Life Insights ⁽³⁰⁵⁾

This morning I read, in Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao, an interview with the 83-year-old investor Jim Rogers. Of the whole interview, two sentences left the deepest impression on me: first, "Anyone should stick to what they love"; second, "Don't follow the crowd—history shows they are usually…

With Buddhism, there has always been an insurmountable wall between me and it. So although I have read many Buddhist sutras, deeply agree with many of their philosophies, and benefited greatly from Buddhism, in the end I am still only willing to watch it from…

Over the last three months, while studying at school, four close relatives and friends around me have one after another been diagnosed with tumors or highly suspected of having tumors; three of them have already had surgery, and afterward they naturally came to me for…

After two and a half months at school, I live a three-point-one-line life between classroom, cafeteria and dormitory. This afternoon the school organized a fire drill. To escape such a tedious event, I slipped out of the campus and wandered around for the afternoon. I…

A monk once recited the Kashyapa-Buddha's Sutra Bequeathed Teachings at night; his voice was mournful and tense, and he felt regretful and wanted to retire. The Buddha asked him: "What was your occupation when you were a layman?" The monk replied: "I loved playing the…

The school had to register student status and create student files; in the section for important family members, information on parents and other close relatives had to be entered. When I filled in my mother's information, in the "details" column I wrote the words "deceased."…

Last night I was chatting in another boy's dorm room in our class with a student who wanted to join the study group I had formed, and I forgot to check my phone. After we finished talking I glanced at it: the class group chat…

When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he beheld the five skandhas as empty and transcended all suffering. Sariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form; form is emptiness, emptiness is form. The same is true of sensation,…

After the gaokao ended and I confirmed my admission, I gave myself a few days off and took my family to a small island for a trip. It was my first time visiting an island. The island is small; walking around it takes less than…

Before I knew it, I have been writing on my personal blog and official account for ten years. From August 2015 to now, it has been exactly ten years. Over these ten years I have written around 3,000 articles totaling perhaps ten million words; because…