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The action of force is mutual; when we influence the outside world, it also influences us. So whether a person can live in this world with little disturbance depends entirely on his own attitude toward the world. Humans are social animals and cannot avoid dealing…

When a person reaches middle age and faces the life situation of "having elderly parents above and children below," he will truly feel that life carries great pressure. He may have wished countless times to lay down the burden on his shoulders and make life…

Recently Ethel, a long-lived British woman, died at the age of 114; it is said her greatest trait was a heart free of worry. This is a bit like the late Chinese scholar Zhou Youguang, who died at 113. This old man spent his life…

On May 30, 2019, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was invited to address Harvard University's commencement. In her speech, Merkel shared her experience of growing up in East Germany and, without naming names, criticized a series of policies by the sitting U.S. President Trump aimed at…

1 My father was a talented and rather conceited countryman. Although, because of poor family circumstances and a bad family class background, he only attended elementary school and had no chance to continue his education, he was self-taught and knew a little of the zither,…

Waking up in the morning and opening WeChat, a parent of a child tumor patient told me that his child's leg has been amputated, and another parent of a child tumor patient told me his child's hand has been amputated. They all hope to get…

Human nature is essentially greedy. The so-called morality is merely one of the means of self-restraint that human beings resort to when forced; law is only a bottom line that society sets to ensure everyone follows basic morality. Without the constraints of morality and law,…

Recently China and the United States have fought a trade war, and Huawei has been targeted by the full power of the United States; public opinion has boiled over. But Ren Zhengfei's response to the world has left a typical good impression—at once the steadiness…

On this journey south to seek monks and sages, Mr. Steven Nicholas Alexander Zhou Ergou Maimaiti was suddenly seized by poetic inspiration and improvised a quatrain: A tiny room like a dungeon, deep and fathomless; Reins of fame and locks of gain are hard to…

Body trained like a crane's form, beneath a thousand pines, two scrolls of scripture. I come to ask the Way, and there is nothing to say—clouds in the blue sky, water in the vase. —Li Ao, Gift to the Great Monk Weiyan of Yaoshan A…