One spring night, wandering on microblog, I overheard a song called "Good evening, Miss Spring". The melody of this song is extremely beautiful. The voice change in the chorus part is especially like the voice of a friend I know. In addition, the lyrics are very interesting. I began to pay attention to the author of this song "Five People". I don't know if "tiao" is a unique quantifier in Haifeng, Guangdong. Of course, the most frequently seen quantifier is "ge". However, the name of the group "Five People" is actually "Three People". Someone jokingly called it "Five People who are always short of two people".

I have always taken a "wrong path". When I was 15 or 16 years old, I was going to be a writer. At that time, I had determined my literary style of "writing tragedies under the cover of comedy, and keeping the core of tragedy in the absurd reality". Therefore, I always believed that Wang Xiaobo's "The Golden Age" was still lacking, I remember that when I was turning over the shit yellow book on the double bed of the engineering college, I felt that I could not read it anymore when I saw the end of it. The absurd humor in front almost reached my ideal state, The end I thought of at that time should be: "When Wang Er and Chen Qingyang were in Dunlun Hotel, they struggled for a long time without changing due to lack of lubricant, and finally Wang Er watched her leave by train." Without any lyric, they quickly ended up. My explanation is: "The golden age of 21 years old feels that he will continue to be vigorous forever, and he can't do anything without auxiliary tools at the end of the story." The time "flowing sense" and "the tragic core of aging" must be extremely shocking.

What prompted me to write this blog was that I heard the latest single "First Love" by five people in the morning. The lyrics of this song are particularly in line with my literary aesthetic preferences mentioned above. The lyrics are said to be based on an article News report : A truck driver who made some money from traveling around didn't pay attention to the height limit and stuck his car under the bridge pier. The driver was slightly injured and squatted on the roadside crying. When the reporter interviewed him, he said that it was because he was sad when he learned about his first love and marriage. He was in a trance and had this accident.

The opening part of the lyrics: "A truck ran into the viaduct and got stuck in the pier. A young man, holding his head in tears, finally made money after many years of traveling around." , returning to his hometown to find his first love. " These short lyrics can quickly move people's hearts, because such scenes are too common: a dumb, poor, jingling fool Fork, fell in love with a girl. The girl said that my parents didn't agree with us because they hated you for being poor. In your country's unique culture of marriage as a transaction, this scene It often occurs in most urban and rural fringe areas. As soon as the young man's hormone came out, he began to swear, "Men are determined to be relevant, and they will not pay back if they don't earn millions Where is the green mountain in life? " Then the story version that can be heard basically is that the young man made money and the girl married someone else. I sometimes think when I'm free How can the bug in this story be solved to achieve the goal of "a young man will earn money, and a girl will not marry another person"? After thinking about it, we can only "forcibly occupy the pit to make a mess Go out ".

This story is very dramatic when coupled with an absurd scene: the young man stuck his car in the pier. When I wrote here, it suddenly occurred to me that although this scene is absurd, there is also a possibility that this car is in a dilemma under such circumstances. Is there also a symbolic meaning that the young man "is disillusioned with the ideal of fighting for it, and can neither marry a girl nor turn back". Of course, far fetched explanations can always find various reasons. I always avoid this, which is just a possibility that suddenly occurred to me.

But the following lyrics, I think, still have a feeling of joining the melody, that is, the lyricist comforts the hero in the story with two sentences: "Hey, my friend, I wish you all the best and have a happy life; hey, my friend, the sun will still rise for you tomorrow. If I were to write, I might delete these two sentences and add this scene: a young man is sitting in the car calling her first love friend, asking her to come out for dinner, and in his tone, he should show that he is now rich. Then his girlfriend told him that his first love had been married.

The next part of the lyrics is the same as the story version I said earlier: "My girlfriend's home has been demolished, and his hometown has also changed. He was sad to learn that she had already married. He left the county in a van, and wanted to go to the seaside to blow the wind. All the past events in his trance came to his mind."

In the last part, I think it is OK to add the lyricist's comfort to the chorus or change it to a scene of scenery, but I always think that the creator should not express his feelings in his works in a higher literary realm. I've always listened to songs with great attention to the lyrics. Of course, if you want me to say one, two, three or four words on the song, I don't have that ability. Many of the lyrics of Wutiao people are very interesting and beautiful. For example, there are three lyrics in the song "The Moon in Dongguan": "The moon in Dongguan is like a small boat, carrying a group of amorous chivalrous men, wandering on the gentle river." I think this can be elected as the first batch of "forbidden songs" in the city song of Dongguan or the red headed documents of "Anti pornography and Anti Africa Office"; The lyrics of My Hair Is Blown Up Like This are also very simple: "Look at the wind, sometimes it blows east, sometimes it blows west, my hair is blown up like this", a Guangdong night market The image of disco youth is on the paper. Sometimes they also write some realistic songs, such as "Ghosts", describing a ghost whose finger tendons were broken by the city management (Guangdong slang, roughly meaning mobile vendors). In order to avoid the review of the key words of Netease Cloud Music, they even changed the word "city management" to "Chen Guang" in the lyrics, In Good evening, Miss Spring, there is a sentence: "Has Mr. Mayor forgotten you? He once said to you that dear Spring Girl will always love you here". I particularly want to know where "here" is? They also wrote some biographies of the bottom citizens, such as Liu Delong in Tropical Zone, Ah Long in Brother Long's True Love, Bing Yao in Ah Bing Yao, and Lee Abe.

As a young man in your country who was deeply influenced by Marx's theory and Mao's concept since childhood, I didn't believe in meditation at the beginning. For those who get from yoga, sitting meditation and other forms Some mysterious power, my point of view has always been that this fool has been cheated by himself or others, which is like the "placebo effect" in psychology, telling you that what you eat is It seems that the "Ren Du two pulse" was suddenly opened, and in fact, it really works.

Later, when I gradually changed my view and the nodes of events, I probably remembered the following things:
One day, I suddenly found that the singer Andy Lau actually believed in Buddhism
2 Qingming Ancestor Worship may be just a form of people's mourning
3 Li Shutong, the Hongyi Master, a brilliant person who has been successful in poetry, calligraphy, painting, music, drama and seal cutting, also believes in Buddhism
4 Haizi thought he had a "small Sunday" before he committed suicide

You can see from the countless great philosophers we admire, we found our identity, and then renewed our view: people should have some metaphysical pursuit in life 。 After that, I have a new understanding of people's religious beliefs. Although I still do not believe, I will never say anything in the home of a believer in Jesus Jian Superstition, a silly remark in a Muslim restaurant saying how painful it would be if you could not drink in your life.

On a dark night, I watched a movie called Jobs. Although I was never a fan of fruit, I saw that an awesome entrepreneur also believed in Buddhism It's not clear what the difference is between Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, etc., but I think I can go and understand it. Then I read the Vajra Sutra. The main reason is that there is not much text in this sutra, but as always, I am unfamiliar with Buddhist terminology and cannot understand it. In another accident, I read what Nan Huaijin said in the Diamond Sutra. Although I thought Nan Huaijin was a fool later, at that time, I still explained the Diamond Sutra like a novel I was very interested in it. Although I still could not understand it, I would never use it as a "life guide" like Wang Shuo later. It has not yet reached that stage. I don't know whether it's Steve Jobs or A book called Junlong Suzuki's "The Beginnings of Zen" recommended by the biographer of Jobs. The title of the book is very good. I read the beginning and knew a word, that is, we read《 In Journey to the West, the sitting method of the Tathagata is called "falling and sitting", and others are almost forgotten. Later, I think that a person who has not received religious training since childhood can recognize In a word, if there is no major setback in life, it is almost impossible to have religious beliefs.

The above may be my own "superego" experience. I don't remember who said that life is a huge quantum system, and one day they will meet again, Joe Booth said the same thing in his speech at Stanford. He said that you learned some useless things at the beginning, but I don't know when they will come into play Well, the old man has a lyric that says, "You go your way, I also go your way". This year, I started meditation, and generally formed a habit that I can spend at least two hours every day Sit there for ten minutes to half an hour without moving, and only pay attention to your breathing.

There is a word called "metacognition", which is interpreted as cognitive cognition, or to make you aware of your cognition, which is like when we start learning without any deduction process We should learn the axiom of "horizontal, vertical, and inflection" of Chinese characters, and the alphabet and phonetic alphabet of English. What's the usage? I don't know if you have ever had the experience that you have quarreled with others countless times Will there be a moment or two when you lose control of your emotions? Although the car would still make a lot of noise when it could not stop braking, there was a moment or two You have the knowledge of "I realize that my emotions are out of control". This knowledge is metacognition, and meditation has a great function to enhance your metacognitive ability and let you Can better control your emotions. Note that this is just one of the functions. My meditation method is very simple, and after six months of practice, I don't think it is It is necessary to be too complicated.

1 Sit still (no matter what position)
2. Close your eyes (some people say that it's OK to open your eyes, but I can't do it for the time being. It's better to close your eyes)
3. Focus on your own breathing (it may be hard to understand. I have looked at many methods, but the general meaning is that you don't want to do anything, just stare at your own breathing I don't think it's necessary to count. In the beginning, you will be distracted. It doesn't matter. You can come back when you realize that you are distracted.)
According to my experience, basically at the beginning, set it to about 15 minutes and stick to it for about 10 days and a half months, which will have a very obvious effect, and then gradually increase the time. I now It usually takes 35 to 40 minutes.
Let's talk about the effect:
Even in winter, if you sit in this way for about forty minutes, your forehead will sweat
2. Cold, stuffy nose and so on. According to this method, you can breathe easily
3. Emotional control is getting better and better. When you get angry, it is basically like a pop-up window on the computer: you are going to lose your temper
4. The focus on doing things is getting stronger and stronger. In the past, it was almost necessary to brush the microblog after sitting there reading for 30 minutes, but now it can be improved to an hour at random

Now psychology has a good explanation for this practice method, which originated from Buddhism. If you are interested, you can search for "culture" under the English entry of Wikipedia