Someone in 2019 said that this could be the worst year of the previous decade, or the best decade ahead.
I don't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate, but I was actually said to be right.
I am not a pessimist. On the contrary, no matter how the world changes, we should move forward together into the future.
The Trap of Time gives us all the answers.
The answer is to teach us to break through the shackles of time and achieve a more sober and autonomous evolution of life.
Further, tell us how to get out of the trap of being bound by time? How do you live your full life potential?
01 Is the burden of time still less?
We all know that time is a rhythmic device that sets the rhythm and pace of our lives, and we always seem to be in a hurry.
For example, just now I sent my wife and daughter to learn music lessons, originally during the winter vacation holiday, one morning my wife accompanied my daughter to prepare for homework, and immediately shook the rice and ate it hastily, and I drove to the car for 5 minutes to deliver.
When I got home, I took out my laptop, pulled out my book The Trap of Time, and started writing a book review, because I had been under-reviewing for a while, and I was sorry.
The beast was at home and wouldn't let me write. Spending time with my family is my main task. However, it cannot escape the constraints and shackles of time.
We live on Earth, and time and space distinguish us clearly.
However, time is a thing that gradually brings negative effects.
For example, the invention of science and technology has made the efficiency of human work unprecedentedly improved, as if it has overcome the slowness of the past;
We always feel that there is not enough time, not enough class time, not enough working hours, and not much time for life and leisure;
According to the author Dr. Yang Dingyi, don't say that the rest can't be slowed down, even when sleeping, you can't stop. No wonder so many people have insomnia problems.
Lu Xun said that time is like water in a sponge, as long as it is squeezed, there is always something.
Time is money, efficiency is life.
It even goes so far as to say that casually wasting other people's time is seeking wealth and killing people.
Whether the time is your own, or someone else's, or everyone together.
Dr. Yang believes:
Human beings have later development because of the concept of time, but only because the concept of time is over-strengthened, it naturally swings to an unbalanced state.
Furthermore, time is also humanity's greatest obstacle.
Time is the greatest paradox of our lives.
We are bound by time, even trapped. Unfortunately, we can't even see, or even realize, this dilemma.
All I know is that if we are not in harmony with time, there must be something wrong with us, either in ourselves or in time.
02How do we cross time?
Dr. Yang pointed out that transcending time is not actually operating in time, but forgetting time.
Let's review, when did you have a "flow" state?
Is it to forget the time, to devote one thing to one thing without emotion, to concentrate, and to have no distractions?
To the outside world, time seems to be passing, but you don't feel it.
People naturally prescribe clock times, just a number.
This selfless presence would feel better if combined with meditation.
Meditation is to make the mind not think, to forget the existence of time, to forget the existence of the self, not to judge, not to stay, to go with the flow, which may be the natural state of the Tao.
Why is meditation focused on the breath instead of focusing on something, something, or time, external?
The reason is that you return to the child's true state, without any thought to interfere with external objects, showing your most natural state.
When you are hungry, you will cry, and when you are uncomfortable, you will cry, so Lao Tzu said that returning to the infant state is the big concept of the unity of heaven and earth and the unity of all things.
Dr. Yang further said that a person suddenly realizes that non-time is the most important, the most universal, the most effortless state, and as long as you continue to understand this, you will naturally find that all the exercises do not seem to be important, at most just reminding themselves of this most universal state.
We are born human, it is the mind and society that limit us, and the most common meaning is to frame us with time.
Recently read Zhuangzi and Nan Huaijun and found that what they have in common is freedom.
This freedom is not fame and fortune, if you focus on fame and fortune, chase fame and fortune, then you are not free and are framed.
If time is replaced by freedom, it is a truth.
In this way, everyone naturally understands that what you are pursuing in front of you is virtual, not real.
Life is like a dream, and a bottle is still in the moon.
Don't think that Su Shi is telling a lie, in fact, he is a great sage who is transparent and understanding of life, transcends the limitations of time, and has great wisdom.
03 The truth is always in the hands of a few
In the words of this book, the world is upside down, and what you see as real, not real, is illusory.
This is the same as the Dream of the Red Chamber.
When it is true, it is true and false, and there is nothing to do.
I remember when I was in high school, when the English teacher was lecturing on the paper, there were 4 answers, and I called up a bunch of students, saying that there were all answers, and finally called me a serious scum, and I said an answer.
The teacher said: Sure enough, the truth is in the hands of a few people.
I have remembered this sentence in my heart for many years, because I did not study well at that time, but I have always been poor and upright.
For example, corruption of corrupt officials is a worldwide problem, and there is corruption when there is profit, just as there are people who take risks when they have money.
Regardless of this society or that society, this is human nature.
Human nature has weaknesses.
No matter how harsh the system, the ancient Nine Tribes still followed the previous servants and successors.
What to do? Let people realize that fame and fortune are illusory, people do not pursue it, can live and be free, enjoy themselves, like Lao Tzu said", "chicken and dog smell", that is a very high and ideal way of life.
It is precisely the feudal society that emphasizes the concept of fame and fortune and hierarchy to a certain extent, and like time, it eventually binds people.
But if people do not pursue fame and fortune, society will not progress, which is another two-sided problem.
We just need to recognize that the pace of modern life is too fast, the sense of fame and fortune is too heavy, and we always take time as the origin, according to it to think, act, reflect, regret, pain... Unconsciously, time has become the biggest problem in our lives and a heavy burden on life.
Therefore, after reading this book, we strive not to become slaves to time, but to become masters of time, with the autonomy of life.
We can boldly predict that Dr. Yang's forward-looking views, his book "The Trap of Time", including the "Whole Life Series" book series, will surely break through the morning fog and give dawn to those who are moving forward.
When we completely, unreservedly, and resolutely let go of the old concept of time through quick and simple small exercises and bits and pieces of life, enter the non-time state of life, and enter the flow, all our life potential will gush out, thus living out the wonderful life of each of us.
Thanksgiving reading, I wish you success!
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