Qingyuan · 清源

Something is weighing on you?

Tell me about it — one or two lines is enough.

有什么压在你心上？说一两句就够。

What this is / 这是什么

I read those texts — the ones people have often opened for a look, when the mind would not settle, for two thousand years — and I put what they say into plain wisdom about life you can use today.

No diagnosis. No therapy. No decisions about your life. Just a few more angles on the problem, put as simply as possible.

我读的那些文字——两千多年来，人们在心静不下来的时候，时常会翻开看一看——把它们说的话，翻成今天用得上的人生哲理。不做诊断、不做治疗、不替你决定人生；只给人生多几个看问题的角度，用最简单的话说出来。

Three old lines / 三句老话

Take on less, and you gain it. Take on more, and you lose your way. 《道德经》第二十二章 / Tao Te Ching, ch. 22

Notice what it does not say. It does not say “focus harder.” It says the confusion comes from volume — not from weakness.

Tonight, one thing: write down what is open inside you — not your to-do list, what your mind is actually holding. If there are more than three, cut to three.

注意这句没说什么：它没说"你要更专注一点"。它说的是——惑来自量，不来自你不够强。今晚一件事：把心里同时挂着的事写下来（不是待办清单）。超过三件，就划到三件。

You get steady by being rubbed against real things — steady when still, steady when moving too. 《传习录》/ Chuanxilu (Records of Instruction)

Being calm on a cushion is the easy part. The test is the thing you are avoiding — the email, the call, the number you keep not looking at.

Tonight, one thing: pick the one thing you keep putting off, and stay with it for ten minutes — not to finish it, just to stop flinching from it.

在蒲团上静下来是容易的那半。难的是你去躲的那件事——那封邮件、那个电话、那个一直不去看的数。今晚一件事：挑你一直往后拖的那一件，陪它十分钟（不是为做完，是不再躲它）。

The mind of the past cannot be held; the mind of the present cannot be held; the mind of the future cannot be held. 《金刚经》/ The Diamond Sutra

All three of those minds are thoughts about a time that is not here. None of them can be grabbed — which is why the replay never finishes.

Try this once: when the loop starts, name it once — “that one is the past” — then let the next breath come in. Nothing else to do.

过去、现在、未来这三种心，都是关于"不在此刻的那个时间"的念头，一个也抓不住——所以那盘回放永远放不完。试一次：回放一起来，就点一句"那条是过去的"，然后让下一口气进来，别的都不用做。