Clear trip: from the tomb of the jobs to Stamford meditation Center-jobs, information on Ching Ming Festival-IT

Is the Ching Ming Festival this weekend, is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is not only the Festival of worship of ancestors, and to their ancestors, and also a hiking outing, close to nature, urging nursing newborn spring ceremony. I remember Steve jobs of this great man. The great man's Tomb where the hell? Stanford new meditation Center what? Why does he like the Zen, often meditating alone, which is the source of his inspiration? With a series of questions, the authors start exploring ...

(A) approached Steve churchyard

Take a look at the online photo spread had a tombstone of Joe Wang:

Looks like a iPod, the following epitaph is carved "Fatal Error Occurred (encountered a fatal error)", but this is a spoof for the users .

So, which in real jobs? What was above it? Author we come to Alta Mesa cemetery gate jobs cemetery area.

Steve graves

Yes, you read that right, called Steve's Tomb, estimated under this piece of lawn grass! No headstones, no name, no epitaph! Out of respect for Steve and his family, did not say whether jobs is buried here .

▲ Jobs cemetery overlooking the area

This is the cemetery overlooking the jobs, grass compared with around tombstone, is very low.

There is also a monument in Chinese, reads "pioneer left monument".

Steve Jobs admirer message board

In a cemetery specially made for his book preface, saw this: out of family privacy requirements, Alta Mesa cemetery admirer open jobs are not the exact location of the Tomb.

Read Steve's Tomb, could not help but think: "Wars come and go,but my soldiers stay eternal. "These founders of the Internet age, custodians, whether academics or the identity of the inventor, entrepreneur, regardless of their low-key modesty or Maverick controversial, their common traits are beyond the limits of self and cherished dream to change the world and put into practice. Jobs and left the world grieved families choose not to the cemetery, the invisible than visible, compelling. This is better than Apple's consistent pursuit of the little design concept? Or stubborn arrogance he left to the world the last humble comment space? We do not know. If one day you come here to visit, and want to say what jobs?

(B) the Stanford meditation Center

I then went to Stanford University, a new meditation centre was built at the Centre of the school.

Location

Construction section is a rectangular box, 4000 square foot (371.6 m2), only one floor.

Wrap it in an oak forest, also has a small pond, surrounding a relatively natural places, encouraging teachers to come here to think about.

But the open environment and express a simple black Chair wood wall clean always calm down, seems to be through across the wings looked away.

The father and the son, the baby is happy playing, next to the father in the kind of Visual. The walls here are unsealed, there is a large area of the wall fence of wood instead, there are glass, Lane, permeability, faint revealed Zen.

These pictures are on the glass, the largest of a picture of the front of the vertical strip of wood, standing far away places can see wings. Through the light inside, space is layered.

When the sun shines through the trees and the bar railings, shadow is cut into layers.

Open in the middle of the House, like a small courtyard, combined with naturally will have more, you can also make people more relaxed.

Gallery

One must nurture the spirit identity within one's self in order to fully exist。 The windhover paintings are intended to assist people in centering themselves -- and to allow the human spirit to fly。 -- Nathan Oliveira

Everyone in order to maintain the presence required to nourish his spirit to the world. This series is designed to help people to focus on their own--let the humanistic spirit soar!

The building known as Kestrel (Windhover), and Nathan Oliveira (neisen·aolifurui, 1928--2010) "Kestrel" series showroom.

There are 4 pictures in this series, presents the 4 soaring eagles. Its name comes from the United Kingdom poet Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "The vast,glorious wings. ”

Nathan Oliveira taught at Stanford for more than 30 years from 1964, this time behind the paintings along with his.

Nathan Oliveira painting into a meditation Center, is a special Memorial.

Interior wood walls a sand-like texture, a rolled out layer after layer, like wings stirred by the wind driven grain.

From "breathing exercises" start--' focus on breathing. Slowly inhale, exhale and focus on the nose, if our mind is gone, then turned its attention to pull back, and don't blame myself, because the distraction is our habit. Slowly, you will practice the "quiet and focused," the State, which is not only a good thinking habits is life happy and content source, that is – seize the moment.

Every painting hanging on the wall of the Center, below the gravel, make a space seem empty and poetic.

Oriental mystery. Meditation Center was built further away from the deserted place, relying on the natural, restless heart quiet down.

(C) the power of meditation

Have you ever sat quietly and did not focus on anything, too easily focus attention, rather than sitting there peacefully? You will hear the noise of distant and near-whispering voice, that means you have all the sounds are listened, your mind is no longer a narrow pipe. If it is easily heard in this way, you will find your heart to demand it has dramatically changed the situation. This change has its own beauty and profound insight. Jobs often led his team retreats, they would often meditate alone, which is the source of his inspiration?

Inspiration is not the moment of AHA moment, but large, seemingly contradictory experiences, collision of a break-in and eventually born. When we study a person's success, to go beyond appearances "what did he do" beyond monotonous imitating their habits. But behind the search, his core ideological values, understanding of his day, and different ideas how to shape him.

When he died the next day, San Francisco Zen Center (pictured) held a memorial for him. Jobs where his meditation practice, after death, he's recognized as a true Buddhist, is salvation and honour.

In a traditional mourning verses recited after the completion of, a master of Zen Buddhism in particular, for the jobs added an English tribute poems:

For our great,abiding friend Steve Jobs

And for all those who have passed beyond this life

Into the heart of Buddha。

My eternal friend Steve jobs

And that all who are born

I heart

Buddhism holds that death is returning "true" and "big heart", as water dripped into the River, returning to the source. This rebirth, jobs has been penetrated before his death. In 2005, in that famous speech at Stanford University, he compared the death to life one of the best inventions, because "the Angel of death as the succession of life, it clears the old and make way for the new. ”

He then encouraged everyone, "because time is limited, don't live for others. Don't let others ' opinions drown out your own inner voice. The most important is the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ”

This speech has inspired countless young people to look inward, and gives them the courage to follow your heart.

"Follow your heart" words are the embodiment of Zen essence. Zen thought "all dharmas, all in mind, why not in mind now, as nature. "Steve is so physically, especially during his career. Many years later, when he was fired from Apple, relive failures, he said, he did not run away because it your heart still in love with his career.

Steve has been doing subtraction. He simplifies his life, from the same black t-shirt, blue jeans and New Balance 993 running shoes, and never spend the night life also simplify their product: do market research, does not recruit consultants, producing great products. Steve's career after three stages--founded Apple, was expelled from the Apple back to Apple, just like "mountains are mountains" or "mountains are not mountains" to "see mountains or Hills" Zen insight. Things change and people are one and the same, and Apple is not the Apple.

Suzuki, Toshitaka book the meditator's beginner's mind is jobs ' introduction to Zen. Japanese in the "Beginner's mind (しょしん)" meaning "Beginner's mind". The purpose of practice is to keep the beginner's mind. It is empty heart, ready to accept and adopt an open attitude about everything. "Heart full of possibilities for beginners and veteran's heart is not. ”

Steve was impressed by this sentence. Later, the "Beginner's mind" three words always moisten things silently influenced his way of thinking. 14 years ago, told Wired magazine in an interview, he cited "Beginner's mind" concept. When he returned to Apple, heart, the mood is completely different in the past. Told reporters he recalled the initial era of the PC industry, "the emergence of the world wide web makes me think of that era. No one really knows the line, who did not claim to be experts, the so-called experts said was wrong. Everywhere is full of open opportunities. All of that stuff is not limited in every way – or rather, be defined. Feeling great. "He said," the Buddhist there is an expression, ' Beginner's mind. As a beginner's mind again, and pressure relief beyond the success, so I let go of the hands and feet, into the most creative time in my life. ”

Another Zen master with a far-reaching impact on jobs is Chino otogawa (pictured above). In 1967, the Chino otogawa invited by Suzuki, Toshitaka Zen Professor visiting the monastery of San Francisco. Jobs where he met the spiritual mentor and lifelong friend. The peaceful character and wisdom, open mind Zen master in addition to teaching jobs, meditation, meditation, taught him how to listen to your heart. "The real purpose of practice is to discover your inner wisdom. If you can't find yourself, you cannot communicate with anyone. ”

Affected by the new age movement and the influence of Zen, jobs continue to practicing meditation, his heart and focus continuously washed, calm. To train their own thinking and insight, and increasingly keen. In order to maintain a high degree of clarity of mind, made ordinary people can't imagine eating habit of sacrifice-jobs are extremely weird. He ate fish and simple focus dish. And, he will support carrots for several days, do not eat anything else. After a long period of time without eating. After the next few days eating only apples. And then fasting for a few days. Food will slow down to the speed of the brain.

Through these people look ridiculous, he maintained a high degree of sensitivity in mind, Apple's colleagues describe as "God Like Clarity" anything, he looked at, you know where the problem lies. That ability to hit, from highly developed intelligence. This intelligence is not analytical and logical calculus, but extremely clear and bright minds, much information instant result of the aggregation operation-we call it "intuition".

How to overcome anxiety

Steve "If you just sit and observe,you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it,it only makes it worse,but over time it does calm,and when it does,there's room to hear more subtle things--that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more。 Your mind just slows down,and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment。 You see so much more than you could see before。 ”

If you sit down to watch, you restless, if you were trying to calm down, will probably get worse, but calmed down after some time, when more tiny things can be heard when your instincts begin to sprout, you begin to see the present more clear. Your heart slows down, you perceive the present a lot of extensions. You can see much more than you're used to things.

A salute. The April 4, 2016.

清明之行：从乔布斯之墓到斯坦福冥想中心 - 乔布斯,清明节 - IT资讯

周末是清明节，也是中国最重要的传统节日之一。它不仅是人们祭奠祖先、缅怀先人的节日，更是一个远足踏青、亲近自然、催护新生的春季仪式。笔者想到缅怀乔布斯这位伟人。这位伟人的墓到底在哪？斯坦福新建的冥想中心又是什么样子的？为什么他喜欢禅宗，经常独自冥想，这是他灵感的来源么？而带着一连串的问题，笔者开始脚踏实地探寻。。。

（一）走近乔布斯墓园

先来看看网上曾疯传一张乔帮主的墓碑照片：

看起来是个iPod形状，下面刻着墓志铭“Fatal Error Occurred（遇到致命错误）”，但这是网友的恶搞之作。

那么，真实的乔布斯墓到底在哪？上面又写了些什么呢？笔者带大家来到乔布斯墓地区域所在的Alta Mesa墓园大门。

乔布斯墓地区域

对，你没有看错，所谓乔布斯的墓，估计就在这片茵茵绿草之下！没有墓碑，没有名字，更没有墓志铭！出于对乔布斯及其家人的尊重，未透露乔布斯是否葬于此地。

▲乔布斯墓地区域远眺

这是远眺乔布斯的墓地，那片草坪跟周围的墓碑相比，显得非常低调。

这里还有一块中文的碑，写着“先驱者无缘之碑”。

乔布斯仰慕者的留言簿

在墓园为乔布斯特制的留言簿前言中，也看到了这样的话：出于家属对于隐私的要求，Alta Mesa墓园不会对仰慕者公开乔布斯墓的具体位置。

看完了乔布斯的墓，不由得想起一句话：“Wars come and go，but my soldiers stay eternal。”这些互联网时代的缔造者、传承者们，无论他们以学者还是发明家企业家的身份，无论他们低调谦和还是特立独行饱受争议，他们共同的特质都是超越了自我的局限，心怀改变世界的梦想并将之付诸实践。乔布斯和家属选择不将墓地留给世人凭吊，以无形胜有形，让人震撼。这是苹果公司一贯追求的少胜多的设计理念吗？还是倔犟狂妄的他留给世人最后的谦逊和评说的空间？我们不得而知。如果有一天你来到这里参观，又想对乔布斯说些什么呢？

（二）斯坦福的冥想中心

笔者继而来到斯坦福大学，一所新的冥想中心就建在了学校的中心位置。

外景

建筑部分是一个长条形的盒子，有4000平方英尺（371.6平方米），只有一层楼。

它包裹在一片橡树林中，也靠着一个小池塘，围出一个相对自然的地方，鼓励学校师生来这里思考。

但空旷的环境和黑椅木墙烘托出简约干净总能让人静下来，似乎透过了划过的翅膀看了真正的远方。

父与子，孩子正在愉快的玩耍，父亲在旁慈祥目视。这里的墙面是半围合的，有很大面积的墙体用栅栏式的木条代替，也有一些地方是玻璃，里外通透，隐隐透露出禅意。

这些画都正对着玻璃，最大一幅的正面是垂直排列的木条，站在很远的地方也能看到飞翔的翅膀。透过里外的光线，让空间很有层次感。

当阳光透过树林和竖条式的栏杆照射进来，已被切割成有层次的阴影。

房子中间是露天的，像一个小院，与自然有更多的结合，也可以让人更放松。

画廊

One must nurture the spirit identity within one‘s self in order to fully exist。The windhover paintings are intended to assist people in centering themselves -- and to allow the human spirit to fly。-- Nathan Oliveira

每个人为了保持存在感都需要去滋润他的精神世界。这组画就是为了帮助人们去关注自身--让人文精神飞翔！

这所建筑名为茶隼（Windhover），同时也是Nathan Oliveira（内森·奥利弗瑞，1928——2010）“茶隼”系列的展示间。

这个系列一共有4幅画，分别表现了4种飞翔着的鹰。它的名字源于英国诗人Gerard Manley Hopkins的一首诗句“The vast，glorious wings。”

Nathan Oliveira从1964开始在斯坦福教课超过30年，这几幅画伴随了他后面的时光。

将Nathan Oliveira的绘画融入在冥想中心里，是特别的纪念方式。

室内的木质墙面有种像沙子一样的纹路，一层一层铺开，像是翅膀带动的风所激起的纹路。

从“呼吸训练”开始——‘专注呼吸’。慢慢地吸气、吐气，把注意力放在鼻子，如果心思飘走了，就再把注意力拉回来，而且不要责怪自己，因为分心本来就是我们的习惯。慢慢地，你会练习到“安静且专注”的境界，这不仅是一种良好的思维习惯更是生活得到快乐、满足的源泉，那就是——把握当下。

每幅画挂在一面墙的中心，下面有碎石子，让空间显得空旷而有意境。

东方神秘色彩。冥想中心像是建在远离人迹的地方，依靠着山水自然，让烦躁的内心跟着安静下来。

（三）冥想的力量

你可曾安静地坐着，既不专注于任何事物，也不费力地集中注意力，而是非常安详地坐在那里？你会听到远处的喧闹声以及近在耳边的声音，这意味着你把所有的声音都听进去了，你的心不再是一条狭窄的管道。若是以这种方式轻松自在地听，就会发现自己的心在不强求的情况下产生了惊人的转变。这份转变里自有美和深刻的洞识。乔布斯经常带领他的团队静修，自己也经常独自冥想，这是他灵感的来源吗？

灵感，并不是瞬间的aha moment，而是大量的，看似相互矛盾的人生经历，相互冲撞磨合而最终诞生的。当我们研究一个人的成功时，要超越表象“他做了什么”，超越单调地模仿其习惯。而是探寻背后，影响他的核心思想价值，理解他所处的时代，和不同的思想怎么样塑造了他。

当年乔布斯去世第二天，旧金山禅修中心（上图）为他举行了悼念仪式。乔布斯生前曾在那里参禅修行，死后，他被当作一名真正的佛教徒，被超度和缅怀。

在传统的悼亡经文吟诵完毕后，一位禅宗大师还特别为乔布斯追加了一首英文悼念短诗：

For our great，abiding friend Steve Jobs

And for all those who have passed beyond this life

Into the heart of Buddha。

愿我等永恒挚友乔布斯

与那所有往生者

居我佛心中长

佛教认为，死亡是回归了“真如”和“大心”，就像水滴落入河流，回归本源。而对于这生死轮回，乔布斯生前便已参透。在2005年斯坦福大学那场著名的演讲中，他把死亡比作生命最好的一项发明创造，因为“死亡作为生命新老交替的使者，它清除旧物，给新生让路。”

他继而鼓励大家，“因为时间有限，不要为别人而活。不要让别人的意见左右自己内心的声音。最重要的是勇敢追随自己的心灵和直觉。”

这场演讲激励了无数年轻人重新审视内心，并给了他们追随内心的勇气。

“追随内心”四字恰是禅宗精髓的体现。禅宗认为“一切万法，尽在自心中，何不从于自心顿现真如本性。”乔布斯便是如此身体力行，在他处在事业低谷时尤为如此。多年后，当他重温那段被苹果公司解雇的失败经历，他说，自己当时没有逃跑，是因为发现自己内心依然爱着他从事的事业。

乔布斯一直在做减法。他简化着自己的生活，从一成不变的黑色T恤、蓝色牛仔裤到New Balance 993跑鞋，并且从不过夜生活；也简化着自己的产品：不做市场调查，不招收顾问，只生产伟大的产品。乔布斯的职业生涯历经的三个阶段——创立苹果公司，被逐出苹果公司，重回苹果公司，就好比从“见山则山”、“见山不是山”到“见山还是山”的参禅顿悟。事过境迁，人还是同一个，而苹果已不是当初的苹果。

铃木俊隆的著作《禅者的初心》是乔布斯学禅的入门读物。日文里的“初心（しょしん）”意为“初学者的心”。修行的目的就是要始终保持这颗初心。它是颗空的心，准备好接受，对一切抱持敞开的态度。“初学者的心充满各种可能性，老手的心却不然。”

乔布斯对这句话印象深刻。往后，“初心者”三个字一直润物细无声地影响着他的思考方式。14年前，他在接受《连线》杂志专访时就引用了“初心者”的概念。那时的他重回苹果，心如初心，看待以往的心境已截然不同。他对记者回忆起PC产业的初始年代，“万维网的出现让我想起了那个年代。没有人真正懂这行，没有谁称得上是专家，所谓的专家说的后来都错了。到处都充满开放的机遇。所有的东西在各个方面都没有被限制——或者说，被定义。那种感觉太棒了。”他说，“佛教有一个表达叫‘初心者’。再次作为一个初心者，身上的轻松感超越了成功所带来的巨大压力，让我放开手脚，踏入我生命中最具创造力的一段时光。”

另一位对乔布斯影响深远的禅宗大师是乙川弘文（上图）。1967年，乙川弘文受铃木俊隆邀请前往旧金山禅院教授禅学。乔布斯正是在那里遇见了这位精神导师和终身益友。这位性格平和、充满智慧、思想开放的禅师除了教乔布斯打坐、冥想，更教会他如何聆听自己的内心。“修行的真正目的是发现你内心的智慧。如果不能发现自己，就无法与任何人交流。”

受新世纪运动与禅宗的影响，乔布斯不断地练习冥想，将他的心和专注力不断洗涤，平静。从而训练自己的思考和洞察力，并日益敏锐。他为了保持高度清晰的头脑，做出了常人根本无法想象的牺牲——乔布斯的饮食习惯极其怪异。他吃鱼和简单的集中菜。而且，他会连续几天支持胡萝卜，不吃其它任何东西。之后会有很长的一段时间不再进食。接下来又连续几天只吃苹果。然后又禁食几天。食物会拖慢人的大脑运转速度。

透过这些常人看起来匪夷所思的事情，乔布斯保持了高度敏锐的头脑，有苹果的同事形容为“God Like Clarity”，任何东西，他一看，就知道问题所在。那种一针见血的能力，来自于高度发达的智能。而这种智能，并不是分析性逻辑性的演算，而是极度清晰明澈的头脑中，大量信息瞬间聚合运算的结果——我们称之为“直觉”。

如何克服不安

乔布斯的话“If you just sit and observe，you will see how restless your mind is。If you try to calm it，it only makes it worse，but over time it does calm，and when it does，there‘s room to hear more subtle things--that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more。Your mind just slows down，and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment。You see so much more than you could see before。”

如果你坐下来观察，就发觉你内心的不安，如果你试图去平复，恐怕会变得更糟，但一段时间之后就会安静下来，那个时候就能听到更微小的的东西-当你的直觉开始发芽，你开始看到当下更多更清楚的。你的心灵变慢下来了，你感知到当下巨大的扩展。你能看到比你以前多得多的东西。

致敬。2016年4月4日。