Half the pleasure of life is in activity, and half is in feeling. The so-called "feeling" is passive, allowing things in nature to touch my senses and mind. These two words have a lot of meaning. Seeing color, hearing sound, is feeling; To know its beauty by seeing its color and its harmony by hearing its sound are also feelings. The same beauty, the same harmony, and the degree of beauty and harmony seen by each individual varies with the condition of talent. For example, when you see a green pine by the roadside, you only think it can be cut down to make ships. I've seen it cool; Others may say that it is very suitable for painting, or that it is a symbol of high moral integrity. Another example is a beggar on the street, I can only see his unkempt face, think he is very annoying; When you saw him, you had compassion and gave him a bronze coin. He may be seen by others and immediately set out to overthrow the social system. These people have different reactions, due to strong and weak sensitivity. The reason why the genius of the world is a genius, is due to the great creativity, and his sensibility is particularly strong than the average person. For example, poets and artists, he can see what you can't see, and smell what you can't smell. If you ask Boya to play the piano to him, he will only think of a cotton Smith playing cotton. Feeling can also be said to "appreciate", but appreciate is only one aspect of feeling. The happiest man in the world is not only the most active, but also the most appreciative. The so-called appreciation, is to be able to find interest in life. It is like drinking tea. A thirsty man swallows it with his mouth full, while a good tea drinker slurps it and appreciates its flavor. Can enjoy the interest of people everywhere will not be quiet, also will not be bored. Zhu Zi has a poem said: "half an mu of a square pond open, sky light cloud shadow wandering together, ask the canal that clear so? To have a source of fresh water." This is a state of great beauty. You can close your eyes and think about it, put this picture in your mind, and then imagine that this half acre square pond is your own heart, you see this poem compared to the joys and sorrows of life how perfect! Ordinary people's life is dry, just because there is no sky in their "half acre square pond", there is no source of running water, this source of running water is to appreciate the fun. The ability to appreciate interest is half due to talent, half also due to self-cultivation. It's easier to have fun in silence. There is a law of physics that says two things cannot coexist in the same space. The law also makes sense psychologically. Ordinary people can not feel fun, mostly because the heart is too busy, not empty so not spirit. The so-called "stillness" refers to the emptiness of the mind, not to the silence of the thing, which is never silent. The more empty your mind is, the less you find things quiet, or I might go further, the more empty your mind is, the less noisy things are. So quiet is not necessarily to escape the valley, nor is it necessary to learn Buddhist meditation. Being quiet is different from being idle. Many idle people do not have to be able to appreciate the fun in quiet, and can appreciate the fun in quiet, do not have to be idle. In the busy, in the noise of the world, you occasionally leave everything, relax in daydream, you suddenly seem to have a bright light in your heart, infinite insight will come. This is quiet in the busy.

At a casual party of friends, Robin, a handsome, smart and adventurous 28-year-old retired non-commissioned officer, meets a beautiful woman, Diane, and the two quickly fall in love. They travel together, overlooking the magnificent mountains of Kenya from high above; Camping in the wilderness together, listening to the sound of dawn in the primordial world, making the most beautiful vows under an African sunset. But the happy times did not last long. Something unexpected happened suddenly. Robin fell down while playing ball with his friends and got hot that night. Realising something was wrong, Robin sought help from a friend and collapsed before he could speak. When the pregnant Diana arrived at the hospital, she learned that Robin had contracted a virus that left him paralyzed from the neck down and on a ventilator for the rest of his life. Doctors say such patients usually only last a few months. The level of 1950s medicine, the old, noisy, ugly respirators, was all Robin hoped for. He lay in his hospital bed day after day in such despair that he would not even look at his newborn baby. His first words to Diana after regaining speech were: "Let me die." Diana didn't give up hope. She said to Robin, "I hope you live. I want you to see Jonathan grow up." Finally, Robin said, "I want to go home. Take me away." It was a crazy decision. The doctor was adamantly opposed to Robin's discharge, saying: "He would never live more than two weeks if he were discharged." The patient in the next bed laughed at him: "You won't live to see the sun tomorrow." This did not affect their escape plans. Diana learned from the nurse how to change the tube of the ventilator, and under the cover of the kind doctors and nurses, under the cover of night, escaped from the hospital. Robin returned home, and gradually became optimistic and cheerful. When the family dog knocked the plug off a ventilator while playing, Robin nearly choked to death, only to wake up laughing and saying "it was funny." The couple also joke around a lot. "Poor Robin, paralyzed for life." 'And his poor wife. I hear she's a saint.' "She is indeed a saint." "Very beautiful saint." He not only made his first fortune with his brilliant brain, but also inspired by his son's wheelbarrow, he asked his friend Professor Teddy from Oxford University to help him design a wheelchair with a built-in ventilator. Robin was finally able to "walk" out of the house. They often go out for walks, breathe the fresh air, bathe in the warm sunshine, and enjoy the fun of getting together with their friends. One day, Jonathan looked through a photo album, saw elephants in Africa, and exclaimed, "That's cool." Jonathan asked Robin, "Daddy, take me to Africa to see the elephants, please." The son's wish was naive, but the reality was cruel. A simple sentence made the couple feel both guilty and sad. They set out knowing it was an adventure. They modified a van to attach Robin's wheelchair to the passenger seat so he could see the view from the road. With this experience in mind, a few years later, the family bravely carried the wheelchair onto the plane. And so Robin went to Spain on a ventilator. During their trip to Spain, the ventilator's wires short-circuited, and Diane and her son Jonathan had to take turns squeezing the air bags to keep Robin breathing. Instead of complaining, they bantered with each other over afternoon tea in the middle of nowhere while they waited for their friend to rescue them. The enthusiastic local Spaniards, curious about the man with the machine, swarmed around Robin. The new friend proposed: "Because of this suffering friend, we are together, we have decided to have a field party!" Robin and Diana couldn't be happier. Robin says, "I'm alive, everything's fine. Here's to life!" Robin began to hope that his story would make a difference to more patients like him. They raised money to build a second, upgraded version of a mobile breathing device and, with the help of Dr. Aitken, director of the Foundation for Disability Research, "crashed" a European congress of severely disabled patients in Germany. At the conference on how to manage disabled patients, none of the attendees were disabled. Addressing the experts and doctors present, Robin said, "I'm sure you care about people with disabilities, but when you look at me, what do you see? A creature clinging to life; What are you thinking? Let's put him in a room to die. But I, as you see, have escaped. When I first became paralyzed, I wanted to die, but my wife wouldn't let me. She told me I had to live to see our son grow up. So I have lived to this day, because of her, for her, but also for her." Diana stood behind Robin, trying not to cry. Robin continued: "Every day I face the threat of death because I want to live. So please tell your paralyzed patients that they can live like me, and please set them free." The silence was followed by applause, followed by cheers. Eventually, more and more patients like Robin are escaping hospital beds. As Robin said, "I don't want to just live, I want to live." Thirty-six years on, the ventilator has taken its toll. Robyn, 64, had been bleeding because of slight wear and tear on his pleura. The bleeding becomes more frequent, the situation becomes more severe, and he may eventually drown in his own blood. Robin chose to live on because he wanted to live it, not live it. So, when he could no longer be wonderful, he chose to take his own life. His friend could not accept his choice and said to him, "Every time I go back from you, I get stronger. Not because you're worse off than me, but because you've changed your life." Diana said Robin couldn't live for his friends. Robin planned a farewell party for his own funeral. Friends sang, "Goodbye, goodbye, dry the tears from your eyes, dear one. Though parting is hard, I know not to weep or sigh." People gathered around Robin, talking, laughing, singing, letting their tears flow. The ventilator was turned off, and it was quiet. Diana loved Robin stoically, deeply and bravely, and more than 30 years after she had resolutely chosen to take him out of hospital and save him from darkness, she now chose to respect her husband's decision. There is nothing more admirable than this "completion and respect." Diana's love was as brilliant and passionate as Tsvetaeva's love poem: "I will take you back from all ages, from all nights, from all golden banners, from all swords." Joseph Campbell, a master of American mythology, said in The Hero with a Thousand Faces that the hero is the divine nature hidden within each of us, just waiting for us to recognize and present. To achieve this kind of achievement, we must, like mythological heroes, accept the call to adventure, cross the threshold, receive assistance, be tested, and finally return. If you take a broader view of the hero's journey, Robin and Diana are both heroes. After Robin's death, their son Jonathan, a film producer, made a film about his parents' experience, One Breath, One Breath, dedicated to his mother and his father, who chose to live to see him grow up.

Things in nature are amazing, like water. Water exists in different forms. Different forms of water give us different amounts of energy. Chinese medicine has many explanations for the role of "rootless water". Rootless water is rain, dew, snow, and so on. These types of water have completely different effects on the human body. For example, dew is nourishing the eyes, rain is nourishing the bones and muscles, and snow water can play the role of nourishing the lungs. We do not yet have a scientific explanation for these effects, which I attribute to the flow and transformation of energy. This book is about the flow and transformation of energy, trying to explain the flow and transformation of energy in the human body between psychology and physiology, between individuals and families, between human and nature. There are a lot of things that science can't explain, and I think that's why Chinese medicine is so profound, because it respects that nature always maintains a balance of energy. How nature maintains its energy balance is difficult for modern science to explain. Although can not explain, but can witness. The Spring Festival of 2020 witnessed this phenomenon in a very tragic way. "The Tao Te Ching" says, "The way of heaven is to make up for what is not enough; The way of people, damage is not enough to serve." The origin of the novel coronavirus pneumonia virus has not been determined, but the prevailing view is that it originated from one of thousands of undomesticated wild animals that people eat -- bats. Our ancestors lived in jungles and grasslands and could only get food by hunting, so they domesticated animals and cultivated plants to obtain a stable food supply. This is "filling in the gaps". But with the continuous development of human civilization, human ambition and greed keep expanding. When we "lose more than we give" and destroy other creatures for our own purposes, nature makes us pay for it. The price could be plague or some other disaster. We humans think that we already rule the world, that we are the masters of the world, and can use and squander the world's resources as we please. In fact, we are too arrogant, we are a system, the universe is a system. The small human system should be subordinated to the larger cosmic system, or it will pay the price. In the book, I propose the "tree of the body", "tree of the mind" and "tree of the family", aiming at helping readers to view physical and mental health and energy flow from a holistic, connected and systematic perspective. At the moment of the epidemic, if we think about the emergence of diseases and disasters from a systematic perspective, we will find that this reflection brings us respect for the world, respect for the balance of the universe, and surrender to the law of life. Similarly, if we look at energy at the level of the system, we will find that all energy operates in the pursuit of balance. When the epidemic ravages humanity, it brings out the good in us. The tens of thousands of medical workers who rushed to Hubei without hesitation are conveying goodness, the tens of millions of people in Hubei who are staying at home in fear of death are conveying goodness, and the other Chinese who are staying at home are also conveying goodness. Finally we will see the goodness and love of more than 7 billion people around the world. As I write this, the makeshift hospital in Wuhan has just been closed, but the epidemic is still spreading in Europe. A young nurse said her wish was to take a vacation in Italy. The reporter reminded her that the situation in Italy was very serious. She said, "So I'm going! I have the experience now and I'm going to help them." We can sense a lot of energy from it. This energy will propel human beings to multiply and develop on the earth! This book is a book about mind-body medicine, but it is not just a medical book. I hope that readers of this book will learn not only how to keep themselves physically and mentally healthy, but also how to see the body and mind as one, me and you as one, us and them as one, and thus gain a deeper understanding of the root causes of our physical ailments and mental pain. The publication of this book is the culmination of many people's efforts. I would like to thank my team and especially Ms. Li Yimei. She took time off from her heavy workload of counseling and mindfulness teaching to revise the first draft of the book and bring acceptance, compassion and love to the pages.

Hegel made it very clear in his opening speech at the University of Berlin that the University of Berlin is the spiritual center of Germany, and the central center of this spiritual center is the department of philosophy, which we should give high status to because it is a place of truth, a sanctuary. I am a philosophical man, and I am a little suspected of it. In fact, philosophy is not need to sell, it is Jiang Taigong fishing - willing to take the bait. How many of us are willing to take the bait in Fudan University?

The only roads were covered with either bright ice or snow that was brewing into ice. There were no ruts except for the jumbled footprints of people on its snow-covered sides. We no longer looked beyond the road, not only because the snow in the yellow sun made our eyes sick, but also because the distance to the school was almost desperate. Nearly a kilometer above sea level northwest of Hubei Province, in a place called Dashuya, increasing snow caused a complete "shutdown" of National Highway 241. Since 7 a.m., I, Fei, Hua, Hua's father who came to see him off, and a middle-aged man have all been stuck in the same spot. According to Huafu's experience, waiting for the bus at the terminus was no doubt futile. We had to walk more than three miles along the road and climb over Dadouya to see if the bus came. It was almost 12 o 'clock, and there was no sign of a single car, let alone the only shuttle bus that used to pass by Shuya every morning at 8 a.m. The middle-aged man with pale face and bushy eyebrows suddenly said: "I take the path, you can't go?" Hua Fu said hurriedly, "Oh, that would be a trouble for you."

My good friend Bob, who loves jazz, worked as a sound engineer for a radio show in his early days. A few times a year we would gather to enjoy jazz, and he would point out to me where the artist had done the work and which parts were legendary, like an Olympic gymnastics judge admiring a beautiful twist that the average person could not understand. I was having lunch with Bob one day and he was talking about the experience of losing yourself in music. That kind of loss does not mean that he will forget the time, forget the appointment with me, but at that time he felt a little bit of self is melting, slowly expanding into an ocean feeling. It was scary, he said, fearing he would never come back, but the feeling of being submerged was comforting. This transboundary moment between being free and being lost is the core of the soul awakening. In our deepest experiences, we tend to hold on to our core, lest we be swept away by the storms of the world's weight. But if we never open ourselves up and allow life to touch and change us, why are we here at all? In the hard life, we have learned to habitually resist the onslaught of burdens and hardships, but at the same time we have also blocked out everything that comes our way. Every tradition of spiritual practice teaches us how to survive suffering and enter into growth and transformation. In those moments, we let go of all self-protection, let go of our tight grip on our identity and experience the shock of the oneness that lurks beneath all things. Although people are used to pushing forward all the time, the peak moments of life -- the ones that change everything and continue everything -- tend to occur in the deep rather than the forward. Opening up the depth of life requires us to look at these sacred moments, which are everywhere: in the music we are immersed in, in the awakening of the truth, in the realization that something mysterious is coming within us. It is at such moments that we can fully feel and savor the omnipresent avenue that gives life to all things. It also requires us to face the contradiction between holding ourselves and losing ourselves. Like a coast constantly being eroded by the sea, we live in the ocean, and the waves are bound to polish off our edges and absorb the nourishment of the living water. To quote Ghalib, a poet I have admired for many years: "For the raindrop, the moment of joy is when you melt into the river." At the moment of being broader than oneself, raindrop does not lose its essence, but gives up its original shape and individual identity. Instead of disappearing completely, raindrop joins a wider world than its original self by letting go of its boundaries. At this moment, the raindrop simultaneously loses itself but expands and continues its existence.

Many times we are in a "fake reading" state and don't realize it's caused by low-level "emotional decisions." If you have this problem, you can join me in making a "sensible decision" to truly love reading. Futurist Kevin Kelly talks about how to become an expert in your field fast. One of his friends wanted to go into a whole new field, but didn't have any experience. What to do? This friend went to attend a variety of industry conferences in the field, listening to experts share, will seize the opportunity to communicate with experts, consult. For three years, he talked to almost all the top experts in the field. Through continuous learning and accumulation, he began to gradually output his views. Of course, at the beginning, most of his views were based on the views of others, and later he gradually formed his own views. Three years later, his friend became an expert in the field and people started paying him to speak at forums. It boils down to this: The best way to quickly become an expert in your industry is to talk to and ask directly from experts in your industry -- probably the highest growth strategy of all. But the reality is that ordinary people rarely have such opportunities and resources. What to do?

My guess is that a lot of people don't really know themselves, or even have never known themselves, and that's why they're confused about their problems. And by "myself," I mean the part of my brain, because without my brain, we are nothing; Having a brain, but not understanding it, leaves us with a vague sense of life, and that life is often not what we want. Starting with the brain, we will "evolve" again by relearning ourselves. Human beings have become the highest creatures on the planet because of their brilliant brains. It is considered so precise and perfect that science and technology have yet to fully unravel its secrets. But it turns out to be imperfect and even problematic, and these problems are what make us feel incompetent and miserable. To understand this, we need to understand how the brain evolved. At first, there was no life on Earth. But billions of years ago, a few replicators appeared in the ancient oceans, and evolution led them to become single-celled organisms, and then to animals, plants, and microbes, and then to the branches of animals that led to primitive fish that filled the oceans. About 360 million years ago, they began to make inroads on land, and the Earth entered the age of reptiles. To adapt to life on land, reptiles developed the first "instinctive brain". The structure of the instinctual brain is very simple, with only one primitive reflex module, which allows reptiles to make quick instinctual responses to the environment, such as fight or flight when encountering danger, hunting prey when encountering prey, and pursuing the opposite sex when encountering a favorite. Reptiles have neither emotion nor reason, and the ability of their body temperature to change with the outside world prevents them from moving around in cold environments. But by relying on this simple instinctive reaction, they have not only survived, but some have survived into our own times, such as crocodiles, lizards, snakes, etc.

On the last day of May 2018, I opened a Q\&A column on my official account "Clear Brain", which gave me a new role as a growth consultant. As an amateur, I also had a lot of exposure to "puzzle samples" (many of the examples in this book come from real questions). After solving a lot of growth puzzles, I found that the methodology I developed can actually solve the puzzles and troubles of most people. Both in the interpretation of basic concepts such as brain structure, subconscious, metacognition and deliberate practice, and in the use of specific abilities such as self-control, concentration, action, learning and emotional power (including the cultivation of essential habits such as getting up early, meditation, reading, writing and sports), there are relatively unique principles and specific feasible methods to provide. These accumulations form the basis of the book. But when you really look at the book, you will find that practice and change is the core of the book, so more often you need to use it as a reference book, often review, think and practice, until you have a real change, rather than read it, "brain addiction".