2 Fear of life
Zhang Quanmin
Before his death, Master Hongyi repeatedly told his disciples to put his body in a niche, and a bowl was placed under every corner of the niche, which was filled with water to prevent ants and insects from being burned innocently when they climbed onto the corpse. After reading the biography of Master Hongyi several times, I am always deeply moved by Master Hongyi's deep sympathy and awe for life.
When I was in high school, rats often came out to steal food in the corner of my backyard. I don't know why, a cruel idea came to my mind, quietly hiding by the wall, waiting for the mouse to come out and scald it with boiling water. As a result, a big mouse was scalded by boiling water and shrank into the hole in the wall with a scream. I don't know if it is dead, but I didn't realize my cruelty at that time, because "when a mouse crosses the street, everyone shouts", in the eyes of human beings, the mouse seems to have a thousand reasons to die. However, it was two months later, which aroused my greatest touch and regret: I saw the big mouse in the backyard again. It is still alive, but its body is covered with white spots left by burns, but the most painful thing is that it is still pregnant with a little mouse, with a big belly, slowly looking for food on the ground. I can't express my feelings at that time. I just feel that the word "life" suddenly stands out in my heart. I just feel how despicable my behavior is. This feeling may seem ridiculous to others, but for me, it was at that time that I gradually felt the meaning and weight of life.
French thinker Schwaetzer once wrote in Fear of Life: When he volunteered to go to Africa to practice medicine, one evening, he saw several hippos swimming side by side with their boats in the river and suddenly realized the loveliness and sacredness of life. As a result, the thought of "fear of life" suddenly appeared in his mind and became the cause he tirelessly advocated and pursued since then.
In fact, only when we have awe of life, will the world show infinite vitality in front of us, and we will always feel the nobility and beauty of life everywhere. Small ants moving on the ground, birds singing on the branches in spring, antelopes running at the foot of snow-capped mountains on the plateau, whales swimming in the sea, etc. , have enriched the life world. We will always get the epiphany and joy of life through experience.
Therefore, whenever I read those stories about life, I always feel the unbearable weight of life in my heart. For example, in the Sahara desert, the female camel jumped into the pool in order to let the young camel drink the water that could not reach; In order to let the young antelopes escape, the old antelopes jumped on the cliff one by one, and let the young antelopes jump to the opposite hill with them as springboard at the moment of falling; When the eel is fried in the oil pan, it always bows in the middle, just to protect the fish eggs in its belly; A female wolf looked at the little wolf who died in the hunter's trap, sobbing and howling in the cold moonlight ... In fact, it is not only human beings who have the divine glory of life.
Sometimes, we fear life to love human beings more. Feng Zikai once advised children not to step on ants with their feet and not to kill ants with fire or water. He believes that he did this not only because of sympathy, but also because he was afraid that the child's little cruelty would expand in the future, so that he would fly a plane to bomb innocent civilians.
Indeed, we are afraid of all life on earth, not only because human beings are compassionate, but also because their fate is human destiny: when they are all killed, human beings are like the last domino, and then fall down.
(Original Prose)
Xia Wei was diagnosed with malignant myeloma in 2005. Her husband couldn't accept the cruel reality and left her and her daughter. Her 70-year-old mother takes care of her. Strong, she returns the people who care about her with a smile. On August 4th this year, under the care of all walks of life, Wei Xia was sent to Wuhan Changhang General Hospital for treatment. During this period, she signed a volunteer letter for human organ donation, and volunteered to donate organs such as heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, cornea, bone and skin with her body.
Xia Wei died suddenly one day on 20 10+0 17 10 at the age of 33. Her organs and corneas were soon used in three critically ill patients, and 8000 square centimeters of skin was preserved, which could save the lives of three to five burn patients. Wei Xia left, and her spiritual wealth remained in the world forever. Finally, let's revisit Wei Xia's immortal voice:
Wei Xia: "I just thought about this idea briefly. Sometimes money can't be solved, and this thing (body) can't be given by the living. If I die one day, I can donate it to help others. "
-"The Love of Life"
Wei Liu, a "brokeback pianist", is a musician and the first season champion of China's Got Talent. A life sentiment: "I have only two ways in my life, either to die quickly or to live wonderfully!" " Widely acclaimed, the spirit of perseverance and positive optimism touched the whole world, and foreign media rushed to report it and became a new generation of "spiritual idols" in the hearts of the world. 65,438+00 years old, lost his arms by electric shock; 65,438+02 years old, learned to swim; 14 years old, national swimming champion; 65,438+06 years old, learned to type; 65,438+09 years old, taught himself to play the piano; And in a short period of one year, he can play the piano music "Wedding in My Dream" which is equivalent to the professional piano player's level 7. In 2008, together with Andy Lau, we cheered for the Olympic Games and collaborated on the song "God's Will". 20 10 won the first season "China's Got Talent Show" of Dragon TV.
-"Life Symphony of the Brokeback Youth"
5 Wild animals
Tian Lei
Once, I was deeply attracted by Animal World on TV, although I didn't like watching TV that much (and it was an enduring popular program). I like it, not because I seldom see the freshness of these fierce large wild animals, but because of the freedom and ferocity of galloping between heaven and earth in the wilderness, the will of life to defend life and hard foraging, and the independence, self-esteem and self-confidence of that life in me.
I once saw a photo and was very excited about it. Those are a pair of snow wolf eyes, staring at me intently, firm, deep, heroic and breathtaking. It has accumulated great strength, ready to attack or respond to attacks for food at any time, and defend its existence and dignity.
I have also seen a photo of two zebras galloping in the desert, and the dust raised on the ground highlights their unrestrained upward momentum of holding their heads high and screaming; It is magnificent and heroic, and it is more and more stirring against the background of lead-gray dark clouds, just like a thrilling battle song on a dusty ancient road.
This is a cold and oxygen-deficient zone with an altitude of more than 5000 meters. Any animal may die of hypoxia, and the existence of life is extremely difficult. However, with their strong desire and unyielding will to survive, they still migrate on a large scale, struggling to find water and grassland, and stubbornly living in dangerous silence, forming a life melody that beats on the vast grassland and becoming a life landscape on the beautiful grassland.
Appreciation, there is. After all, in the city, living in a reinforced concrete space, you need to face and cope with the pressure at work and the competition between people. It is extremely rare to have a chance to see wild animals. Especially large wild animals; Not to mention witnessing and personally feeling the heroic spirit of galloping freely in mountains, grasslands and wilderness.
But more often, it is often infected by this wild passion; Eager to be as energetic and passionate as they are; Listening to their strong rhythm and melody of life, and swinging strong responses and beliefs in the depths of the soul can be traced back to the sincere belief in life born in the primitive human period, and finally realized life.
It is precisely because of the existence of other creatures in nature (especially wild animals) that human beings are no longer lonely in this world. Wild animals are not only friends of human beings, but also equal lives like human beings in the world, with personality, soul and passion for publicity-passion for their own life dignity and pursuit of struggle.
Freedom, self-confidence, unrestrained, passion, life should be like this. Without wild animals, we are isolated from nature by civilization. How can we appreciate the wonderful life and understand the true meaning of life?
For nature, every creature is equal and free, and life is full of passion. Nature is full of cruel competition: there are proud victories, tragic failures and even more ruthless deaths; There is sweetness, more hardship and suffering; But in any case, you can't and won't live without passion.
The competition of nature is cruel and wild, but the whole nature is harmonious and perfect. Human beings come into this world, which is also an integral part of nature. Longing for wildness and returning to nature is a nature buried deep in human hearts.
Restrain yourself, be kind to creatures, respect life and protect nature. There can't be only human beings left on the earth, and the earth doesn't just exist for human beings.
Life is a beautiful net.
Yitong
When human eyes reach out into the universe, they find that they see endless desolation. When we look back on the planet where we live, it is a colorful and vibrant scene. For human beings living on land, we are surrounded by a green world, and this green world is composed of endless hundreds of millions of kinds of life-plants, animals and microorganisms. They are like a beautiful net, decorating this desolate universe.
However, among the 6 billion citizens in the world, how many people often realize this? How many people have enjoyed this beautiful garden provided by nature between eating, dressing, working and leisure? Have you ever thought about respecting life, cherishing nature and maintaining the long-term stability of the web of life?
Humans began to understand their negative effects on the earth, and the results were shocking: there is no pure land on the earth, the snow samples on Mount Everest contain mercury and manganese, there are deposits of lead and chromium on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the Antarctic penguins contain benzene. The Arctic clouds are getting thicker and more sour-in such a natural environment, hundreds of kinds of life are extinct on the earth every day ... The web of life is facing a huge man-made disaster, and the survival of the earth people is in jeopardy.
19 14 years, Scottish biologist Thompson first put forward the concept of "the web of life". Evans of the University of Michigan said that one day, our children and grandchildren will understand that animals have inalienable rights like people. Schwaetzer, a French scholar, put forward a brand-new ethical value of "reverence for life": when a person regards the life of animals and plants as important as his own, he is a truly moral person. In Heidegger's view, people, like animals and plants, are subordinate to the earth and nature. Man is not the master of nature and the earth, but the defender of them. People should learn to live poetically on the earth.
However, under the pressure of survival, when greedy material desires are rampant, the voice of great men seems so weak. At present, more than 100 species disappear from the earth every day, and another 145 species of mammals, 437 species of birds, 69 species of amphibians, more than 400 species of invertebrates and 250 species of plants are on the verge of extinction. The cruel reality sobers us up. The essence of environmental problems is not technical and economic issues, but cultural and value orientation issues. It depends on whether we have a sense of respect for life, the feeling of "loving our compatriots and caring for things".
In fact, under normal circumstances, the emergence of new species in nature is roughly the same as the decline of old species, but human factors have accelerated the extinction of species. Because each species is a repository of a large amount of genetic information, the extinction of each species is the cracking of a mesh in the web of life, which brings immeasurable harm to the whole life world. Because in a complex life system, it is difficult for us to calculate what the disappearance of a species far from human utility will bring to the final disappearance of the web of life.
An Indian chief named Seattle once said a thought-provoking sentence. I would like to dedicate this sentence to every living life and end this article: human beings belong to the earth, but the earth does not belong to human beings. Everything in the world is interrelated, just like blood connects all parts of our bodies. The web of life is not woven by human beings. Human beings are just a thread and a knot in this network. But everything that human beings can do will eventually affect this network and human beings themselves.
(Excerpted from Qingdao Environmental Protection, with changes)
7 Prohibition of cruelty to all animals (excerpt)
Mangping
People have many ways to learn and see how they see the world. If you think that everything in the world can be used by people and that people are the center and master of all living things, you will ignore the value of other lives and take it for granted that you will abuse and hurt other creatures with low abilities at will.
If we regard ourselves as a member of the same life on earth, we will find that many of our practices are worth reviewing. For example, doing so-called experiments with small animals in middle school is an inhuman design, which is a kind of harm to students' minds, rather than a healthy nutrition. Even some students have realized this. However, our education system and adult teachers are not reflected. A student from a middle school affiliated to a famous university made many representations with the school and the teacher because he opposed this cruel experimental class, pleading with the teacher not to hurt the frog, or to divide into groups and dissect a frog together, instead of a person. However, she didn't succeed in persuading, so she decided to refuse to go to school that day. This is the first time she has dropped out of school all semester.
I don't know whether her courage has attracted attention or become a truly meaningful obstacle to the next similar experimental class, but I am really proud of the love and courage of this middle school student. She doesn't bully because her life is weak, and she doesn't do it because she is so small.
At present, many countries have cancelled live animal experiments in primary and secondary schools. This is the result of environmental ethics and moral progress in recent decades. Biology has been established for many years and has written thousands of books. Now there are still various models, maps and audio-visual networks to learn. However, under the slogan of "catching up with the experimental level of developed countries", we should try our best to set up living animal experiments. Indeed, in the past history, some western countries have carried out countless experiments to kill animals. However, under the strong impact of animal protection philosophy and bioethics, animal welfare organizations have actually resisted.
With the great recognition, the brutal animal experiment class in middle school was gradually cancelled, and instead, it was to observe the life of animals in the natural environment or dissect animal carcasses to learn. Why do we have to do cruel experiments that are being abolished by others? What did you learn from torturing animals in middle school? Perhaps, what we need to catch up with is not the experimental level of biology class, but other things, such as the attitude towards animal life.
When Wen Shilin, a pioneer of environmental protection in Hong Kong, recalled how he embarked on the road of protecting nature, his biology teacher, his former biology professor, came to mind first. This foreign teacher is his first leader who cares about nature. On one occasion, they went to the coast of Hong Kong for a coastal ecological survey. Standing in the mud at low tide, the teacher told the students who were looking for biological samples: You can take them up for observation, but put them back when you are finished, because they belong here. We are observers of nature and should not destroy or disturb the balance of nature. Standing in the mud, the barefoot teacher has been guiding his students to live a life of respecting life and caring for nature.
I am convinced that this is education. Learn to be kind to nature and animals. No one is born with this attitude.
(Originally published in China Youth Daily)
8 Read Bi Shumin's "I am afraid of the process of life"
I knew Bi Shumin before he was a soldier. I dare not say that the green complex originated from Bi Shumin's novels, but this artistic form of novels has played a subtle role in clamoring for cognition, and of course Bi Shumin's "Regret for the Past Kunlun" cannot be excluded. After that, I read her Red Prescription and Save the Breast one after another, which was very shocking. As Wang Meng said, Bi Shumin has a way of thinking, writing and behavior that turns caring and pity for people into a calm prescription and integrates morality, literature and science. When reading Bi Shumin, the shock always comes from tenderness, tenderness, strength and thickness of a plain quilt.
The process of my reverence for life is not a novel or an essay, but a collection of influential speeches and interviews by Bi Shumin in recent years. Most of the books describe touching the inner wall of the soul and thinking about the meaning of life. In the literature section of pioneer bookstore in Wutai Mountain, I chose this one without hesitation, not only because of its title, but also because Bi Shumin, an intellectual female writer who once admired her, often wants to get close to her thoughts recently.
During my college years, it's hard to say that my growth has not been influenced by "Tales of Kunlun Wind" and "Red Square". I still remember such an atmospheric narrative "If it weren't for the snow in northern Tibet, if it weren't for the heroes who couldn't sleep under the snow and ice, if it weren't for my father's good eyesight …", there is such a special name "Jane Fangning". It has been ten years since I reread Bi Shumin. During these ten years, she studied for a master's degree and a doctor's degree in Beijing Normal University, and I joined the army with a pen and completed the same study career. If I used to read Bi Shumin's novels, what I read today is life itself. Bi Shumin is not only a doctor, but also a writer. He has a strong understanding of human nature. With a wonderful pen in hand, it can be expressed appropriately, and it is chewy and carefree to read. Her books can be read when she is young and when she is middle-aged. As for how to read them when she is old, it depends on her understanding.
Reading this book "The Process of My Fear of Life" in my spare time is not only a kind of spiritual warmth, but also a proof that my thoughts have matured from HarmonyOS system. For life and life, Bi Shumin and I have many similar understanding angles and handling methods. "Living on the road" and "paying attention to the quality of life" have always been her persistence and recognition, as has her understanding of happiness and happiness. Someone asked Bi Shumin, "How did you spend the low tide of your life?" Her answer is only five words: wait quietly. Isn't that what I came to when I realized it? I remember when I graduated from the doctoral forum, a younger brother asked, "It is difficult to write a thesis. How should I spend this process? " I only gave them one word: forbearance. The most essential things in life are often unpretentious, and the truth of life does not need gorgeous packaging. Similarly, hit the floor. Mother always says: Don't panic, the days are longer than leaves. When I was a child, I was curious about how long a leaf was. How can we combine life? When you have accumulated a weighty life past and understood the hardships of life and life, you will naturally understand the truth. So I'd rather listen to my mother's nagging than read Jing M.Guo's books.