What I lack truly is understand I want what to do in the heart.
-- Er of Ke Erkai Guo " diary "
Sun Dong Shengxi falls, people sunrise and make, sunset and breath.
Are we so busy for what be?
Be for money? For fame and gain? The life of good perhaps happiness?
And we what kind of should this good life be? What kind of belief should we hold to to live?
Socrates says: Without the life that examine undeserved pass.
And the goes examining oneself namely belief that we should do, whether is and go pondering over this the life that we miss to go after most.
Ancient Greek philosopher Yalishiduode thinks, happiness is the first goal that defines good life.
And how we should define happiness again?
Yalishiduode gave out 3 different definitions to happiness:
1.Happy life
2.Honorary life
3.Contemplative life
Happy life is these it seems that appeal has most among the life that, be willing to be mixed in the depression without the person after all depressed in live.
But needing those who come to point out is, joy is not mobile itself, however the furniture of an activity (the car that be like a person of extraordinary powers, a person of extraordinary powers curtilage and the satisfaction of all sorts of body desires) .
And we imagine very hard these a few kinds of afore-mentioned activities can bring us joy only and won't have accessary uneasiness and anguish.
What have an insatiable desire for food for instance is joyous, after eating and drink too much, we need to face our to bilge painful abdomen and take the shape of form, and fat besides the issue that brings our health to go up, still meet us bring the view of other not to be pooh-poohed, bring finally to us uneasiness and self-abased.
But if we reject to eat and drink too much, and hold to physical training, final meeting wins healthy and good body and self-confident state of mind, and other also will be cast to us will admire the look with kindness.
Actually, when the food and drink that having the law takes exercise with what perserve, we are inferior to indulging that kind of joy, a bit painful even and suffer.
Ceaseless drinking make merry, excessive evil woman, dally with a catamite, or enjoy the grand banquet that has choice seafood, with the delicate dainty of etc, cannot bring happy life.
Contrary, happy life is contemplative result.
-- Yi compares turtledove rashVisible, joy is not happy essence, because it always is being accompanied a few look not so happy element, so, joy can not regard good life as itself.
So we might as well change subject of a life.
Successful, honorary life how?
Can you regard us as the happy life itself of pursuit?
Actually honor and successful life have appeal very much, because this kind of life means us to pass,obtained joy and contented, acquired other what also mean us to depend on our at the same time hard approbate and admire.
Yalishiduode calls this kind of life honorary life.
Wool Mu is in its novel " blade " in represented a part that the name is Ai Lue spy, ai Lue is especially smooth and slick favor experienced and worldly-wise, flow to be mixed at Paris repeatedly all sorts of distinguished personages parties of London and gregarious salon, during this he knew many distinguished personages " friend " , and be with oneself person arteries and veins and gregarious ability be proud.
But elapse as days, ai Lue is especially aged force declines, go up in salon party gradually ability not equal to one's ambition, although he himself does not admit, but the company have a common boundary of Paris and London begins gradually intended and evasive he, arrive even of his life finally, because do not have,be invited by the gregarious evening banquet of a noble, ai Lue contains hate especially and die.
And acider is, the dress that Ai Lue prepares for the banquet especially also by the adversary of his socialization bound (boy of head of a wool) take away the late banquet that goes attending that distinguished personages to gather.
But, yalishiduode thinks to acquire other approbating is not first-rate lifestyle.
Of other approbate originate the manner that other treats us, and the mood that we resemble very hard controlling our behavior to control other in that way.
And the approbate and can be not mirrorred according to the facts certainly and evaluates us behavior of other.
The gains both honor and money in vain example of fish for fame and compliments is not rarely seen, they acquired honor and interest, but this does not mean what they pass is a kind of good life.
Crafty plot is met finally by get behind, and of the person that leaves fish for fame and compliments can be generation bad name only.
Alleged hold in both hands higher, fall more miserably.
The life that Yalishiduode maintains is a kind of contemplative lives.
Alleged and contemplative life, it is the life of a kind of heart that uses oneself and world contact with.
Not be to hide in ego and isolated backside inactive evasive lives, the reason that uses us however and thought go experiencing the life with understanding actively.
Brood unexpectedlying flavour is worn to escaping realistically, however differentiate card ground goes facing reality, the reason that is pair of him life is examined.
That what is just the most important thing in the life?
Is the person and nature, relation with whole universe how?
Taking contemplative, thoreau enters forest, concealed is on made of baked clay Er to ascend a lake, he is companion with birds and beasts of the heavenly bodies, wood all day, gu boat go angling, drink horse mountain stream, sanded bank of spring equinox travel, autumn day touchs sufficient Mian.
After the life test that in Waerdeng lakefront had two years, thoreau left the made of baked clay Er with his loving place to ascend a lake, "I leave silvan ground, the argument that moves a forest with me is euqally convincing. I think I still can have a lot of planting means can offer an alternative, too much time need not be expended on this kind of life " , thoreau is leading the life that broods the manner with reason is treating him first and last.
Examine oneself life and just did not care oneself to eat a few steamed stuffed bun in the morning, had a few rice midday, let us ponder over the belief that us do it and lives and idea however, and use rational reflection go proving them, go discriminating the true and false of the life and meaning with reason, form him idea and idea thereby.
Cartesian say: "I consider reason I am in. "I consider reason I am in..
Do not have thinking to brood, fine long hair of our life eventually ignorant is insignificant, what before dying even, cannot understand oneself want truly is a kind of what kind of life.
In a kind of such contemplative lives, no matter encounter what kind of situation, we are OK the mode that the reason that actively uses goes to know and pondering over our place to observe and experience, obtain the understanding with useful in actual life.
Although at worst, think and use the life that can promote us from the for reason on this meaning.
Accordingly, brooding is the most satisfactory in satisfactory life.
It brought the joy that accompanies to it, still have practical effect and profit, and substantially it is worthiness.
So just we should pursue contemplative life, true, significant life.
