Life Insights ⁽³⁰⁵⁾

The Buddha taught that life has eight sufferings; the three most closely bound up with old age are aging, illness, and death. When people are in their twenties or thirties, their impression of old age, sickness, and death is not deep, and so they can…

When you have walked through the storm alone, you are no longer the person you were. — Epigraph The college entrance exam is over, but today I still used the Maimemo vocabulary app to keep memorizing words. After finishing today's words and checking in on…

Some young medical students have left messages on my official account asking me to write about how to study medicine; I never quite knew where to begin. Just recently, a spate of medical scandals has surfaced. Jokes that even an illiterate person would not make—men…

The Buddha asked a monk: how long is human life? The monk replied: within a few days. The Buddha said: you have not understood the Way! He asked another monk: how long is human life? The monk replied: between meals. The Buddha said: you have…

When I was a child, we had to share many not-too-strenuous labors for the household, and herding cattle was one of them. The paddy fields of Hubei had to be plowed by draft oxen, but raising one ox per family was too extravagant. Because plowing…

After my father turned 70, his memory began to decline noticeably. After 75, the decline became precipitous. Along with memory loss, his ability to control his emotions also deteriorated, and he increasingly took on the characteristics of an "old child," with frequent emotional reactions. Over…

Whether as individuals or as a collective, we inevitably encounter all sorts of challenges and problems, and before these challenges we have many choices. But my life experience tells me that, of all the choices, moving forward is the best. Looking at the whole history…

Today is National Day. I am preparing earnestly for next year's college entrance exam in the reading room of the National Library. The library is crowded on holidays, with far more people than usual. It gathers a group of diligent, eager learners; whenever a holiday…

After a period of adjustment, my life has begun to fit me better. Since moderately reducing my workload and shifting my focus to study, my psychological pressure has eased considerably. It turns out that for all these years, my greatest mental stress came from the…

At some point yesterday, standing outside the library, I looked up at the vast sky; at that moment it was an endless stretch of blue sky and white clouds. In that instant, a sense of joy from deep within welled up spontaneously. It was also…