Douban 8.7 points "Distant Savior"

On the cover of "The Distant Savior", there is a sentence: This is a novel that can be proud and exclusive, and it is also a perfect masterpiece that can be met but not sought. Indeed, this book uses a story of love and business to study China's traditional culture, explore human nature and realize life. Classify cultural attributes as the cause and effect of all success or failure, interpret worldly law and secular law with the strategy of business operation and the love between men and women, and integrate life, love, values and Buddhism and Taoism into one, showing unspeakable Zen. It is more like a philosophy book than a novel.

When I first saw it, I just stepped into the workplace. My predecessors told me that every year I read this book, I will have different feelings. When you really understand what the book says, you will be invincible in your career and life.

The author Doudou, born in 1970, is extremely low-key. Up to now, three famous novels have been published, namely Betrayal (2000), Distant Savior (2005) and The World of Red Dust (20 13). Among them, Betrayal is the first novel published, and it has also been adapted into a TV series of the same name, starring Summer Xu and Weizi. The second novel, The Distant Savior, was adapted into Heaven, starring Wang and Zuo Xiaoqing, and the original work was highly restored.

I. Executive summary

The story tells the story of Ding Yunying, a former senior trader of private equity fund, a business "ghost talent" with different values and ways of thinking from ordinary people. When trading private equity funds was forced to stop living in seclusion in the ancient city, in order to create a myth for criminal police girlfriend Rui, a commercial war between Yunda Company and industry giants was planned in the audio industry, which was a brilliant move to subvert people's imagination and help the poor, and let the villagers in charge of audio processing get rid of poverty. After the myth was created, his girlfriend, Ray Xiao Dan, died in pursuit of the escaped prisoner. Since then, Ding Yuanying has left this ancient city.

The story is simple and clear. Through the shell of the story, the author actually wants to discuss three issues with us, namely "Savior", "Heaven" and "Cultural Attribute".

Second, who is the "savior"

The whole novel does not attempt to write Ding Yuanying as a savior. Ding Yuanying is more like an emissary between the weak culture and the strong culture, a person who can decipher the code of cultural attributes, and a person who can see the results before things happen.

Shortly after the novel begins, Ding Yuanying once said to Han Chufeng: Why is China poor? Poor in naive thinking, poor in the culture of looking forward to savior and redemption. This is a kind of dependence psychology and a manifestation of weak culture. I don't know when it started, but this weak culture took the upper hand of China's excellent traditional culture and ruled for thousands of years. Ding Yuanying's poverty alleviation work in Wang Miao Village is a gift to Rui Xiao Dan and an act to decipher the cultural code. In the simplest language, the author directly and unabashedly exposes the ignorance of China's traditional culture, and more directly points out the value judgment system in the bones of the Chinese nation. A culture of looking forward to savior and redemption keeps countless people in a waiting state in the foreseeable future, waiting for good luck, waiting for rebirth, waiting for a big pie to fall from the sky. If the status quo has changed, it is the gods; If there is no improvement, it will be regarded as the punishment of the gods, and you can only ask again and again and apologize again and again.

How should we treat this vast traditional culture of China? In the name of god, someone will always come to save me, and there will be an inertia in my heart. If I don't move, I won't starve to death, because the emperor's grace is great and I will be saved. We can see that thousands of temples are full of incense, and officials, businessmen and ordinary people ask for the blessing of bodhisattvas when they are in trouble.

The Distant Savior exposes the inferiority of this culture in a cold way. In the face of such naked confession, we seem unable to fight against the bad habits of thousands of years. Both ourselves and our grandparents have adapted to prayer. It would be shameful to tear China's traditional culture to pieces. What we sometimes think we don't know is not that we really don't know, but that we dare not admit it.

In fact, there are thousands of saviors. They are far away, but they are also close at hand. That's yourself. A person who accepts everything that happens and knows how to follow the rules is his own savior. He doesn't have to pin his hopes on anyone, just believe in himself and seek the most essential way. Along this road, he will become a god he can pray for.

Third, what is "heaven"

God is the Tao, and the Tao is nature, such as Tathagata.

This sentence involves the interpretation of various religions and summarizes the essence of Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism. What is God? God is the Tao, nature, Tathagata. Everything is the product of karma, and everything happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason, everything happens for a reason ... If this cycle of reasoning goes on, it will inevitably reach a logical origin, which is the first cause of everything. The first reason is that Christ is called "God", Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi are called "Tao" and Buddhism is called "Tathagata". It is a self-evident logical singularity, the cornerstone of deductive reasoning and the eternal truth. It is natural, so it is natural and true. This is the true face of the world. It has never been anywhere. It's there, whether you come or go, whether you like it or not, whether you like it or not, it's there. So it is called Tathagata. Heaven is the Tathagata, and the objective laws of nature in the universe are independent of human will. Believing in God, pursuing inaction and achieving universality are essentially the same thing, that is, living and doing things according to fundamental laws and universal laws.

This is heaven.

In fact, the world is not complicated, but we are not good at or willing to open the password of wisdom and make tenacious efforts. All passwords come down to the ultimate wisdom of human beings. All efforts are rooted in people's will. The ultimate wisdom is to use all the big horizons and different angles, through profound analysis and careful calculation, to crack the operating mode of human nature and laws, and the resulting magic password is the ultimate wisdom. If we can't crack the switches and passwords at all levels of society, we can't deeply grasp the deep laws of social operation. If we can't crack the greedy human nature, we can't gain insight into all the historical cycle laws rooted in it. In order to obtain the ultimate wisdom of human beings, we must have super willpower. That is superman's will. All the remains of God are just footprints left by people. The omnipotence of all gods is nothing more than the ultimate of mankind.

This is Ding Yuanying's understanding of "heaven" in his book: the natural laws of social development are independent of human will, and no one can resist them. What the author wants to express is actually to respect the law, especially if you don't understand it. You should also polish your eyes, straighten your mind and see the ins and outs clearly. Then follow this "day" to realize the fact that you are a "god".

Ding Yunying is a master who is deeply hidden in the city. As the commander-in-chief of the myth of getting rich in Wang Miao village, he strategized, silently laid out and accurately predicted the development of things, relying on market rules and insight into human nature. As a poor village, the only competitiveness of Wang Miao village compared with the outside world is the extremely low labor force, so they can manually process high-end audio and compete with the market at the same time. Therefore, relying on farmers' willingness to endure hardships and the application of rules, Wang Miao Village fought its way out.

As the villagers in Ding Yuanying and Wang Miao said, "the law of survival" is the law of shopping malls: "The law of survival is very simple, that is, people can't stand it, and talents can't stand it. Endurance is a line, energy is a line, and the distance between them is the probability of survival. If we can't bear what others can't bear, we will have more chances to survive than others. "

Many times, a person's Excellence is not reflected in academic qualifications and certificates, but in the use of thinking methods. He is a master who can see the essence clearly and act according to objective laws. Just like the movie "Godfather" said: People who spend half a second seeing through the essence of things and those who spend their whole lives not seeing the essence of things are doomed to be completely different fates.

Fourth, cultural attributes.

Cultural attribute is a concept put forward in The Distant Savior. The book has always mentioned "strong culture" and "weak culture":

Strong culture: a culture of truth, truth and law, a culture that believes in the laws of nature and respects heaven. Entrepreneurs in business, the highest maker of company rules, the centralizer of social power, and individuals who live by truth. It is the representative of a strong culture. The core of existence is that forbearance and ability determine the living space.

Weak culture: it is a culture favored by imperial power, a culture that expects others to redeem, and a culture that believes in mysticism, secularism and Buddhism. Company employees, people who live at the bottom of ignorance, individuals without plans, and middle managers who live on the platform by bragging and farting at some stage. Is the representative of the weak culture. The core of existence is: believers are saved.

From a philosophical point of view, culture includes the history of the intelligent group from the past to the future, all activities of the group based on nature, and the whole of all material appearances and spiritual internality of the group. This is an inherent habit formed under the mindset, which is not dominated by human will. People who can understand cultural attributes can judge the humanity of a person or a group according to cultural attributes, see through the development trend of things, and thus predict the outcome of things. The difference of "cultural attribute" determines the different resistance of different nationalities when they conform to the law.

There are three classes in the book, and their behavior and final outcome are strictly controlled by their respective cultural attributes. Feng Shijie, Ye Xiaoming and Liu Bing finally landed in Ding Yuanying. Although Feng Shijie has many small abacus in his heart, he is honest, good at doing practical things, and has no shortage of ability and mind. Ye Xiaoming is a clever man. His cleverness lies in that he always subconsciously maximizes his own interests. His shrewdness has damaged his character too much, and he has been popular for a long time and can't cope with more complicated situations. Liu Bing is a snobbish and lazy little man, apparently driven by a sense of justice and anger that he thinks is right, but in fact all he sees is money. They are all conservative and cunning. They have seen heaven and fallen into hell, so they are terminally ill with pain and doubt.

The fundamental significance of cultural attribute lies in the ideal tool to see through a person's education and living environment. In the final analysis, this is the result of the consistent combination of cognitive model, emotional model and behavior model, which is determined by the points you pay attention to in your mind.

Without that, the answer is everywhere. With this, the answer is everywhere.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) conclusion

This story, which seems to be wrapped in Zen between the lines, actually only reveals a very simple truth to us:

Myth = seeking truth from facts+respecting the objective law of the development of things

There has never been a savior, and there is no God in the world. Survival and development can only rely on ourselves.

After working for so long, I often get caught up in busy things and forget my initial heart. These two simple and direct truths forget the unity of knowing and doing. The savior in the distance is like a mirror, which shows me my heart. If you can really understand and use it, you can be invincible in the workplace. The truth is sometimes really simple.

Make an end with Zen words

At the beginning of meditation, mountains are mountains and water is water.

Zen enlightenment, seeing mountains is not mountains, seeing water is not water.

Zen Buddhism and enlightenment, see mountains or mountains, see water or water.

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