Wu Bofan: A great little book that affects people’s lives

** "A great little book is like an old friend. You never need to think of it and will never forget it. Every time you come to him, you will gain something." ——Wu Bofan**

We often say that reading brings us into the most intimate contact with great souls. Behind these four books brought by Teacher Wu Bofan are four great souls. The reason why Teacher Wu loves these books so much and often takes them out to reflect on, this shows that Teacher Wu has passed these four books and these great souls. A connection is created that transcends time and space. This is such a lucky thing. Listening to Teacher Wu Bofan’s reading experience is actually listening to him communicate with these great souls. Although I can’t understand a lot of the content at the moment, it is still very inspiring.

"Living the Meaning of Life" was written during World War II. Auschwitz concentration camp was the most closed place in the world, simply a hell on earth. The author felt an extreme experience that he had never experienced before. It was written into a book, also called "Living with Meaning," which is a bestseller with more than 12 million copies in print.

Perhaps humans will never have the experience of a concentration camp again, but this feeling, especially at night, has a Walden Pond feel. When I read it quietly at night, the language was amazing, touching and refreshing!

If a book is bland, it may be that the atmosphere in which you read it is wrong. The same is true for books. There are many books suitable for reading during the day, and some books suitable for reading at night. We should have cave space for ourselves to read.

To gain insight, you should have a cave-like vision, not a lively vision, not a noisy atmosphere. You have to go to a secluded space to see a lively world. , to have insight.

In this world, there are many reasons not to let you live. They learned to be aloof because if you were sensitive, you would be dead. The corpse on the side of the road is probably the person you were chatting with at breakfast, and death is common. You don’t know how long you can live. Maybe one day you will have a nervous breakdown, die of illness, or be beaten to death.

There are only unbearable blessings and no unbearable sins.

There are too many people who don’t want to live. Some of them will pretend to run away and run towards the barbed wire fence. They will either be beaten to death or electrocuted to death.

It is really difficult to find a reason to live. All you can see is despair. What the author wants to express in this book is to live out the meaning of life. Without giving You can't survive by setting a meaning for yourself.

In the concentration camp, if you do not find a meaning, your mental state will become depressed, and you may be the next person to enter the incineration building. If you can't find the meaning, if your immune system has a slight problem, you may die immediately. Mental strength is very important.

In modern society, depression has spread because many people completely feel the meaninglessness of life. Extreme depression is suicide, because living is more uncomfortable, so people choose death.

Depression may become one of the top three killers of mankind. Now it’s: Cancer Heart Disease Diabetes.

Human beings have reached the point where they have no worries about food and clothing, but this is what happened. Harari said: The number of non-war deaths exceeds homicides. More people die from starvation than from starvation.

I have a friend who is mildly depressed. After reading this book, he said that it was a life-saving book and that he felt a new perspective on life. Franklin was also a psychoanalyst.

The name of his sect is "Logotherapy". Only by living a meaningful life can you survive. This is our most direct gain.

My understanding: Human beings’ pursuit of meaning is the second most important motive for survival. No matter what the situation, we need to be able to create meaning for ourselves that allows us to continue to live and live better. And we have the ultimate freedom in any dilemma: the freedom to choose our own attitude/meaning. Meaninglessness may be the biggest dilemma in life, but after seeing the abyss of nothingness, I decided to choose my own path full of meaning, and there was no other way out.

In "Prison Letters", Bonhoeffer showed us his philosophy that exuded warmth and light in the Nazi prison.

For example, there was a poor man who put on a piece of clothing that he thought looked good. For him, it might be the best piece of clothing. If you tell him that this dress is from a street vendor, you are telling the truth, but the way you treat the world is scarier than a lie. Because the way you treat the world and people is wrong.

Our photography technology can express subtle pictures, but in this picture, there is a kind of peeking into the privacy of nature, especially when this attitude is applied to people, all you can think about is They were all the right things, but what was said was incorrect. This attitude may become a one-sided truth-seeking in the future. We must have a kind of respect for the unfortunate people. Sometimes lies are more powerful than truth.

A man was blind, and he found a prophet. The prophet said: If you play the guqin and break 1,000 strings, you will regain your sight.

One day, he finally achieved it, but he did not regain his sight. However, his perception, imagination, and hearing are all extremely developed, and he is able to connect closely with the world. He understood that this was what the master meant.

Drucker, the spiritual mentor of wealthy Americans, said: If you calculate your time, you will find that you spend most of your time on meaningless things.

Wilde: Many people feel that they are living in the world, but in fact they are just living in the world and not living much.

My understanding: If Frank tells us through his experience in the concentration camp that everyone has the ultimate freedom of choice, then Bonhoeffer practiced a kind of greatness through his own life. the sacred path of life. Bonhoeffer was a person who studied theology. Faced with the desperate dilemma that God was dead, he chose a new human path, living for others, integrating divine ways into human ways, believing in God but not being a religious fanatic. The calmness reflected in Bonhoeffer's death in prison is enough to penetrate the hearts of all people who live for worldly desires.

While eating, a professor talked about how busy he was and asked him what he had done in the past month, but the professor couldn't remember. We looked very busy, but upon closer inspection we found that we hadn't done much.

This book is about the former Soviet scientist Lyubishev, who is very insightful in mathematics, entomology, biological classification, and literary criticism.

The things he did are incredible to everyone. Many people think that he lived many lifetimes. Some people studied what he left behind and found that all his research was classified with the organisms he studied. Fa is very similar and if anyone wants to study him, it is very convenient because he is ready for you.

Lyubishev has long adhered to a working method that he calls "time statistics". He recorded his daily work down to the minute and kept it throughout his life without stopping.

He seems to have become a fixed program, but this person is not impersonal. He has no rules and boundaries. You can find his criticism of literary works. Sometimes, he will study and follow Disciplines far away from their own fields. He is not a rigid person, but he did such an extremely rigid thing. He condensed his life into a time ledger.

His own hobby is to open his own records of a certain day and look through them one day. The protagonist treats himself as his friend every day.

In our WeChat, you will find that there are many names that you don’t know, and you don’t even know when we met them. Every day of our lives is a bit like the names on WeChat. I live my past life like a stranger. Every day is yours, but many days, you have no memory of it. Then your whole life, is it still your whole life?

If your past days are blurry in retrospect, this is your life, how ridiculous it is.

We just said "after the death of God". God is gone, and there is no one to supervise or punish you. How should you deal with yourself?

Those who believe in God will pray and repent. On the weekends, he would audit every day, every week, every year he spent.

But when religion disappears, we won’t do that.

Lyubishev is not like this. He is not willing to waste every minute of his life because he wants to defend the quality of his life. What he deserves is a sense of solidity, and his time is Solid, his life course is solid, he opens his account book, in any book, he can know what he has done, and his happiness arises spontaneously.

Lyubishev used the "time statistics method" to build a time castle of his own to resist the decline of meaning and prevent himself from being coerced by others in various pseudo-meaningful behaviors. Living zombies.

My experience: After watching A Strange Life, I also started to record my own time expenditure. Currently, I have recorded about 400 days, with some interruptions in between, but basically I have persisted. My feeling is that time expenditure records are really useful. It allows me to establish a deep awareness. Most of our time is wasted on meaningless things. If we want to live a good life, we can prevent the decline of meaning. , you need not only records, you also need to build your own meaning system. Without this stable meaning system, even if you record time and expense records every day like me, you will still fall into anxiety and pain, and there will be no Lyubishe Husband’s freedom and fulfillment.

"The Servant" tells the story of a business elite who meets a legendary business leader in a monastery and learns in this isolated place how to become an unknown guide in a turbulent world.

Teacher Wu once accompanied a friend to Babao Mountain. When he received the urn, it said ultimate equality and eternal tranquility. In this extreme scene, how can we see the present moment more clearly.

Soochow Theory of Relativity talks about servant leadership.

It tells a story. Hermann Hesse wrote the story of an expedition team. They were going to a difficult and dangerous place to find treasures. There was a servant in the expedition team. He was an old man who provided logistics services. His existence was as if he did not exist. . One day, he told the expedition that he had something to leave. Later, the expedition team discovered that the entire team was completely unable to operate. This person was like the operating system of the expedition team.

We always pay attention to the four fingers, but the role of the thumb is much greater than the other four fingers. Once the thumb is broken, the hand can do very little.

In an organization, family, or between you and your friends, there is such an important role, but you often don’t realize its importance. He maintains the operation of the organization. This is servant leadership.

Servant leadership tells a story. In the EMBA exam, the first four questions have been covered. The fifth question is what is the name of the teacher who cleans us every day. The teacher said: I am serious about the fifth question. It doesn’t matter to you. As a leader, it is very important to know this woman’s name. I want to ask you, who do you think is the most likely person in the class to become a leader? As a result, the three of them all typed the name of the cleaner in their examination papers

Leaders meet the needs of everyone and the organization, rather than their own desires, and appear in the organization as a servant. He is the master. If you always take yourself seriously, you are not a leader.

The Tao Te Ching mentions several levels of leaders:

"The Supreme Being does not know that he exists; secondly, he is familiar with him and praises him; secondly, he fears him; thirdly, he insults him." "

For the highest-level leader, no one seems to feel his existence. For managers at the next level, everyone likes and praises him. For leaders at the next level, everyone respects him. The worst thing is The best leader is to make everyone feel insulted.

Many leaders today pursue authority and prestige. But in most cases, I listen to you because I approve of you, or because you decide whether I want to live or die. This is different.

If you look good on the surface, but have various crises, you vaguely feel that your organization and business are hiding from you and not letting you find out. It's scary.

A very successful manager found that there were many flaws in the company that were not there before, and his employees and family members were against him. He went to the monastery and met with business legends, who taught him many methods that he usually didn't think of, and refreshed it. He discovered that his mental model was an old version, and there was something wrong with the operating system of his own behavior. , this teacher helped him change his mind.

My experience: I think servant leadership embodies a spirit of service. In essence, any organization exists for a certain purpose, and the leader is the main person responsible for the ultimate purpose. His best way to achieve the goal of the organization is to help other members of the organization. After a person is perfected, he will naturally follow the leader to achieve the goals of the organization. This is not a transactional or utilitarian approach, but a truly good leader thinks so from the bottom of his heart. He regards serving his partners as his natural duty rather than an obligation.

After listening to the four short books analyzed by Teacher Wu Bofan, I was deeply touched. They all revolve around the word "meaning". This is what I have been thinking about in recent years. question.

"Living the Meaning of Life" Frank demonstrates from the extreme conditions that humans are animals that pursue meaning, and humans can choose their own meaning.

"Prison Letters" Bonhoeffer presents a meaningful way of life and possible spiritual heights through his own life course.

"A Strange Life" Granin tells me through Ljubishev's book how free and fulfilling life can be under the guidance of a meaning.

"Servant" Hunter tells me how much change a newly constructed meaning can bring to people through the story of a business elite's realization.

I am thirty-one years old this year. It is the time to begin to interact deeply with the world and think about the meaning of life. What kind of meaning do I want to build for my life? How do I practice my meaning? These are all propositions that brought me great inspiration. I haven’t thought it through yet, but these four books brought by teacher Wu Bofan are a compass for me. Although I don’t know how to get to Tibet, the teachers who have been there told me that it is not in the northeast, but in the southwest of me. This is Enough, all that's left is to hit the road and get there one day.