Chapter 83: Wu Wei and Xue Ren's Conversation on Happiness
Wu Wei asked Xue Ren to have a dialogue and exchange on the issue of happiness.
Xue Rendao, you don't care about your income, and you don't care how well others treat you, just work hard?
Wu Wei said, I just believe that if I continue to do this, it will not only be good for myself, but also good for everyone.
Xue Rendao, tell me, what benefits can you bring to everyone?
Wu Weidao, what I can bring is spiritual benefits.
Xue Ren asked, how do you understand your spiritual benefits?
Wu Weidao, everyone knows what is going on with the program on the computer, I am also a program, the preparation is a mental activity program, people should install this program, can clear and wash away some inappropriate thoughts and thoughts in the mind, implant some new ideas, with these new ideas and then control people's mental activities, you can reduce and avoid pain, increase happiness. Mental programs can have the effect of telling people that they should think this way and not think that way. Thoughts can be a source of pain and the beginning of happiness and joy.
When the two of us talk about this kind of topic, I feel like it's getting clearer and clearer, how do you feel?
Xue Ren responded, I seem to understand some truth, but I am not sure what I will think once I encounter a specific problem.
Wu Wei also said, everyone has a specific problem that everyone faces, but it is very important to establish this program awareness, it tells people that no matter what kind of difficulties and problems they encounter in life, there are reasonable procedures that can help people get through the difficulties, and they should look for it with a positive attitude, and then build up some new ideas step by step, and accumulate them to produce a breakthrough, condensed into a certain spiritual hard core, that is, a certain concept, and then it will bring you a new feeling. With this kind of hard core, a steady stream of spiritual kinetic energy can be generated. Just like nuclear fission, a sense of confidence, strength, achievement, and pleasure comes out, and it looks like a different person, and it is necessary to have confidence, courage, and method.
Wu Wei said again, what I didn't expect was that the music education I lectured on triggered complex mental reactions for some people. Who led them into the spiritual labyrinth? Who is to blame for their spiritual confusion? I also realized that it was my responsibility to educate them to lead them into a spiritual labyrinth, and to lead them out of that labyrinth, some people were trapped in the labyrinth and could not extricate themselves. I've also thought about comforting myself with the method of grading and categorizing people. Some people may be in a state of mental distress forever, but I don't make it so easy to escape from it. I will continue to do new spiritual explorations.
Xue Ren admired it very much, you can still think like this when you encounter noise, which shows that you are noble. Wouldn't it be more convincing to hear you say that you have a magical feeling of your own, and that you had better describe your own experience of how to deal with specific problems?
Wu Weidao, I heard the voices of opposition to my idea, and I felt uneasy caused by self-blame and guilt.
Xue Ren was surprised. That's because they are narrow-minded, selfish, willing to fall into the quagmire and can't extricate themselves and don't want to accept the help of others, isn't your original intention to help them out of their mental predicament?
Wu Weidao. Instead of helping them out of their spiritual predicament, I made them more antagonistic, deeper and deeper, and made it more difficult to help. It shows that my idea is not perfect.
Xue Rendao, are you too idealistic, you also know that there is no good doctor and good medicine in the world of Lu Dao to cure all diseases. As a result of your efforts, many people have accepted your point of view, they have been inspired and inspired, and you have no need to agonize yourself because others refuse to accept or even oppose your ideas.
Wu Wei said helplessly, according to what you say, it is also a way to free yourself.
Xue Ren said very sincerely, you can't be in a difficult situation, just like those wise doctors can't be in a difficult situation because they can't treat a terminal illness well.
Wu Weidao, but if such a problem is not solved there, it will be difficult to feel at ease.
Xue Ren said sincerely, I feel that you have a strong sense of responsibility and mission, which is very valuable. In fact, if you can do your best, you can feel at ease, and don't torture yourself with those things.
Wu Weidao, in order to seek a spiritual outlet, I have also carefully read the Bible, the Diamond Sutra, and the Tao Te Ching, and got some enlightenment.
Xue Rendao said that human beings have learned a lot from it, and some people read it because of this, and I believe that they will also get some enlightenment from reading. I think you should have some new insights when you read these classics.
You said that you change from owe to love, it is not easy to change, for some people, it is very good to have a debt, love debts are like mountains, and this will make people feel very tired. If you think that others are not dedicated, they will do better, and they will get more benefits, then they will not only eliminate their indebtedness, but even feel that the person who helped them owes them to themselves, and if they don't work hard enough to help them, they will resent the person who helped them. The change in people's minds is truly peculiar. This kind of thinking is interesting and valuable. I think that your thinking is to pave the way for your musician Zhang's thoughts.
Wu Wei was relieved, I am very happy that you can understand it this way. I regard happiness as a belief that needs to be adhered to, the coordinate of spiritual activities, the immortal road of life, and the eternal road to success.
Xue Rendao, your experience is very interesting, there are many people who have had that experience, but you are the only one who was touched by that kind and started a difficult process of spiritual exploration, and also formed the result of the supremacy of happiness and industry. It doesn't look like it's accidental.
Wu Wei said with emotion, yes. A few years ago, I set myself a goal to build a bridge between life and religion. Examining religious issues from social, political, and cultural perspectives, there have been various forms of communicative compatibility and harmonious coexistence. Compatibility is not the goal. Through mutual compatibility, we can establish a new understanding of the relationship between religion and life in the sense of education, and seek the source of education in life. This is also in line with the trend of generalization and expansion of modern religions, so as to guide them towards a healthy and harmonious track. Nowadays, it has become fashionable to develop and educate the source of life from the perspective of traditional culture to solve the problems related to the value of life in the current society. This trend deserves great attention and study. The long-term development process of religion also contains and accumulates a rich source of edifying life, and it is not possible to develop and refine the source of edifying life from there.
Xue Ren said with a smile. You're quite humorous, are you laughing at yourself? How did you move from the topic of religious and secular life to the aspect of happiness?
Wu Weidao said that happiness is the bridge between religion and secular life. Just like the diversity of occupations, the feelings of the same person engaged in different occupations and different people engaged in the same occupation are also diverse, some people are dedicated to their work, do a line of love, do a line of fun, and some people are tired of work, hard karma and bad karma, I call the latter tendency a new type of occupational disease. If there is a job and there is a mentality of being tired of working and suffering from bad karma, which leads to a decline in performance and a deterioration of interpersonal relationships, the possibility of unemployment will increase. Then, after unemployment, this psychological tendency is very likely to evolve into a pessimistic psychology. At that time, I will know the value of having a job, and I will cherish my career, I am afraid it will be too late. Perhaps some people have to go through the painful baptism of unemployment to understand this truth. In order to reduce, alleviate or even avoid such painful experiences, the only way to do this is to strive to establish the concept of happiness when you are employed, and work hard with a positive attitude. The key to overcoming new occupational diseases is to establish the concept of happiness. Career concept determines career feeling. Feelings about one's job are also an important factor in determining the efficiency and quality of one's activities. Whether or not we can achieve the state of happiness is a misunderstanding, thinking that whether we can feel happiness in professional activities is determined by objective factors. Such as the amount of income, the amount of pressure, the good or bad environment, whether the interpersonal relationship is harmonious and other factors. Not really. To a large extent, happiness is determined by the subjective feelings of practitioners, which can be completely self-regulated, that is, they can self-determine the nature of their feelings, and this self-feeling will further play a role in self-enhancement. That is, the good feelings will feel better, and the bad feelings will worsen. A good sense of employment can help improve performance, improve interpersonal relationships, and increase income, which will naturally have a positive effect, and happiness makes people lucky. Increasing personality charm will help to enhance the happiness of life and improve the level of performance. Enhance competitiveness and soft power.
Happiness is a big concept. The supremacy of happiness is that no matter what the premise of the profession is, what kind of occupation is engaged in, what the skills and qualifications are, the pursuit is to achieve a state of happiness through self-effort, self-learning and self-adjustment, and learn and be good at adjusting their subjective feelings to the realm of happiness and the state of happiness. Only in this way can we benefit ourselves and others, activate people's thinking, enlighten people's wisdom, maximize people's potential, and stimulate high-level creativity. It is necessary to establish the concept that happiness itself is efficiency. Many people, though very wealthy financially, are in deep spiritual misery from which it is difficult to escape; Some people want to spend money to buy happiness, but it is difficult to buy happiness.
The book I have written, drawing on the ways and methods provided by religion, psychology and other studies, is a brand-new attempt to promote the progress of spiritual civilization. This kind of attempt requires a re-examination of our own experience and the cultural resources we already have, and we will understand that we will experience and feel the accumulation of many accumulated cultural factors, and through new perspectives and new ways, we will obtain the characteristics of multiplication, give us new characteristics of the times, and then bring us new experiences. It would be a great pleasure for me if readers could share this feeling with me. The book is written in a manner similar to prose, hoping and striving to dedicate to the reader exquisite and delicious spiritual food.
Xue Rendao, it seems that thinking about happiness has indeed greatly enriched your life, how do you view life through happiness?
Wu Weidao, from the music industry I thought of the question of national character, whether the Chinese are happy to be born.
It was with great awe that I began a special spiritual journey of life by reading the biographies of great men. The biographical characters who lived in different eras and backgrounds in my field of vision, their vivid spiritual characteristics and different destinies, deeply infected me. Their spiritual journey is marked with distinctive characteristics of the times and personality branding, personalized spiritual contradictions and conflicts, and after adaptation, different spiritual traits and mental states are produced. In the long spiritual journey of Lesheng, some people can successfully resolve the spiritual crisis of life, dissipate the mental pain, and the spirit can be publicized and realized; some suffer from mental depression and depression for a long time; Some people are spiritually depraved; Some people have mental mutations and psychopathies. The health of the mind depends on the results of their individualized adaptation, compatibility, and integration. If you can successfully survive the various crises in your life, you can ensure the harmony and peace of your spiritual journey; If some kind of compatibility and integration disorder is formed, you will endure a lifetime of mental suffering.
Xue Rendao said that things like thinking, reading, and writing are things that others find very boring. Or use these things as stepping stones, as the spice of life, and some people persist at a certain stage of life and give up after a short time. But you finish studying one topic and immediately go to another, no one gives you a task, everything is spontaneous, it seems to be natural, and you feel that it is fun and enjoyable. You need to read a lot, you need to sit there and meditate, you need to write when you feel mature, and you need to show what you write. I have to do what I wrote, and it is unimaginable that I feel that I have lived in this state for the rest of my life. Not only do you want to be interested, but you also want people to have fun reading your stuff and have fun with you as you do.
Wu Weidao, indeed, there were some people who were puzzled by my approach in the past, and they just worked hard for a few months and worked hard for a while. How can anyone do this for so many years like I have? What you just said to me is a good summary of my life. People can't think about everything, and there is no need for many people to do ideological things, and even if they do, it will not necessarily be fun. The process by which ideas emerge in the brain. It is also an interesting process, which is organized and woven into an orderly system, which is organized. If you think through some issues, you will feel the beauty of fluency and harmony, and you will be excited, joyful, encouraged and motivated. Writing it out and making it read by others will also have different degrees of feeling. I am very fortunate to be able to do ideological things with some people. When a new understanding is discovered, the brain feels the neurons in the mind being activated and forming a new arrangement, as if they were eagerly gushing out of neatly stacked together, and a sense of impulsive joy is felt.
I often wonder how Buddhists sit in meditation in monasteries, so how to fill the space in their minds. I sometimes try it out with curiosity, and I don't have any purpose in a meditative state, and what exactly comes to mind will come to mind. Mind mind, what to fill with. Buddhists really know the secret of happiness. The article says that Buddhists claim that their religion holds the secret of happiness. Science may confirm this claim: brain scans of devout Buddhists have found that brain regions that promote happiness and peace are abnormally active. A study in the United States has found that the happy centers of the brains of devout Buddhists are often active. This explains why Buddhists are able to maintain a peaceful and contented state of mind. Neuroscientists believe that preliminary findings could provide initial evidence that religious practices can alter the brain's response to certain environments. When a team of researchers scanned the brains of people who had taken refuge in Buddhism for many years, they paid special attention to areas that had important influences on feelings, emotions and personalities. They found that the happy center of the left brain of Buddhists was often in a highly active state. Professors at some universities say that we can now safely assume that the Buddhists that people often meet who seem to be happy and peaceful are really happy in their hearts. This good state of mind of a Buddhist can always be maintained, not only in zazen. This suggests that the Buddhist lifestyle can change the way their brains work. Other studies have also shown that Buddhists are slower to deal with the activity of brain areas that deal with fear and anxiety than the general population. These findings will eventually help researchers develop zazen methods for treating depression.
If there really is a secret of happiness in the world, it is indeed worth exploring.
Experience has proven that our feelings do change due to changes in the environment of time and space. Frequent exposure to an external stimulus signal can lead to a sensitive response to that signal. According to the evolutionary view of exhaustion and waste, the function of organs that have not been used for a long time will be lost. If it becomes a habit for us to always delete bad information from the outside world, we will be slow to respond to this kind of information. In the same way, regular practice to strengthen the ability to respond to certain information should indeed be able to develop a sensitive response ability. This kind of judgment helped me solve the question in my mind: how can God or various gods, invisible and intangible, make people believe and believe. Long-term engagement in religious rituals strengthens the ability of believers to respond to information input in this regard. Buddhists sit in meditation, cut off the connection with the activities of the world, change their sense of the world, and have lost the ability to respond to the warmth and coldness of the world. When you return to your heart, all you feel is happiness and peace.
Feeling a message often makes you slow to react to alternative information, or even lose your ability to react altogether. If this judgment is true, it means that the two types of mutually exclusive information are difficult to compatible. We can logically conclude that religion and secularity are difficult to compatible. It is really difficult to build a bridge between the two. From a neuropsychological point of view, people need to be trained to make a quick transition between the two reflexes. On the one hand, according to the specific living environment of the parties, they can quickly enter the competitive state to effectively change their own situation; On the other hand, encountering bad situations and bad information stimuli. Quickly return to the heart and create a peaceful and happy state of mind. The requirement of this compatibility may be more difficult than the compatibility of abstract ability and figurative thinking ability, introverted personality and extroverted personality in the same person. It is more difficult to convert than the average compatible one.
The only way to achieve compatibility and transformation between the two is to strengthen cultivation and training, develop a kind of compatibility and transformation ability, and realize the mutual use and mutual reference between religion and secularity. This secret of happiness that is both secular and religious is more difficult to obtain than the secret of happiness alone. But. After all, it shows us a new world of spiritual experience that frees us from the pain of separating the secular and religious worlds. To achieve this compatible conversion capability, a corresponding and convenient tool or converter should be provided. An appropriate language that is acceptable to people is an indispensable medium. More importantly, it is to strengthen the belief in happiness. Consciously reinforcing positive experiences, feeling those good experiences often, over time, in our mental areas. Belonging to the pleasure receptive zone can be developed and strengthened, and we are always in a happy state. In the face of undesirable stimuli, after long-term psychological dilution and weakening training. Forming extraordinary endurance, at the same time, the power of transformation and sublimation is also greatly enhanced.
A person should be good at feeling happiness in increasing his skills; Feel happy when opportunities arise; Feel joy in helping others; Feel happy in the deeper and deeper complex with the unit and system; Feel the joy in the pain (behind the pain there must be their own shortcomings, weaknesses, faults and even sins, and realizing that pain is to remind and warn oneself to pay attention to overcoming one's own faults, which is also to eliminate the source of pain); Feel the joy in the constant use of the brain; Feel joy in perseverance and transcendence.
Xue Ren couldn't help but "ah" after listening to Wu Wei's narration, and then said, After listening to your words, I am also greatly inspired, I feel that Leye is really a university question, and you can be good at absorbing advanced scientific research results and carrying out a high degree of integration, which is very remarkable. It's hard to say whether people in academia want to do this as you do. If you don't have fun in what you're doing, you can't come up with something like a happy job. The social division of labor requires some people to do ideological things, and whether they can do it well is not only a matter of personal interest and fun, but also a question of responsibility.
In contemporary China in the 21st century, everyone needs to face the problem of survival again, think about the value of survival, and choose the way of survival. How to make people survive, how to make people live better and improve their quality of life has become a very realistic topic for people. In the face of the general pressure of survival, how to achieve the smooth adjustment of the people's thinking and psychology and move towards maturity as soon as possible has posed a severe challenge to the academic circles.
Scholars should feel the reality, understand the reality, understand the reality, respect the reality, and influence the reality with a rational and conscious attitude, actively devote themselves to the social practice of transforming the reality, consciously bear the ideological pressure formed in the process of social adjustment and development, think about the value of life, share the pressure of life, resolve the pain of life, and enhance the value of life.
The efforts of the academic circles should be the culmination of the excellent essence of the ancient theory of the transformation of the human mind and the achievements of modern and modern natural sciences, social science exploration and social transformation, combined with the problems of real life, and carry out a new synthesis in the direction of combining the realization of spiritual transcendence and the effective solution of practical problems, so as to realize the unity of introverted mental adjustment and extroverted effective improvement of quality of life. The concept of contemporary life advocated by the academic circles and the discourse structure should be different from the closed, introverted, and conservative asceticism and ascetic methods advocated by the old religions, as well as the empty preaching that is generalized, and even more different from the fragmented behavioral exhortations and guidelines that are popular nowadays. It is also necessary to effectively transform the contradictions of reality in practice, and carry out useful and enlightening explorations in order to reveal the secrets of the human soul in depth.
Xue Ren couldn't help but applaud when he heard this, what you said is very good. It's like an academic manifesto.
Wu Wei sighed, but unfortunately, there is corruption in the academic world, which is really insulting to the mission of the academic community.
In recent years, the fight against corruption has evolved from anti-political and economic corruption to anti-academic corruption. Academia is a field that provides ideas, wisdom, and methods for the fight against corruption, and undertakes the mission of purifying people's minds and improving people's ideological tastes.
It is true that labor power has been commoditized, and the commodification of any product of labor is understandable, and there is a tendency to shoddy production without regard for academic value. It is also understandable that the market will gradually filter and purify. However, plagiarism, and plagiarism in a state of panic, is really noteworthy and worthy of vigilance. Because of the counterfeit and shoddy production, it is not impossible to underestimate and reduce the price of cultural boutiques, because it is difficult to resist the powerful penetration function of market transactions. Plagiarism, but ridiculous enough that the entire article can be copied from the Internet. Even a horizontal bar on the Internet, which is difficult to delete in order to prevent plagiarism, is also printed on the printed text as it is.
I really hate this kind of corruption, and I feel sad about this kind of corruption. The sorrow lies in its self-isolation, its sorrow in its distance from the people, and its corruption that does not arouse the hatred of the people. Corruption in other areas. Only you know that I know that God knows the earth, but the academic world is corrupt, you can know that I know that everyone knows it, and you can be afraid of it.
It's because I hate corruption in academia. Therefore, even if I speak three words and write three lines and five lines, I also require original and original flavors, for fear of polluting people's moods. For fear of defiling the holy temple of the academic world, so that everyone can taste it with confidence.
Corruption in officialdom and business circles will arouse the hatred of the people, because its existence is closely related to the lives of the people. Corruption in academia is not perceived by the people. Even the common people regard it as a sacred and reverent place, and painstakingly send their children to school to be educated, indoctrinated, and expected to become successful. If the people know, wouldn't it be a matter of spending money to send their children to a corrupt education?! That is the misery of the people.
How to prevent corruption in the academic community and live up to the trust and expectations of the people? That is to let academia make science go to the people and into their lives, and draw motivation and nourishment from it to fight corruption. For a long time, the academic community has been content with self-appreciation, self-isolation, and has never realized and raised the issue of facing and serving the people, as if academia is destined to have nothing to do with the people, and the people are not qualified to talk about academic issues. Otherwise, how to stimulate one's own original enthusiasm, where to stimulate one's own original motivation, and how to obtain one's own original vitality?
Xue Ren also said excitedly, this is simply a crusade against corruption in the academic world, so happy! He continued, I believe that there are past and future lives in life, and I also know when I will die. I can see that your previous life was well cultivated, otherwise you wouldn't be like this. I'm curious to see how you got to this point. You are a thinker, and in my eyes, you are a thinker. I say that you are a thinker, and there is a basis, and there is no need to flatter or flatter us, I see that you have your own unique understanding of many things, do not follow the crowd, do not blindly attach yourself to authority, and dare to challenge things that have become a foregone conclusion, which is a quality that you must have as a thinker, and it is very likely that you will become a rebel with this quality, but you have not developed in that direction, if you go in that direction, what will happen to your fate, there will be many possibilities. We don't have to analyze those assumptions, or based on your actual path. You have a keen eye for academic issues and know where to look for materials that are valuable to you, so as to enrich your learning. You are very good at connecting those seemingly chaotic and irrelevant scattered ideas, weaving them into a system, your thinking is systematic and organized, you are very good at summarizing and refining induction, you listen to what others say, you can quickly make concise and concise inductions, and more importantly, many of your ideas are very valuable to life and society, and many people will feel very inspired when they listen to what you say and read what you write. You are so humble and elegant, and you have a kinship when you see people, which is the best evidence of your thoughts, which looks ordinary, but is down-to-earth and steady, giving people a feeling of reliability, and has a lot of personality charm, which adds a lot of bright colors to your ideas.
Wu Wei was moved, I feel that getting to know you is a very lucky thing for me, many problems we can think of together, temperament and temperament, we meet on the road of life, it is also a happy and fortunate thing, I also get a lot of lessons from you, your understanding and support for me, I am very grateful.
Xue Ren said sincerely, for people like you, it should be done. (To be continued......)