Clay walking
"Clay Step Practice" is Professor Yu Qiuyu's summary work that systematically explains the practice of life, written in elegant philosophical prose.
He divides the practice into
three parts:
"Breaking Confusion", "Asking Questions", and
"Settling In", which form the three parts of the book.
In the "Confusion" section, the temptations and dangers of "Confusion of Disaster
", "Confusion of Position",
"Confusion of Name",
"Confusion of Wealth",
"Confusion of Tide",
and "Confusion of Hatred" that everyone will encounter
are carefully analyzed. One by one, the author reviews how he has made difficult practices feasible in the process of overcoming each of
these "confusions" and achieving
"non-confusion."
In the "Asking" section, the author selects from the multiple wisdoms of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Wei and Jin thinkers that directly contribute to spiritual practice, which also integrates personal practice into a millennium of joint practice.
This part can also be seen as a contemporary extraction of Chinese religious culture.
The "Settle-in" section is a summary of all the practices, that is, how the practitioner realizes mental settling after going through a lot
of "breaking through confusion" and
"asking". This book puts forward
seven aspects: "Survival Basis",
"Greatness from Emptiness",
"Heaven and Earth Vitality",
"Essence as One",
"Belief in Goodness",
"Where I Am", and
"Everyday Mentality", summarizing the spiritual construction of a practitioner who has finally risen to become an enlightened person.
In recent years, a large number of poems, beautiful essays, and aphorisms bearing Professor Yu Qiuyu's name have been popping up on the Internet, all of which are related to life practice.
Professor Yu said that only this one is true.
