我们这些深受个性解放、自我实现等思想启蒙影响的人,是不屑于向什么跪拜的,本能地认为那是与人之追求的自由、平等相对立、相冲突的。但同样成长背景的吴蓓却不这么看,她通过个人体验与实践改变了看法,她认为:跪拜既是一种修行,也是除去自己傲慢心的方式,还能起到锻炼身体的作用。她甚至认为学会跪拜可以“向着更高级的自我精进”。 Those of us who are deeply influenced by the enlightenment of individual liberation and self-actualization are disdainfully bowing to anything, instinctively believing that they are opposed to and conflicted with the pursuit of human freedom and equality. However, Wu Bei, who grew up in the same background, did not think so. She changed her opinion through personal experience and practice. She thought that kneeling is both a practice and a way of removing her own arrogance, and she can also exercise her body. She even thinks that learning to bow down can “move toward a higher level of self-improvement.”