This post, which was born out of a similar need - I want to recommend the top best books I've read in the past few years, the most and most useful books, the ones that generate the most reading pleasure, to people who like to read. Those that I personally favor, but the general public may not like so much, those that are too difficult to understand, are not included.
This article, will be divided into the following categories to recommend: literature, Buddhism, psychology, enlightenment, history, growth.
Strictly speaking, this is not a novel, but a set of books that tell the history of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years in a humorous and playful way. I didn't read many extracurricular books in high school. Among them, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was my favorite, and it is still y imprinted in my heart.
Even though I have a lot of experience now, I still feel that this set of books is wonderful. The storytelling is so strong that it's never hard to read, but at the same time it's very profound. It is also a great way to deepen your understanding of human nature and Chinese history.
Unfortunately, it has been almost ten years since the last Ming Dynasty book was published. The author, Ming Yue, still hasn't published a new book, making those vertical writers famous and rampant. If anyone asks me now which author's new book I'm most looking forward to, I'll answer without hesitation: Mingyue.
Jin Yong's masterpiece. This book is very nice, especially moving. The words "The Sunflower Sword," "The East is Undefeated," and so on, have become part of the daily language of many Chinese people -- a realm only reached by top-notch fiction.
I once asked a friend who is also a big reader, "What book have you read more than twice?" He said, "The Laughing Stock," "The Laughing Stock" and "The Lost and Found". He said, "The Smiling Proud Wanderer and Those Things in the Ming Dynasty."
"Siddhartha" is about: the ups and downs of a passionate seeker's journey. The author is Hesse, a great German writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
There is a feeling in reading this book: Buddhism, Taoist philosophy, turns out to be connected with the highest truth in the universe.
Siddhartha is by far the most profound and potentially enlightening novel I have ever read, bar none.
From what I've seen so far, very few people seem to read Shakespeare's stuff anymore. Probably because Shakespeare is so far away and too highbrow. Instead, Marquez, Borges, Calvis ...... oh nononono, Calvino, etc. are hotter.
With all due respect, compared with Shakespeare, the three, Mar, Borges and Cal, can only be regarded as minor writers - this is the true feelings I generated after reading several of their major works carefully. As for those writers who are currently surrounded by the market and public opinion, I don't want to talk about them.
The Shakespearean Tragedies are Shakespeare's masterpieces, and 99% of people don't get it: in fact, the greater the person and the work, the closer it is to us ordinary people. Into the depths of Shakespeare's tragedies, you are bound to find places that give you a strong ****ing and great shock - something that is hard to come by in any other writer's book in the history of world literature.
The Matter of the Soul is an anthology of Stetson's essays. Perhaps there are still many people who still remember Shi Tiesheng from "Me and the Earth" because it was included in middle school textbooks.
In fact, the most valuable and remarkable thing about Tiesheng is his deep contemplation of many metaphysical issues.
When recommending Tiesheng's books to people, I always quote the following two paragraphs of my own:
Tiesheng walked into the hinterland of wisdom through rigorous contemplation. Through a pious soul, he glimpsed the ultimate truth. Embraced with suffering, lived with a sense of dignity, and died without fear - the depth of his comprehension of life and death is rarely matched in the world today. "Thinking of the extreme, life and death of the same", Shi Tiesheng's work, is a brilliant victory of human dignity.
Shi Tiesheng is quite good at metaphysical questioning and the search for ultimate answers. Through the logic of metaphysical thinking, he presented a wise understanding and through the words, every time to give people to the deep life inspiration. While delighting, one can also marvel at the greatness hidden in rationality and calmness.
One of the most serious mistakes a person can make while living in this world is to have a serious prejudice against Buddhism. It is not Buddhism that is lost, but ta opportunity to reap the benefits of inner peace and life's wisdom through Buddhism.
The book that really got me into Buddhism and made me marvel at it was none other than this book, What the Diamond Sutra Says, by Nan Huaijin. Note: The marveling here is not a rhetorical device, but a real experience. When I read Nan Huaijin's words, "How should the clouds abide? How should I subdue my mind? When I read Nan Huaijin's words, "One should dwell in this way and subdue one's mind in this way," an incomparably wonderful realization came to my mind.
What the Diamond Sutra Says is one of the best books on Buddhism. The author, Nan Huai Jin, is at the top of his game in the field of Buddhism.
The best book to remove the prejudice of the common man against Buddhism is not yet "What the Diamond Sutra Says", but this book "Monks and Philosophers".
This book is about dialogues between monks and philosophers. The monk is the philosopher's own son-- a twenty-something Ph.D. in biology-- a man with top scientific training in the West. Why did he suddenly decide to give up his scientific studies and choose to become a Buddhist monk in the distant Himalayas at a time when he had a very bright future ahead of him? Why is Buddhism and Buddhist studies so amazingly attractive? Isn't Buddhism a superstitious and backward religion? Was this doctor of science possessed? Has his sanity gone on vacation?
Monks and Philosophers is a wonderfully unusual collision between Western reason and Eastern wisdom, and it is very profound and compelling. Best of all, it goes a long way toward dispelling the common man's obscurantist ignorance and enormous prejudice against Buddhism.
What is the significance and benefit of eliminating the obscurantist ignorance and huge prejudice against Buddhism and Buddhist studies? It allows you to truly enter into Buddhism - a discipline that frees one from endless suffering and deep-rooted shadows, a discipline from which one can derive the peace, fulfillment, and joy that echoes our deepest nature. Truly entering into Buddhism can give you the hope of complete liberation from infinite confusion, suffering and emptiness.
This book, in 40 relatively popular experimental stories, tells the story of 40 of the most famous findings in the history of Western psychology.
If, before reading this book, your understanding of people and human nature was a 30 or 40 out of 100, then absorbing the essence of this book will instantly raise your score to 60 or 70.
Be aware, however, that it is not easy to thoroughly digest the essence of this book, as it requires repeated readings and deep contemplation on your part.
Love is the meaning of life for all people. But most people's knowledge and understanding of love remains at a very shallow level. This is certainly related to our education system.
Teachers and education authorities force us to spend hundreds of hours studying ideological and political materials. But they don't give us a good lecture on the art and learning of love.
Looking back decades later, the lack of a course on love in today's open university classes is probably as absurd as the common practice of women wrapping their feet around each other hundreds of years ago.
One way to get rid of this absurdity in advance is to read The Art of Love.
Poor self-control is at the root of most problems in human society. How can we improve our self-control? The book "Self-Control" gives very detailed, insightful and scientifically based answers.
While Self-Control is a bestseller, I think it is very informative. Reading it seriously will give you a great cognitive boost when it comes to self-control.
I read a similar book called Willpower, but found it to be better written than Self-Control.
Self-Control is one of the most, most useful books I've ever read.
The title is a bit chicken-soup, which is the fault of the domestic publisher and translator.The original version of the book, written in English, is called Dying To Be Me.It's the story of a cancer patient's near-death experience and miraculous recovery.
This is a book that refreshes one's view of life and death from the roots. At the end of the book, I even had the ecstasy of "I have no regrets in this life".
When I read the best part of the book, I felt an unprecedented sense of wonder in the depths of my heart and soul: I was so close to the heart of every person in the world. The "oneness of all beings" is not a concept or a falsehood.
It is not without its flaws, and there are indeed abuses in the book, but there is no denying that it is a wonderful, enlightening book.
It is not necessary to limit one's reading of Krishnamurti to this one. But this one, in both layout and chapter arrangement, is very much in tune with contemporary reading habits.
What is Krishnamurti -- one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century? -- Initially, when reading such an introduction, to be honest, I was a bit repulsed and even disgusted. But when I read Krishnamurti's words carefully, I realized that he really deserves this title.
"Krishnamurti advocated that truth is purely a matter of personal realization and that one must illuminate oneself with one's own light. His life's teachings were aimed at helping people to free themselves from fear and ignorance and to realize the state of compassion and supreme bliss."
Below, two doujinshi reviewers of the book.
If you are one of the human beings, you should read this book. It can let us know: where did human beings come from? Where will mankind go?
Truthfully, I am a bit surprised that this book was published. I was a bit surprised to see it published, because it is a bit "anti-human" in the sense that it makes a lot of criticisms of the human race as a whole. But I can't deny that the author has a point.
What's so great about this book? Three things: it is full of boundless love, magnificent in content and vision, and rich in amazing ideas and deep insights.
Reading it can greatly broaden our horizons and lead us to a deep awareness and introspection of ourselves.
May 27, 2017. Ke Jie finished losing, marking the complete entry of mankind into the age of intelligence.
The next few decades will see far more changes than the vast majority of ordinary people can imagine.
How should we embrace the changes of the intelligent era when we are, without realizing it, wrapped up in the intelligent era? How to seize the opportunities of the smart era? How to deal with the challenges of the intelligent era? --Through this book, Dr. Wu Jun gives a very sensible analysis and very clear answers.
Not only that, the author also profoundly discusses the close relationship between big data and machine intelligence, as well as causal thinking and strong correlation thinking - strong correlation thinking, which is a kind of change to the traditional way of human thinking.
The Age of Intelligence is a book that explores the not-too-distant future. Reading it is a real eye-opener. It's like 20 years ago, when 99.99% of the world didn't even know what the Internet was, and suddenly there was a visionary foreign expert patiently explaining everything about it to you.
Did you know? In the last year or two, knowledge payment has been quietly emerging, and one of the leaders is the get app founded by Luo Fat of Luo Alisi Thinking. get app's core brand is its paid columns, of which there are currently 25, priced at 199 yuan each.
Do you know how good Li Xiaolai is? He's not just the #1 seller of get columns, but he's the #1 who left #2 far behind. In less than a year, he made more than 15 million dollars on the column. What's even more admirable: he decided to donate all the income from the column. Because Li Xiaolai is the richest man in China's bitcoin, he's not even close.
Li Xiaolai's column is called The Road to Wealth Freedom. What does it mean to have freedom of wealth? It means you don't have to do things you don't like anymore for the money you have to live on.
But The Road to Wealth Freedom doesn't teach you exactly how to make money, it teaches you how to make yourself worth more. What's even more remarkable is that Li Xiaolai doesn't stop at the level of "worth", but goes deeper into the level of "personal growth" and changing the way of thinking.
The book is priced at $199, but after subscribing to it myself, I realized that it's really worth it. It's not like you're going to find anything like this on the book market right now. What does it feel like after reading hundreds of them? It's like taking more than 30 personal growth and wealth freedom classes in a row at Harvard University. In that case, this column is so cheap again.
The Path to Wealth Freedom, by no means, just brings you some inspiration on personal growth and wealth freedom and that's it. It upgrades your entire operating system - the fundamental way of thinking. Those of you with a discerning eye will surely be able to y recognize the immense value of this column.
This is not a book that talks about time management. Li Xiaolai emphasizes that time is not manageable, and the only one who can manage it is himself. This is a book that talks about how to get the mind liberated and how to grow personally. It is particularly deep and valuable.
Don't look at Li Xiaolai's fame is not too big. His level of sincerity and thinking ability, however, can leave his fellow writers far behind.
One Douban user, this is what he said about Making Time a Friend:
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