A book that might actually turn your three views upside down

There is always a mysterious and profound book that I can't let go of. Apart from Buddhist scriptures, few books can make me feel particularly attractive. I now recommend you to read a book consisting of lectures and dialogues between Mr. Nan Huaijin and Mr. Bao ZhuoLi about some religion, philosophy, psychology, and physical and mental health, Dialogue on Cultivation and Certification for Modern Buddhist Learners.

This book was bought around 2010, from some bookstore in 798. I read it at the time and then put it on the shelf. Recently, I suddenly wanted to read it again.

The book is like a collection of dialogues, especially easy to understand, but the content is profound, while not boring, very attractive.

Mr. Nan Huaijin is who everyone should know, the famous master of national education, proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, literature, history and philosophy, as well as medicine, astronomy, divination, kendo and so on. And the Tibetan Gunga Living Buddha issued a certificate to Mr. Nan - he is the recognized guru of all Tibetan Tantric sects.

Another interlocutor in this book is Mr. Bao Zhuoli, an American who graduated from the prestigious Cornell University in the United States with a master's degree in mechanical engineering and financial management. At the time this book was written, he would have been working on his PhD at Cornell University, and he was working on Wall Street in New York. He used to practice Buddhist Tantra, and after meeting Mr. Nan Huaijin in the United States in 1986, he quit his high-paying job on Wall Street to focus on practicing Buddhism with Master Nan.

It sounds like the plot of a modern version of a novel about cultivating immortality. However, from the side, we can see that Mr. Nan Huaijin really is not only can be described as highly respected and knowledgeable. It can be said that he is not an ordinary person. We can see that Mr. Nan Huaijin wrote another book, "What does the Diamond Sutra say".

If ordinary people look at this book, they may think, well, there is a lot of content, it is incredible. But Master Nan is very wise. A lot of the things he talks about, although people may think it's amazing and unbelievable, the text seems really smooth, in-depth, unfolding feeling. It's really graphic: a very wise teacher, lecturing to students who not only get it, but feel it's interesting and engaging. The key is to feel that the book is no nonsense, the language is very concise, even with examples or rhetorical questions and so on, but also feel very natural, a sense of breath.

Too many novels or too many books, not to see, but after reading the feeling is, very "write", very do. And this kind of language fluent and natural book, each paragraph of the book, really is too rare, too rare. Probably because he has a good grasp of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, traditional culture, and much of classical China, Master Nan's book expands on many other points of knowledge or things that we have not thought about before. It is worth mentioning that many of the stories or biographies of practitioners are written in a particularly interesting way, like novels, but also like science fiction or the now popular immortal cultivation novels. According to the Southern Master it was, it was hilarious. But actually all real things.

The Lama Sutra wrote many years ago that some of the very unreliable qigong, spiritual clubs, and so on that are going on in society right now are all representations of the devil.

By the way, this book also embodies within it that the concept of time, as we have always understood it, also does not exist. As an example, let's say when we are reading a very good book, we feel that time passes very quickly; and then let's say when we are waiting for someone, we feel that time passes very slowly. For example, some masters can actually be in meditation for more than two hundred years. Then there are those who look particularly young.

Too many marvelous and incredible things, too many.

Anyway, this is a book that overturns our three views, and I especially recommend reading it.