Light and heavy, big and small, cold and warm, beautiful and ugly, rigid and soft, good and evil, true and false, inside and outside, empty and full, with and without, receiving and releasing, virtual and real, same and different, right and wrong, difficult and easy, diligent and lazy, first and last, fast and slow, righteousness and benefit, reaching and poor, new and old.
Please choose a pair of words to express your opinion and start writing. Requirements: choose a good angle, clarify the style, and draw up a title yourself; Do not copy or copy; Not less than 800 words.
? Grasp the "light" and "heavy" of life
What lives here is not a plain, but sometimes mountains and sometimes bridges, just like some things are heavy for us and some things are light for the wind and cloud. Only by grasping the importance of life and facing it rationally can we roam freely between mountains and rivers.
Learn to "value", life is likely to get a leap in the realm and climb to the top. What is more important "value"? For Einstein, it is a deep excavation of the beauty of science; For Salinger, it is a watchman in the literary wheat field; For Van Gogh, it is to make art shine like a sunflower. Important things are different for everyone, all of which reflect the unremitting pursuit of ideals and eventually become milestones in their respective fields. It can be seen that only by focusing on ideals can life reach a new peak, and this road is full of dangers and burdens. "I'm afraid I don't deserve my pain," but Dostoevsky did it. He used his suffering and life to write the fate of the bottom, and his life was complete. Facing the "heaviness" of life, if we want to reach the ideal height, we must bear the corresponding "heaviness", and the result will surely make our life shine.
At the same time, learning to "look down" can make life free. Life is not free, life has given us many shackles, worldly fame and fortune, honor and disgrace gains and losses, which often become a stumbling block on the ideal road. Only by learning to bow your head can you move forward freely. When Wang Weixing was poor, he sat and watched the clouds rising in Ran Ran. Li Bai didn't want to be obedient and do things for dignitaries, so he rode a white deer to elegant play. Tolstoy put down his aristocratic status and went back to nature in the forest. They let go of things that hinder their progress and move forward freely on the ideal road. So free and easy, how can life not be called great freedom? Hugo said: "The mind is the shackles of human beings." If we want to untie this bondage, we must learn to look down on it, and let the mind really see where the really important things are compared with those trivial things, so that the road of life will be clearer.
In the final analysis, attaching importance to and belittling are unified after all. Seeing something clearly and attaching importance to something are all for going further and higher in life. This is the truth that Mencius sacrificed his life for righteousness. In order to live out its due value, we have to give up something to get something more precious. The criterion is our life ideal and pursuit. With such a heavy relationship, why worry that life can't be higher and farther?
Which is lighter? Which is more important? See clearly with a heart full of ideals and enthusiasm, and let the scenery fill the road of life!
Fast and slow
Sun Tzu's art of war says that "soldiers are expensive and fast", which is about the speed of using soldiers in battle; The proverb "haste makes waste" and "haste makes waste" tells the true meaning of slowness. "Fast" and "slow" are like a pair of enemies, each with its own half. And I said that speed has its own advantages, and the combination of speed and speed is the best policy.
Speed is a symbol. It represents the pace of the times. This is the only way to walk in the fast-paced today. We pursue speed and speed, and come and go in a hurry. Although sometimes we are helpless, we also enjoy it. Look at how much high morale has been inspired by the "Shenzhen speed" since the reform and opening up; Watching the climax of the Olympic Games, Bolt and Phelps used speed to conquer their opponents, conquer the audience and write history. Fast is a kind of progress, a kind of ability and an art, and we are closely following it, feeling the breath and charm of fast step by step. We need to hurry. We have to hurry.
Slow is an open mind. Don't look back at the modern history of China defeated by slowness, and don't worry that "quickness" will cool the warmth of the world. Walking through Qian Shan to play with water, slowness has already precipitated a coolness, which has made an open mind. Chew slowly, carve carefully, and slowly create eternal fine products, and slow fire is enough. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica took twenty years; Sima Guang wrote Zi Tong Zhi Jian 19 years, Sima Qian wrote Historical Records 13 years, and Cao Xueqin dreamed of A Dream of Red Mansions 10 years ... This is how it was refined. Openness and wisdom in slowness have already penetrated into the drip. Enjoy slowly, enjoy slowly, brew slowly, and gain a calm attitude towards life.
As everyone knows, the perfect combination of fast and slow is a kind of wisdom. While enjoying the fast and slow, we should find their intersection.
In the Chu and Han dynasties, each official showed his magical powers. Is "pawn" fierce or "car" fierce? One step at a time, but also brave, never looking back, fearless. What can you do if you go deep into the hinterland? This car is very aggressive and on the rampage. Anyone who sees it is afraid of three points. But in the bonfire battlefield, everyone is indispensable, and no one can tell whether it is fast or slow. At this time, the battlefield is the combination of the strength of the car and the soldiers, the speed is complementary, and the front is in charge.
Holding a good book, do you read quickly or chew over words? Read quickly in one breath, grasp the main idea of the text and understand the essence; Read slowly, feel between the lines and feel the subtlety between the lines. Obviously, both are indispensable, and each has its own advantages. This is the wisdom of unity.
Many things in life are fast and slow. Controlling rhythm and speed is a superb knowledge and wisdom. You can't blindly pursue speed or slow beat. When we are fast, we are fast, and when we are slow, we are slow. You know, the right speed is the real state.
Our life needs a combination of fast and slow, and so does life. Grasp the balance between fast and slow, and you are the real winner.
I have exhausted my whole life, but I have reached an ordinary life.
There is a saying that "sixpence is everywhere, but he looks up at the bright moon." This sentence means that people should resist the temptation of practical interests at their fingertips and have a detached and broader vision.
Sometimes, looking up at the moon is a luxury, because the fetters of interests are not so easy to break, especially living under a heavy burden.
Another sentence is: "I have exhausted my life's strength, but I have reached an ordinary life." The power contained in this sentence is only a supplement to the previous sentence.
Dear Secretary Jiao Yang and President Xu Ningsheng, dear teachers, thank you for calling me home from my alma mater and giving me this precious moment.
Dear students:
Congratulations on gathering here from all over the world to become a new generation of Fudan people. Hope is in you.
At five o'clock this morning, I walked alone in the campus for a long time and felt a special and long-lost peace and solemnity. I know that this kind of tranquility and solemnity can't be replicated anywhere else in the world. It is sealed in my heart and instantly activated by this familiar grass and trees.
Standing in front of the 3 108 amphitheatre and the Renzhong Academy in Building 7, I really have mixed feelings. In the mid-1980s, the material conditions were relatively scarce, and the gathering of friends was just a cup of yogurt in the dry training restaurant.
Sometimes, I plunge into the library with two pieces of dry bread and come out late at night. But in those years, Fudan's strong idealism, the lofty sentiments of a poor student, and the iron curtain that penetrated time still often beat my heart. It seems to remind me of what is really indelible in a person's heart.
Mr. Qian Mu once said that we should have warmth and respect for the history and tradition of our country and nation. Isn't our personal history true? In the more than 30 years since I left Fudan, whenever I was depressed, contradictory and hesitant, countless details of Fudan period and various teachings of gentlemen emerged from time to time.
It can be said that my alma mater has never stopped nourishing my soul and educating my soul, never stopped and will never end.
Students, you were born at the beginning of this century and are a brand-new generation. The continuous and in-depth reform and opening up has brought great progress to China society that has not been seen for thousands of years. The richness and diversity of material life and people's own living conditions have nurtured you.
You are the first generation born and raised in the information age. Generally speaking, this generation is open-minded, smart, sensitive, confident and independent.
My son is one of this generation. I have a habit that I have kept for more than ten years. At every critical moment of his study and life, I will write him a sentence for him to appreciate again and again.
When he was studying abroad, I wrote five words for him, calling on him not to be an "invisible man".
Why is there such a sentence? I warned him to keep a clear understanding and reflection on the highly information-based lifestyle of this generation.
Once, one of your colleagues described his state to me like this: he kept brushing the screen outside of sleep, knowing that most of the information was boring, even distorted and harmful, and still kept brushing.
But the more you brush the screen, the more hungry you are for information. Once the mobile phone leaves your hand, you will lose your mind. The accumulation of information not only does not bring inner enrichment, but always feels empty.
I know this is normal. The dependence on information consumption in this era is approaching a dangerous critical point. But that's not what really worries me.
I found that even in the face of rare and magnificent natural wonders, the elders in the family who are eager for affection, and the suffering of others, many people show a kind of indifference, a detached indifference, a sense of alienation from reality, and even numbness.
A high degree of informatization has the magical ability to effectively connect people from all corners of this planet, but at the same time it also intensifies the "island state" of each individual's heart in essence. So I warned my son: Don't be hollowed out by excessive consumption of material and news, and become an "empty man".
Of course, I don't deny that informatization has greatly promoted human development. This driving force is unparalleled and cannot be subverted. I am thinking, how can people not become fast-moving consumer goods in a highly information-based existence?
The more you are in the hustle and bustle, the more you need a really quiet heart. The more rapidly changing the times, the more we need a heart that really slows down. I expect my classmates to be such conscious people.
All the beauty in the world needs a high degree of concentration and long-term tempering. Reading for knowledge is no exception. Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that trees that grow too fast are hollow and their materials are useless.
In the information age, the psychological inertia of "quick success and instant benefit" in the whole society has actually been strengthened. I expect students to break free from this strong inertia.
The more humble and vulgar the words that disappear instantly on the screen of the times, the more people need the courage to "sit on the bench for ten years", abandon the immediate interests and the light of fireflies, and create spiritual products that can show the conscience and quality of an era and pass it on through this era.
The more a person feels empty, the more he needs another group of people to know what to fill this emptiness.
The more people no longer believe in anything, the more they think that "love", "ideal" and "faith" have become outdated, old and empty concepts, and the more they need another group of people to hold these words high above their heads.
These words are empty to people with bad hearts. For people with rich hearts, it is always flesh and blood and fresh.
For nature, for the change of reality, for the joys and sorrows of the world, our inner tentacles should feel it sensitively and closely, and give birth to a fresh sense of life, without over-reporting the pale "second-hand life experience" on the Internet.
Only in this way can we have a clear belief and not lose the inner heat of life.
What is the fundamental essence of education? The teacher present today has more authority to explain it than I do. My personal interpretation of it is nine words: "learning, success and love". Students choose their own majors according to their personal interests, ability structure and social needs, which is something to learn.
In the end, I have formed unique opinions in some special fields, made contributions, achieved a better self, and even become a unique self. This is remarkable. Fudan can also do this. There are many masters here, and the tradition of scholarship is deeply rooted.
The hardest and most important thing is "love". A person, without extraordinary persistence in seeking knowledge and truth, inner burning and indomitable perseverance, is naturally not worthy of a word of love.
It is naturally difficult to understand this realm without adhering to social conscience and justice and breaking through their own limitations. Love means dedication and a belief; It means that you may need to give up a lot, and you also need to have deep introspection ability to wake yourself up from time to time.
This must be a long and arduous tempering process. In today's world, some universities are great because more students on their campuses understand that the spirit of doubt in knowledge and study should be integrated with the confirmation of life value and the formation of faith.
Combine "cold-eyed" observation of science with calm exploration and enthusiasm for doing things. Combine the perseverance of pursuing truth with the life tenderness of caring for the weak and caring for the disabled and the lonely in life. Only in this way can the "love" heart not be empty. We will not become "invisible people".
Here, I also want to read the students two paragraphs from the famous book The Moon and Sixpence by the British novelist Mao Mu.
In a word, "there are sixpence everywhere, but he looks up at the moon." This sentence means that people should resist the temptation of practical interests at their fingertips and have a detached and broader vision.
Sometimes, looking up at the moon is a luxury, because the fetters of interests are not so easy to break, especially living under a heavy burden.
Another sentence is: "I have exhausted my life's strength, but I have reached an ordinary life." The power contained in this sentence is only a supplement to the previous sentence. Ordinary is what everyone wants to break through.
But the ordinary true taste and deep taste are exactly after the gorgeous and dull life. It is not enough for people to have a detached side, the ability to draw wisdom from the ordinary, and the humility to know the ordinary.
Students, four years later, when you graduate from Fudan University, there will be a strong spirit between you and me. Only in this way can the unique spiritual temperament of a great school last forever.
Thank you all. May every student have a bright future.