Perhaps, you are not deeply impressed by the writer Qingshan, but you must know her former name: "Baby Annie"; you may also have heard of the "Baby Annie Name Change" incident that was hotly discussed on the Internet a few years ago. At that time, an anni baby writer who accompanied a generation of post-80s and post-90s generations to grow up announced the change of name to "Qingshan", when she told readers:
"I'm different from when I was in my 20s."
This winter, Qingshan's latest collection of essays, "All Things", finally meets with readers. In the past decade, Qingshan has published several collections of essays and photographs. From "Rose Island", "Sleeping Sky" to "All Realms", Qingshan's text may be less sharp than Annie Baby, but more of a warmth, tranquility and fulfillment. It is the precipitation of the years alone, when life polishes dignity and individuality in time, the growth of this moment will last forever. Readers gradually discover that "the person who influenced me to grow up, accompanied me to grow up."
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There is a wonderful tacit understanding between Gyeongsan and her readers. On the day Qingshan posted the pre-sale information of the new book on Weibo, readers came to leave messages and interact, creating nearly three million views. Entering middle age, Qingshan is passionate about photography and tea art, and rarely participates in activities, but she always communicates with readers through words, communicates, and grows. Baby Anne has accompanied the youth of a generation of readers with words, and Qingshan has accompanied readers into a new stage of life with words.
This will be the life they will experience together, and the growth they will face. One reader said in a message, "May this contrast between readers and authors accompany me for the rest of my life." "All Things" is like talking to a confidant, like "writing long letters and passing them on to strangers who don't know each other in the vast world, not selfish in heart and not concerned", even if she knows very well that "this needs to pay a price". This kind of honesty and bravery is very touching, and some readers said after receiving the book: "Write sincerely enough, see yourself between the lines, those words that are not said, thank you, and meet the reader frankly." ”
This wonderful comment comes from readers in Qingshan. May you also meet the warm words of Gyeongsan this winter.
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The world is becoming more and more mixed, and the defilements are bodhichitta
Reader: Sniff Rose 122
Received Anne's new book, All Things. It's like waiting for an old friend to arrive. She is cold and self-sustaining, not keen on engaging with people eagerly, and all she can give to the world is those words. In the book, see her also mention that "in the news or in reality, listening to and witnessing, who makes hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, but rarely hears about things that are really interesting, far-reaching and valuable." "I remembered the same scene last month and had the same feelings. This situation happens often, and it is very much in line with her ideas. "Only those who suffer deeply and have serious problems will exert great efforts to seek relief." This is called "defilement is bodhicitta," and those who have not walked through the confusion of defilement cannot go out and walk through this wasteland.
Anne has her own clear goals, style, and writing according to the texture of her own life, in accordance with her own inner drive, is sincere and stubborn, independent and lonely. She has no worldly heart, and there is no doubt that from the rebellion of youth to the arrival of middle age, she filtered her life with books, but instead showed a kind of renunciation that went against the grain. What she often faces is not the earthly world, but the change of self, the elevation of consciousness. Anne's writing is more of a cleansing of the self. As a long-time reader, she is concerned and looking forward to each of her works, although not every one of them is equally enthusiastic, and the novels from "Lotus" indicate that she has entered a mature stage. The growth of the mind makes the work solid and rich, and to the top of "The Valley of Shamo", she built a metaphysical palace, a road that requires people to pass through the complex world to get to that secret place.
Compared with novels, I am more fascinated by Anne's prose, from "Rose Island", "Awakening Chronicle" to "Su Nian Jin shi", "Sleeping Void", "Moon Tong Du River" and then to this "All Realms", the text is composed of green persistence, gentle affection, motherhood gradually born, and then return to the original meaning of life, those accidentally seen, recalling the past, dream reality, thinking experience, momentary enlightenment, composed of clear and dense, beautiful and fragrant words, sometimes, just a few words, there are tremors. This is a prose that blends with meaning and is true, and it is particularly moving because of its simple introverted posture, concise restraint, and concentrated language. The person who writes is a channel that conveys the true meaning of life, is a spiritual sower, and this appeal is really long-lasting.
After reading these observations, deep thinking, and personal practice, I feel that I cannot only say that I am "moved", nor can I stop at the beauty of words to comment on them. This is a writer's writing process and life process intertwined to clarify the true income of the essence of creative life. For the reader, such sharing is equivalent to listening to a writer's original intention of writing, observing the process of building the work, and also equivalent to accepting a teaching of "good knowledge". The first is the sincerity of writing, the hardships of writing, the advancement and change of thought at a certain stage, and the reader has experienced it when reading. This charm comes from honesty and profundity, and now the wisdom of thought exceeds the style of words, with a calm and purity of returning to basics. Before, I liked her fresh and unworldly style, but now I am impressed by the neat assertions, condensed philosophies, she puts the observations, the details and essence of her thoughts, no longer covered up, she slowly approaches "no self", many obsessions fall off, slowly accumulated in the calm years, metamorphosis.
Reading certain passages in The Realm of All Things makes one feel joyful, and only those who perceive the subtleties of things, who experience the truth from themselves, have such descriptions. Fortunate enough to be able to read about this change, she is doing a difficult job: she is removing the "bubbles" that cover awareness and spirituality, and helping you see the clear deep pool below. Read carefully, feel a lot of empathy, feel cool in your heart, and benefit a lot.
"All Things" is not prose, but from another point of view, it is more like a collection of proverbs. "The gross feeling of loneliness rarely interferes with me." I also rarely feel lonely——— i.e. feel the need for someone to be on my side or be noticed. The content that you care about is enough for your own use, and the changes and renewals within yourself are enough for yourself to observe and reflect on yourself. The best way for people in the world to live and get along with each other may be that everyone is in their own place, busy with their own affairs, constantly improving and correcting themselves, and entering the crowd can also quietly provide services, rather than creating noise and contradictions, so that the world will be much cleaner, much freer, and much more lovely. "Being able to be aware and control emotions is a great freedom." The progress of consciousness and the change of habits require repeated practice and continuous improvement before it is possible to reach a certain level. If everyone can be self-conscious in this way, to get rid of the limitations of self-grasping, and not to have a mind for the situation, it is the bodhi world.
Read "The Valley of Shamo" and "All Realms" repeatedly. Anne's writing has a kind of great beauty between heaven and earth, incisive and condensed and poetic, to a realm that is only satisfied with the externalization of the record appearance and is eager to express the words that are difficult to reach. What happened to Anne? Can it be reborn like this? So, how did this experience come about? There was a desire within her to be liberated from the unity of body and mind. In the part of the mantra in "The Valley of Summer", seeing the distant sound in the sound of shakuhachi, the self is broken, and the true self is revealed from the realm of meditation, this process is difficult to form into languages, it is almost impossible to write, it is touched, or it crosses some boundary, just as people cannot describe ecstasy, no, ecstasy can be written, and this detachment, the sense of penetration of the consciousness world, the gradual renewal and dissolution of the mind, is only understandable, unspeakable. Anne wrote it. Let the hidden thinking process have a display, a trace. In woolf's "The Waves", I felt a little expansion of human consciousness and an infinite intersection with existence. Anne experienced and expressed herself with the psychic qualities of an Oriental author, and the function of the written word was released in an extremely beautiful and huge way. This process of transformation is recorded one by one in "All Realms". She cares not only about the growth of women's minds, but also about how to experience life as "an independent person" and how to fundamentally transform her own mind. The problems that a woman must encounter: youth, destiny, longing, emotions, marriages, loving relationships, choices, and motherhood, everyday experiences, observations of the outside world, values, the meditative fragrance of orchids... And so on, these are some ways and means to feel the improvement of the internal texture of life, from the perceptual experience to the wisdom of Prajnaparamita, these veins exist in "All Realms".
The true meaning of writing is not skill, but from the intuition that is extremely precious in life. This book can be turned a page at will, read a paragraph, and think about it. You can also slowly look from the beginning, you can see the details of life in order, the experience after reading and watching, the main points of thinking when creating, and more rarely, reading the trajectory of the progress of spiritual changes, which has great enlightening significance for every reader. Among them are the introspection of the police, the subtle insights, the profound Zen flavor, and it is a book that allows the impetuous heart to be settled.
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Remarks: The actual picture in the text is provided by the reader
Photo: Little Red Book @ Hey Lemon Ya @ Early Farming
Preliminary review: Zhou Bei, Huacheng
Manuscript review: Wang Wei
Final reviewer: Wang Qiuling