Before we talk about classics, let's talk about Li's birthday.

You must be familiar with Li Dan. Everyone has seen his popularity in recent years, so I won't go into details one by one. This year, he hit his face at the speed of light and said this in "Qi Yuanshuo":

Is he a Buddha?

A well-known media person who gnashed his teeth and stood on the stage with sharp words and hit the nail on the head, calling himself a Buddha?

I rarely read the wisdom books written by such young media people before, and it was just a coincidence to open the "La Jing".

But I have to admit, it reads really well. Simple and humorous, full of Christmas deconstruction, inversion and absurdity. It's not nothing to use it. He thinks you've been laughing long enough, and a small clip like a comeback will make people fall back to reality.

The background of Lajing is a temple. Buddhist temples with money in their bellies and monks in celery steamed stuffed bun who eat mutton.

Compared with a temple, it is more like a commercial charity full of rivers and lakes.

..... a charity, and all the money collected is used to raise its own monks.

This laid the overall temperament of this book: it is obviously the birthplace, but it is always in the world of mortals.

This may also be Li Dan's own temperament.

Li's birthday is undoubtedly the standard economic environment and cultural atmosphere of the new era created by a young man. He is, so are we.

As you can see, compared with previous generations, our generation played a lot of jokes.

For example, these fragments in La Jing:

Of course, this is all a joke. You can't take it too seriously

But sometimes it is serious.

You can't joke with me when I'm serious.

Moreover, in our world, this is an unwritten rule. The former, if you are too serious, you don't know how to read air; The latter, you kidding me, is a serious contempt for me.

Reading the word air, we all know that it comes from the Japanese word "empty". Japan is a country that pays great attention to whether it can read the air. The antonym of "empty" is "empty", which means that people can't read the atmosphere and can't speak. Now it is widely spread and used on social networks. Its English abbreviation is KY.

When I first came into contact with social networking sites seven or eight years ago, people began to use the word KY, but at that time, the use of KY was far less popular than it is now. In recent years, words such as reading empty and KY have spread rapidly on major social platforms, and have been widely accepted and used by the public. This shows a phenomenon: our generation has suffered or passively suffered more social pressure than the previous generation.

Secondly, compared with the previous generation, our "self-esteem boundary" is narrower.

When Maslow put forward the hierarchy of needs theory, he never imagined that this theory would be repeatedly put forward by people from all walks of life and fields in the Internet era decades later.

In our country, most young people no longer worry about their own survival, but begin to consider higher-rise buildings: individual uniqueness and self-identity. From the response to the debate topic "I don't fit in, should I change" in the final of The Story of Chipper a few days ago, it can be seen that more people pay more attention to building their own "uniqueness" rather than "gregarious" and are more inclined to seek the identity of their own group. I'm serious with you. You can't joke with me, but pay more attention to the performance of self-identity.

This is because our basic survival needs have been met. When we are less worried about food and clothing, we will consider these problems that people have not considered before. These things are not "looking for trouble", "asking too much of others" and "excessive self-awareness" in the eyes of some people, but an aspect brought about by the overall development of China.

The above, from the "La Jing". The birth of the "serious and joking rules" of our generation is actually traceable.

Finally, talk about Buddhist youth.

In fact, La Jing is divided into two aspects. One is about the daily life of temple members, and the other is about the emotional story of the protagonist and Xiaobei.

Although life and emotion are two aspects, they are the same as described in the book: the attitude of Buddhist youth towards life and emotion is very unified. They ... no, or us. Sometimes we meditate and sometimes we dance.

As can be seen from the above paragraphs. Sometimes we ridicule, sometimes we mourn, sometimes we are impulsive, and we want to do something practical.

I thought of this place from Lajing. Let's talk about life today and talk about emotions in the next article.

After 00, I began to go to college, and after 90, I began to step into the society gradually. As the main body of Buddhist youth, the post-90 s generation, which has entered or is about to enter the society, is becoming more and more Buddhist in the face of more and more realistic life.

What is the concept of Buddhism? We all know, but we don't quite understand. Baidu Encyclopedia defines young Buddhists as young people who advocate all lifestyles and lifestyles that go with the flow, are not demanding, advocate muddling along and don't care much. Wikipedia defines Buddhism as an attitude towards life, which means having everything, belittling everything and wanting nothing.

To sum up, Buddhist youth are a group of people who have a weak sense of desire and are unwilling to toss about easily.

But interestingly, it is precisely this group of people who call themselves "Buddhist youths" who will suddenly feel that such a mediocre life is really boring at a certain moment and will want to fight hard, make some changes and be full of enthusiasm.

Personally, I like to joke that my living condition is: "intermittent progress, continuous mixed eating and waiting for death."

I don't want to represent most people, but the reality is that most people do.

I don't want to simply say that it is because the post-90 s are in an embarrassing stage, which is too general.

Say something realistic. I don't know how many post-90s are worrying about the house problem now. As a standard born in the mid-1990s, although most people around us are still worried about finding jobs and changing careers, those students who got married at the earliest or are ready to get married have already begun to worry about their houses.

Take the most common example around me. One of my junior high school classmates ended her five-year relationship with her boyfriend one year after graduation and began to get married. When two people get married and buy a house, both parents pay half down payment, and the young couple pay it back monthly.

Two people live in third-tier cities, doing stable jobs and holding stable income. They often joke that they are buddhas, and buddhas want nothing.

But I know this is not the case.

Before marriage, girls actually had many pursuits: to be a middle school teacher every day, but they were not happy in their hearts. The repeated environment day after day made her feel at a loss, thinking that her life would be like this in the next few decades, and her eyes were dark. She likes to do design, even if it is only to revise the manuscript again and again according to Party A's requirements. She likes to keep her head down and try to do her job well, instead of abandoning her lady image for the sake of her children and shouting desperately every day.

But she finally gave in. She said the man's parents wanted her to have a good baby at school age.

She told me that it was too realistic. When they told me this, I felt that the world was really realistic.

Then I started my Buddhist life.

Do you call her Buddha?

She is very Buddhist. She is doing a steady job and muddling along every day. Even if the students get angry and start to meditate, forget it, nothing will happen.

But as we all know, the original is not like this.

There are many such examples.

The girl above should be one of the first people in our generation to give in to reality.

However, more and more of us are still swinging in it.

People who work overtime in cubicles in big cities sometimes think with coffee, or forget it. It may be important to go home and find a job with a normal schedule.

Graduate students who have made no progress in experiments in the laboratory for several months sometimes think that it is better to take time off at the weekend to submit a resume for tm research.

In this winter of employment, people who have been rebuffed at the threshold of countless enterprises sometimes tear up their resumes in despair. Perhaps, it is more practical to take an examination of a civil servant according to your parents' words.

We don't believe in Buddhism that much. If we can, we also want to do what we want and are free to do.

But most of the time, we can't do it ...

We really want to dance, but most people just meditate.

We all became Buddhist youths in the end.

Perhaps, fundamentally, it is probably because we are not free enough.

In other words, no one is free enough.

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