[Qiwen appreciation] Do you want to read books or read books?

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In the past, I would like to read a book before reading, but in actual reading, I often "want to read a book" rather than "want to read a book ". This kind of thinking often makes my life very painful. When you want to finish something quickly, your mind is no longer in this matter.

This problem has plagued me for a long time in college. I don't realize that this is actually a value question, so I often look for answers in some time management books. All those books can only make you "finish" more efficiently, but you cannot put more effort into the process.

After leaving school, I learned a small part of Zen thoughts, and I started to become enlightened. Zen emphasizes removing all the impurities in your mind, focusing on the present, and abandoning the past to abandon the future. Any extra thoughts can make the things you are doing more purely. In zen, this is called "Mindfulness". I really appreciate it.

Think about it. Do you want to make a trip to travel and to live? Do you want to add more resources and write a travel note for the sake of travel? The answer is clear.

The same is true in your life. If you just want to make a fortune and get everything done, travel will lose its meaning as if you just want to go back to write Travel Notes and show off travel.

Life is like a trip. Every book we read today, every word, every step, and every thing we do is part of this trip. If we don't focus on it and enjoy it, then the whole life will become impatient.

Back to reading, I feel that the pursuit of "quantity" in books is completely meaningless. If I focus on a book, I can not only get something far deeper than a rush, but also add interesting and meaningful days or hours to my life.

By the way, there is a word "flow" in many fields to describe the pleasure people get when they are immersed in something. According to my superficial understanding, the goal of Zen mindfulness is, it is to extend this state to every second of your life.

 

Zhihu has a very good question: I have been in college for about 200 books in two years. Why do I still feel that the value of my studies has not been reflected?

Some of the wonderful answers tell us why: "A book doesn't mean reading it, but it becomes part of your life ."

When I was in college, a very talented psychology teacher said a word that impressed me for my life: "Many people like to say how many pages they can read in a day. Some people can read 50 pages a day, some people can read 100 pages. However, once you use the unit of 'page' to measure reading behavior, you are wrong from the very beginning ."

Similarly, if you use the number of books you have read to describe your reading experience, this idea is wrong from the very beginning.

If you read the book carefully, you will not care about it, or even ignore how many pages you read today and how many books you read this year. When you indulge in the colorful world in the book, when your ideas are revolutionized, you will not care, or even ignore how many pages you read today and how many books you read this year.

When we read watches, we often cannot wait. When we read several pages, we often cannot read them. When we read several books, the title is often missing. Therefore, the number of pages and the number of books itself indicates that you have been defeated.

Many times, a person's attitude towards knowledge and thoughts is embodied in measuring it with something.

If someone asks a person who has achieved success in reading a book: Why did you get lost? Why are you reborn? How can he answer these questions? He said: "I was born out of 200 books, and I was reborn in nirvana due to 1000 books." How?

Reading is a kind of enjoyment, but if you read a book without a new experience, you cannot change your thinking, especially after reading a good book, you can't think clearly, speak clearly, write clearly, and never take action. It's a waste of time to read a book.

Learning and understanding, sometimes a book is enough, sometimes 10 thousand is not enough. It depends on what books you read, and more importantly, how you read them: Have you read them and buried yourself in them, are you sure you want to read it and try out a new one.

Some books are the masters of the generation, and the wisdom of their life is cast in a book; some books are the pioneering work of a field, and a new world is split from chaos; some books are a collection of achievements in one field. There are a variety of views and a great deal of weather. Some books, such as the space for dreaming, generally have several levels of realm. you will dream of one layer after reading them again. For these books, if you just think of them as the 1/200, you will read them in a rush for a week. After reading them, you will be able to read them and just pick up a few gold sentences for future use, have you read this?

Some books should be read with painstaking efforts; some books should be read with enough experience; some books should be racked with the last brain cell to read; some books, I can't finish reading it all my life ......

The method of reading a book should not only look at what the author has written (one layer), but also the implication behind the text, the outsourcers (two layers ), we also need to think about why the author needs to write this, write it like this (three layers), and think about what framework and strategy the author uses in organizing this book, and what kind of methods and techniques are used in various micropoints (layer-4). Of course, more importantly, what kind of help can these analyses bring to your own reality and the world of mind, whether it can inspire you, guide you, change you ...... (5 floors)

As a result, you need to read a book worthy of poor reading five or ten times.

The opposite is the answer from many people: the so-called 200 book, you do not have to read less, but read more, read water, read too much!

In fact, your status is not special at all. Like many people, you think that you are reading, but are collecting stamps.

Finally, we suggest you pick up another book that you admire most. In another way, read it again, twice, or three times ......

 

Qi Shui's comment:

Good sharing.
When I read this article, I realized the meaning of living in the present. In fact, it is not just about reading books. Sometimes you do things, travel, and play for various purposes, instead, I forgot my original intention. Children's happiness is often the simplest, simplest, and happiest. Why? Because they only want to live in the present. They do not have so many purposes, meanings, and limitations. So is the emphasis on the process. People who really do well in the process and pay attention to the process are probably people who live in the present and who are in the flow. I hope you can think more about the significance of this article.

Think about Reading, traveling, work, life, and love,

Sometimes, do not pursue a result, a goal, or a goal,

With a curious attitude, you may have different results if you live in the present and go to flow.