Last resort - Contemplation

Author: Chen Lu-yi, Yu Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Life often encounters bottlenecks: being overwhelmed by work, exhausted both physically and mentally; restless and anxious due to unfulfilled ambitions; lacking inspiration, feeling creatively drained; suffering from poor health and illnesses; struggling with intense study and poor results; feeling lost and helpless in relationships, or even being entangled by multiple frustrations at once, making you unsure of how to proceed. So, how can you, like these successful individuals, remain calm and composed amidst the chaos? This book introduces the last resort, the fundamental, and the most effective method to combat stress—it is meditation. It teaches you to find the path to success through meditation!
1. The Common Trick of Successful People What is the last resort for successful people? It is to calm our minds, open a window to our hearts, and use the right mindset and effective methods to generate strong mental power, gain wisdom, improve our physical health, and achieve a happy, bright, and joyful life! Many famous figures in the world have used this trick to enhance their abilities.
Literary figure Guo Moruo, at the age of 22, went to Japan for studies but unfortunately contracted neurasthenia. He experienced palpitations, chest pain, and insufficient sleep, only able to fall asleep for about 3 hours at night, often waking up from nightmares. He felt dizzy and almost became a "person without memory," which caused him great distress. One day, he discovered the concept of "sitting and forgetting" in the Complete Works of Wang Wen Cheng Gong and was inspired to practice meditation. He combined it with Japan's Okada-style meditation and began his meditation exercises. Each morning and evening, he meditated for 30 minutes, persistently. After two weeks, he experienced remarkable results: he slept soundly all night, his dizziness and palpitations disappeared, his memory returned to normal, and his chronic illness was cured.
Cromwell, a British bourgeois revolutionary leader, often sat quietly alone in his room, observing the current situation, and adopted a constitutional monarchy, thus stabilizing the. Great leader Mao Zedong, whenever facing critical moments in the revolution, would go to a nearby mountain to sit quietly and contemplate, observing the world, making many correct decisions, which became one of the key reasons for the success of the revolution.
Dai Ichi, the "king of life insurance in Japan," shared his best experience: daily meditation, through which he gained inspiration and made his work highly efficient. Many other celebrities, such as scientists Albert Einstein, inventors Thomas Edison, writers Ba Jin, and painting master Zhang Daqian, also achieved flashes of insight through meditation.
Ancient Buddhists and Taoists advocated meditation to achieve enlightenment; Confucians also emphasized meditation, believing that "stillness gives birth to wisdom" and making it a compulsory course in philosophy, even requiring disciples to practice "half a day of reading and half a day of meditation" to understand the principles. In ancient Chinese imperial arts, there was a practice called "zhi guan," where "zhi" means stillness and "guan" means observation. In short, it is "meditation."
In a broader sense, meditation is not the exclusive heritage of the ancients but a shared cultural resource of humanity. Anyone can use meditation to expand and elevate their life's. There are many people who often go to temples to burn incense and pray to monks, but what powers do monks possess? Because monks practice meditation year-round, their minds are calm and clear, and they have extraordinary abilities gained from meditation, allowing them to guide others. The wisdom of monks comes from meditation, so can we practice meditation ourselves to enhance our wisdom? The answer is certainly yes.
This book is based on the experiences of successful individuals and monks in meditation, combined with modern lifestyles, and refined into a meditation method suitable for modern people.
When it comes to sitting and meditating, some may think that fortune-tellers also promote Qigong and meditation, so are we supposed to follow them? In fact, I