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“Chao Dialogue” is a collection of talks by Mr. Liang Shuming, which has been republished 11 times since its publication in 1937.
I first saw this book on WeChat Reading, and I listened to it for a while, and it felt very good, but after listening to it, I still had no idea, so I bought a copy online and read it carefully. I read it intermittently. There are reasons for the closure of the epidemic, but it is more because the book itself is a paragraph of conversation. Each conversation talks about different issues, many of which involve major issues in life, which often inspire my thinking and make my thoughts stay in it for a long time.
Most of the book is about life and being a man, but not about reasoning, but simply sharing his own life experience and insights, hoping to be helpful to the listeners. The words were so plain and intuitive, I felt the frankness in them, and I remembered the saying in the “Tan Sutra” that “straightness is Amitabha”.
The world sees me as a scholar, which I don’t want to accept. It would be best if I was a person with my own thoughts, and a person who always acted actively based on my own thoughts and insights all my life. ——Liang Suming, 1976
During the days when I was closed due to the epidemic in Shanghai, although I had a lot of free time, I didn’t read serious books much, partly because of emotional irritability and slack, but now that I think about it, I basically feel that reading books and studying are not much fun anymore. Because I was not able to act according to the meaning of my heart, what is the benefit of reading more books. If it is just a picture, it is separated from the actual application, and the fun of learning is far less than reading novels, watching videos, and playing games. Recently I have been recovering gradually, at first unconsciously. And now, I finally feel how happy it is to know my heart and act accordingly. I really hope that in the future, I can continue to maintain, “Seeing the nature of the mind, and always walking straight.”
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