You abandoned Wu Zhihong's theory a few years later?

Today in Zhihu, I saw a person post the above question,

There is also a specific description of the problem:

In the process of chatting with netizen Jiang Ye and Xiao Wei, I found that they had all come into contact with Wu Zhihong's theory, and after two or three years, because they did not solve the problem, they began to doubt and look for a new way out. Many similar netizens have also been found on the Internet. Welcome to tell your story.

Here's my answer:

You say: After finding out that they had all come into contact with Wu Zhihong's theory, after two or three years because they did not solve the problem, they began to doubt and look for a new way out.

Expect to be exposed to a theory that will solve the problem in two or three years,

If you can't solve it, you will start to doubt the validity of the theory and try new ways out,

This is the cycle of most people, and it won't take long,

Only a very small number of people have found the so-called theory that works,

With the essential change, the vast majority of people are unable to come out in such a cycle,

Try this, it doesn't feel useful for a while,

Try that again, and so on,

What's the problem?

To take the simplest example,

Listening to Wu Zhihong's live broadcast that night,

He mentioned reading The Power of The Moment in 2007.

Very curious about the meditation method inside,

So I started practicing every day, and I practiced for 15 years.

I have been practicing until today,

I read The Power of the Moment in 2012.

I was shocked by this book, and also tried to practice meditation,

But I didn't last.

After probably reading the book, it lasted only a week.

And then it's gone.

Because on the surface,

Meditation is of little use,

There are no obvious perceptible changes before and after practice,

I feel like my behavior patterns at this point,

Like the vast majority of ordinary people,

Hear a truth, see a set of theories,

Trying for a few days doesn't feel like much use,

And then it's time to try new methods.

In April 2020,

I watched The video of Sadhguru on the B station,

An Indian spiritual teacher who also mentioned the role of meditation,

And his class has a meditation method,

23 minutes in the morning and 23 minutes in the evening for 48 days,

Or 23 minutes a day for 90 days,

I chose the 48-day version, this time holding the impatience in my heart,

Honestly did 48 days of practice,

I really felt a change like never before.

This change is reflected in one detail,

At that time, my children were very small, and they were little boys.

It's the time when 5-6 years old is making trouble,

I used to get along with him, and I was often made into a nameless fire.

Friends who are parents believe that you can have some experience,

The feeling of being driven crazy by a child,

I can't say that I often feel this feeling, but I do experience it many times.

After 48 days of meditation,

I found myself playing with children, never again,

There's that feeling of being on fire,

That emotional outburst becomes much slower.

The intensity is also much weaker,

Whether it's arguing with someone else or being irritated by a child,

I haven't ever experienced the feeling of madness again.

I was surprised by this change,

And one thing is a pity,

If I had finished reading The Power of The Moment in 2012,

Keep practicing meditation until 2022, that's 10 years of practice.

In the past 8 years, the Japanese devils have all fought away, and the War of Resistance has been victorious.

10 years of practice, the harvest must be more than 48 days do not know how much,

I think it's a miss.

This kind of miss is something that many people can't experience.

Because if we think about it, without this 48-day attempt,

And the new feelings that come with it,

I'm probably still hearing that the method of meditation is very strong.

But I haven't done anything, and I haven't experienced any use.

It doesn't seem to be of much use to the old perception,

Then I simply can't feel the feeling of missing out on ten years of practice.

Because I don't even realize what I'm missing.

Of course, I don't think Wu Zhihong's theories are all right.

But I want to use the above example to emphasize one thing,

Sometimes whether the theory works or not is not that you know whether your life has changed later.

It's in your own continuous practice,

The real difficulty is also in the daily practice,

The theories that really work are often simple and unpretentious,

It is precisely because of the simplicity and unpretentiousness that after we got used to the fancy way of playing,

It's hard to see those simple truths.

If you want to become Superman, you must have injected or taken medicine, and then received some nuclear radiation.

How can it be just honest push-ups every day,

Unconsciously, our brains are affected by various fantasies such as film and television works.

The perspective of looking at the world is actually very abnormal,

Another point is that there are problems with the design of the current education system.

When a child is careless, you teach him to memorize those truths and pit him,

For example, when I was a child, I memorized the rotten "I am born to be useful." ”

If you grow up and then study, really understand the meaning of this sentence through experience,

Young people will not be inferior, will not lose self-confidence,

For example, when I was a child, I had a rotten oil seller, Weng Yue: "Without him, but the hands are familiar." “

If you have a certain experience, then study such an article,

Young people will understand that to master a skill, it takes a lot of practice.

How obsessed people are with fast-track is how unsuccessful these courses were designed that year.

The simple truth that the old ancestors have long refined,

They are all prematurely designed into texts, grinding the children's ears out of cocoons,

When you really need to use these truths,

You mention it to them, and they say, cut, these broken truths,

How many times I learned it when I went to school, I was bored,

Will he think these truths work?

Surely not, people are not familiar with things, easy to think high,

So the foreign monks would chant,

These are the things that have been heard in a young age,

No one will take it seriously, only when I grow up, I have a lot of experience and reflection,

Finally on his own brain to understand some truth,

And then as soon as I patted my thigh, I learned this in elementary school.

Do you say whether a theory works or doesn't work?

I don't think there's a corresponding experience, nothing works,

Even if this experience is created for yourself,

For example, how many days of meditation are practiced above,

Or how many years do one thing continuously,

The truth behind this experience can only be understood after really doing it.

And without much thought before, it was a castle built on the sand,

It can collapse at any time, and once it collapses, it will feel that the theory does not work,

I've got to find a new one, and I'm going to get stuck in a cycle.

This is a dilemma that many people who want to change themselves are easy to fall into.

If you want to climb out, in addition to finding a way to work,

More importantly, be aware that the method does not work,

Or not enough practice, not enough duration,

A lot of changes are like having a baby, getting pregnant in October, and this time can't be saved.

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