Does it need to take 3000 years to flower?

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Does it need to take 3000 years to flower?

It was from a Chinese fairy tale,  that the fruits on the tree of immortality, can bring a magical life of no end.  However,  all of the Queen Mother's fairy peaches of immortality were picked and eaten by Sun Wukong

The fruits need a long time to grow.   It needs 3000 years to  flower,  and another 3000 years to bear fruit.

How much time is that?

It is 6000 years.

It is more or less the age of China.

From the aspect of a fairy tale,   now is the time for China to bear fruit.

6000 years is a short time from the aspect of the Universe. 

You can see human history is only a child.

All we can hope is the child can grow up faster in a healthy way.

And we hope the fruit can bring in real longevity to the world.

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What is the lesson from the fairy fruit?

What is the teachings from Sun Wukong?

Yes, you need to steal and eat the fruit.

If you don't take action, none can be achieved.

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Why Li Si failed ?

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Why Li Si(李斯) failed ?

The failure of Li Si is famous in the Chinese history.  He died a tragic death,  his body was cut into two from the waist.

All because he was powerless.   He was only an adviser,   he did not have soldiers,  and he cannot control the army.  His failure is certain not because of his idea, but because he was powerless.

There are lots of political theories about power and its control.

But in fact, none of the power was in the hands of the people.  Election was only a game.

The power was in the Emperor of Qin and a small group of people in history.

And more important is in the thoughts of Li Si.

He did not care about the whole country.   He had only self interest in his mind.  But he could not protect himself.

Politics is a game in many aspects.  

Julius Caesar minded about the country more than himself,  but he was assassinated easily.   He could not read the minds of his subordinates.   Everyone around had a thought to kill him, but he did not know. 

If he knew more about his comrades,  and if he knew how to protect himself,  Rome will be truely great.

When people can only see far away but cannot see  nearby danger,  tragedy will happen.

Nearby people will keep your eyes and ears shut and closed,  it is most dangerous.

A mobile phone is dangerous for modern leaders.  It is the aim of flying missiles.  But the mobile phone is more than your eyes.   It is your tool for thinking.

Can you give away your eyes and ears to avoid  missile attacks?

It is the most important dilemma in modern politics.

 

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How happy it will be hunting rabbits with your dog?

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How happy it will be hunting rabbits with your dog?

"I wish to lead our yellow hound with you once more and go out the east gate of Shangcai to chase after cunning hares—but how could it ever be possible now!"

--- "Records of the Grand Historian", Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, before his execution, said to his son.

「吾與若復牽黃犬,  俱出東門逐狡兔, 豈可得乎？ 」出自《史記·李斯列傳》，是秦朝丞相李斯臨刑前對兒子說的話。

 There are different kinds of happiness,   Everyone would know what happiness was in his memory.....

 If you don't know,  don't worry,  it will come back to you in your worst moment of life.  By then you will know what is happiness.

Important is to know it before it is gone.

Important is to know your happiness and enjoy it..........before it is gone.

Do not hesitate.   Do what you need to do.

I repeat once more here:

Do not hesitate.

明月幾時有?  把酒問青天。 不知天上宮闕，今夕是何年。

我欲乘風歸去，又恐瓊樓玉宇，高處不勝寒，起舞弄清影，何似在人間?

天空闊，心廣大，我尋求。

心中有夢，前路遙遠莫疑遲。

時間空間仍有限，但我心潮澎湃。

希望竟然有，但願明日好，醒覺在人間。

When will the moon be clear and bright?

With a cup of wine. I ask the azure sky.

I wonder in the celestial palaces tonight,

What year it is up there on high?

I long to ride the wind;

Yet I fear that in the jade heavens so fair,

Cold would be too much to bear.

Dancing to the fleeting shadow, I’d find

That life on earth is not a lesser kind.

The sky is vast, my heart is wide—and I am seeking.

With my dreams, though far the road, don’t hesitate.

Time and space have their bounds, yet my spirit surges great.

Hope, after all, is here; may tomorrow be clear,

And I wake again in this human sphere.

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In the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), Biography of Li Si, just before his execution, Li Si lamented to his son:

"I wish to lead our yellow hound with you once more and go out the east gate of Shangcai to chase after cunning hares—but how could it ever be possible now!"

This took place in the second year of Qin Er Shi (208 BCE). Li Si was falsely accused of treason by Zhao Gao and sentenced to be cut in two at the waist. As he faced death, he turned to his second son, who was to be executed alongside him, and spoke with deep sorrow of the simple life they once led in their hometown of Shangcai—leading a yellow dog and going out the east gate to hunt wild rabbits.

Why you cannot kill freely with a gun, but ok with a missile?

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Why you cannot kill freely with a gun,  but ok with a missile?

Another way to ask the same question is:  Why  wars can be started without permission from the people?

This is not only a turning point of history.  This is the real situation of "democracy" in human civilization.

The United States is not only killing its enemies.  They are killing their own system of democracy.

The meaning of election or  "freedom" is absurd.  It is completely nonsense.

The question is: can the wisdom of humans be  improved  after the war?

It is more than an examination for the human civilization,   And it can show the real quality of the scholars and intellectuals in the West.

Why wars can be started freely and killings can be a  leisure to enjoy ?

No one will trust democracy anymore.

Smart people will know more than that.

You cannot use a gun to kill freely and,  you cannot talk freely over the phone anymore.

You are not living in freedom.

And this is the year 2026.

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It's difficult to attack Iran

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It's difficult to attack Iran

攻打伊朗甚艱難

飛彈落在峰嶺間

美元難敵黃金價

遲早散落在深山

It's difficult to attack Iran

Missiles on the frying pan

Falling like US dollars

Whose tragedy again?

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Far beyond the clouds

 

望遠雲山望遠難，

朝霞以外是空閒。

仿佛三千里路遠，

佳人何處嘔歌傳。

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Far beyond the clouds, far beyond to see;

Emptiness,  clouds beyond the morning mist

Three thousand miles stretch endlessly

Oh, where shall I send my song to thee?

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Why is morality still vital?

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Why is morality still vital?

  

Morality is still vital in modern politics and everyday life.

If there is no morality,  the society will go wrong.   It is more than personal health.  The total direction of a society or a country will be going downward if morality is neglected.

The spirit of a country is supported by morality.   There will be a tragedy if morality is lost when people are doing things for the sole purpose of making fast money.

Happiness will be gone.   Inner peace of mind will be gone.   Decisions will be wrong.  Failure is imminent and unavoidable.

Important is the balance of powers will be gone too. When people cannot trust each other, there will be no safety.  How can world peace be sustained by thieves?

Morality is vital because it is supported by people and it is the final result of victory.

Morality is a good mind.

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What will happen if the balance of the three-kingdom is lost?

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What will happen if the balance of the three- kingdom is lost?

In  all the history of humankind,  the present situation is unseen before.   There was never a time  when the powers are in a almost completely balanced situation.

I don't know how long this situation will last.   I don't know how long this peaceful situation can  maintain.

No one would like to see if one side of this balance is suddenly growing very fast.

And I don't know whether the world peace is governed by a reasoning power, or greed, or fear.

The behavior of the United States is skeptical.   

They took Venezuela and all its resources suddenly,  and now they were starting to take Iran.   It happened only at the same moment in a historical view.

It is obvious that someone is trying to break the balance.

History will have a new chapter if the balance is broken:  though it is not easy.

An important issue is to have a concern if it is unavoidable.

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