How to communicate with everything?

 20250320

How to communicate with everything?  

 

It is springtime in Hong Kong.   It might be the best time in Hong Kong.

My father told me many years ago:  if cotton tree flowers are dropping on the ground,  then winter is really gone, there won't be cold anymore.

It is wonderful to remember the words from my father.   I can remember it every time when spring comes.

What am I going to do if  spring comes?

It is a rare moment I can enjoy.

Can I communicate with all these flowers? And the special kind of green color from the trees?

This kind of green comes only once a year,  a few days later,  the very light green will be gone.

I can think of no other words to tell you about this special kind of green.

And I cannot use colors to draw it.  If I pick up my camera,  all the beauty will be gone.

I can only keep it in my memory.

It occurred to me suddenly.

How am I to communicate with nature now?

I wish to communicate with everything. Not only nature, but the spirits behind.

I wish to communicate with humans.

I think I can know some of the inner thoughts from my love ones.

I can communicate with them without my own knowledge.

I was doing the same.  Then I knew there were unknown communications going on.

The only thing is that it needs to be really quiet.

And have no intention to do anything.

Inner  communication cannot be willful.

May be one day I can do it,  but now my power of communication is not enough.

I'm really satisfactory if I can know something without intention.

And I believe everyone can do the same.

The only secret is that it needs not to have any intention.

Then happenings might be  floating.

如何溝通？  

20250320  

如何溝通？  

又是春天了，這是香港最美麗的時光。  

許多年前，爸爸告訴我：如果木棉花落在地上，冬天就是真的過去了，不會再冷了。  

我偶然都會記得爸爸的説話。那些說話想起來，都是珍貴非常，不會忘記的。每一次春天來臨，爸爸的說話都會浮現。

此刻，春天又來了。 真是我難得的享受時光。  

我能與這些花朵溝通嗎？還有樹上那種特別的綠色？  

這種綠色一年只出現一次，幾天後，那淡淡的綠色就會消失。  

我簡直無法確切描述這種特別的綠色。  

我也不可能用畫筆來描繪它。我只知道，如果我拿起相機，所有的美都會消失。  

我只能把這一種的美，留在記憶之中。  

我忽然又想到，可以怎樣與大自然溝通呢？  

我常常希望與萬物溝通，不僅僅是大自然的花花草草，還有那背後的靈氣。  

我還想與人溝通。  

摯愛者的內心，許多時都是默然互通的。

在無聲無息的一刻，往往會出現一種內在的感覺。

未知的溝通在不斷流動， 雖然我也未必察覺。

條件是要寧靜。  

不要有所企盼。  

內在的溝通是無形的。  

也許有一天我能做到多一些，但現在我的功力不夠。  

雖然有時我也能夠在無意中明白的。我該感謝冥冥中的無形啟示吧。  

我相信每人都一樣。  

唯一是不要刻意尋求。 該明白的時候，就會好像一滴水滴進心房那樣，你會知道的。

然後，一切都會自動浮上來的。

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How to help a clueless guy?

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How to help a clueless guy?

It could be a very bad situation if a writer found he was clueless in his drama.

This was the feeling when I was watching the Ne Zha film.

It was quite long and lengthy at the end.   It seems the writer could not provide more clues for the fighting and the actors could only put on more strength to beat the enemy.

Nothing is new in the fighting.

It is same in car racing. If the guy wants to speed up his car,  he can only push the pedal more, more, and more.

It was the only action he could take if he was clueless.

Life is same with drama.

There are different stages for the story to go on.

First, you need to have a feeling.   You  felt something important that you need to produce the total of it.

Then you have a theme. 

The theme is your spirit or your "message".  You want to deliver your message in a spirit of importance.   It is so important that you feel you need to use your blood  as ink to write it down;  you will not regret if your blood is all used up.   You are putting your life in your message.

Well, now you're not a writer.   You are only a CEO of something.   And the situation is the same.   You will always wish to use your own blood to do things.

Other CEOs might think otherwise,  but they are nothing in your concern.

You just felt you are your product that your theme or your spirit is so important  now you need to release them all.   It is the same as a flower struggling against the shells of the seed.   She wants to break outside.  No matter what, she wants to come out.

Now she is eligible for a real CEO.

But still it is not enough.

She needs a plot.

She needs a plot to show her mind.

A lot of film directors wanted to employ a higher paid screenwriter to write down his own plot.

Or to use a storyline to show his own mind.

He was too busy to do it himself.  He wants to buy some help.

Can it be brought?

Well, it depends on your luck.

If you are given some kind of luck,  if you're the guy who deserves to have such a gift,  you might employ a better screenwriter.

Or else you have to do it yourself.

This is the importance of a plot.

And a plot is an outline.   A really detailed outline.

And now it comes to the stage of  clues.

If the secret agent is to pull out a gun, where would he get the gun from?

Will he need to get it from the shoes?  The ceiling?  Or the water tank in the toilet?

It is really not important for a skillful dramatist.

Important is how to avoid a situation of being clueless.

If they know only how to "add oil" or push the fuel pedal, they will fail the test and die.

Why is it so important for a better clue?

Actually, it is not important at all.

If the actor lost a button in his dress,  he can forgive the tailor.

If he lost all buttons from his dress,   he can only blame himself.

The actor might be soulless.

The actor might have no theme or no message at all.

Its all about a simplified choice of the clue,  the plot and the theme.

It could be more interesting if we change a way to study them.

It is not the clue, the plot, and the theme.

It is the Jing,  the Qi and the Spirit.

These are terms in Chinese medicine and Chinese classic.

It is so difficult for Western people to know them.

And it is the same at the level of international politics.

If you find someone lost in a clueless situation,  if you find someone is having no "Jing" at all,  if he can only point his tariff at everything like a cowboy with his toy gun.....

It is the best chance to beat him.

  

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Why there is a sudden ugliness?

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Why there is a sudden ugliness?

 The American political culture has been changing suddenly.   Everything has become naked.   All overcoats has been taken off.    They don't mind to show you dirty things.

A  culture of 250 years has been changing quickly.

It seems the  American culture has no way to stop  things happening.

It was said that the American culture has a heritage of democracy or something.   Yet a really bad dictatorship has been in charge.

The philosophical aspect is not important.

Important is the things going to happen.

Will there be a savage war  to take over the Greenland and Panama?

There might be a  war,  or a more dirty trade of ugliness which is worse than a savage act of war.

The question is:  how are the world people to accept all these?

How can the world swallow it?

If you swallow  it  this time,   how are you to swallow it next time?

Can the world people turn their faces and pretend not to see it? 

Can business be going on as usual when  protests are only words?

Can the world be united and do some real thing for the future?

.................

If the questions cannot be answered,  future children might need to know why it happened.

The sudden change is due to one thing:

One very imporyant thing:

All other aspects of life has been deleted.

Only the left-hemisphere- subjects remain:

Only economies and  technologies are in charge when all other studies has become redundant.

Religion is a drama show. Music is for swinging bodies.   Literature is a thrilling entertainment.  Painting is a commercial item.

Actually, it's only one thing remains.

It is money and money only.

There will not be fresh air and forest in the future.

There will be no babies coming:   Because there will be no marriage and no love in everyone.

It is terrible,  but if we do not take it serious this time, we will swallow it later.

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Why silence is a must?

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Why silence is a must?

When you are waiting

When you are watching

When you are listening

When you are weeping

When you are laughing

When they are showing

When they are conspiring

When they are careless

When they are naked

When they are not in words

You need not to say anything

Because 

You are aiming

And

The world is waiting

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How big will the United States get?

 20250316

How big will the United States get?

Will they be getting bigger and bigger? It is all easy targets for them.

Greenland, Canada, and Panama are all targets without resistance.

The world map will change color quickly.

They can change the world map by only words:   If they say it's the Gulf of USA then it will be the Gulf of USA.  May be there will be a Globe of USA sooner or later.

The United States will be bigger than Russia, China, Canada, and any other large countries.

Will a "big" country be the boss on earth?

If the map is so easily changed, it seems everything is easy too..............

How Sun Yat-sen thought about Confucianism?

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How Sun Yat-sen thought about   Confucianism?

An old article:

"What Kind of Psychological Construction Do Chinese People Need?"

The most brilliant aspect of Sun Yat-sen's philosophy is that it recognizes the urgent need for psychological construction among Chinese people: the importance of valuing knowledge.

In his "Principles of State Building," the first chapter is dedicated to "Psychological Construction." He believed that the most crucial psychological construction for Chinese people is to break free from the Confucian shackles of "easy to know, difficult to act." Sun Yat-sen opposed Wang Yangming, as the saying "easy to know, difficult to act" represents a fatal flaw that has long held back China. Confucianism asserts that knowledge is not important; action is what matters. This is because Confucianism believes that knowledge is already contained within its classics, and one merely needs to memorize them. Confucianism holds that behavior is paramount. What kind of behavior is most important? It is obedience, compliance, and following orders. Sun Yat-sen placed psychological construction as the first chapter in his state-building strategy because he believed it is more important than material construction.

What is surprising is that today in Taiwan, although Sun Yat-sen's photo still hangs, Wang Yangming's philosophy prevails, and there is even a whole mountain named Yangming Mountain, completely disregarding Sun Yat-sen's earnest opposition to Confucianism.

Even more astonishing is that in present-day Hong Kong, the statue of Sun Yat-sen in the Sun Yat-sen Museum is depicted with a queue (braided hair). Sun Yat-sen opposed feudalism throughout his life, yet the people of Hong Kong have erected a statue of him with a queue, placed right at the entrance of the museum. Perhaps they truly have a fondness for queues, finding them beautiful. Additionally, among the books sold in the museum's gift shop, there are even those suggesting that Sun Yat-sen had some "Confucian complex."

Sun Yat-sen's three major principles—"The world belongs to the public," "Universal love," and "The pursuit of knowledge"—are all directly aimed at Confucianism, yet it seems that people overlook this.

中國人需要何種心理建設？

中國人需要何種心理建設？
……………………………………….*李察
(問到底No.7998 2011 0108 Saturday)
　
　　孫中山學說最精彩的地方，就是看到了中國人所迫切需要的心理建設：必須重視求知。
　
　　孫中山在《建國方略》中，第一章就是「心理建設」。他認為，中國人最需要的心理建設是：擺脫儒家的「知易行難」枷鎖。孫中山反對王陽明。所謂「知易行難」，是儒家令中國長期落後的致命點。儒家主張知識不重要，行為才重要。因為儒家以為，知識都已經在儒家經典裡備妥了，只要背熟就是。儒家認為，行為最重要。甚麼行為最重要呢？就是服從、聽話、照辦。孫中山把心理建設作為建國方略的第一章，就是認為，心理建設，是比物質建設更重要的。
　
　　令人驚訝的只是，今日台灣，雖然仍掛著孫中山的照片，但陽明哲學大行其道，還有一整座的陽明山。無視孫中山反對儒家的一片苦心。
　
　　令人更加驚訝的還有：今日香港，在孫中山博物館中的孫中山像，竟是留辮的。孫中山一生反對封建，但今日的香港人，為他造了一座留辮像，放在博物館的正門前。或者他們真是對於辮子情有獨鍾，覺得美麗的。而館中小賣部所販賣的圖書中，竟有認為孫中山是有甚麼「儒學情結」的。
　
　　孫中山的三大主張，包括「天下為公」、「博愛」、「求知」，都是完全針對儒家的，但這些人們，好像看不見。

What is the best spirit in Taiwan?

 20250314

What is the best spirit in Taiwan?

The best spirit in Taiwan is the spirit of Sun Yat-sen.

However, the spirit of Sun yat-sen is wilfully covered for many years.

If his spirit is known for everyone, Taiwan issue is settled.

Sun Yat-sen is a hero in the history of China. He is selfless. He knew the problem of the Chinese cuture. He said the main problem is 知難行易*. But the idea is changed secretely into the opposite.   That's all the problem of the bureaucracy in Taiwan.

The spirit of  Sun Yat-sen is a light. Once it was uncovered,  people in Taiwan will know what to do.

*知難行易：-- 

 "knowledge is difficult, action is easy." It needs to put all efforts in finding the problem of knowledge. 

Knowing what to do is the first priority.  

If the direction is clear,  then action is possible and easy.  All action will be useless and harmful if the direction was wrong. This is the main concern of Sun Yat-sen.

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