Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2472 Impermanent Hibiscus (1)

  The Tang Dynasty poet Han Shan once wrote this poem:

   Yutang hangs a beaded curtain, among which is the son of Chanjuan. Its appearance is better than that of a fairy, and Ronghua is like a peach and plum.

  The spring and fog in the east house are together, and the autumn wind in the west house. Thirty years later, it has become sugarcane.

   means that the world is impermanent, and all the good things will disappear, just like that beautiful woman, after thirty years, she will be like bagasse that has been chewed by others.

  Beauty is easy to fade, and there is power and affection, but the vast majority of people in the world are unwilling to face this problem. Everyone understands the truth, but rather than facing the pain and anxiety caused by this problem, people are more willing to bless others with a long life and use this escape method to avoid looking directly at death and impermanence.

   This is one of the "four inversions" in Buddhism, which is "constant inversion", which regards "impermanence" as "permanent".

Perhaps Hanshan himself did not think that he would become a "hippie". As a literati in the Tang Dynasty who repeatedly failed the imperial examination, he at first found a place to live in seclusion like Tao Yuanming. When his son became an adult, he began to practice according to Taoism. If you choose the Dharma, you will not only become a "monk", but also be free from all social conventions and orders.

  Family is the smallest unit that constitutes a society. In order to raise his son, Hanshan did not cut all his fate. A monk ordained also depends on the situation, some are to fight for believers and incense to fight to the death, and some are to pass people's teachings.

  In addition to the constant inversion, there are also self inversion, pure inversion, and pleasure inversion. Among them, pleasure inversion refers to taking suffering as pleasure. What is suffering?

   A dwarf is not born to want to be a dwarf, but he has no chance other than a funny character like a harlequin. The audience under the stage burst into laughter, is the dwarf on stage really as funny as he appears?

This kind of "entertainment" that builds one's own happiness on the pain of others is fleeting, and after laughing, it will only irritate the body and mind. This kind of suffering is called "bad suffering", and not everyone can experience it. of.

   Or for another example, in addition to writing Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo also wrote a novel called "The Man Who Laughs". The male protagonist was operated on and always had a smile on his face. It doesn't matter if he performs on stage, everyone thinks he is a big star, and when he gets off the stage and returns to a normal life, people will be startled when they see his face.

  The elm head cannot be enlightened, even if he knocks his head like a wooden fish.

  Georgianna recalled Bonaparte's letter: the principle of warfare is that a general must have experienced many battles before he can understand how to make the smallest things encourage the heart or make the enemy terrified.

   This sentence translates to actual combat experience. Letting a person with no actual combat experience lead the army is like Zhao Kuo who is talking about soldiers on paper. It will not bring victory, but doom.

   It was also that war that determined the fate of Qin and Zhao, and even more people, because this was not only the battle of the two countries' national fortunes, but also established the unification of the East.

  The Qin Dynasty did not solve the problem of the Huns and continued to the Han Dynasty, and it was precisely because they drove the Huns away that the Huns came to Europe, and thus Attila, the whip of God.

  Confucius said: The gentleman is like righteousness, and the villain is like profit.

  The debate between righteousness and profit is a basic topic that runs through the entire ancient Chinese history. During the court debate, the old man in his tens of years had white hair and lost teeth. When he lost the debate, he still didn’t forget to scold “you mercenary villain”.

The scholar-bureaucrat was originally different from those of Guo Jia. Guo Jiacai did not believe in "loyal ministers do not serve two masters". He believed even more that "a sensible person can examine his master." He also didn't believe in Yuan Shao, "a corporal with good manners, but he doesn't know how to employ people", but followed Cao Cao.

  Guo Jia not only wants to save the country from danger, but also wants to be the king. Cao Cao used a method of "seeing plums to quench thirst" to make the soldiers marching under the scorching sun speed up their marching again. Is this what Bonaparte said, "how to make the smallest things encourage people's hearts"?

   A woman shouldn't know these things, she only needs to tease parrots, learn to play musical instruments, and be likable. "Yeji Sichen" is never a good thing.

   But as long as she thinks of the men who put on powder in the old days, it is difficult for her to accept it from an aesthetic point of view.

   Bonaparte looked fresh in the sun, though he had shaved.

   Even if his grand plan to unify Europe is completed within ten years of his term, it is still a question of whether his successor will continue, not to mention that he is not yet a lifelong "emperor".

   Even if the actor wore the emperor's clothes, the audience under the stage regarded him as "Caesar", but what about after the stage?

   On the stage, "Caesar" is the master, and off the stage, "Caesar" is dominated by Caesar, although Caesar's power is also impermanent.

   This is not the Buddhist "I am upside down", but it is also "I am upside down". Some people can distinguish it clearly, while others can't.

   So sometimes it's not easy to be a ghost.

   On the carriage, Georgiana wanted to think about how to reply to Bonaparte, but there was one thing in her mind.

   The castle where she temporarily lived was not big, but there were still many maids. They were probably villagers nearby, because according to the standard of housekeepers, some servants with insufficient grades could not appear in the master's sight.

   But Georgiana saw them cleaning the corridors of the castle, and they occasionally peeked at her.

   Then she remembered the night Betty sneaked out. There should have been two policemen standing guard at the door, but they went to the kitchen not far away to have some coffee, and then Betty slipped out.

   It was a maid who invited the two police officers to drink coffee. She said that her original intention was to let the police gentlemen drink some refreshing drinks to cope with the whole night of duty.

Georgiana carefully recalled the face of the maid. Georgiana did see her peeking at her, or else she was crying and talking, covering her face with a handkerchief. In general, she had not seen the appearance of that woman. , looks in his thirties and looks nothing special.

   She looked around and found that there was no one around, but she felt cold for no reason, so she rang the carriage.

   "Stop!" Georgiana yelled.

  The carriage stopped, Georgiana opened the car door and looked at the muddy ground mixed with snow, this time she jumped out of the car without hesitation.

   "What's the matter, ma'am?" Feigl asked as he rode over.

   "Who is the guard of the castle today?" asked Georgiana.

   "Ibrahim," Figel replied.

   "We'll go back at once," said Georgiana.

"what why?"

   "Follow your orders, soldier!" Georgiana shouted.

   Figuer didn't ask any further questions, turned his horse's head, and passed the order.

   "What happened?" Langenhofen asked, sticking his head out of the carriage.

   "Let's go back," said Georgiana, and got back into the carriage, her soles covered in mud, soiling the luxurious carpet in the carriage.

   "I won't let bad things happen to you, Margaret," she said softly but firmly, when the carriage moved again.

  The cavalry is easy to turn around, but it is a little more troublesome for the carriage to turn around, especially the six-horse horse.

   Hope everything is just her illusion.

   (end of this chapter)