Chapter 38: Alexander of Business (I)
The heart of a layman wants to enjoy the benefits of the world, but he is not willing to bear the burdens and pressures of the world; I want to get the freedom and ease of the world, but I can't stand the poverty and loneliness of the world.
After several years of hard work, Wu Wei's novel was finally completed, and he felt self-contained, and was successfully approved for serialization on a large website, and was ready to sign a contract. In addition to being happy, I repeatedly searched in my heart, and everything I wanted to write fell on paper, and I felt that I understood a lot more than in the past when I wrote a novel, but I still seemed to have unfinished meaning, and I didn't know what to write when I put pen to paper.
The patriarch asked Wu Wei, where is the subject of the novel?
Wu Wei replied, in life.
The patriarch smiled but did not speak.
Wu Wei replied again, in the incident.
The patriarch still smiled and said nothing.
Wu Wei thought about it, and then said, in life.
The patriarch did not smile or speak, thoughtfully.
Wu Wei thought that what he had written in the past was what he had seen, heard, understood, and thought with his own eyes, so he said again, by his side.
The patriarch smiled and nodded.
Wang Wei learned that the novel written by Wu Wei had been serialized on the literary website, and happily called, saying that he wanted to congratulate him, and said that Yo Ruizhi had not seen each other for a long time, and the three families got together together.
In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Wei and Li Ping drove to pick up Wu Wei and Song Rou, and went to Nandu Park for a stroll first. When Wu Wei saw Wang Wei, he couldn't help but be taken aback and said, I haven't seen each other for three months, why are you so haggard?
Wang Wei said while driving, he has been busy and tired in the past few months. The year before last, I accompanied you to Jiangkou, where we had a customs tax collection station, and at that time you saw it and said, how can our company still have the right to collect taxes, it is not easy, this is the operation of our boss. Our projects there have been attracting investment in the past few months. More than half of the 200 million yuan project has been issued. My diabetes is well maintained, but I feel that my immunity has decreased significantly, especially when I had an allergic rhinitis attack some time ago, and I sneeze continuously every day. Li Ping and I are still talking to you, don't snub the eldest brother.
Song Judo, we are idlers, you are so busy and still thinking about us.
Li Ping said, I didn't see such a sneeze. I beat hard, and every time I finished, I had to put a paper basket in the car every day when I went to work, and I couldn't stop beating while sitting in the office.
Wang Weidao, just like that, he has to be busy until the second half of the night every day.
Wu Wei asked, so strict, he didn't rest and rest, and took a slow. Heal the disease?
Wang Weidao writes a bid every night, and then it has to be sent out. The boss looked at me like this, and didn't even say a word of comfort. How to press the task or how to press, is completely indifferent. I still think of the past, if I had followed my eldest brother, my eldest brother would definitely not treat me like a boss.
Li Ping said. Don't capitalists feel sorry for money and not people?
Wu Weidao, I will give you a few days off. I forced you to go to the hospital, and if you don't go, I will kidnap you and let you go.
Song Rou said with a smile, he really had that energy, that year in the unit, Ye Feng's diabetes mellitis was strict, especially the acute attack of pancreatitis, and his daughter-in-law didn't care, he forced him to accompany him to the hospital.
Wang Weidao, fortunately, I bought Dr. Nose from Hong Kong, Zhenling, and it will be fine after spraying it for a few days.
Li Ping said with a smile, the teacher is so old, he can still write novels, and he has set an example for us again.
Wang Weidao, it is not easy to have a new platform, and I will continue to make contributions.
The car quickly arrived at Nandu Park. Parked the car in the parking lot, a group of four people got out of the car and entered the park, and there was really a good scenery inside, which was simply a natural oxygen. Seeing Wu Wei's happy appearance, Song Judao, you just led him to this place, he likes landscapes and gardens, where to travel, look at him, he can't see enough, he still holds his mobile phone in his hand and keeps taking pictures, I also said, where is there such a big interest, what is there to take pictures.
Wang Wei said with a smile, Renle Mountain is wise and happy, and the eldest brother is both happy and happy.
Song Judo, you said that he was too high, he shouldn't know the north.
Wang Weidao, you write a novel, and I will give you a theme.
When Song Rou heard this, she hurriedly said, you two chatter, the two of us will go ahead. With that, she and Li Ping walked to the front.
Wang Wei continued, my ** circle is full of people like me, not a big boss, but what they do is also a bit large-scale, and the assets they operate are more than 100 million, and now they want to put it down, but they can't put it down. Some died of overwork. Seeing you write a novel, can you help unravel this knot?
Wu Wei said with a smile, "The novel I wrote is a program of mental activities, and it is quite the right way for such a theme.
Wang Wei smiled and said, That's good. We want to let go, but we can't let go, and we can't let go because of money, power, and beauty, vulgarity. If you don't put it down, you're afraid of death, it's still vulgar.
Wu Weidao, my program has a primary version and an upgraded version, which covers the entire life process, all the way to the deathbed process. If you can't tolerate some things at ordinary times, then you will be even more unable to let go of life and death, and it will deepen the suffering, and the suffering will be magnified.
Wang Wei listened to it and felt that it made sense.
Wu Weidao, your boss has always been very good to you, how do you look at you like this, as if you didn't see it, completely indifferent, after talking about the work matter, there is no comforting word, ruthless, it is really chilling. Then I went on to conclude that the workplace is a furnace, a filth, a grave, a meat grinder.
Wang Weidao, last week, the younger brother of a friend of mine, only in his early forties, suddenly gone, is a typical death of overwork, after we rushed there, we were also very emotional, and chatted about the topic that I couldn't put down, among all the people I contacted, there were many people who wanted to put down, but no one could really let go.
Wu Weidao, didn't believe in this or that?
Wang Weidao, there is, but it has no effect.
Wu Weidao, that is the belief is not deep, if you really believe, it will not be like that. Now there are some people who have done something wrong, they go to the Lord and say to the Lord, Lord, forgive me, and then do whatever you have to do, and he has left the problem to the Lord, and he has come to an easy end. In fact, death is not terrible, it is a momentary thing, what is afraid is that we all have the entanglement of fear of death in our hearts, and religion eliminates people's fear of death, no matter how you look at death. Being able to remain calm and follow nature in the face of death is a very positive effect on religion.
Wang Weidao, said that it was okay, and I understood that it was like that, but there were too few things that could really be done, at least I couldn't do it, and my circle couldn't do it, if I could do it, would I still be entangled. It has long been relieved.
Wu Weidao, I have written novels in the past few years, which is to practice the ability to relieve entanglements.
Wang Weidao, I know, otherwise, I wouldn't have told you this entanglement.
Wu Weidao, I once set a goal for myself, to build a bridge between life and religion. Nowadays, it has become fashionable to develop the source of education from the perspective of traditional culture. Solve the problem of 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.
Wang Weidao, the current problem you are talking about. That's right, in fact, writers are all about solving the problems they are facing in the present, not about solving problems in the past and the future. Even if you write about the past, the future will ultimately come down to the present.
Wu Weidao, I think if religion and secular can be connected. People can get by, they can come back, and they can get by, that is, they can usually pick it up and put it down. At the very least, it is much easier to connect the secular and religious than it is to connect the yin and yang worlds. After all, both belong to the Yang Realm. As for whether the two worlds of yin and yang can communicate, some people say that they can, but it has not been confirmed; Some people say that when people die, their souls disappear naturally, but people pay tribute to the dead in various ways. Since the secular and the religious, since they can be connected, they should naturally be compatible. Religious believers can engage in secular affairs, and secular people can practice a certain religion. Religion has a kind of purification and elevation of worldly powers, eliminating bad thoughts, and cultivating good thoughts. Secular life also has a reciprocal effect on religion. Of course, it is very difficult to achieve compatibility between the two in practice. In a person, it is more difficult to reach the point where abstract thinking is compatible with figurative thinking.
A few years ago, I concentrated for a period of time to read the classics of Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, and Zhuangzi, and I felt that from Lao Tzu, a kind of ideological peak was established, and after Confucius, it fell in height. I compared our Chinese classics with Western classics, and I feel that in our classics, there are relatively few humanistic things, and the logic is not strong, unlike the Western classics, which are very logical and have a strong humanistic spirit. Our scriptures are all sentence by sentence, and there is rarely a strict logic between each other, and each other seems to each other, and even every sentence is isolated and self-existent, but it is the understanding of people who reveals spirituality and edification, and talks about epiphany, why Buddhism has spread to our China, can take root, prosper and develop, and also has the adaptability of the national heart. Easy to root.
Wang Wei sighed after listening to Wu Wei's words, he didn't expect that there would be such a comparison, and he felt very profound. In particular, you said that you can go back in the past, and you can get by in the future, which is very interesting. If you want to reach that state, it doesn't matter if you can't let go, but you can let go if you want to put it down, and you can take it on if you want to.
Wu Weidao, I don't know if you have read Kundera's novels, the lightness of life that you can't bear is to let go of the problem that you can't let go, if a person is relieved of the motherland, morality, honor, nobility, and responsibility, he will become unusually easy and free, but he must bear another heavier price. Are we all laymen, who want to enjoy the benefits of the world, but do not want to bear the burdens of the world? I want to get the freedom and ease of the world, but I can't stand the poverty and loneliness of the world. Let go, but it's hard to let go, in fact, it's hard to bear the heavy price you have to pay to let go.
Wang Weidao, these things make sense after listening to them, but they still can't solve their spiritual entanglements.
Wu Weidao, I had a strange spiritual experience, I was thinking about finding a reliable place for the soul, suddenly, the brain felt coaxed, as if by some force, the mind was bright, accompanied by a comfortable and joyful feeling, and even difficult to find the right words to describe, had to be described with very comfortable, all those comfortable feelings in life, are incomparable. I thought, how can I feel like this? That feeling dissipated the fame and fortune that I had in my heart in an instant, and then I had a sense of completion in my life, and there was nothing to do in this life, if I wanted to do it, it was to do something to help the world and save people. Strange to say, since that experience, there has been no knotting in my heart, and it has been dissolved at any time. I said to some people in the unit, if you have anything you can't think of, even if you tell me, if you want to get angry, even if you come at me, you will disappear without a trace in an instant.
Wang Weidao, I am afraid that this experience you are talking about is difficult for many people to obtain, at least I have not had the experience you described. It seems that only by getting an experience like yours can you relieve the entanglement in your heart.
Wu Weidao, you said to put it down, and there is a question of where to put your heart. (To be continued......)