You cannot understand complex intentions; you do not need to focus on the simple.
There is an old saying in China: 'What you seek is unattainable, so seek within yourself.'
Everything outside is an appearance; all techniques and indicators are appearances. If you reside in appearances, you can only struggle with the waves all day long.
Wasting life.
Those who succeeded only aligned with the way, while those who failed diverged from it.
So what did these successful people really comprehend?
Understanding the way, seizing the momentum, discussing the technique, abandoning the sage and forsaking wisdom.
What is the way? What is momentum, what is technique? These can only be sought within; there is nothing outside. They ultimately encountered themselves.
Charles Haanel from America, the author of 'The Master Key System', answered the question, 'Why do financiers often achieve great success?'
Answering, 'Because they did according to what they thought.'
Knowing alone is not enough; Wang Yangming once said that one must achieve unity of knowledge and action.
The way, momentum, and technique are one.
The way gives rise to all techniques; techniques have no fixed patterns. Techniques carry the way, and the way manifests through techniques.
To succeed and achieve the unity of knowledge and action, one must open positions when it is time to open them, cut losses when it is time to cut them, and take profits when it is time to take them. This requires mastery of the craft.
What is the essence of transformation? It is actually a form of inner integration.
The so-called achievement of the ultimate state is to practice a skill to perfection, integrating it into instinct.
To reach a state of mastery in any skill, it must become second nature, as if it were always meant to be that way, just like a part of one's own body.
Just like a skilled driver, an experienced programmer, or a prolific writer like Mo Yan, the more exquisite their skills, the less they are aware of the tools of those skills.
Next, let's talk about the sharpshooter Ji Chang.
Gan Ying was an ancient archer who was skilled in shooting. When he drew his bow, beasts fell and birds dropped. His disciple was named Fei Wei, who learned archery from Gan Ying, but his skill in shooting surpassed that of his master.
Ji Chang learned archery from Fei Wei again. Fei Wei said, 'First, learn to see things without blinking, and then we will talk about archery.'
Ji Chang returned home, lay on his back under his wife's weaving loom, and practiced looking up at the loom without blinking.
Three years later, even if a needle poked his eyelid, he would not blink.
Ji Chang told Fei Wei about his training status, and Fei Wei said, 'That's not enough; you must learn to see objects. You need to practice until small objects are as clear as large ones, and fine details are as easy to see as prominent objects, and then come back to tell me.'
Ji Chang tied a louse to a window using the hair from a cow's tail, looking south into the distance. After ten days, he saw the louse gradually grow larger, and after three years, the louse appeared as large as a wheel in his eyes.
Turning his head to look at other things, they appeared as large as hills. Ji Chang then used a bow decorated with cow horns from Yan and arrows made of northern bamboo to shoot the louse hanging in the window, piercing its heart, yet the hair from the cow's tail did not break.
Ji Chang told Fei Wei about his practice, and Fei Wei jumped up and patted his chest, saying, 'You have already mastered the secret of archery.'
What does this imply?
This story conveys at least three pieces of information to us:
I, mastering a skill requires a lot of time for training.
Training must be gradual, focused, and persistent.
The realm of mastery can only be known through personal experience; it cannot be taught in the form of knowledge.
The indicators and techniques learned are ultimately someone else's.
Only what you personally realize truly belongs to you.
It is said that there are 84,000 methods of practice, as they are vast and subtle, and the root nature of beings varies in depth. Since life is limited, one should choose the method that is most suitable for oneself.
Teaching according to aptitude; what is most suitable for oneself is the best.
What is most suitable for oneself can only be sought within.
Fo said that all beings possess the characteristics of the Tathāgata, inherently complete, so they can naturally attain it.
Therefore, those people succeeded and achieved stable profits.
These days I am preparing for a major shift in strategy that is about to begin!!!
Comment 168, get on the bus!!!
Impermanence brings impermanence brings impermanence!!!
Important things are said three times!!!
