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Whatever is born must end. Death is the conclusion of our lives and the final gate of life that none of us can escape. When faced with the threat of death, treating death with kindness is, after all, a wise choice. Once I went to…

Once my son wrote an essay in which he said that one thing his father did that moved him greatly was that, after he did poorly on an exam and came home, his father comforted him, saying it was no big deal, that there was…

After years of questioning the meaning of life, I have come to accept this attitude: life has no meaning. And for a considerable, foreseeable time to come, I do not intend to change this attitude. I once read a dialogue between a scientist and a…

On September 17, 2016, the last day of the Mid-Autumn Festival long weekend, my wife and I, on a sudden impulse, followed a real-estate agent to look at commercial housing in Fangshan District, Beijing. House prices, rocketing all the way, had driven the entire property…

Laozi said: "Good fortune is what ill fortune lurks within; ill fortune is where good fortune rests upon." Once a person has lived through some twists and turns in life, they will more or less come to agree with Laozi's view. Where good fortune arrives,…

In the real world, suffering seems to have no limit. According to the Buddhist scriptures, when the Buddha Sakyamuni was a prince, he did not know the suffering of the real world. It was only after he walked out of the royal palace and saw…

Over the past month or more, I have been so busy that I have had no time even to write articles. For someone like me who has kept writing day after day for twenty or thirty years, this is quite unusual. As the saying goes:…

The wisdom of Buddhism ultimately comes down to the two words "following conditions" (sui yuan). A mindset of following conditions is not easily cultivated. If one has a grasping attitude toward conditions, too much attachment and obsession, one will inevitably end up making oneself very…

In the bustling world of the imperial capital, nearly twenty years have slipped by in a flash. Although I have spent much of my time reading in the National Library, I have also come into contact with the most elite strata of Chinese politics, business,…

Those who never seek a doctor are enviable, whether they are poor or rich. Those who neither seek a doctor nor ever fail to live happily are even more enviable; such people live on earth as if in paradise. True happiness is simple. After years…