Meaning container

——Summary speech at the Jinjin 10.0 summary meeting

In this year’s New Year’s Eve speech, Luo Zhenyu coined a term called “meaning container”, which I like very much. It means that after we do something and inject meaning into it, people who pass by can put their own meaning into it, just like a piggy bank of meaning, so that the meaning will gather more and more. The bigger.

In fact, all our efforts in this life are to create meaning containers, or to inject meaning into existing meaning containers.

As members of the Jinjin group, the content we collectively guard is either to inject meaning into existing containers and realize the value of our lives, or to create our own containers of meaning.

So, what content do we protect in the process of *** and advancement?

First of all, what we need to protect is health.

Last night, an old subordinate from Shenzhen invited our whole family to dinner. During the process, my wife went out to answer a phone call. When she came back, she burst into tears and burst into tears, which shocked me. After careful investigation, it turned out that she was the monitor of her class when she went to study in Cambridge, England. He suddenly passed away from a heart attack at the age of 38. It was the most glorious season of life, but it came to an abrupt end and died suddenly, leaving behind a 4-year-old daughter and elderly parents. and young wife.

Only by loving oneself can a person be able and qualified to love others. People who cannot protect their own health are extremely irresponsible to themselves, their families, their careers, and their lives. We always have the fluke mentality that we are exceptions, but there are never exceptions in this world. How you treat your body, your body will definitely give you a corresponding health feedback.

The primary improvement goal of our improvement group is health management. Going to bed early and limiting alcohol are the two most important lifestyle habits for the body. Running, scientific and reasonable diet, and fitness are necessary to maintain physical condition and ensure good health. Here, let us use the power of the group to manage and protect our health. We must not only maintain our own physical and mental health, but also inject the meaning of health into people's life containers, so that there will be fewer tragedies like dying at the age of 38 in the world.

Secondly, we must protect our dignity.

The reason why humans are different from vegetation and animals is that humans can think, understand the world, and have insight into the future. Of course, there are also people who live their lives in confusion and confusion. In fact, they are no different from vegetation or animals, and have lost their dignity as human beings.

How can we better understand the world, gain insight into the future, and protect our dignity as a human being?

That is to achieve what the Analects of Confucius says: "The wise do not be confused, the benevolent do not worry, and the brave do not fear."

How can we become wise, benevolent and brave?

Then you must first establish your own knowledge system through investigation and study, integrate knowledge, and become a wise man who can correctly understand the world. Only then can we be sincere, righteous, and self-cultivated, be worthy of heaven and earth, and become a benevolent person who does not worry. Only then can we finally understand life and death and become a fearless brave man.

Observing things and studying are the first steps to protect dignity, and one of the important contents of our group’s improvement is also reading, learning and writing. We might as well define this place as the dojo where we are born to protect our dignity. It is also another meaning we inject into the human group that is different from vegetation and animals.

The third is to protect the true feelings.

We met online and rarely met offline. As Fatty Luo said, we are a group of mysterious friends who work separately, do our best, recognize each other, and help each other. We clock in together every day, read together, write together, and spend more time with each other and communicating with each other than any other person, including family members. Getting along day and night and integrating deeply make our relationship deeper and deeper day by day. This is a true love, a simple friendship, and it is worth guarding for a lifetime.

The fourth is the meaning of guardianship itself.

Yesterday morning, Brother Zang and I were on the top floor of a 47-story hotel in Shenzhen, drinking tea facing the rising sun and talking about the meaning of life. My point is that meaning is the result of self-definition. As mentioned at the beginning, the "meaning container" named by Luo Zhenyu, if you create a container and define a meaning for it, then this meaning is meaningful.

A friend came to Nanning some time ago and is an antique collector. I accompanied him to the antique market in Nanning and bought a small seal for 300 yuan.

After coming out, he said the seal was worth at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. Because it is the authentic work of Ding Jing, the leader of the Eight Great Masters of Xiling. Xiling Seal Society, founded during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, is a piggy bank and container of meaning. After several generations of people constantly adding meaning, it has now become the oldest, highest-achieving, and most influential international seal-engraving research company at home and abroad, with the reputation of "the best company in the world." This small seal that a friend found was worth only two to three hundred yuan under normal circumstances, but with the meaning of Xiling Seal Society infused into it, its value increased hundreds of times.

There are many similar meaning containers. For example, Yuelu Academy, Guizhou Longchang, Hunan Yueyang Tower, etc.

Luo Pang said that in this era of rapid digitalization, we must learn to do two things at the same time. The first is to use existing meaning containers to harvest their own value; the second is to create some new meaning containers for the world that can be passed down to future generations.

The "Four Sentences of Hengqu" by Zhang Zai of the Northern Song Dynasty is a container of meaning that I like very much: "Establish a heart for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations. "This container of meaning has been infused with too much meaning by too many people in later generations, so much so that it has become the common pursuit of people with lofty ideals in all ages of the Chinese nation. I also found my own meaning and value in life, which is to aspire to be one of the inheritors of human civilization. The so-called "carrying on the unique learning for the past saints", with conscience as the foundation of the world, not to be like a dog, let alone a crazy person, to " If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are prosperous, you will benefit the world." This is the principle of action.

We have also been creating some new containers of meaning for the world. Let’s just talk about this Jingjin Group. Who can say that it cannot become the next Xiling Seal Society and Yuelu Academy? Who can say that it cannot produce such inherited classics as "Four Sentences of Hengqu" and "Xiu Qi Zhiping"?

By sticking to the Jingjin Group, we are guarding a dream: we will all work together to create a new container of meaning that has never been seen in human society.

Of course, on the road to advancement, you must constantly break out of your comfort zone, you must overcome subjective and objective difficulties, and you will definitely have helplessness and even complaints. But in the end, I would like to encourage everyone with Luo Pang’s wise words: I just like to see you so angry that you have to learn with me throughout your life.