Great Love of the Great Doctor: Zhang Xingru’s Philosophy of Philanthropy (V)

By Yibai, Jointing.Media, in Shanghai, 2011-01-25

To maximize utility, it is enough to do public welfare in your spare time

Everyone do their own work and use their skill to do something in spare time. It is the embodiment of their own value. Fame and profit should not be considered together, or it will easily cause problems. People have to consciously reduce these temptations and mistakes.

——Zhang Xingru

People in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou usually have a lot of pressure from work and life, so many people use their annual leave to travel around the world and enjoy life. But the members of GMX are “put their finger in the fire”. Ming Qing, a BiMBA student, wrote an article in the alumni magazine, recalling her experience of the GMX in Gannan, Gansu Province in 2009:

Doctors and nurses are the main force of our team, they not only have to overcome altitude sickness and difficult environment, but also have to carry out high-intensity surgery under harsh working environment… On August 2 and 3, every day from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., lunch and dinner were sent to the operating room and doctors and nurses can only grab a few bites of food between operations.

At 8:00 p.m. on August 3, after the 46th operation of the day, The doctors’ health soon wore out. Wang Meifen has gone out to vomit twice；Director Zhang Weiying did not finish an operation, she ran out to breathe oxygen for three minutes；Li Qingsong ate 5 pieces of painkiller a day. But there are seven other patients out there who have been waiting all day. How shall we do? Dean Zhang Xingru and Director Xu Fang looked at each other, and then decide: Let’s go on. The operation lasted until 12:00 at night…

Yu Junjie, the equipment support engineer of GMX, stood during the three days of surgery, day and night, and no one replaced him. At the end of the first day, his right hand was red and swollen, and Wang Meifen analyzed that it was burned when he was pasteurized because the time is tight.

She also wrote:

I love GMX- this three characters. Every year, I personally came to the scene and deeply understand that：there are always some things in life let us see the future hope; There must be some evil people to make us believe that human nature is still good; There must always be some places that let us know that the world is still beautiful as always.

Ming Qing followed GMX for three consecutive years.

Everyone can contribute to public welfare projects in their spare time

“Go once a year for one week at a time” – this is the cycle and duration of the Illuminati action.

Zhang said, “We all use our vacation to participate in GMX. The reason why we will choose this time to go is also because this time everyone’s work is a little idle, the children are on summer vacation, and the responsibilities at home are less. And it’s relatively safe in the summer.”

Some entrepreneurs become successful in business and devote themselves full-time to philanthropy. Zhang Xingru’s view of such behavior is: “This practice is great from the spiritual level, but does it play the maximum value of the individual? If he had stayed in business, he might have been of greater value to society.”

His view is that it is more valuable to do what you do best and contribute to the public good.

Everyone do their own work and use their skill to do something in spare time. It is the embodiment of their own value. Zhang Xingru believes that enterprises growth too quickly after the reform and opening up without deposition process. The accumulation of corporate wealth needs to give back to society. Although there are differences in individual ability, there is no difference between high and low rank . Everyone can do charity and public welfare, the key is to find their own points to realize personal value.

“Don’t need to do it with a bang. Do it quietly. Do what you are best at and contribute a skill to society. Stick to your position, and do the easy thing in your spare time, which may be more suitable for most people,” Zhang Xingru said.

GMX is only once a year but the preparation period is relatively long. From planning to implementation, from medical treatment to logistics, communication and coordination are the most important tasks. The selection of team member is a laborious task. Zhang Xingru said: “We will set up a contact person every year, two to three hundred phone calls during this process. It takes a lot of phone calls to go or not, back and forth, It takes a lot of time.”

Stay away from fame and fortune, reduce mistakes

GMX does not cost the local government any money, and the players are not paid for their work. GMX is rarely reported in the media. JM will not know which companies have donated and participated in if JM do not read their internal publications. Zhang Xingru said that the entrepreneurs who participate in are very good, their companies do not need publicity, and GMX basically does not do publicity. Only members who participate in wrote articles on their own blogs, expressing their personal feelings, for internal communication and to recall in old age.

An enterprise evaluation of GMX: “You do this kind of thing is very real, there is no thought of fame and wealth.”

“Fame and profit cannot be combined, and it is easy to have problems when combined.” Reduce these temptations and mistakes. If something goes wrong once, it will be difficult for others to follow you. “From the bottom of my heart, we want to do something for the marginal poor areas. It is not for good karma but to use own skills, find like-minded people to do something together “,

Many GMX’s members have participated in more than once and donated many years. Dr. Xia Youliang followed GMX for three consecutive years. Zhang Ping, a corporate volunteer in Jinan, Shandong province, told Dean Zhang:”If you do it this way, I will follow you.”

Zhang Xingru quoted a text message from a friend:

With a Buddha in mind, act like a Buddha.

Today there is a Buddha, tomorrow there will be no Buddha.

Cultivate often and happy near.

“Cultivate often and happy near”,GMX has become a way of self-cultivation. The Best way is Simple, the Great Doctor has Great Love

(The end)

中文原文

Translated by Youdao Translate

Edited by Wind

Yifan Ding also contributed to this article.

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