Thought Essays ⁽¹³⁷⁾

Religions always go further and further off course as they develop. Today, China's various religious organizations increasingly resemble pyramid schemes. And pyramid scheme organizations increasingly resemble religions. In an age when many people have empty souls, religion and pyramid schemes slip in to seize souls…

If we want to live freely, naturally, and without constraint or worry in this world, we must first temper our own hearts. The outside world is never free of storms. Only when we have tempered our inner self to a state of strength that is…

Recently, while researching the historical background of the TCM classic *Huangdi Neijing* (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), I read Hu Shi's *Zhongguo Zhonggu Sixiangshi Changbian* (A Draft History of Chinese Thought in the Medieval Period). Once I started, I could not stop—I re-read through Hu Shi's…

When I was sixteen, my Chinese language teacher Mr. Li Lixin told me that an ideal standard for reading was to be "well-versed in both ancient and modern, and fluent in both Chinese and Western learning." I was deeply influenced by him, and this standard…

During high school, my beloved teacher Li Lixin once chatted with me in the hallway and said: "Zhiyuan, don't always think of yourself as a savior!" On another occasion, he wrote a comment after one of my articles: "Don't show your edge too sharply; learn…

In recent years, the news has been filled with reports of doctor-patient disputes, and incidents of doctors being killed or injured occur from time to time. Lately, several such incidents seem to occur almost every day. I recall that when I decided to leave business…

Everything good is ruined by two kinds of people: those who use it to swagger and deceive, and the irrational superstitious. TCM, science, various ideas, and even religious faith are all the same. If a person lacks the spirit of critical inheritance and the ability…

Recently our national leaders have suddenly and repeatedly emphasized that our country should develop the social sciences. President Xi Jinping has said that this is an era that can produce thought and that is certain to produce thought; this shows that our government has also…

In the evening, I went alone to the park and sat cross-legged on a bench beneath the mottled old pagoda. In meditation, a voice rang in my ears and said to me: "Zhiyuan, come home with me!" Home—how warm those two words are—but where is…

This is an old piece I wrote in 2010. Recently, seeing the various injustices in society, I felt the same way, so I have tidied it up and reposted it. Though I have now changed from the hot-blooded youth I was then into a far…