活动回顾 | “书香外文•经典阅读”第二期读书沙龙活动

第二期“书香外文·经典阅读”

读书沙龙旅程圆满结束啦

新的一期活动中

Reto与同学们之间

碰撞出怎样的思想火花呢？

让我们一起来回顾一下吧！

书籍简介 

《小熊维尼之道》（The Tao of Pooh)是美国国家图书奖获得者本杰明·霍夫（Benjamin Holff）的代表作之一，被很多美国高等院校作为选读教材。在国内哲学界也一直被视为介绍道家思想的经典通俗读物。作者认为，道家所宣扬的观念其实和小熊维尼的性格是不谋而合的。从小熊维尼身上，你会发现它性格中的简单、孩童、充满天真幻想的品质才是我们生活的乐趣的根本，我们所要做的事情就是顺应事情的自发发展，让它们去做它们要做的事情。正如小猪皮杰说的：“小熊维尼并不是很有头脑，但他从来不会使坏，他做傻事，但事情总是往好的方向发展。”

点评老师 

Reto Winckler is an associate research fellow at South China Normal University’s English department. He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MA from the university of Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on Shakespeare,philosophy and adaptation, especially television series. He loves reading, travelling, hiking and talking to his friends from around the world. He lives with his wife and dog in Shenzhen.

第一站 3分钟小组自由讨论

讨论开始前，Reto结合个人经历，分享了这本书对他的影响。讨论时，同学们都带着自己对于这本书的心得体会，与小组同伴展开了激烈的讨论。一时间，讨论如火如荼。Reto更是被同学们讨论分享的热情所吸引而加入了讨论中。

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第二站 自由分享

同学们自由分享，从个人经历、小熊维尼的行为以及“道”的思想出发，分享了阅读体会以及这本书对于自身的启发。

有如积极乐观的心态是面对艰难生活的关键；

有如以全新角度看问题，将复杂的问题简单化；

有如有时的单纯，往往会有意想不到的收获，看到世界美好的一面等等。

自由分享过程中，在Reto的点评指导下，同学们对于小熊维尼身上所承载的“道”的思想也有了更深的理解。

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第三站 印象最深刻的句子

在这一站，对于The Tao of Pooh，Reto与同学们一起深入剖析了书中的部分句子，更是从中提炼出了我们可以如何在生活中运用“道”这一思想，同时Reto给同学们提供了一个放松自我，清醒头脑的方法——尝试离开电子产品一天，去做其他事情，比如打球、散步等等，你会发现你的思绪与头脑和之前完全不一样。

部分精彩句子的分享

NO.1

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh...what's the first thing you say to yourself?" ..."I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

We can abandon the idea that we SHOULD do something. Instead, we choose to do it. And we would feel more better to do it.

——Reto Winckler

NO.2

“The wise are who they are.” 

对我来说，这是整本书中最有力的一句话。很长一段时间以来，我常常忘记考虑自己的个性和特点，甚至违背了我的天性，因此我感到焦虑和不知所措。然而，也许我们可以用自己的方式，用自己的步调做事，而不是迎合任何人或任何事。

——钟伟华

NO.3

“How can you get very far, if you don’t know who you are?”

这句话表现在一首诗里，它的押韵让我很吃惊。到目前为止，我只是向前看，没有停下来审视自己。我从来没有仔细想过我是谁。道家思想表明，一切事物都有其自身的才能和价值。人也一样。我不清楚自己的才能和价值，我认为是时候考虑一下了，因为这很重要，否则很难走得长远。

——马婉婷

终点站 活动感想

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I am very glad to discuss and share my views with all of you and Teacher Reto Winckler in this offline reading salon. All the speeches were wonderful, from which I learned more about the contents contained in The Tao of Pooh During the process of communication, what impressed me most was "forget everything" and the asked people shared it was particularly interesting and fascinating. For me, it's hard for me to forget everything, and I also couldn't get into a similar state. In any case, in addition to sleep, my brain always thinks about one thing at least, so sometimes I would admire those who can enter the state of the brain blank. Besides, when I first read the book, I was shocked by the"teahouse". We save time by working non-stop, eating fast food and using all kinds of time-saving devices, yet we are more likely to feel time deprived than people who didn't have these devices hundreds of years ago. And all that time is wasted because you try so hard to save it.

 ——2020级杨毓莹

The Tao is just like The yin that cool down our society and our inner self, meanwhile the world nowadays is more likely to be The yang: we are stressful when we find ourselves have difficulty in falling asleep; we see serious global warming as every country is developing economy, competing with each other and negotiating. Therefore, we feel as if we've failed to be ture to ourselves: we're no longer carefree, curious and free. Waking up in the moring, do you choose to work or you're supposed to work? When asked what day is your favorite day, what would you answer?Is it "Today!" ?Reto recommended us a wonderful way of relaxing and "waking up" to a clear mind ---Information Fast, which is fairly provoking in such an overwhelming information era.

In the end,wish every individual in stress and struggle eventually realize inner peace following the wisdom in The Tao. 

——2020级谢晓迪

Surprisingly, I was invited to the reading and sharing activity. As the saying goes, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Because of different experience, we shared our feelings and related experience from various of perspectives. I learned a lot from the sharing. Taoism is not so far away from our lives. With the expectation and the motivation from family, society and cultural background, we make efforts to push ourselves. The stress has increased in a “rolling snowball” fashion. To some degree, emptiness does make a difference to mindfulness.  ——19级谭雯丹
I benefited a lot from this reading party. The form of group communication encouraged everyone to express their opinions. And sparks of thought were generated in the joyful and close communication. We used the Taoism in the book to analyze our study life, to share with each other our troubles in this busy and competitive society, and to temporarily follow the thought of Pooh in order to heal our wounded hearts. In this process, in turn, we have deepened our understanding of Taoism and gained the nourishment of our souls. In short, I enjoyed it very much. And I believe this book will continue to exert a positive influence on my long life. ——2018级潘斯欣

读书分享会合影

在这次特别的读书沙龙中

特别的小组讨论形式

深入的讨论交流

激烈的思想碰撞

同学们可谓是满载而归

书香外文，经典阅读

精彩不断，我们下一期再见！

文字来源：外国语言文化学院

图片来源：外国语言文化学院

图文编辑：赖亮霓

审核：严惠敏