Liu Zhiyu attracted a lot of attention because he made the decision to become a monk 12 years ago.
This former Peking University escort student, in fact, in the four years of college, has been struggling with whether to leave home.
In 1988, Liu Zhiyu was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
His father was a high school physics teacher.
Therefore, when Liu Zhiyu was young, he consciously guided his son in the direction of science and engineering.
After Liu Zhiyu was admitted to middle school, in order to be able to create a good living environment for children,
My mother simply rented a house not far from the school.
This saves the time for the child to travel back and forth to the house.
Liu Zhiyu, under the guidance of his parents, specialized in mathematics.
At the age of 15, he was successfully admitted to the Huashi No. 1 Affiliated High School, which is the school where his father lived.
His parents' education of him is even more strict in his daily life.
Her mother accompanied her to study, and her classmates jokingly called her "building manager".
Everything in life is taken care of and managed by parents to help their sons.
This kind of almost harsh discipline finally paid off when his son was in his sophomore year of high school.
That year, Liu Zhiyu participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad Round Robin.
Years of training and study, he successfully won a gold medal.
This became the starting point for Liu Zhiyu to succeed.
In the next year, whether it is for the sprint of the college entrance examination, or continue to develop in the field of mathematics,
Liu Zhiyu's parents have planned very clearly for their son.
At the age of 17, Liu Zhiyu once again participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
And, once again, he won the crown.
That year's competition was played in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
Competing with him was Peter Schultz, a foreigner his age.
The two people's grades are comparable, but in comparison,
Liu Zhiyu won a perfect score in that competition, and Schultz's performance was not full and slightly inferior.
However, their strength should not be underestimated, so they were considered geniuses in the mathematical community and future scientific stars at that time.
At the age of 18, Liu Zhiyu was sent directly to the mathematics department of Peking University.
Compared with his classmates, his achievements are unmatched.
However, just when the outside world thought that he would continue to show his talents in college,
Liu Zhiyu, who walked into Peking University, was entangled with Buddhist monasteries.
Just entered the last semester of Peking University's campus, Liu Zhiyu began to fight insomnia.
According to his own words, every night, in the middle of the night, he obviously felt that he was trying to sleep.
But you can feel that time is passing.
What happened to Liu Zhiyu, who couldn't sleep?
It turned out that the mathematics that made him had changed in the university books.
High school mathematics, in Liu Zhiyu's own words to describe,
Learning can be everywhere, and you can easily understand the beauty and mystery of it.
And the first semester of freshman year, in the face of new textbooks and new knowledge points,
Yoo said he hadn't heard a few lessons at all.
He seemed to see a stranger, and at the same time understood what it meant not to understand.
Those courses began to make Liu Zhiyu dazed and lost.
The dazedness and loss further hit his enthusiasm for learning.
This formed a vicious circle, leaving Liu Zhiyu trapped in it and unable to extricate himself.
More critically, he was also under heavy pressure.
The expectations of his parents, and the various laurels that the outside world has placed on his head,
At that time, it became a burden.
He couldn't imagine what the outside world would think when they learned of his actual state of study.
As a result, things began to get out of hand.
In the final exams of the first semester of his freshman year, his math score was only 75 points.
This result made Liu Zhiyu feel even more disappointed.
So at the beginning of the second school year, Liu Zhiyu desperately tried to learn, trying to win back a round.
However, as his coursework deepened, he could not find the feeling more and more.
The passion for mathematics that he built up in high school was all but gone by then.
It can be said that Liu Zhiyu in his freshman year encountered a major crisis.
At that time, Liu Zhiyu joined a Peking University society called the Cultivation Reading Society.
Deng Wenqing, who previously founded the society, chose to become a monk at Longquan Temple after graduating from university.
Because of this, Since 2007, Liu Zhiyu has also begun to pay frequent attention to things related to Buddhism.
In addition to being a regular vegetarian, he often chooses to volunteer in temples.
In the eyes of the outside world, this is a way of life and choice of Liu Zhiyu,
No one thought he would choose to become a monk at the time.
However, at this moment, Liu Zhiyu's heart has changed significantly along with participating in these activities.
Soon, Liu Zhiyu joined the Zen Society of Peking University.
These signs have actually shown that he is going to follow the same path as the senior Deng Wenqing.
However, all this is not known to the outside world, and even Liu Zhiyu's parents have not seen this subtle change in their son.
It wasn't until the year of college that the secular future and seeing through the red dust finally came to a meeting point.
This year, parents were busy preparing their sons with luggage for the United States.
Liu Zhiyu has previously received a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His parents said that the application for the study and scholarship in Massachusetts was initiated by his son.
However, as Liu Zhiyu announced that he was going to go to Longquan Temple to become a layman,
Can't help but make the outside world wonder, when he applied to study in Massachusetts, did he really handle it himself?
Otherwise, this does not explain how quickly he changed.
After all, this is not as simple as choosing what to eat for lunch, this is the direction and extension of life in the future.
Therefore, the original application was either against his heart or the wishes of his parents.
At that time, Liu Zhiyu's wish was to accompany the green lantern and yellow scroll.
Seeing that he was about to leave, his son made such a decision.
Parents certainly can't accept it.
A month or two before departure, Yoo's mother fell ill.
Liu Zhiyu's father was also firmly opposed.
For a time, the outside world was also talking about it, and all kinds of doubts were also coming.
Some people say that people have their own aspirations, and some people say that he has wasted so many years of educational resources in vain.
Some people also say that from ancient times to the present, There has always been no shortage of high-ranking scholars with cultivation.
What is missing is precisely the people who have influence in the field of science.
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Liu Zhiyu is such a talented person, but he chose to become a monk after four years of college.
There is no sense of social responsibility at all.
Of course, there are also Liu Zhiyu's college alumni who can't stand it and have stood up for Liu Zhiyu.
They believe that the outside world should not forcibly put the big hat of social responsibility on Liu Zhiyu's head.
No matter how the outside world argues about his choice, the most uncomfortable thing at that moment is probably Liu Zhiyu's parents.
Liu Zhiyu's father felt very helpless, he believed that the child did not have any social experience, and should first go to the society to experience it.
However, no matter what kind of controversy there is in the outside world, Liu Zhiyu still made his own choice in that year.
It is worth mentioning that the Longquan Temple that Liu Zhiyu chose to go to, there are indeed many high-quality students like him.
Deng Wenqing, who has become a monk, was once a master's degree in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University.
Some of the other monks of Longquan Temple also have computers, biophysics, and fluid mechanics.
With the addition of Liu Zhiyu in 2010, there was another resident majoring in mathematics in the temple.
Initially, Liu Zhiyu did not become a monk, but brought his hair to practice.
When I came to the monastery, I was also regular and punctual every day.
At four o'clock in the morning, everyone in the monastery had to get up.
They have morning classes and morning readings, and then eat breakfast to clean up the clutter.
The whole daytime, in addition to the fixed chanting, is to proofread the Buddhist scriptures.
In the evenings, there are evening classes and the study of various precepts.
At ten o'clock at night, you must go to bed on time.
Compared to the glitz of the outside world, there is no internet or mobile phone in the temple.
In front of Liu Zhiyu, the daily life is reading, laboring, and going to the temple.
According to some of his classmates at Peking University, in the four years of college, he has not seen Liu Zhiyu in love.
As his life at Longquan Temple deepened, he once talked about his understanding of love.
In Liu Zhiyu's view, love is a beautiful and simple feeling,
But many people only want to possess the good, but do not know how to let this good continue.
He associated love with the Chu King's love for the god bird,
The divine bird that flew high, and the divine bird that was kept in a cage by the king of Chu,
What is left to people is a different kind of feeling and feeling.
Liu Zhiyu uses her to express his growth, indicating that he has also experienced his own past.
Maybe he has experienced failed love, or maybe he himself has been like the King of Chu,
He wanted to take the high-flying divine bird for himself.
Now, Liu Zhiyu, who was already practicing at Longquan Temple, attributed all this to desire.
If you can't let go of the desire in your heart, then the hotter the love, the deeper the attachment.
Love for the sake of others should be the most permanent.
First from the lay people, and then the 22-year-old Liu Zhiyu was officially ordained, the legal name Xianyu.
Just after Liu Zhiyu chose to settle down at Longquan Temple to practice, his parents visited him many times.
In the minds of parents, they have always felt that their son's social experience is too little and should give up such a choice.
However, in Liu Zhiyu's view at that time, what his parents wanted of himself, or was it not an obsession?
His former senior, Deng Wenqing, chose to become a monk at Longquan Temple.
Parents have also come to advise their sons.
Subsequently, Deng Wenqing's parents also chose to live in the monastery and live a life of cultivation with their son.
Liu Zhiyu's parents did not do this, and with Liu Zhiyu's official ordination,
His mother chose to study psychology.
It is said that within a short time, his mother received a certificate in psychology.
Perhaps in the depths of the mother's heart, the son makes such a choice,
It is that there is some kind of problem in the psychology.
Monastic life is pure and regular, but everything in the world is prosperous.
As Liu Zhiyu's identity as a mathematical genius gradually faded,
Attention to him quickly cooled.
All that is known is that there is one less person who may have made a contribution in mathematics and one more monk.
However, when the monk was 30 years old, his life ushered in some kind of transformation.
That year, both inside and outside the temple, two things happened that had a direct impact on Liu Zhiyu.
The first thing was inside the Longquan Temple.
For so many years, Longquan Temple has always boasted of itself as a temple where high-ranking monks gather.
Because of this, it has attracted a large number of people, especially many young people from colleges and universities, to punch in and visit.
However, in 2018, the abbot of the temple was reported online under his real name.
With the release of a "Major Situation Report" by Longquan Temple in that year,
Longquan Temple once again entered the whirlpool of public opinion.
There is a lot of public criticism about the perception of monks and monasteries.
And with the association between the abbot and the labels of women and wealth,
The uproar and condemnation from the outside world can be imagined.
At that time, Liu Zhiyu was in the temple, mainly engaged in the proofreading and collation of Buddhist scriptures.
If he chose to become a monk eight years ago, it was based on faith and belief.
Then, with the accident of the abbot of the temple in that year,
Whether Or not Liu Zhiyu knows the ins and outs of the matter,
His former faith was sure to loosen somewhat.
Although Buddhism focuses on individual practice and cultivation,
But For eight years, Liu Zhiyu was in the same environment and context as the whistleblower.
With regard to the blatant deviance of the latter, and the fact that there may be a real discrepancy between the practice and the behavior,
Will Liu Zhiyu's heart really not have any touch?
The answer is no.
Soon there was news that Liu Zhiyu was still vulgar.
It is said that Yoo Ji Woo followed his mother and systematically studied psychology.
Although he is 30 years old, in the eyes of his parents,
The son is still the same person who did not have any social experience at that time.
It was also in this year that Peter Schultz, who had participated in the Olympiad with Liu Zhiyu,
Won the Nobel Prize in mathematics - the Fields Medal.
Schultz was only 31 years old at the time, but he was already a professor at the University of Bonn.
The Fields Medal rewards young mathematicians no older than 40 years old.
Compared with Liu Zhiyu's later monasticism, Schultz's achievements in the field of mathematics can be described as one step at a time.
At the age of 22, Schultz, who was still a college student,
The 288-page proof of number theory was further condensed to 37 pages.
This achievement shocked even his mentor.
Subsequently, Schultz continued to deepen in the field of arithmetic geometry.
The new framework he proposed in this field solved many of the difficult problems in the field of algebraic geometry.
So at a young age, Schultz achieved great success.
Schultz in life has long been married and has a daughter.
In that year, together by the outside world to pin high hopes,
However, Liu Zhiyu's life trajectory and Schultz's life trajectory,
More than a decade later, there has been a completely different change.
Of course, no matter what kind of change, it is your own choice.
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