Create a life beyond the ordinary

Author: Liu Yong / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This is Liu Yong's new work, a self-autobiography of Liu Yong's thoughts. The philosophy of life is our second soul. When one soul falls, the second soul can still lift us up. Why are we here in this world? Why do we strive? When should we strive? Let this book give you the answers. Today's young people may receive too much coddling but have few opportunities to contribute, leading to confusion and a lack of understanding of the meaning of life or its value. Alternatively, they may have lost their "inherent motivation" due to excessive pressure from teachers, making it easy for them to slack off after being pushed into good schools. Even more frightening is that many young people develop early thoughts of escaping the world or becoming disillusioned due to inner emptiness.
Creating a Life Beyond Limits is written to address these issues, as it is the result of the author's inner struggles from childhood to adulthood. These "life philosophies" have guided me through many difficult years and continue to inspire me today, and they should also help other young friends navigate their confusing lives.
This is Liu Yong's new work, a self-autobiography of Liu Yong's thoughts. The philosophy of life is our second soul. When one soul falls, the second soul can still lift us up. Why are we here in this world? Why do we strive? When should we strive? Let this book give you the answers. Today's young people may receive too much coddling but have few opportunities to contribute, leading to confusion and a lack of understanding of the meaning of life or its value. Alternatively, they may have lost their "inherent motivation" due to excessive pressure from teachers, making it easy for them to slack off after being pushed into good schools. Even more frightening is that many young people develop early thoughts of escaping the world or becoming disillusioned due to inner emptiness.
Creating a Life Beyond Limits is written to address these issues, as it is the result of the author's inner struggles from childhood to adulthood. These "life philosophies" have guided me through many difficult years and continue to inspire me today, and they should also help other young friends navigate their confusing lives.
Life is dirty and polluted. I not only bought this book to read it but also carried it around proudly, because only by memorizing it can I "show off." Just like I memorized the Jigong Chronicles to show off to my classmates, memorized Xu Zhimo's poems to show off to neighborhood girls, and memorized the Wisdom Quotes to show off to pen pals. So until today, many sentences from the Sayings of Zarathustra are clearly imprinted in my mind, and the more I reflect on them, the more meaningful they become.
For example, the book says: Life is a dirty stream. To accommodate this stream without losing its purity, one must become the sea. Later, I often thought: Isn’t that right? Humans have many inherent flaws, and humanity has many ugly aspects. But we are human, and we live in a human society. How should we accept these realities? How should one become the sea? What is a "superman"?
For instance, the book also says: Man is a rope stretched between superman and beast. That is a dangerous advance, a dangerous retreat, a dangerous tremble and stop, with an abyss below. As I read, I thought: Oh my god! Humans are like tightrope walkers, moving from one end to the other, with beasts on one side and supermen on the other. Of course, I wanted to be a superman! The question is, what is a superman? Is a superman like a martial arts master from a wuxia novel who can "walk without leaving footprints, transmit sound over a thousand miles, pierce with a grain of rice, or injure with falling leaves"? Or is a superman like Confucius or Mencius, a sage? Thus, many concepts like "superman," "transcending beasts," and "transcending reptiles and monkeys" began to take root in my mind. Who planted the seeds of transcendence?
More importantly, the book says: Let me tell you about the three transformations of the spirit—how the spirit becomes a camel, how the camel becomes a lion, and how the lion becomes a baby. I was only fifteen at the time and didn’t understand it. But soon after entering high school, I had an epiphany by comparing it with another book, and it has influenced me to this day. These seeds of "transcendence" were planted by whom? It was the author of the Sayings of Zarathustra, the great German philosopher Nietzsche! P9-11