What is "the beautiful"?

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What is "the beautiful"?

Of all the three concepts: the true, the good, and the beautiful;   it seems the beautiful is the most important.

Because it is the ultimate judgment from the inner heart.

You know whether it is truly true and whether it is truly good,  when your choice is the beautiful and not the ugly.

I thought it is from the inner feeling of every mind.

And I don't know whether it is a gift from the heavens to the human.

And I don't know whether everyone has got this gift.

But if you do have this gift,  I thought it is a blessing.

You don't need to study a lot.

You don't need to be a  respected scholar.

It is an inner safety barrier for you to go for a safety place: if you know what is beautiful.

You'll have the drive.

It was a motivation from the moment you were born.

You'll be chasing after or looking forward to the beautiful naturally.

Different nations will be going for a different direction for the goal,  when they have the same idea of the beautiful in their mind.

They will reach that goal.

They will refuse ugliness like refusing devil.

There is a dark will to bring in ugliness  into this world and it is also natural.   It is also a motivation to stimulate human beings going towards the bad side.

Color is always a choice for human beings. Color is from sunshine.  Darkness is for the dark side only.

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What is the secret of health?

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What is the secret of health?

Not everyone needs an aim in life.  They are living very well.  And they don't need a meaning in life. And for many people, the only meaning is money. So the secret of health may not be the aim of life.  There are many medical guidelines for a healthy way of living.  And I dare not to argue with them.  They must be right.

But if you do have an aim in life, I believe it is helpful for your health.

However, the aim should be single and solid.   Some people got their aims from their parents.  But the aims are divided always,  your father tells you one thing and your mother tells you another.

People with a split aim in life are not healthy.

So the Chinese always believe in the term "One heart, one mind".  (一心一意)

When you are single minded and strike forward, you'll be successful and healthy.

And the opposite is "Three hearts, two minds" (三心兩意).   The result is obvious.

The secret of life is in the aim of your life.

Many of the Chinese people in Hong Kong say blessings to each other in the new year.

Most people only have a wish of healthy life, rich life, wealthy life;   But they never mention the aims of life.

The culture will be changed one day and China will be really strong.

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The Queen and I

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The Queen and I

The story happened in a remote kingdom. I dare not tell you the name of the kingdom.  It was not real and it was so unreal that if I tell the fact it would be embarrassing,  not to me but to the King.

I thought she was the most beautiful lady i've seen for my whole life.   I have never saw a lady so pretty and so appealing.  May be that was because she was selected from millions of beautiful girls by the King.  No one can have such time and effort to search a million pretty girls and found  one.   It was only a king could do that.

The story is about how a reporter like me to help the Queen to leave her King.

It was complicated and long story and it needs a  complete novel to finish it.   It was not only the story itself important,  but the scenes are so beautiful that you can never forget about them.

Yes, a beautiful scene is just like a fresh flower. You will be dominated by the beauty if you are the right one.   If a film writer wishes to reproduce the beauty,  he needs money.  For a few seconds of beauty which can burn into your memory for your whole life,  it takes a million.

But this is a true life experience and you just felt the beauty by your fate, not by a film.

She was jogging among a group of young people outside the Palace.   I saw her and she saw me and she smiled.

It is the kind of smile which can turn over a whole country.

I was knocked down and the light was pierced deep into my mind.   Although I could still be standing.  But I am not me anymore.......

The story could be long and very long.

You'll see how a reporter sneak into the Palace and make friend with her.

And that is not important.

Important is how can the reporter to encourage her to leave the Palace?

It was by one sentence only.

He said: "You are to serve the people not to serve the king. "

And she agreed.

The story would tell you how she manage to run away from the Palace with the reporter for a brighter sunshine.

It needs not to tell the details,  because all the rest is not important.

Important is the determination.

Yet the determination will not be coming from nothing.   It's from a sudden realization.

All other reactions are followers of the sudden and fully explored understanding of reality.

It creates a sudden flash of beauty no one have seen before.

And this is the story:  "The Queen and I".........

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What if your right foot is broken?

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What if your right foot is broken?

My friend told me,  better to learn using the left foot to drive before accidents happen.

It was an episode happened long ago.   All cars need to use a right foot to press the crutch to change gear, and to press the brake to slow down or the accerlator to speed up.  If the right foot angle is hurt,  one can be stranded in a remote area.

It is a Plan-B for driving.

And it is a simple idea for everyone.

But it will not be the same in life.

Sometimes you can only have one plan.

What will you do if all roads are blocked?

And it is not a joke.  It needs to learn flying on top of driving always.

It needs to prepare a pair of wings,  and its reality.

You can get ideas from the internet always, but the internet will die also.

The question is:  what if your internet is dead?

You need to protect them.

And you need to learn flying.

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What is the mind on a horse?

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What is the mind on a horse?

There will not be a deep thought in running.

Slow and quiet is another choice.

To think in the minds of human is not easy.

Human is only a small unit of the universe.

It must be awared  that there is a secret around us.

And then eyes will be opened.

What are we living for?

Where are we going to?

These must be the thoughts for everyone.

How to produce love and wisdom for them?

Religions like Christianity created Sunday schools for students.

They arrange everyone to pray for learning.

It is a project practising for long years.

A project is useful, its better than none.

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Missing You

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新年快樂樂趣多

大吉大利笑呵呵

騎著馬兒飛奔喎

我掛住你掛住我

New Year joys beyond compare,

Luck and laughter everywhere!

On a horse, we swiftly ride—

I'm on your mind, you're on my side.

A poem 2026

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老髮微增曲處多

人間無奈歲月何

借取當年舊相片

回憶想望那當初

青春笑語舊生哥

樂趣未減歡聲播

還我從前太子道

大搖小擺慢步過

Hair thin with age, more curves appear,

Yet what can time do, year by year?

I take an old photo from the past,

To recall the days that couldn't last.

Youthful laughter, schoolmates of old,

Joy undiminished, stories told.

Give me back Prince Edward Road of yore,

Where I strolled slowly, as before.

note

Yore is an old-fashioned or poetic word that means "long ago" or "former times."

It is often used in the phrase "of yore," as in:

"in days of yore" → meaning "in days long past."

In the poem, "Prince Edward Road of yore" refers to the way that road used to be in the past, evoking nostalgia for earlier times.