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On the third day after my mother died, an employee in my company whom I had valued—a student returned from studying in Germany—conspired with one of my suppliers to steal all of my company's core technical secrets, even secretly corrupting all of my company's designers…

This is a collation of an old piece; I do not know the year, month, or day it was written. Today I saw the report that Yu Dan, the national-studies "super girl," was booed off the stage by Peking University students. Coincidentally, some time ago…

I The Buddha's teaching takes precepts as the teacher and wisdom as the root. Precepts arise from the mind; apart from the mind there are no precepts, apart from precepts no samadhi, apart from samadhi no wisdom. When the mind gives rise to precepts and…

If a person stays silent, no one will argue with him. But once he comes out and expresses opinions, a host of opponents appears, because voicing such views is bound to touch some people's sensitive nerves—even their beliefs and vital interests. So among online writers…

A chairman of the literary federation in Leiyang, Hunan, smashed a computer, and forums and media immediately swarmed to mock and attack him. I have studied psychiatry, and based on my experience, analyzing the chairman's various behaviors, I can basically judge that he is indeed…

I hold a view, from a medical perspective, that may offend many people: being full of oneself is a disease. It is found in many devout believers, in disciples of moralistic teachers, or—as the saying goes—in high achievers and "successful people." The professional medical term…

Of power, wealth and worldly splendor, he who keeps aloof is pure; he who dwells among them yet is unstained is purest of all. Of cunning, trickery and scheming, he who knows them not is lofty; he who knows them yet does not use them…

Every person's life may have many themes, and different themes at different ages, but one theme no one can avoid: death. Death is our final destination, yet the process of dying differs greatly from person to person. Some die with ease, some in wretchedness; some…

When my father-in-law passed away in 2014, I was at his side performing CPR on him. My wife, her younger sister, and her younger brother were rushing home on the high-speed rail; I hoped to keep my father-in-law's life going until his children could come…

Few memories of my childhood stay vivid, but I have always remembered the painful way my mother would vomit up acid water on the threshold at dinnertime. My mother's stomach illness went back a long way. My grandmother had borne many children, and in the…