Chapter 33 halved watermelon

I moved a small bamboo chair and sat outside the study, facing the warm autumn sun. I was feeling comfortable. Xiao Gan, a village friend, came to greet me and suggested with concern: "You can also do some activities!" I told him that I was doing activities, but he didn't understand , I asked him to sit on the side of the pony and explained to him: there are two types of activities, one is physical activities, the other is mental activities, neither of which can be neglected.People who have not yet retired can be said to be working every day. Labor is the most valuable activity. We generally divide labor into physical labor and mental labor, but labor in this sense is basically skills. In professional work, mental workers often only display their knowledge and skills.In other words, in a profound sense, labor

In other words, there are two kinds of activities, one is for earning a living, and the other is for nourishing the soul. I am retired now, and the salary is good. I don’t have to work for a living anymore, but I can’t stop the activities of nourishing the soul every day. Xiao Gan laughed, saying that what you said was like a tongue twister!I didn't understand anything else, but I think that if you use your brain so hard, the effect of preventing Alzheimer's disease must be good! I also laughed, indeed I expressed an original simple truth too fancy.I chatted with Xiao Gan about a documentary program I saw on TV that day.It is about the doctors of Beijing Anzhen Hospital miraculously resuscitating a patient who could be defined as dead according to clinical medical standards after three hours of continuous efforts.The 45-year-old Beijing citizen had a sudden myocardial infarction. During the treatment process, he also suffered from lung problems. His heart and lungs failed, so that a straight line appeared on the ECG monitor. After he was injected with drugs to dissolve blood clots, Several male and female doctors took turns to give him physical compression, trying to restore his heart's self-pumping ability. Half an hour, forty minutes, one hour, two hours... There was no hope at all, and, at that In this case, even if there is some recovery, it is likely to cause a vegetative result.The reporter who interviewed the doctor afterwards asked them: Why do you still try so stubbornly to snatch the patient back from the hands of death when the legal death standard has been greatly exceeded?Several doctors answered in different words, but the meaning is the same, that is, they think that the patient is still so young and the pillar of the family. From the perspective of cherishing a life and caring for a family, as long as there is even a gossamer-like hope , they must never give up.Apparently, there was a noble power that transcended medical achievements and other worldly utilitarianism to support and encourage these doctors. In the end, a miracle happened. The heart of the man who had died for three hours recovered. Tian opened his eyes and regained consciousness.

I told Xiao Gan that these doctors are so cute. From the pictures on the screen, we can see that surgeons like them do all-round physical and mental heavy labor. Using the ancient pressing method, the tenacious vitality of the patient's own body is the basis for the reason why they can create miracles, and the mental activities or spiritual habits they must have in their non-working hours should be said to play a very important role. role. Xiao Gan said yes, they are usually free and have nothing to do, and they will definitely be like you. They look like they are doing nothing, but they are actually doing spiritual exercises!I said that the so-called spiritual exercise is actually the thought as a verb.Cherishing life and caring for others is a proposition that is worth pondering over and over again, and constantly strengthening and improving.

The relatives of the man who wandered between life and death for more than three hours, especially his wife, also showed an extraordinary spiritual state during the whole rescue period, cooperated with the doctor's every medical measure, and did not express their pain or even despair to the doctor and the doctor. issued by the hospital Vent, and do not impose their own expectations or even fantasies on the doctors to make them feel heavy pressure.When she learned that taking thrombolytic injections might cause vegetative consequences, she calmly signed the usage sheet, saying that if her husband became a vegetative, she would not blame God or favor others, and would serve him for the rest of her life.This shows that she is a woman who has not only feelings but also thoughts.

The man who escaped from death, when he regained consciousness, the first thing he said to his wife was: "Buy a watermelon, half-pushed." no memoryHe said nothing.However, his recovered consciousness was precisely linked to before the onset of the disease. As a man supporting a not-so-rich family, he never forgot to be frugal. Row".It can be seen that in addition to earning a living, this man also has a very conscious practice of spiritual cultivation, which is what we often call self-cultivation. Sitting next to the big willow tree, Xiao Gan and I were speechless for a while.The golden wind brings coolness, singing encouraging verses for our silent spiritual practice.