"Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier" is Zhou Xingchi's deepest Buddhist scripture
A few days ago
I got a private message
A viewer told me
He's been delivering food recently.
He's not there to experience life.
It's not that he's too idle - he's really out of money
The conditions in his family are not bad
He's a rich kid.
The first half of his life in his own words
Not like a person - not a playboy
It's about identity.
I always feel like what kind of character I am
Something has happened to him over the years
hit rock bottom
A few days ago, he revisited < Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier >
I saw the downfall of Xing Ye and his father
Tears come down
So he says.
He went to deliver food
Not just for the money
It is to break the role identity in thinking
What role do I really think I am?
Hello
Hello.
I am Wang Lijie
I've read this private message several times
It wasn't his situation that moved me.
It was the interpretation that he came up with.
So he says.
< Wuzhuang Su Qier > Although there is no < The Matrix >
< Inception > < People Without Surnames > So Tech Hardcore
But it's about something simpler and deeper.
The Breaking of Egotism and Identity
This observation is too accurate
Accurate enough that I had to make it into an issue
Today I will follow his train of thought
Let me tell you something.
What kind of thing did Zhou Xingchi put
Packaged as a comedy
We haven't understood it for 30 years
So here's what I'm saying.
"Su Qier, the champion of martial arts," is actually a Buddhist scripture.
It talks about the most difficult dharma
The core concept
solipsism
Don't be in a hurry to refute
Most people remember "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier"
It is such a line - the rich young master Su Can is ignorant
Go to the top spot
He ended up being framed as a beggar
Humiliated
Finally, he became the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Suppression
Become the leader of the Beggar Gang
The emperor himself came to beg him to come out of the mountain
He said gracefully
This is public opinion
Turn away
This is a standard lossy comeback story
That sounds like the right understanding.
But what's the problem?
Here's the thing.
If this is really a comeback story
At the end, Su Can should go back to being an official
He should ask the emperor to get back everything he lost, and he should rebuild the glory of the family
But Zhou Xingchi didn't let him do it
He let Su Can stay among the beggars
The emperor is here
He's not leaving.
Glory and wealth lie ahead
He doesn't want
This is strange - if the whole core of the movie is a counterattack
Then the ending doesn't stand at all
What is the real kernel?
The real kernel is
Su Can was in the process
Take everything in yourself that is not his
Peeled off layer by layer
The identity of the young master
Is it him?
No.
It was given to him by his father
The identity of the champion
Is it him?
No.
That's a name he wants
The identity of the rich party
Is it him?
No.
That's the label attached to the family he was born into
After all these things are stripped bare
The rest of that thing
That's him!
And what's left over
It just doesn't need any identity to carry
So when the emperor came to give him a new identity
He doesn't need it anymore.
He has experienced the complete collapse of his identity
He knows what identity is
This is the self-attachment in Buddhism
What does ego mean?
What do you think you are
You think you are the president of a company
You think you are a graduate of a prestigious school
You think you are a middle-class person with a car and a house
You think you are a father, a son, and a husband
These are thought to add up
The thing that makes you wake up every day and confirm that I'm still me
It's like the layers of clothing you're wearing.
It's been worn for a long time
You think your clothes are your skin
The Buddha said this most directly 2,500 years ago
He himself is a most extreme example
He was the crown prince of Kapilavastu.
The future king
Beautiful wife and newborn son
Three palaces, serving hundreds of people
He got up in the middle of the night.
I glanced at my sleeping wife and children
Over the wall and gone
The first thing you do when you leave the palace
I shaved my hair
Replace the brocade robe with a beggar's rag
Go to the forest and beg with the ascetics
What's he doing?
He is actively and completely stripping himself of all identities
He wants to see
Peel off the skin of the prince, peel off the skin of the husband
Peel off the skin of father
The rest of that thing
What is it?
You see
Buddha and Su Can
Do the same thing
The only difference is that
Buddha took the initiative to peel
Su Can was stripped by fate
The Sangha founded by the Buddha
From the very beginning, it was a group of beggars
The original meaning of the word bhikkhu
Beggars
Holding a bowl every morning
Go house to house begging
What to eat
After eating, meditation, practice, and teaching
They have no property, no house
No family, no career, no official position
They purposely cut out anything that could create an identity.
Why is that?
Because the Buddha discovered something
As long as you still have any tags on you
You're still anxious about this label
Fear for this label, pain for this label
You are the boss.
You are afraid that the company will go bankrupt
You're a celebrity.
You are afraid of losing your reputation
You're a rich man.
You are afraid of becoming poor
The more labels
The tighter you are strangled
The Beggar Gang
As the first gang in the world in the movie
It is precisely the mirror image of the prototype of the Sangha in the secular world
The most numerous, the most influential, the lowest status
Yet the freest
Zhou Xingchi put Su Can in the Beggar Gang
Not a random organization
It means something.
So much for that.
I want to tell you about two real ancient people
For more than two thousand years
Countless people have made their own choices in the face of identity collapse
I picked the two most extreme - one got the question wrong
Someone who answered this question gave people goosebumps
Their stories are written into the textbooks of all Chinese children
But when we read it as children
No one told us that these two stories were actually two answers to the same question
The first one.
Called Xiang Yu
Xiang Yu was a nobleman of Chu
In their twenties
30-Year-old Feng Xichu Overlord
Command hundreds of thousands of troops
At that time, the world was basically under his feet
He is one of the most dazzling teenage heroes in Chinese history
Then at the age of thirty-one
He was besieged by Liu Bang at the Battle of Gaixia
embattled
Yu Ji killed herself
He broke through with the remaining dozens of riders
All the way to the edge of the Wujiang River
There is a pavilion by the Wujiang River
Waiting for him on the shore with a small boat
The pavilion chief told him
Although Jiangdong is small
Thousands of miles
Hundreds of thousands of people
Yizu Wang Ye
It means - King, please cross the river
There are still hundreds of thousands of troops in Jiangdong
And a thousand miles of land
You can regroup after you cross the river
Be king again
How did Xiang Yu answer?
He laughed.
Say - Death to Heaven I
How can I do it?
Let him alone
Live up to your heart
It means that
God wants me to die
Why should I cross the river?
Even if Jiangdong's father doesn't laugh at me
Can I not feel guilty?
Then he killed himself
The 31-year-old overlord of Xichu
I wiped my neck on the edge of the Wujiang River
I want you to think about this.
The pavilion chief's boat is really there
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jiangdong are really still there
It's true that the base of thousands of miles is still there
He actually has cards in his hand to play.
But he can't type it
The reason why he can't fight is not that he doesn't have the strength or the soldiers.
It's not that he has no money - it's that he can't get through the hurdle in his own heart
That hurdle is called - the Overlord of Xichu
He thought he was the overlord of Xichu
How could the Overlord of Xichu lose?
How could the Overlord of Xichu escape?
How could the Overlord of Xichu not be able to lift his head in front of the Jiangdong Fathers?
The identity of this Western Chu overlord
Heavier than his life
It wasn't Liu Bang who killed him in the end
Not Han Xin
Not the hundreds of thousands of troops lying in ambush under Gaixia
It's his own ego.
When Sima Qian wrote this paragraph, he used a word (one sentence).
It's called Shameless Jiangdong Fathers
These seven words
It became a collective psychological symptom in Chinese
Who do you think you are?
Fell
You feel like you'll never see your face again
This feeling
Many people have
But think about it.
What do the Jiangdong fathers really care about?
What they care about is whether Xiang Yu can come back and keep them alive
It's not whether the name Xiang Yu is good or not
It was Xiang Yu himself
Put that name above everyone else
Second person
It's Su Dongpo.
Su Dongpo was forty-two years old
He was almost beheaded because of the Wutai poetry case
Finally save a life
He was demoted to Huangzhou, Hubei and became a titular petty official
Call the deputy envoy
Originally, he was a close minister of the Son of Heaven and a scholar of Hanlin
The most dazzling literati in the capital
The emperor personally chatted with him
overnight
He becomes a marginal person who doesn't even get his own salary
A large group of family members followed him to Huangzhou
Squeezed in a dilapidated house
Even eating is a problem
According to the general script
Such people usually have several options when they get to this point
One is to write poems every day to express grievances
Waiting for the court to rehabilitate him
One is depression
The body breaks down within a few years
Another way is to find a way to curry favor with people
Strive to return to the center of power
Su Dongpo didn't leave any
What did he do?
He found a barren slope in the east of Huangzhou
Open up wasteland and farm by yourself
I gave myself a new name
Dongpo Jushi
From this moment on
That Hanlin scholar Su Shi
Su Shi, the minister of culture next to the emperor
The Su Shi who was respectfully called Lord Su
He voluntarily died
A new person comes to life
It's Su Dongpo.
What did Su Dongpo do in Huangzhou?
He studies how to make delicious cheap pork that the locals don't like to eat
Invented Dongpo Pork
He makes his own wine.
Study how to make delicious food from the cheapest rice
He can't sleep at night.
Ask a friend to climb to the courtyard of Chengtian Temple to watch the moon
I came back and wrote < Remember Chengtian Temple Night Tour >
He took a boat to Chibi by the Yangtze River
Wrote < Chibi Fu > < Houchibi Fu >
< Niannu Jiao · Chibi Nostalgia >
The best articles in the history of Chinese literature
Almost all of them were written during the years when Huangzhou was demoted
You heard it clearly - Su Dongpo's highest achievement in his life
Not when he was a Hanlin scholar
It was when he was stripped naked and thrown into Huangzhou
More ruthless is yet to come
Su Dongpo was later demoted to Huizhou
He was later demoted to Danzhou, Hainan
In that era
Being demoted to Hainan is basically sentenced to exile to death
But when he arrived in Huizhou, he wrote a sentence - 300 lychees a day
Be a Lingnan native
Arrived in Hainan
He worked with the locals, he farmed, he taught, he taught.
Calling myself Ben Daner
Parasitic Xishu - he said
I am originally from Hainan
I just live in Sichuan
Did you see what he was doing?
Every time you are picked by fate
He took the initiative to take advantage of the situation and take down a deeper layer
The skin of famous officials in the capital
He peeled it in Huangzhou
The skin of scholar-bureaucrats in the Central Plains
He peeled it in Lingnan
The skin of the Han people
He peeled it in Hainan.
Grasp to the end
What he has left is not a loser, not an exile, not a down-and-out scholar
What he has left is a clean and free one
People who can settle down anywhere
Xiang Yu and Su Dongpo
They are all people who have been stabbed by fate
Xiang Yu grabbed the skin of the Overlord of Xichu tightly and didn't let it fall off
Finally died on the edge of the Wujiang River
Su Dongpo took the initiative to take the knife of fate
Pull off the rest layer by layer
In the end, I became a person who could not be killed
These two people demonstrated two different answers to the same question
This question is not from the past
This is for anyone who has stood on the top of a mountain and fallen off.
The question that is still being answered repeatedly today
I want to tell my delivery friend
And tell everyone who's ever fallen - the bottom you think
And your true objective situation
There may be a big gap.
It's a very cruel, but also very liberating, truth.
A man who once stood on the top of a mountain and then fell
Many times he has tangible and intangible assets
His education, his connections, his past experience
The knowledge that has been tempered in him
Still far ahead of most of his peers
He actually just needs to let go of who I used to be
Re-layout from the present moment
The win rate is still high
Su Dongpo is proof
The boat on the edge of the Wujiang River
Everybody who's fallen has one under their foot.
But he can't see
He can't see because
I blindfolded him.
He kept his eyes fixed on the old me
He can't see what cards I'm actually holding now
He plays a movie in his head every day
The film is called "If Only".
If I hadn't made that decision
If I had listened to that advice
If that person hadn't appeared in the first place, if at the beginning
This movie will play in his mind for three, five or even ten years
In the past three or five years
What he really missed
It's not a chance someone else gave him.
It's the good card he's always held in his hand
So Buddhism talks about breaking the ego
It's not about giving up what you have.
Buddhism talks about breaking the ego
So you can see what you really have in your hands
What do you think you have that you don't?
What do you think you're not actually holding?
Once you can see it that way
You won't waste another second on who I used to be
Would you use that moment to think - today
now
What can I do?
There's a line that Eckhart Tory says in his book.
I thought about it a lot later
To the effect - pain will do one thing for you
That is, the things that think you are you, but are not you
Peel off layer by layer
You heard me
Pain is not here to torture you
Pain is here to help you
It is a knife sent by the universe
We cut away the fat that doesn't belong to you.
The more you resist
The deeper the knife cuts
The more you accept
The more accurate the knife cuts
Wait until the end
You will find
The most central thing that can't be cut off
The real you
This thing
Su Can understands
Buddha understood
Su Dongpo understands
My delivery friend
I understand.
And Su Dongpo's gesture
It is not a luxury that belongs only to the ancients
And I want to talk about someone a little bit closer.
Let you see this way of living is still happening today
His name is Chu Shijian
Chu Shijian was 71 years old
From the Chinese tobacco king, the founder of Hongta Mountain
Become a prisoner overnight
Before that
He is one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in Yunnan
In charge of the entire Hongta Group
Those years
The cigarettes he smokes, the wine he drinks, the car he sits in, the house he lives in
He can say what he wants
Then overnight
It's all gone.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment
In jail
74 years old
He was released on medical parole for diabetes
Left that place
A 74-year-old man
Get out of prison
According to secular logic
His life should have ended like this - go home to retire
Live quietly
waiting to die
He didn't.
He's with his wife.
Went to Ailao Mountain in Yunnan
Contracted more than 2,000 acres of barren mountains
Start growing oranges
Think about this picture
An old man in his seventies who once ruled the entire Chinese tobacco empire
Squatting on the hilltop, studying the grafting of oranges
Learn from the farmers in the village how to fertilize, how to prune, how to prevent insects
When the locals first met him
No one knows who he is
He doesn't explain
He has completely come out of the skin of the King of Smoke
He has completely turned into an old man who grows oranges in the mountains
Ten years later
Chu Cheng sweeps the country
84 years old
Chu Shijian became a billionaire
Do you think this is an inspirational story?
No.
This is the story of breaking the ego
Chu Shijian's real cattle place
It's not that he can start a business again in his seventies
It's not that he turned an orange into a brand.
Where the real cattle are
After he was stripped naked by fate at the age of 71
I didn't wear back the old clothes of the tobacco king
He let that dress die completely in prison.
The old man who came out of prison
Is a brand new person
So he can squat down
Learning to farm from farmers from scratch
Someone who still hangs who I used to be
You let him go in his seventies to squat with farmers and learn grafting
He can't do it.
He can't erase face
He will feel
How could my dignified cigarette king do such a thing?
This is dignified
It's the shackles he put on himself
Chu Shijian put this lock
Actively opened
He became the Su Dongpo of today
Back to the Movie
The whole < Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier >
The most goosebumping scene
Not the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Suppression
Not a war against Zhao Wuji
It was Su Can and his father begging on the street
The father and son were robbed of dog food, kicked, and scolded
But Wu Mengda's dad
I actually laughed at the most down
He said to Su Can
What kind of life did we have before?
The days that don't make people live
Now is the time to live
This sentence is too cruel
Zhou Xingchi borrowed this down-and-out old father
The central conclusion of Buddhism
The kind of superior life you think you used to have
Precisely the most unhuman life
Because you were kidnapped by your identity
Kidnapped by desire
Kidnapped by the fear of loss
You eat delicacies every day
But when you eat, you think about tomorrow's business
You sleep in a soft bed every day
But when you sleep, you think about whether someone is plotting against you behind your back.
Where is this person
These are marionettes that are worn by identity.
And when you are stripped naked by fate
To the point where only one body remains
Grasp until you need to fold down for a bite of rice
You feel it for the first time instead - oh
I am alive
I am really alive
I can feel the hunger and the cold.
Feel the warmth of a bowl of hot porridge
These feelings
In your villa before
Blocked by all kinds of "I should"
Only then do you understand
Pain is really not here to punish you
It's here to give back your true self that you lent out.
I'll give it back to you little by little.
Many bloggers like to use The Matrix.
< Inception > < The Man Without a Name >
Talk about consciousness, talk about awakening, talk about us living in an illusion
These movies are really hardcore
It's science fiction.
It's a real visual impact.
But the friend who sent me private messages was so right
"Su Qier, the champion of martial arts," in a way goes deeper than these films
Because it doesn't appeal to any technical concept
Without resorting to any high-dimensional settings
It tells you a simple Chinese story
How is a person who never thinks he is
Go to "know" that you are nothing
Then go to the point where you really are nothing
The freest
This is three floors.
The first layer is the layer of ordinary people
What do you think you are?
This is Xiang Yu's layer
It is also the layer of most people
Your identity, your title, your savings, your academic qualifications
Add up to you
The second layer is the layer after being peeled off by pain
Find yourself nothing
This is the floor of Su Dongpo who just arrived in Huangzhou.
It is also the layer of Chu Shijian who just got out of prison
Those former labels were stripped away by fate
And you stand there and -- there they are.
I am still me
The third level is true enlightenment
Knowing that nothing is precisely the greatest freedom
This is the layer of Su Dongpo who wrote < Chibi Fu >
It is also the layer of Chu Shijian, who planted oranges in Ailao Mountain ten years later
It is also Su Can's layer
You got here.
You no longer need any identity to prove yourself
You do things because you want to
Not because you need to do things to maintain someone's design
Zhou Xingchi left Su Can among the beggars
Not because he didn't have a choice
Because he really doesn't need to choose
So here's what I'm saying.
This doesn't mean that everyone has to be a beggar
They all have to deliver takeout, and they all have to abandon everything.
That's not what it means.
The Buddha did not require everyone to become a monk
The crux of the matter is - you're going to check it out
Inside those labels you are hanging on now
How much of it is really you?
How much of it was borrowed?
If one day a label is torn away
Do you feel like you're all broken?
If so
That means that label has actually grown into your flesh
And true practice
Not wait for the pain to tear
But you relax yourself first
Ask yourself a question every day - if I lose my identity today
Am I still me?
If the answer is yes
Congratulations!
That identity is your tool.
If the answer is no
Then you have to be careful
That identity is eating you in turn
So much for that.
Let me ask you something.
The labels you're wearing right now - job title, income
Education, identity, relationships - which one are you most afraid of losing?
Why is that?
If one day it is really peeled off
What would you do?
These questions don't need to be answered to me
Ask yourself
Certainly.
If you want
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That was my favorite moment.
And finally.
I want to leave you with a bigger question.
Su Can's Story
It seems to have a happy ending - he let go of his identity as a young master
Let go of the identity of the champion of martial arts, let go of glory and wealth
In the end, he became the leader of the Beggar Gang
But think about it.
Beggar Gang Leader
Isn't it also an identity?
Isn't the Transcendent also a new character?
When a person puts the label I have let go of this label on themselves
Did he put on a new dress again?
The Buddha said a sentence in the < Diamond Sutra > - the monk should give up
Not to mention illegal
It means that even the boat of Buddhism itself
Throw it away when you get to shore
Not to mention other things
That is to say
Even I am practicing this identity
It will break eventually
That true freedom
What does it look like?
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.