I remember when I was a child, my hometown was poor and my family could afford to go to school. It is very happy to eat a jiaozi or change into a new dress every year. As long as I can remember, my father has been a soldier in Beijing, and my mother has been taking care of my sister and me at home and running the whole family. My father stayed in Beijing to work after retirement and didn't go home.

Because my family was poor at that time, I went to the first grade of primary school at the age of 8 and stayed in the first grade. I didn't know what to study at school at that time, just a few books and a little homework. Because my mother can't read, her study has become my own business. Because of tuition and living problems, my mother went to Beijing to work with my father, which supported the expenses of my sister and me in school and later life. In fact, sometimes the family is poor, and parents really don't have much choice in the countryside. Nobody wants to leave his hometown.

The biggest pain of people is the pain of "parting", and they have to endure the pain of taking care of the people they love for a while. I remember crying when I first separated from my mother. That year was about 10 years old, and my sister and I became left-behind children, living in my grandmother's house.

But later, sometimes I can go to Beijing to visit my parents during the summer vacation, and I have more expectations. During my stay in Beijing, I seldom played with others, and of course no one played with myself. At that time, there were no extracurricular books because there was no library in the school. After I came to the big city, I remember the first time I went to Xidan Library and found a dazzling array of books, which really shocked me. Then slowly, a person goes to the library or Xinhua Bookstore to read books. Because he had no money, he had to stay there and read books for free, sometimes for a day, so he gradually developed his interest and habit of reading.

So sometimes the cultivation of reading is really not the choice of parents, but their own interests. It doesn't matter what they read at first, but the cultivation of interest is the most important. Now I sometimes go to the library and find that many parents take their children to buy books and choose books that parents think are better for their children. The children finally chose a book that interested them, but their parents refused. This slowly killed her interest in books. As a result, children don't like reading very much. I'd rather choose a mobile game that interests me and so on. All this is actually caused by improper parental guidance at the beginning.

As we all know, the nation that loves reading most in the world is the Jewish nation, and it is also a nation that has experienced many disasters. It is precisely because of the inheritance of the book of wisdom that the children and grandchildren of this nation will benefit for life. It is said that there is also a Jewish custom: when a child is born, the mother will open the Bible and drop a little honey to let the child lick the honey in the Bible. Through this kind of licking, children will have a good first impression of this book: this book is sweet.

This is interest-oriented. Once we develop the interest and habit of reading and studying, it will be a wealth that will benefit us for life. Why?

Reading is undoubtedly of great significance to life. The love of reading is like the awe of our precious life, which is our inner need and makes our rare life glow with greater brilliance. Some people say, "A day without reading makes wisdom a pig." Cao, the king of glass, commented on his reading: "If you want to read, you must have three qualities: tenacity (persistence), understanding (comprehension) and memory (memory). These three natures have been cultivated for a long time. "

Reading should not only learn knowledge, but also inspire our wisdom. Apply what you have learned and solve problems. This is wisdom. Otherwise, knowledge is just beautiful garbage, which often becomes the capital to show off and breeds arrogance. Knowledge and wisdom, of course. Wisdom needs constant inspiration, and sometimes there is wisdom without knowledge. Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor, once said, "The lower class is wise, while the upper class is not." We should always practice devoutly and learn from all natural things. Everything in nature is our teacher, neither humble nor supercilious. Although my mother has never been to school and can't read, what she and her mother teach together is full of wisdom, which also provides rich and valuable life principles and wisdom magic weapon for her hard life.

Knowledge of reading and learning is often summed up from external experience, while wisdom comes from internal experience after reading, even application and even enlightenment.

Reading should be based on the heart of a higher spiritual level and connected with the heart of sages, just like Zhang Zai's open-minded connection of "making a heart for heaven and earth, making a life for the people, continuing the study of sages, and creating peace for the world": observing the big gap between one's heart and sages, shame arises spontaneously, and the heart of correction follows. This is the kung fu of clearing the heart and purifying the soul, and it is also the kung fu of dominating the soul.

Study harder, as the Book of Songs says, "A night's sleep will lead to no life!" It means: We should get up early and go to bed late, so that reading will not disappoint our parents.

Other rich meanings of reading:

Hu Shi, a master of Chinese studies, also summed up the benefits of reading:

When we have accumulated a certain amount of reading, we will have a deeper discovery and experience, and gradually realize that most of the books we have read before are books for profit. Looking back now, we think that the classic books of sages, including other excellent traditional classics, are a golden key to constantly improving our wisdom and opening up endless treasures inside, as well as books that enlighten us, and even more unpretentious books.

I remember that I quit smoking from 20 15, 1 1, and it has been five and a half years now. As the saying goes, "addiction is easy, but it is difficult to quit." In the past, smoking was at least one pack of cigarettes a day, and it was often misled by misconceptions or excuses such as "a cigarette after a meal is better than a living fairy" and "reducing stress". I've always wanted to give up smoking, but I can't. I tried many methods and failed. Later, by chance, because I like reading, I found a book that can quit smoking. After reading it, I was deeply inspired by this book. The douban score of this book is 8.2.

Secret: determination (perseverance: first of all, have the idea of quitting smoking)+"This book will make you quit smoking" Aaron? Carter

Thinking method:

Generally speaking, I feel uncomfortable for the first 7 days, 14 days, 2 1 day, and gradually adapt after 28 days. I believe that if you have friends who quit smoking, you might as well try it, which may help you.

In fact, the mentality of abstinence is similar to that of quitting smoking mentioned above, but some taboos are added to protect yourself. In Biography of Bunsen, it is expounded that people who drink alcohol will incur eleven kinds of disasters in their life:

In a word, drinking is the root of all evil, the root of pain, the bane of all evil words and misfortunes, the door of struggle and the darkness of the heart.

The practice of each of us throughout our life is a process of correcting our improper ideas and behaviors, especially the inner practice, which is actually a word "precept".

Laozi said: "Learning is getting worse and worse, and Tao is getting worse and worse, so that nothing can be achieved."

"Caution" is the subtraction of our bad habits. Each of us is also 24 hours a day, which is a fate. If we spend our time smoking, gambling, drinking, playing games, socializing and chatting. ...

Then the limited time for reading, learning and inner cultivation will be reduced accordingly.

According to a survey, the people who read the most books in the world are Israelis, with an average of 60 books a year, followed by Hungarians, while we in China only have four books a year.

Why is this?

This is a question worthy of our reflection. The reason why we are still suffering now is that most people are caused by cognitive deficiency or cognitive impairment. The way to break through the "cognitive barrier" is to read and study, and to improve one's realm and pattern through "Wen Hughes". We constantly reduce our own shortcomings, even bad hobbies, unnecessary entertainment, and spend a lot of time on reading and learning, then our practice can gradually produce wisdom and even break the mystery and enlightenment. As Xunzi said: "You can't take Wan Li Road without accumulating steps;" If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become rivers and seas. "Believe and persist in progress: you only need to work hard a little every day, and you will eventually achieve something in life.

In the future, I sincerely hope that all of us can meet [pray] [heart] [rose] on the heights.

Please pay attention to others:

Why practice in life?

This life: light a heart lamp

Confucius Sage: The Kung Fu of Lifelong Practice (1)

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