrace is a wisdom of conduct and an art of living. In this world, there is praise and blame, honor and shame; such encounters are ordinary. History has proven that those who achieve greatness possess the precious quality of being "unmoved by honor or disgrace."
Zen Master Wumen said: "In spring there are flowers, in autumn there is the moon; in summer there is a cool breeze, in winter there is snow; if no trivial matters weigh on the heart, it is a wonderful season in the world." Regardless of worldly changes, as long as the inner self remains undisturbed, no glory, disgrace, or gain can sway us. This requires the wisdom of being "muddled"—to cultivate the mind through stillness and face all things with equanimity.
A person with diverse interests can encounter much joy across different fields of life. Those lacking interest may eventually grow weary of their few hobbies or become overly obsessed, forgetting the beauty of the rest of the world. We should treat those and things we are interested in with kindness rather than hostility; without a heart of friendliness, one can never truly grow close to what they admire.
"We all dreamed as children that with love, everything would be beautiful. But in reality, marriage relies on a great deal of compromise."
Do not demand others meet your standards, and do not view people through tinted glasses.
If there is a next life, I wish to be a tree, standing in eternity. Without the posture of sorrow or joy, half resting peacefully in the dust, half flying in the wind; half providing shade, half basking in sunlight. Silent and proud, never relying on others, never searching. If there is a next life, I wish to become a gust of wind, becoming eternal in an instant. Without sentimental emotions or longing eyes. Half wandering freely in the rain, half traveling in the spring light; when lonely, I shall travel far alone, carrying only faint memories, never longing, never loving, hoping that every encounter can become an eternity.
The night has its own unique atmosphere, and silence has its own voice.
If you treat me with importance, I will treat you with importance; however you treat me, I will treat you the same—it is as simple as that.
Remember, hope is the ultimate goodness in this world, and beautiful things never truly vanish.
Perhaps if I hold you tightly this time, it will not be in vain.
Relationships rarely allow for effortless ease; even the most beautiful love requires half effort and half luck.
