I don't envy the millionaires, nor do I admire the
high-ranking officials, and I don't aspire to become a millionaire someday.
I just hope to live a leisurely life because leisure is a necessity of life.
Making money, going into politics, and owning property are just
embellishments to life. Here, I confess frankly that my busy learning today
is for the purpose of becoming a leisurely person in the future.
Leisure is my most fundamental need because, by nature, I have this feeling
that the self in busyness is not the true self. The person in leisure is the
true self. Today, no one can make me pursue more than food, clothing, and
learning because I have discovered that living leisurely according to my
nature truly conforms to the rhythm of life.
Enjoying life can only be accomplished in a leisurely state. On the crowded
career path, I have not seen a truly happy person; I have only seen winners
or losers. In the ebb and flow of the business world, I have not seen a
truly happy person either; I have only seen wealthy people who have made
money and poor people who have accompanied the money. I know well that the
rich and powerful will not truly have leisure; at most, they can only have
the form of leisure. True leisure belongs to those who regard personality as
more important than career and regard the soul as more important than fame
and fortune.
Leisure is a life that I adhere to in my heart. Whether a person can truly
enjoy leisurely time depends on whether their heart is peaceful. If they
have a peaceful heart, they can enjoy leisurely time anywhere. If their
heart is filled with worldly anxiety, it is of no use whether they live in a
villa by the sea or a small wooden house in the forest.
Nowadays, many people want to obtain leisure through money and power, but
the practical results are unexpected. Excessive wealth brings tension,
excessive power brings fear, and leading brings more restrictions. Not
allowing leisure to coexist with wealth, not allowing ease to coexist with
power has always been a way for God to express fairness.
In this competitive era, it seems that no one can live easily. But under the
Nanshan Mountain, by the Lake Vanern, and on the island of Tahiti, I have
seen many immortal figures of leisure.
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