Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Spiritual Light of the Prisoners in Auschwitz (Part I)
Wu Wei went to see Rulai, and Rulai asked, who are you? I'm Lao Wu. And he asked, "Where did it come from?" Country. Again, where are you going? Go to the city. If you come and wave your hand, go ahead. Another person, when he saw the summoning of Rulai and asked what was difficult, his heart was overjoyed, and he knew what he wanted if he had great powers, and he finally saw it, and helped me get through the money pass, so he replied happily: I want money. How much do you earn? Monthly salary 5,000. Again, where did you put it? Put it at home. For example, it is good that you can rest assured, and the income should be received in your heart. The man said, "I always look at too many others and I have too little." For example, you always put the money that others get into your heart, but you don't put your own in your heart. The man suddenly realized that money is a thing, and there is always too much to put in other people's hearts, but too little to put in his own.
Wu Wei emphasized at the report on music education, I want to tell you a story, the spiritual light of the prisoners in Auschwitz.
As soon as I heard the name of this story, there was a commotion in the venue, and then there was a loud and noisy discussion, and from time to time there were angry scoldings, what are you talking about.
Wu Wei said, everyone be quiet, as soon as you hear the name of this story, maybe you will not believe it at first and then it will arouse anger, the reason for the anger is so obvious, it is to support my own happiness with something that simply cannot exist, look, people can be happy in that state, our situation is not known to be ten million times better than the well-known Auschwitz, and we can't achieve happiness, to fool and mock our retarded and imbecile, to destroy our understanding and moral dignity, Then you might as well tell us about the joy of a woman who has been raped. The audience seemed to be stunned by this lecture, and the sound of boos and laughter and ridicule could not be heard as it should be, and the sporadic voices of discussion gradually became smaller and smaller.
Wu Wei continued to preach, and perhaps some of my friends would be surprised to hear what I said. Are you crazy or stupid, how can you talk about this? What the hell is going on, there will be all kinds of thoughts in everyone's mind, this is completely imaginable, and it is completely understandable, otherwise I will not be able to convince everyone to understand and accept the story I tell, so I want to remind everyone to pay attention to the fact that usually everything can happen when we talk about this world, and there are no wonders in the world. What would not have been to believe that such a story could happen in a place like Auschwitz. Some people would think that even if the prisoners in that place did miraculously have a sunny life and a sunny mentality that we can hardly imagine, what problems could they help us solve in front of us. We don't need to convince us of other people's opinions, we just need to solve the difficulties in front of us, and you don't want us to go to a place like Auschwitz to experience life. I would say, the prisoners of Auschwitz, that are the people who went into the countdown to death, what would they think? They think that even if the time to die is only one hour. Even 10 minutes, in this short period of time, there will be many possibilities, and if you give up and stop thinking, it is actually equivalent to entering a state of death in advance. Many of the possibilities will not come to pass, and this is despair. The room was quiet, and the atmosphere became a little oppressive, perhaps because of the topic of death.
Wu Wei thought for a moment. Deliberately to ease the atmosphere on the scene, to preach very sincerely, to take this opportunity. I would like to say a few more words about middle life. The young friends here are also middle-aged people in the future. There are many junctures and links in life, and middle age is the most important. Of course, it is necessary to look at the qualification endowment and the diligent accumulation performance before middle age, but it is also necessary to look at the ability and performance that can be accumulated and stimulated by the positive breakthrough in middle age. Middle-aged life can mobilize the most abundant resources that life can mobilize, is to maximize their own potential, middle-aged life, if you give up your efforts, it is equivalent to giving up a lot of responsibilities, the chain of social inheritance will be broken, the world will increase a lot of suffering, reduce a lot of joy and happiness. You need to bear the weight of social pressure alone, and you have to endure the loneliness that is difficult to talk about. Middle-aged life, because most of the life tracks have been fixed, life has naturally increased some stubbornness and paranoia, and there is naturally a lot of helplessness and bitterness in life choices. The accumulation and heaviness of middle-aged life can also provide energy, strength and strength for the promotion of middle-aged life. After the smelting of the furnace, it will add an alloy character to the middle-aged life, increase the flexibility of compression, shine with dazzling brilliance, add a kind of support to the younger generation, and prepare a rich gift for the elderly.
Let's go back to the story we're going to tell. When I tell such a story on this occasion today, it will make you hear a story that you have never heard of, and people will always have curiosity about things that they have not heard, seen, or thought of, and we must first be curious about this story, because since it is a story, it is something that has happened, it is an objective fact, and it is an existence that no matter what kind of attitude people have towards it. What is the tangle of this story? It is a cruel and inhumane place where joy and happiness can take place, which is so incompatible with people's experience and conscience that neither knowledge, experience, nor feelings can accept this story. I read a novella titled "Happiness Can't Be Pland", which tells the story of love in a factory for the disabled, and after reading it, I thought, why did the writer choose a welfare factory instead of a textile factory, or choose the life of the new generation in the modern workplace to describe, and the writer may consider that it is difficult to produce a love story in a place like a welfare factory. The story of the prisoners I tell here will go far beyond our imagination, and beyond imagination will undoubtedly help us to expand the world of imagination and enrich our imagination, imagination is the mother of creativity, and all creation comes from imagination in the first place, and it is far beyond the scope of my self-justification. If I had designed this story for the sake of my music owner, Zhang Bi, and I had been able to design such a story in advance as a strong proof of my opinion, people would have been amazed at my ability to make up stories, which is truly ingenious, imaginative, and talented.
There was a coaxing in the venue, and there was a sound of discussion, which was indeed too talented.
Next, Wu Wei continued to preach, actually. When I read this story, although the language barrier is separated by racial beliefs and the state of existence, it is not subtle to say that some things do resonate with my own personal experiences and experiences in the depths of my own memory, and those similar experiences and experiences can be produced in such an extermination zone, and I have a particularly intimate experience, the kind of experience that I think is the same kind of experience, somewhat similar to that British paleoanthropologist Jenny, After 40 years of living in the African bush, she finally saw a moving scene with her own eyes: a chimpanzee squatted next to an anthill and held a branch to stick to the ant in its mouth. When I read this story, I felt even more shocking than I had ever felt before. It is the shock and shock of seeing that people can still show the optimism of human beings in such an extremely bad state.
Gradually, Wu Wei's speech was connected with familiar topics, and the interest could be heard, and the atmosphere on the scene seemed relaxed and lively.
We usually say that human beings want to challenge the limits of existence, happiness and joy will activate people's hearts, stimulate the great momentum to conquer difficulties and dangers, if we change the perspective of thinking about the life of the prisoners in Auschwitz, as a kind of survival limit imposed by the fascists on those prisoners, and then think about how the prisoners survived and how to think in that extremely cruel state. When we connect with our daily experiences and experiences, we will find that there are some things in common, and they become something that can be compared and recalled. Human life can be divided into extremely bad state, hard and difficult state, general state, good state, and best state, and there will be completely different psychological manifestations in different states. There is also every reason to believe that something in common will be exhibited. Everyone is very familiar with the tragic story of the five heroes of Langya Mountain, who would believe that the Japanese squad leader who commanded the Japanese army to rush to the top of the mountain at that time saw with his own eyes the heroic feat of five soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who ran out of ammunition and food, threw all the stones around them, and then jumped off the cliff, and even ordered the Japanese soldiers to salute the sky. He was seen by the commander of the Japanese army who was bigger than him at the bottom of the mountain, and he was dismissed from his post when he got down the mountain, and this story is the story of the Japanese squad leader who has become a white-haired old man who came to China and went to Langya Mountain to tell it in person. I saw it in an interview on TV. Heroic deeds on the battlefield will also impress the enemy and win the enemy's admiration and appreciation. We don't believe that Auschwitz prisoners had a happy experience, and our refusal to believe it prevents us from thinking further about what might be behind that experience. If we look at it from this perspective, we won't hear Auschwitz feel so harsh and even angry. Such stories have gone far beyond the scope of the discussion of professionalism, and are beyond race and ethnicity, but belong to a deeper and stronger human spirit, which needs to be considered at the level of human existence and human life. What I want to tell you here is an absurd and poignant story, and I feel that when you first hear the name of this story, you feel that you are cruelly fooling our deep-seated beliefs, and I want to remind you that behind some of our deep-seated beliefs, there is something more profound that we need to think about, but there are no suitable facts to stimulate us to think about such questions further. If we remove ideological considerations, such as putting aside the concepts of state, nation, sacredness, and nobility, and revert to the perspective of general human survival and adaptation, and resolve the conflict of concepts, the remaining issues will be easier to understand and accepted smoothly. Of course, the extreme cruelty of Auschwitz and the harsh state of existence accompanied by military repression would have inspired revolt, and it was true that there had been organized riots, sporadic escapes, laziness, and then being crushed by the cold and cruel military machine, all of which were possible and in fact happened, and from the point of view of what could have happened, it is entirely possible that the spiritual light and even the subtle feelings of happiness of the prisoners of Auschwitz had occurred in some of the individuals who survived. Have we ever thought that when people are in an extremely difficult state, it is usually accompanied by despair, in fact, such a moment is also very prone to wonderful transformation, if you imagine, this is already the worst, the worst state, that is, no matter how bad it is, it is impossible to go anywhere, people's psychology may undergo a magical transformation, a very valuable psychology is easy to be born in such an imagination, this psychology is hope, since it is already the worst situation, the next must be gradually better, It will then inspire people to have the confidence to continue living and increase the courage to work hard to change their lives.
As you can see, in order to relieve this difficult entanglement, we had to spend too much tongue on the periphery, so let's turn to the story itself. (To be continued......)