He didn't concentrate on doing what he
thought was important.(飽食終日無所用心)
The famous book (The Analects of Confucius)
records a story about Confucius.
One day a student asked him.
How can we improve the height of our soul?
He replied.
We must concentrate on doing what we think
is important.
The student answered.
That's easy to do
He replied.
The truth is simple, but it is not easy to
do it.
Because most people only pay attention to
three meals a day, they habitually focus on how to make money.
You see these people living in a hurry
every day, but if you observe carefully, these people are not really focused on
doing what they think is important.
The student asked him.
That’s right, I thought for a moment that
my friends around me and myself did have this situation.
The student said again,
Can I improve my moral character if I
concentrate on playing games and chess?
He replied.
Of course it can.
Although this is a trivial matter, it is
very important to you and you have done it intently. At the level of the soul,
you have already beaten those who only eat and sleep.
The meaning of this idiom is to describe a
person who does not concentrate on doing what he thinks is important.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
What do you do that makes you particularly
attentive? Do you have any positive hobbies besides daily work?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains
飽食終日無所用心(He didn't concentrate on doing
what he thought was important.)
著名的(孔夫子論語)這一本書中，記載了一個有關於孔子的故事。
有一天有一個學生問他。
請問我們要怎樣提高我們心靈的高度呢。
他回答。
我們必須專注地做好我們認為重要的事。
學生回答。
那很容易做到呢
他回答。
真理很簡單，但是真的要做到卻並不容易。
因為大多數人只關注每天要吃的三餐，所以他們習慣性的會都把目光的焦點都放在如何賺錢。
你看見這些人每天匆忙地在生活，但你仔細觀察，這些人並沒有真正專注的做好他們認為重要的事。
學生問他。
沒有錯，我想了一下我周圍的朋友和我自己的確有這種狀況。
學生又說，
那如果我專心玩遊戲下棋也可以提高我的品德嗎。
他回答。
當然可以啊。
這雖然是小事，但是對你而言很重要而且你也專心地去做了，在靈魂的層級上你也已經贏過那些只會吃飯睡覺的人了呢。
這句成語的意思是形容一個人沒有專注的做好他認為重要的事。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你做甚麼事情會讓你特別地專心呢?你除了每天的工作之外有甚麼正面的嗜好嗎?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為論語-陽貨篇-22條
https://ctext.org/analects/yang-huo/zh
