男兒豈無劍

 

男兒豈無劍?

因何不讀書?

富裕和平日,

騰飛有藏儲。

(Translation)

it needs a sword to be a man

it needs reading to be something

in the age of peace plus wealth

it needs a gut to fly

Why is it not Easy to Shift a Paradigm?

 9329 Why is it not easy to shift a paradigm? 20211228

You might still remember the old story of paradigm. It was happened during or shortly after the 2nd World War. The captain of a big ship was steering around a peaceful sea and suddenly he had found a light spot was directly in front of his ship. And the spot did not move for a while, that meant they were colliding. The captain was nervous and send a signal telling the light spot to move aside. He thought his ship was big and the spot had to move away. Its the rule of the sea for smaller ships to make way for a bigger one. But the light spot returned a signal requesting him to move instead. He was a bit annoyed and send a signal again, "We are an aircraft carrier, please turn aside." The light spot quickly answered: "We are a lighthouse."

The scenario had changed suddenly in the captain's mind and he shifted his paradigm and moved away as fast as he could be. 

However, some paradigms are not so easy to shift. 

it is a kind of much stronger scenario. Some people can easily change their faith, but not able to shift away from a super wrong paradigm. 

For example, the concept of "enemy".  99% of the people from the Western civilization had heard about the teaching of "love your enemy", however, almost none of them can understand and love their enemies instead of hating them. It happened not in a short time, but lasted for two thousand years until now. It is absolutely rare for someone to love his enemy.   

People simply cannot shift from a hate mode to a love mode. It is not a short time.  It has been lasting for a long time of two thousand years.

It is same as the captain, he was steering his ship with his gun pointing at the light spot yet he will not believe the spot was not his enemy. 

And the spot was not his friend either. He was doing something unknown and was against his will.

Then what am I aiming at? If that was not an enemy nor a friend? 

People simply cannot and will not shift his scenario in such a case.

It was extremely difficult for anyone to realise the true scenario of the picture. 

What is my target? What am I fighting for? 

The most difficult part about the concept of "enemy" is not the "enemy" itself. There is a much bigger picture on top of the concept. None could understand the term "peace" since the early beginning of the Western culture. 

It was almost until the year 1945 when the two World Wars had ended and people had suddenly found that they were in peace.

A grand-peace is ahead of us humans since the world wars.

However, humans did not notice that they will be rich if a grand peace is achieved.

Peace is wealth. Only in a completely peaceful situation then the wisdoms could have a chance to achieve the next aim for human beings. Countries were still fighting. They did not see the wealth is coming with the peace. The concept of "enemy" will have become redundant only when the real peace-plus-wealth situation happens. 

May be in future  we would discover that our aim is not "wealth" but something more than money. And we need to shift our minds again by then. 

Now, it is important to get into the age of wealth. 

And it was not funny that the captain was aiming not at the lighthouse, but his own purse. He is doing things to make himself poor. He will shift into a higher paradigm to sail in the world of money as soon as he had discovered the truth.  

 

 

What is the meaning of “Peace” in Christmas?

 9328 What is the meaning of "peace" in Christmas? 20211224

It is Christmas eve again. It is time for a very silent night. May be there is snow outside and you are warm inside. And suddenly it occured to me that, what is the real meaning of peace?. "May peace be with you", was the blessing Jesus would give his disciples. I always doubt that the Chinese translation of the word "peace" was wrong. They would translate it as "safe". The blessing would become "May safe be with you" and it could be a good reminder for us to think deeply about the word "peace". 

Does it mean the same as "world peace"? Does it mean a situation without war? Does it mean a situation we need not to blame others? Does it mean we should love our enemies? Or, does it mean only for a special time like Christmas when you are enjoying a good moment in the house? 

Yes peace is important today. It is more than a situation without war, because it is a starting point for wealth also. The age of wealth must be an age of peace. And it is only in a peaceful situation that the wisdom of mankind can be fully developed and common wealth could be really achieved. In such a sense, peace is important and urgent for the economy. 

And peace could be a mindset of wisdom also. Only those with peace but not a blame in mind could have the joy to think freely about a nice future ahead of us all. 

Why Peace is Possible only Now ？

 9327 Why peace is possible only now  20211218

We need to know what is a war and what constitutes a war. The Iraq war happened twenty years ago might give a hint for us. And that kinds of war could be the last one we could find on earth. 

War is a decision based on the believe that this war could be won and losing is impossible. This is the first condition to constitute a war.

And the believe was from a kind of calculation that one side is much more powerful than the other side. This is the second condition. 

The third condition is need or greed. When one side need urgently the land and resources from the other side, or even when the need is not more than the greed, still greedy wars could happen. 

And the fourth condition is never to be forgotten: that war needs blood. May be there would be a war of robots one day; but still, it will create hatred. And hatred could be bloody in return. Because war is not a chess game. Winners could take over other people's land and lives. There will be a war if the need or greed is so huge that people are willing to give their blood for it, war will happen. For example, safety or the pride of a nation is a honorable need, when you need to protect your country, you are willing to fight. In this sense, blood will suddenly become sacred and war is unavoidable. 

War is not a complicated matter. First you have the faith to win. Second you have the power to overcome. Third you have the need or greed. Fourth you are willing to sacrifice.  

The fifth point is most important of all, war is hatred. You will hate your enemy and not to love them. 

And suddenly the planet seems waken up from a dark night. There is sunshine both from the East and the West. 

As the most important conditions for war on our planet are missing and peace is possible the first time ever when we humans were born. 

We could see confrontation of similar powers now. No one is able to win the unwanted war if it is ever started. The planet had become balanced and will be completely balanced soon and wars will not be easy to happen.   

What will happen is the coming of the age of wealth. 

People had discovered that they will be surely rich if they can co-operate with each other in the whole planet. And the wisdom and knowledges will be greatly increased in the coming days, when humans will found they are a species more able then before. It will be a moment of true happiness and people had discovered that almost all the older problems were from a spirit of wars. Those were miserable years of hatred and mistrust that had created most of the problems for humans.  

We will not be living like a drifting bird, but an able species. All other problems like crimes and education and health care etc. will be settled more easily in a peaceful and co-operational and loving spirit in this planet. 

And it is important to keep in your sacred mind that you will be working for the peace for mankind from now on. It is the first important mission for a species of human. 

You will find strength and unbelievable power of wisdom in your mind instantly. 

As for the common folks, please be prepared that you will be rich. 

Why the Wealth should not be Delayed?

 9326 Why the wealth should not be delayed?  20211215

The age of wealth is a reality, and people need not to care how it comes into reality. You don't need to know how the pyramid was built and how the two World-Wars were fought and even, you don't need to know a volcano eruption happened 75,000 years ago in Indonesia had killed 60% of the total population on earth which was sixty million by then. What was left was twenty-four million survivors on the whole planet and that was enough for human evolution. All that is not important now though you may wonder why the Heavens are not intervening and there was no intervention. That is another important question as no intervention doesn't meant you will not get help. Mind-communication is a direction of our evolution. You can communicate with other people on earth or, to communicate with the Universe.   

Now the age of wealth is already here and smart people have already felt it. Humans will experience a time of comfort and survival not a threat like the old days when people were always starving. Major wars could be avoided, peace could be sustained.  

Yet more important is what will happen in the age of wealth. 

The first question is the wealth should not be delayed. The age of wealth depends on only one thing now. The other things such as science, culture, markets, etc. are all secondary compare to the total peace on earth. 

Humans need peace.

If the US and China can be friendly and get together always to find out solutions for the whole world, then the age of wealth is real and will not be delayed. It could be a good starting point. 

Why it should not be delayed? It is because humans need urgent and huge capital to face problems. Because we do not know what will happen next.

Global warming might be urgent, the globe is more than warming, it is burning. There are lots of methods to deal with it, yet the humans are not in one single entity to do things. We are not prepared. When every one is busy working on his own problem, important bigger issues cannot be solved. 

For example, in case the globe needs a new river, to bring sea water into the deserts to help water evaporate, yet that could not be done for any one single country. 

It seemed an easy thing to pump sea water to change the weather. Yet it needs a total effort to do it. 

Humans are too keen to build killing devices. 

There are lots of war-planes and tanks on earth. Yet it is rare to hear a self- driving fire-prevention-tank which can run into the burning forest and create a fire separation path. And there is no fire-extinguish-missiles. There are very few life-saving-robots which can go into high building to save lifes. Helicopter can only drop buckets of water into the fire but not fire-extinguishing-bomb. 

It is because, humans are not determined to face the lost of forests.

The surface of earth is so hot that we might one day be all living underground to get away from the heat and leave the land to grow forests to keep the air cool. Above ground forests can help the earth to recycle. Underground cities are urgently needed. We need hugh digging machines and lots of investments for the underground. Advanced military factories have lots of works to do now. If highways and cities are replaced by forests, you can expect a nice planet is ahead of us. 

Lots of problems needed attention. Like the nuclear leakage in Japan and Russia need global help and not to leave it unattended. There are famines in many places and those are our treasured fellow beings. Humans are still under the threat of starving and it should not had happened. With the coming wealth at hand, humans need to know what is urgent and what could be done later.  

All it need is a simple start of talking. 

When humans can start talking, all the older problems like how should a country be managed or how to live a life without the threat of virus, and even very basic philosophical ideas can be exchanged. 

That meant we are in a state of love not hate. 

And that meant humans do have a hope. 

Why is it Necessary to be Friendly with Xi ?

 9325  Why is it necessary to be friendly with Xi ?  20211211

It is completely wrong to take Xi as the enemy. Situations in the whole world is changed, according to calculation, China will be richest in the coming decades; but it might be a wrong calculation.  Things will be going much faster than expected. China might be rich in the next ten years, or even five years. Smart people will trust their own intuition more than the scholars. And it would never be wrong to be well prepared.

Why Xi?

Some people are taking him as the number one enemy and that is more than wrong; it is fatal. 

Because, China is not a solid country yet. China is composed of different division of thoughts and the under currents are so huge that sudden change is possible. 

When people in the United States are supporting the under currents with ample supplies of money and resources, they could never believe that if one day the under currents have grasped the power and become rulers of China, they will be obedient no more. By the time, the United States will be facing a much bigger power and will be weaker to say anything with the super power they are encountering. 

That is the true scenario you could thought of. Will your boss obey you? It is the most absurd thing to imagine. You have created a boss and your boss will be arriving soon.  

Why should the United States be friendly with Xi?

Why Xi?

It is because, Xi is moderate. Xi is humble and Xi is not radical like the right-wing powers in the States. If one day China had changed into Chi-merica, and be ruled by a party of self-interest minded people, they would in turn take over the position of a boss and the United States will be their first worry and they will start beating, guarding and limiting the new enemy which is the older United States. 

Time is running extremely fast. Xi will be getting old and so does President Biden. History will not have the patience to produce another two clever people like Xi and Biden. They are more or less the same type of people and history will not produce another pair for the world. 

We need to beat the time, not our so-called enemies. 

It is urgent time to create peace, not war. 

    

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Will There be Fortune in the South America?

 9324  Will there be fortune in the South America?  20211209

When the early colonists sailed across the ocean to reach the Southern part of the Americas, they saw fortune. Vast land, impenetrable forests, long rivers, and all kinds of different people. It is a fortune to be made here. They had brought many things to the land. Some knowledge and lots of sadness. The land was looted and rubbed because of the fortune. 

And soon the land was forgotten. Except some small countries who were not obeying and created a threat for the far away rich countries. Distance political arms will arrive.                                            

Important is: Will there be still a fortune? 

No one could see fortune in the format of yesterday. 

Situations had changed and the age of wealth has come. And the Motto is the same:

If you can make other people happy, then you will be happy. That could be explained in another way:

If you can make other people rich, then you will be rich.

We can expect a long and modern high-speed rail built from the far end of Argentine to Canada, going through Mexico and the United States, of course. 

To build a high-speed rail in the United States is not easy. Too many considerations would need decades to debate. Yet to build one in Mexico is much easier. The point is whether people could see the inner truth of wealth. The age of wealth would come only in a peaceful world. And you can expect not only a rail, but the virus will be gone when minds have changed. This is a give away era, not a take away era. Fortunes could be created not looted. The wasted resources in the Americas will soon wake up. When every one is happy, the planet will see sunshine once more.

Who could bring fortune to the world? 

The answer is in the minds.   

How Easy is the Age of Wealth?

 9323 How easy is the age of wealth 20211205

The age of wealth is a time when all people on earth are really rich. They are not only rich in money, but rich in mind and culture. 

And the age of richness is already here. It is like two great rivers coming to a meeting point, they are already here, all the need is to remove a little stumbling block. 

US and China are getting together within an arm's reach. All problems will be naturally solved. And other problems like Russia and Ukraine are subject to the basic relation of US-China. All of them will be true friends in a short time. The next bigger problem is in the Middle-east. If problems like the relation of US and China could be solved, then the Middle-east problem is easy. 

How easy could that be? 

The motto is one line only: If you can make other people happy, then you will be happy. 

For example, how can the US make the Mexicans happy? If Mexicans are happy, they will not create immigration problem. And that is extremely easy: to use the money for the US-Mexico Wall to build a high-speed rail for them, their economy problem will be eased and immigrants are busy working to build the railways. A Wall will not create money, it creates problem, but a high-speed rail could do things otherwise. 

And the high-speed rail can go North into the US and Canada, and reach to the South till the end of Argentine. It could be another gold-mine like the old days in Alaska.  All the wasted resources in South America will be waken up.  Who is paying for the construction fee?

 You can expect that is extremely easy when the relations are turned from the war feeling into a friendly mood. It is only a simple matter.

No one wants to fight in the age of wealth. That is for sure. 

Everyone wants to be rich; and it will help the minds rich, too. 

A smart planet is a rich planet. 

 

Are we prepared for the coming Age of Wealth？

 9322 Are we prepared for the coming Age of Wealth？20211202

 In the coming age of wealth, countries will be much richer, and people will be much older. It is more than an age of wealth, it is an age of wisdom, too. One recent finding in Hong Kong discovered that, people born after the year 2020 will have an average of time span of 100 years in Hong Kong. People are not prepared to accept the news. If they can vote, they will veto it. As people are too worried about how to care the aged people, they have not found the benefit of it. 

People are able to free themselves from the sex pressure for the first time. They don't have to worry getting sex urges fulfilled. They are not living for sex. They would have more time to think, and are free from the pressures. As all sex pressures are not only sex pressures, it is actually materialistic. Money pressure is another form of sex pressure. And now people are all in their older form of survival, they are experienced people of 70's, 80's, 90's and 100's. They are not teenagers anymore. They would be wiser and can think more deeply.   

What will happen in the age of wealth?

Yes, people are much richer, much wiser and more peaceful. 

To stop the wars are the first step towards the age of wealth. Yet it is far not enough to create wealth. A peaceful planet is good for the market but not good enough. 

Countries need to become real brothers and sisters, they need to have a deep trust to each other and can combine all their effort to create wealth. As wealth is more than money. Wealth includes the wealth of wisdom which needs unlimited flow of the minds all over the world. 

They need to trust each other and that meant they are really loving each other. To love an unknown person is easier than to love a second country. Countries are now treating each other as potential threats, not trusted friends. All will be different if counries are friends not enemies. 

Are we prepared to become rich? 

Are we prepared to be friends, not enemies?

That would be the first step towards an age of wealth. 

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Will there be good news in the next few months?

 9321 Will there be good news in the next few months? 20211123

There is a concern among the US investors these days that the interest rates will not be very useful to fight against the coming stagflation.  

Figures are frightening. Inflation seems uncontrollable. 

The total situation will be turning downwards in a couple of months if prices keep going up and no measure is taken to beat them. Stagflation seems obvious. 

However, the case should be seen from the other side. 

Global economy will be going up in the next few years, due to the peaceful encounter of the US and China. Can the markets wait for a few years more? When every one is expecting a change in a few months not a few years.  

The answers are positive. Its because, most of the prices are under influence from the Trump administration and it is the main reason of inflation. Once the tariffs are gone, prices will drop magically. It is not only a problem of prices. Its a matter of direction. If the direction is changed, moods will follow. When everyone is happy, there will be a bloom. 

What will happen in the next few years?

 9320 What will happen in the next few years？20211122

It will happen within months, if every thing is smooth.  Global economy will be up again. And it will not need a very long time, 3 years at most, US economy will be going up in a speed no one can expect. And of course, China economy will be same. 

The change is due to the peaceful encounter of US and China. When the two countries are in good mood working together, everything will be fine for all the world. 

And it is the only way out for the whole world. 

All the brains will be activated and numerous inventions will be helping the world people to get away from the virus threat and more importantly, every country can have a better chance to build their own economy. 

Fighters will not see the scenery in the boxing wing. Once they have stopped fighting, they will have a better view about future and the grand Universe. Co-ordination and true communication will be built only in a mood of trust. 

And mutual trust is not easy. It needs lots of hard work and patience. 

However, economy will be going up even if people do not trust each other. 

Good time will be here if they stop fighting. And better time will soon arrive if people can trust each other. This is the most difficult part and I am not sure if it will happen within the next one hundred years, however, we need to remain positive to be certain that humans are wise enough to have a resolution to learn to trust each other. 

Good days are coming very soon. 

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I am happy yet worried

 I am happy yet worried with my two guitars.  One voice, two guitars. Can I have some good music?

How do we observe the planet？

 9319 How do we observe the planet 20211113

Some times you only need to see a little bird, and then you will see the whole planet.  Swallows are seen less in Hong Kong these years. This is the observation from the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. They count the birds and their nests from all over the island and had found the swallows are less in the previous several years. 

It seems to be not a good news, however, we need to have a faith about the planet and trust that the planet would have a healing and growing ability and the effort of one species like humans on earth cannot and will not be able to destroy the planet. 

Swallows come and go. And even the butterflies are also coming and going. Some of the butterflies can travel around the earth and seem to be more efficient fliers then the human airplanes. Can't you believe a butterfly can fly better then a huge plane? Yet it is true. And of course the swallows can fly better also. We are in a lower level of thinking ability, if compare with the planet. We have a name for such lower level situation: "unimaginable". Because it is out of our thinking ability and if one can admit it and the openning holes would always be there for such person. You cannot even to imagine it even in your dream.  However, we have the heart to prepare ourselves, just to observe and think more clearly. We can fly through the holes. 

What are we going to do then?

The most important thing is to stop fighting and start observing. The scenery is so beautiful not to be missed. 

Relax a little and discover a lot. 

What is the intention to release Meng Wang Zhou？

 9318 What is the intention to release Meng Wang Zhou 20211106

I do hope that the intention is not only to release a chaptured woman, but to release a kind of good will, which might be explained as the most important change in the American heart. One can expect that not all the policies are out of calculation, but the most important one must be coming through a heart. 

The serious question is how can humans deal with the coming difficulties. If the powers are all busy at fighting with each other, problems like global warming are but a small scale incident, and more serious one would be in the economic field. If one of the countries suddenly found unsolvable problems in their books then all of us will suffer.The problems might be in the finance books, not in the atmosphere. 

Fighters in the boxing wing would never have time to see the scenery outside. Only those with a heart can feel the difference. 

Problems would not be only carbon emissions or virus out-breaks. It came from the Industrial revolution hundreds of years ago. Humans have only one set of science to manage the whole world. Can we have another set of  science to march into the future? 

That need the total effort of all humans working together and helping each other. As long as people are fighting, there will be no improvement. Humans need to co-operate not to fight. 

Why is Meng released?  One can see the shadow of one American heart whose name is Beau Biden. And if that is true, the case could be the most significant change in American history.  

 

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Why did Boris Johnson insist on the Doomsday concept?

 

Please refer to my older article as the following,  actually it was only posted recently:

9301  What is the basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization? 

(2021 .7 .28)

There is no such concept as a “Doomsday” or a “Last Judgement” in the thoughts of the Chinese Civilization. They have never thought of an end of all mankind. In the Chinese concept, to grow is the greatest virtue of the Universe.  Growing is an unending process which will carry on without end. 

Chinese civilization is different from the West. Most of the Western religions believe that there is an end of the world. Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim have similar concepts about the end and a final judgement.  The first concept was from the Zoroastrians. They were from the Persian empire when Zoroastrianism was first developed. And the thought about the end of the world spread around the world since. They all believed that the world and the human race was created by a God and will be destroyed by the same God. ( please note: a “God” is not the same as a “Creator” in Chinese culture.)

There is an unexpected result of this doomsday concept. That meant there was no future for human race. 

One of the most imminent and direct result is that humans will not have a sense of hope. They would seek material comfort instead. Money is the only shorter term of safety for them. 

And this thought is the basic problem of the Western minds. It is more than any other harm to the minds. 

Central problem of the West is that each and every people is a “self”. There will not be any guarantee for the single units in the society. And the world is going to nowhere.  There will be no comfort for anyone. The lucky ones will have a family, yet families will be broken sooner or later when the time is passed. Anyone will be a lonely self when the final destruction comes. Human race will not be a comfort for them as they believe humans will be destroyed soon. And it needs not a religious people to believe that. Even the non-religious people cannot avoid this common believe when the scientists keep warning of a global warming or other mishaps which is bound to happen. It is darkness over the heads of Western people.

One of the symbols will be the street sleepers in major United States cities. They have some money from the Government and they are not hungry yet they have no homes and have to sleep on the streets. There are no sense of safety or happiness for them. They are the grey clouds of the Western capitalism. 

 

Capitalism is a system of  “self”.  Capitalism is composed of single units.  A sense of individual self is basic mindset of the West.  Yet it is very satirical to see similar pictures in China.  One of the forums run by the Chinese science people name their forums “SELF”, just to promote a sense of “self-respect” like the Beijing University people. (please refer to the attached photos)

Basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization is to grow, they do not believe in doomsdays, and they are choosing a cooperative way to organize their society. Socialism is a form of mutual help and love. 

And to grow means to evolve. The course of evolution will be a long and unending process. Humans will have a bright future. It’s a picture beyond imagination. A new revelation will be ahead of our time and tell us what the future will be. And that meant hope. Hope is real when people started to give up selfish thoughts and started to think about working together and loving each other.  And we will get over the shadows of selfish “selfs”. 

* A note from the writer:

Humans are facing a problem of the warming weather, and we need to think.  We are pushed to work together and love each other. It is pointless to insist on the wrong concept of a "Doomsday", which is harmful. And evolution is not limited to the external build up of the bodies, but also our souls. We are growing very fast and  internal links do appear in human minds. We will have a bright and successful future. Any English thinkers could not have forgotten about Charles Darwin and his theory of Evolution, which is also in the process of evolving.  （2021.9.02）

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Why are insects disapppeared?

 

9316  Why are insects disappeared?  20211030 

Summer nights are not the same again. 

I had observed in one hot summer night in 2019 in Hong Kong.  The street lights were always surrounded with small flying insects like your childhood days. However, I discovered suddenly that the insects were disappeared. They were not there in the year 2019 anymore, and then next year you cannot find them, now is 2021, still there were no flying insects around the street lamps at night. 

And I did not notice any news report about that since. Where are all those important specialists gone?  Did they notice the same thing? 

And a friend in the South East Asia islands observed, that the swallows are getting lesser also. And I suddenly realised I have not seen them in Hong Kong for years. When there were no insects,  how can the swallows survive? 

And if there were no swallows, what is next to be gone? 

Is there anyone to tell us what is happening? 

What are we expecting the next things besides the Covid-19 to happen? 

People are too busy.

However, may I remind you to take a little time to walk around and see for yourself.   

When nerves are too tight and things might happen.

Relax a little and discover a lot.

 

 

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Why LOVE is more important than POLITICS ?

 

9315 Why Love is more important than Politics? 20211025

 It is because, good politics is the result of love. 

If there is no love in the politics, then it must be bad politics. 

A summary of the theory of Jesus

 

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This is an old article I have written in 2021.  It is about the major conflict in the Western civilization.  To make it extremely simple,  the conflict is about the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Jesus was the first one who understood  the major problem of the Western civilization.

The problem comes from an ancient bible story:

Humans need only to obey god.

It is a sin not to obey god.

Or you can put it  in another way:   It is a sin not to obey the priests.

And you will be a selected people to  occupy lands and drive away other people.

You're ordered to kill by the priests in the name of God.

Killings  were the major practice of humans by then.

A major concern of Jesus was to correct this idea.

Jesus had been avoiding painfully to criticize about the Old Testament.  He had proposed his idea about love, Yet he had not  try to eliminate the other side of love.   That's why his disciples had put the Old Testament and New Testament together in the same book. The two  Testaments were completely contradictory to each other,  yet they were both inside the bible.

To study the conflicts in the Western civilization,  first we need to study the theory of Jesus.....

(A  summary of the theory of Jesus)

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A difficult question:  What is love?

One of my friends had asked me what is love, and I answered him : 

"You knew it."

All of us knew what is love and it is not necessary to hide yourself and said you don't know. Though few can be sure about what is love. 

Love is a bonding happened between the people who is working for a common goal. The harder the fight, the stronger the bond. Some times the bonding is so strong that people are willing to sacrifice for the other people that they are willing to use up everything even their life and happiness.

Important is the goal. You would need a goal, and the goal must be noble and essential that you would like to achieve the goal at any cost. When you have a common goal, the bonding would be a natural feeling within your group. Sexual love is one of the feeling of the bonding if the loving parties do have a common goal among themselves. If they do not have this common goal, then the love is weak and cannot last long.   

What is a bonding?

It could be a signed contract or a pledge or an oath. Those are all external things. The real bonding is something happened within. You will know each other and you will feel each other. You don't need to say a word and your mind is shared. With the guidance of a shared mind you will act together like dancing. You will be acting within the rhythms and there is beauty among your love. Therefore, love is beautiful and love is a state of well-being that you need it always, though love is not an aim itself.

We can expect the bonding will be improved in the future because of the power of evolution. There must be some unknown connections between human beings. Now we know not much about it. But the connection will be much stronger in future. It is sure.

And we will be seeing a more difficult part about love. 

Jesus the ancient leader of the Western mind had said, you should love your enemy. And why should we love them? 

Do I have some inner bondings with my enemy, too? 

The answer is definitely yes. And it could be a deep secret about the Universe why there are positive and negative sides for everything. If you use a magnet to bond together two pieces of irons, you will have the different polars and the ends of polarities will go together. That is a fact and it is acceptable. What cannot be accepted is that you can never do away any one side of the polars. You can never "eliminate" the negative side, if you do think you are the positive and vice versa. You can only be sured that within your bonding, you will have them. You could avoid being together with the other polar but you cannot get rid of them. You both have the right to survive within the Universe. There are negative elements within your bonding and that is why you should love them, too. That meant if you ever tried to eliminate the other end, you will not be surviving. 

 😭😭😭😭

Why the West is in a status without love?

 

Let us get started with the thought from Jesus who is the origin of the Western mind. Jesus was the sole leader in the West, other leaders like Plato and Socrates were secondary. 

Some of the Western people believed that one day Jesus will be back. Will Jesus be pleased with them?  

This question would have no meaning for some of the Western leaders. They regard Jesus as a historic figure, and they will not take his philosophy as a reference. Western culture has taken Jesus as an important mind leader for the past two millenniums. However, the teachings of Jesus were mostly ignored. Almost all teachings by Jesus had not been fulfilled. Jesus was betrayed not only by one disciple but most of his followers.

Western people had been in an inner conflict since then. They knew what ought to do but they wouldn't do it. Or they could'nt do it.

The question is why. If we cannot explain this puzzle today, more conflicts will be on its way to spread around the world. 

The major contribution of Jesus is the concept of love. Love was a concept not found in the older Greek culture. Love is not mentioned in the Fables of Aesop. Love is a new feeling for the younger generation since the Year 0001. Humans had come to a new era of love since that year. 

Why can’t people love each other? 

The first answer is politics.

 Western love is political and it is far from wisdom. And it would be a deep feeling of sadness that this trend is found in other parts of the world other than the West, and it has been growing since. 

Jesus had two most important thoughts in his lifetime. 

First is that he desires love more than rites (sacrifices). It means  church services is not important, but to love people is.

Why are people going to church? The first purpose should be to love each other while the secondary purpose is to perform the rites.

Religious people will say, to perform the rites is to worship God. Very well then. That means to worship God is not the first priority but to love people is. The most important thing is to love. However, people would doubt that if they were really worshipping God, if they were not loving people. Many of the Old Testaments, if you examine them in this context, you will find them completely wrong:

God will not ask Abraham to kill his son as to love is more important than obeying God. 

And this is the idea of Jesus whom for some reason did not argue with the priests about the Old Testament. 

What is rites? 

If we put that in a modern language, rites is almost the same with politics. Politics has been the dictator for daily life in the West. Politics is the tool for self-interest.

There are politics everywhere: offices, schools, and families. Politics are same as the church rites.

People are not concerned to each other; they do not love each other. The rites eased their minds that they had done their duties. They go to church and do all the rites but they do not love people.

The essence of politics is very much the same as the ancient rites. People will do many things but they will not love each other.  

Love seemed to be a simple matter but the question is why can’t people love each other? Weren't them taught with a wrong message from the very beginning? It might be not. 

And then we had found the second important thought of Jesus. 

The reason why people cannot love each other is that they are not wise. 

Any one wise enough will understand the importance of loving each other.

 However, most people are lacking wisdom. Before his death Jesus had told his disciples that he would send a 'Spirit of Wisdom' to help people to reach truth. This thought about wisdom is neglected in the generation that follows. The purpose of human is not to seek wisdom but to seek material satisfaction. Jesus was betrayed since then. People had chosen politics and materials in the millenniums. 

And we would still ask a question why. Why can’t people pickup wisdom instead. 

And we need to take a note here that the so-called wisdom is not an aim of life. 

Wisdom is but a thinking ability only. It is a tool.  It is not the aim itself. If the cultures in the future take wisdom as an aim, they must be fooling themselves. The 'Spirit of Wisdom' could be a helper or a teacher, but it should not be an aim of the human beings. Church people took the 'Spirit of Wisdom' as God to worship cannot be the idea of Jesus. The concept of 'Trinity' may not be right. It were due to the military might of the early Romans that the concept was spreaded.  

And now we are facing a painful situation. If love is so important, why is it neglected? There must be a reason for it. 

The reason may be related to the course of evolution. Humans are living in a form of individual units for the past two millenniums. They must fight for their individualistic interests, no other will help them if they cannot help themselves. There are no true friends and all others are potential enemies. Capitalism is but a later form of the individual units. In the ancient times when there were no stock markets , people are working on their own survivals only. Love will not be prevailing in a self-centered and self-interest oriented status. It might not be the problem of political systems. People will not know what is politics then. It might be only a ‘pattern' of life in the ancient time. They did not know how to organize the whole community to help each other. They would live like animals and were working for the bread of tomorrow and that is all.  Humans had not been co-operative until recently when a co-operative thought is happening in a new situation other then the West.   

Humans are changing from a self-interested situation to a co-operative situation. And that could be the process of evolution. You will have love in a co-operative way of living. You will have hatred in a hostility way of living. Many of the Western thinkers were supporters of Jesus, however, it was due to this pattern of living that love had become impossible. And the teachings of Jesus will not be obeyed. It was completely dreadful when a nun who was respected by the world and her name was Mother Therea said there is no love in the United States. 

Will you say it is wrong for Jesus to preach love and wisdom if the way of living is self-centered? Of course it is not. The idea of love and wisdom may always be a hope.  The evolution process may be easier for humans with some guidance. When humans have learned to love and choose it as a basic attitude of life, they will be evolving better. 

We are evolving quickly. Many people thought that the course of evolution were slow. But it may not be the case. It will be happening very quickly. The patterns of living will not be the same, and the thoughts will not either. The bonding powers in human brains will be quickly improved. You will know what the others are thinking before they actually express it.  We are getting smarter and smarter and will be able to do many things in a co-operative pattern of life and more importantly, in love more than in politics. 

Love is more important than politics.*

* humans without love will have no wisdom,

everything will be wrong without wisdom. 

，

Down Avenue Joffre.………… (a poem)

霞飛有路

                               李察寫於2021年

            霞飛有路落飛霞

            春風呵氣濕萬家

            沾露略嫌聲音小

            路滑苔深數點花

2nd Interview: How can you proof that the burning woods were laughing?

 An old article written in 2008

How can you proof that the burning woods were laughing?

 
怎樣證明木柴是在哈哈大笑？
(問到底 No.7010   2008 0423 )
 
 
    數天之前，寫過一段略為高調的話：
 

         x       x       x
 

　「或者，我們可以跑遠一些，回到五十萬年前，北京人居住的那個洞穴裡，訪問一下，正在燃燒的其中一根木柴。問問他：『你這樣燒，得到甚麼？』
    「他會哈哈大笑：『你看不見嗎？我得到的是光呢。』」
 

        x       x       x
 

    一個讀者來信問：你怎樣在邏輯上証明，木柴是在哈哈大笑？
 

　　這一個問題，李察最初是一笑置之。但往回一想，才知道問題非常嚴重。
 

　　因為，幾乎所有的木柴，都是在哭，而不是在笑。
 

　　貝多芬曾經在遺囑裡解釋他之所以不死的「理由」。他的遺囑裡寫著：．．．是藝術！就只是藝術留住了我。在我尚未把我感到的使命全部完成之前，我覺得不能離開這個世界。這樣我纔捱延著這種悲慘的生活．．．
 

    貝多芬死不瞑目。是一個陌生人，替他蓋上眼瞼的。他的遺書上說，
 

   「噢！ 神明！ 什麼時候我再能在自然與人類的廟堂中感覺到歡樂？ ．．．永遠不？．．．不？．．．噢！這太殘酷了！」參看羅曼羅蘭著傅雷譯的《貝多芬傳：永不屈服的靈魂》
 

    還有那位傻子薛西弗斯，當他每一次默默回到山腳下，不發一語。他是在笑嗎？未必的。他可能在哭。領取諾貝爾獎的卡繆，在研究了許久後，才非常審慎地說：「應該想像，薛西弗斯是快樂的。」
 

   無數的木柴，都悲泣失聲。不說那位卞和了。他的嗚咽，是宇宙中的永恆聲響，是永遠在宇宙中周遊的。還有司馬遷。他被去勢之後，堅持寫作。但他說，他是「腸一日而九迴，居則忽忽若有所亡，出則不知所如往。」他的那一種抑鬱，才是絕對的抑鬱。
 

   再如王安石。他有甚麼笑容？當他被迫退休，在家中每日繞室疾行，望空呻吟，只能看到神州陸沈的情景，當然不會哈哈大笑。
 

   還有悲哀的屈原離騷，不說也吧了。
 

   所能想得到的英雄人物，全都是不笑的。
 

   唯一的問題只是：為甚麼在這樣辛苦的境地裡，他們堅持燃燒？為甚麼他們寧願燃燒？為甚麼他們生活在痛苦之中，但呈獻世人的，卻是「歡樂頌」，是光明，是人生之至美？
 

   到底他們是快樂的嗎？
 
 
   我們同樣可能想像，而且一切人都會絕對相信，如果他們有機會重新再來一次，他們的抉擇，必定相同。就像薛西弗斯那樣的相同。
 

    他們會笑嗎？
 

    這一個問題，來到這裡，我們就會忽然察覺自己的卑下。是的，在我們卑下的俗世心靈裡，無法了解。我們不可能知道，甚麼才是快樂。我們不可能知道，屈原有多快樂，司馬遷有多快樂，貝多芬有多快樂，王安石有多快樂，孫中山有多快樂。他們明明都是愁容滿面的。但我們不知道，他們有多快樂。請原諒李察又再一次搬弄那老土的「層次論」。我們低層次的人，有低層次的快樂。他們高層次的快樂，可能，是不同的。

One must imagine them happy.

- - -

And my mind was still not settled. I returned to the cave again.  I wanted to interview the fire wood one more time, just to ask them, if they were really happy. 

What did I see? 

They were laughing like mad.  What a fool I was.  I need not to ask again.

 
 
 
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(本文貼出日期： 2008.4.22    香港時間： 8:35 pm)

A MEMORY: TO SEE INNER THINGS

  9308  What is the intention to capture Meng Wang Zhou  20210906  

What is the benefit for the US to hold up the woman? What is it for? What is the intention of the US people to do this?

It is of no interest to the US economy. And why did it happen?

It is because, a secret War of Mind is going on. The US is setting up lots of traps for the Chinese to fall into. Capturing the woman is an empty shot only. There is no gun power in the rifle shot. It is only a noise. To have the woman captured will not make the US great again, nor could the US turn itself over for a second chance of growth. It is only a noise to draw away attention. 

We can expect more of this kind of empty shots. The War of Mind would be going on smoothly. Concentration is totally on the external show, important business of internal matter is neglected. They will have less time to do the internal work. 

When people are busy dealing with the laws in Canada, secret powers in China could have a comfortable place and the Chinese will have less time to manage the matter of minds. It might be meaningless to have more cheap philosophies and mediocre celebrities to occupy the focus, however, the attention to care for the minds will be hopefully eliminated.   

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Can Humans Beat Death?

 9311 Can humans beat death 20210923

It is very likely to have a built-in feature in all lives to avoid death. Any animal would run away from threats at any cost. Years ago, I had seen a cat being bitten by a dog. She had lost almost half her body and was resting on a heap of rubbish at the roadside. When she saw me approaching, she crawled away desperately. She wanted to live.

To live is a grand virtue of the Universe, it was the faith of the Chinese. However, death is a threat always. Though some of the learned person insisted that when life is fully lived, death is nothing. And when the value of life was satisfied, death is a good payment. Socrates drank his poison peacefully before his students when he was sentenced to death. There was no fear or uneasiness in Socrates because he had said that life doesn’t worth to live without a discourse. It might be that if life is meaningless, then it is not worthwhile to live it. Now it seems he had found the meaning in life and he thought he had lived fully. Death cannot threaten him.

Socrates is the leader in the path of Western thinking. Did he really beat death?

No. 

He had tried solving the problems of individual deaths only. He cannot know the value of life of the species of human beings. He did not know where are the human species going, and the meaning of death in the species. And, even in the views of an  individual, he cannot know where are the souls going. Will the soul be dead together with the body? There was a bad answer in the Western civilization. As the Western mind believes in a final destruction of all, that meant an eternal death is ahead. And this faith kills the hope in many human beings.  

Only when people have taken the view of a total species, the eyes could be suddenly opened. If you see a rose in the garden, you will know immediately what is in the rose. All the species of the rose in the past are there in a single rose like this one. She is now showing her beautifully perfumed body in the sunshine. She is not a single, she is the mother of all. You can find all the roses in history in her.

It is the same in you and me. Socrates and all other souls are in you and me, now at this very moment. It is the place for them. It is a certainty. Though we do not know how it happened, but it is there. 

Death is meaningless and is beaten in such a sense. Because life is a consecutively linked sequence, it is not a single unit. It is a whole species living. And in this sense, hope is a true value and hope is for everybody.  You know life is ahead and you are ahead too. When there is a hope, there is a meaning. Life is worthwhile no matter what kinds of life is living. People can be living like a pig, but it is worthwhile. Whether it is good or bad, kind or evil, it is worthwhile. They will fight for the final survival of the species in a single living. It is because, hope is for all.  

Where are you going? You will be going to the future. That is why you have always  a hope in you. 

And the future is a grand future. We have found the first two stages of future. One is the future of richness. All will be rich and poverty will be eliminated forever. China is fighting for the roads ahead and others would follow. There will be problems of being rich, but the second stage of future is there waiting. The second stage is soul development. The souls now are far from perfect. With the future developments, wonderful things will happen. 

We human beings have a mission in our future. We shall be going for that mission. 

a song for the moon festival (in English)

 

Translated by a machine with some human editing:

Recently,  I composed a piece of music to accompany Su Shi's poem "When will the Moon come?" 

The following is the recitation part of this song.

Recitation:

The moon is my good friend.  I often look up at the night sky to see if there is a moon.  When is the moon coming?  When will the moon be here?  I don't like drinking, but I will toast to ask: “What is the time in the sky? ” And I am not sure whether it is time to return to heaven.  I might have boarded the wind to return.  However, I was a little scared.  I am afraid of cold.  The pavilions in the sky are beautiful but there would be very cold.  The heights are cold.  I might as well stay on the ground and admire the moonlight.

Look how beautiful this moonlight is.  I would dance under the moon.  The shadow of the moon will dance with me. It is like fairyland on earth. It is a good time here.

However, the moon has never forgotten me.  She turned around the tall buildings and reached all the way down to the lowest place.  She spotted me through a lower window and shined on me.  She was shining on me; the one who couldn't sleep.

The moon said to me, she was talking to me: "Don't do this, don't be angry. " I said to the moon: "Why do you always shine in other places?  You never shine on me. " And then the moon said to me, she said this: "There will be joys and sorrows as well as unions and partings for you; and it is like how the moon would be dim, bright, waxing or waning.  There is nothing perfect since the beginning of times.  I just hope you are safe.  Although you are thousands of miles apart, I hope you can enjoy the moon together.  Don’t your hearts be the same?  I know you are connected with each other. “

 

最近譜了一首曲子，為蘇軾的『明月幾時有』配上音樂。以下是這首歌的朗誦部分。

朗誦:

月亮是我的好朋友。我常常仰望夜空，看看今天晚上，有沒有月亮。明月幾時有？唉，明月幾時有？我不太喜歡喝酒，但我會舉杯仰問，到底，天上現在是甚麽時候了？或者，也是回返天上的時間了。如果可以，我就會藉助風力，我欲乘風歸去。但，我又有些害怕。我怕冷。天上的亭臺樓閣，不錯，雖然美麗非凡，但卻是非常寒冷的。高處不勝寒。我不如留在地上欣賞月色。

看這月色多麼美麗。我就在月亮之下跳舞。月亮的影子也會陪伴我一起跳舞。還是這裏的人間仙境好一些。

但是，月亮從來沒有忘記我。她轉過那些高高的樓宇，一直照下來，照到最低的地方。照進了一個窗戶，她照中了我。她照中了我這一位睡不著覺的人。

她對我說，她對我這樣説: 『你不要這樣吧，你不要心懷激憤啊。』我對月亮說:『你為什麼時常都是照向其他的地方？你總是沒有來照我。』月亮對我說，她是這樣說的:『人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺。這種情況。自古以來都是這樣。只希望你們平平安安。雖然相隔千里，但是，你們都可以看到我。你們的心不是一樣的嗎？我知道你們是心靈相通的。』

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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。轉朱閣。低綺戶。照無眠。不應有恨。何事長向別時圓。人有悲歡離合。月有陰晴圓缺。此事古難全。但願人長久。千里共嬋娟。

What is the Near Future?

 9309 What is the near Future?  20210917

The nearest future on our planet is being rich. 

Humans will be rich. 

Humans are developing from a period of want to a period of richness. At first humans are not wise enough and not able enough to protect every one on earth. But this period  will be soon over and the next period will be fully facilitated with resources and means. 

There will not be poverty for anyone. And by this time, humans will be more balanced in their bodies and their brains. They would be raised up to a level or wisdom never enjoyed before. 

What is balance? 

There must be a period on earth that not all humans can walk. May be the Africans can walk first and the Asians can walk later then in a short period of millions of years, all humans can walk. That could be the course of balancing. Sooner and later, there will be a time all humans on earth are rich. They will have enough facilitation for their dreams. 

By then, money will not be a  concern. Basic desires of the bodies will not be a concern, as all basic desires are satisfied. 

People will be pondering about the second level of satisfaction. They will desire the second level of dreams. For example, spiritual enjoyment will be more important then eating. They will not worry about eating, but they will be always dreaming for something like beauty or truth, etc. Will there be a third level of satisfaction? Will there be something more desirable than beauty or truth? It would be very certain about this, as beauty and truth will not be the only desire in this Universe. However, that would be something too far away we cannot imagine now and it doesn’t mean it is impossible. 

We have two stages of the future now:  the first stage of material richness and the second stage of soul development. The third and fourth stages will be there waiting for humans to explore and cannot be denied. 

For the first stage of richness, that seems to be most easy to acquire. 

Humans are getting rich very quickly. We are getting rich quicker than expected. 

As humans are developing their left side of the brain, soon they have found out a way to handle most of the external things. With the development of the right side of the brain they will have a more penetrating view about the inner level of things and they can see more than the external and individual level of things, that meant they can view the Universe from another angle. 

Humans are developing from the self-centered individual way of production to a co-operational  production. 

There will be no war in this stage of richness as people are not suffered from want and the basic desires are satisfied and they will not risk to lose everything in the wars and people will be wiser in this stage. 

Over-development will be a worry and with the higher level of wisdom developing, it is not a real problem. 

And the term “problem” will be less used as people will be talking more about “possibilities” than ”problems”.

What is the possibility for being rich? 

Earthy desires will be satisfied and the reality about the basic of life will be clear. 

Life is a soul built on the material body. And the souls are connected. They are connected both horizontally and vertically and future people will find it funny to see things as souls and materials as there will be a new term for the both. Maybe souls are also material and materials are also souls. 

For the time being we can expect a fact that as souls are connected like waters are connected. There will not be a single water that is not connected. 

With the connection of souls; we shall be much wiser and we can see the future as clear as the present. 

 

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Demonizing China in a new movies

 Suddenly, medias here in Hong Kong are talking about Shang Chi. They are just coming together, seem to be under the same order by the same commander.

They are a huge army in the war of mind against China.

What is Shang chi?  

What's so wonderful about Shang Chi?

He had  killed his father.

And he thought his father is an evil.

This is a strange plot in the  American film.

If he wanted to kill an evil, why didn't he join with his father?

They can fight together.

But he thought his father was evil. He wanted to kill his father. And he was riding a dragon to kill his father, as arranged by the script.

American movies are trying very  hard to demonize China.

That is why they choose Chinese actors this time.

What is the Intention to Capture Meng Wang Zhou ?

 9308  What is the intention to capture Meng Wang Zhou  20210906  

What is the benefit for the US to hold up the woman? What is it for? What is the intention of the US people to do this?

It is of no interest to the US economy. And why did it happen?

It is because, a secret War of Mind is going on. The US is setting up lots of traps for the Chinese to fall into. Capturing the woman is an empty shot only. There is no gun power in the rifle shot. It is only a noise. To have the woman captured will not make the US great again, nor could the US turn itself over for a second chance of growth. It is only a noise to draw away attention. 

We can expect more of this kind of empty shots. The War of Mind would be going on smoothly. Concentration is totally on the external show, important business of internal matter is neglected. They will have less time to do the internal work. 

When people are busy dealing with the laws in Canada, secret powers in China could have a comfortable place and the Chinese will have less time to manage the matter of minds. It might be meaningless to have more cheap philosophies and mediocre celebrities to occupy the focus, however, the attention to care for the minds will be hopefully eliminated.   

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WHAT IS WAR OF MIND?

 9307  What is war of mind  20210830    

             

The old concept about the war of mind is totally outdated. Old thoughts believed that there are only two ways of the mind. One is corruption and the other is anti-corruption. 

And this is the leading US concept about the war of mind. When the US is failing from the separation conspiracy in Hong Kong, they would instill more corruption elements into the Hong Kong minds instead. It is not easy even possible to do this in Afghanistan, however, it is simple and easy to do it in China. It is same in Taiwan. With the help of the political powers in Taiwan, some of the newer generation in Taiwan had become rotten. But it is still not enough for the US conspiracy as the younger generation in Taiwan is not rotten enough. If some people try to start a color revolution now in Taiwan, they are certainly to be failed.    

Its only because of the wrong calculation of minds in Hong Kong that had made the color revolution failed. It must had been prepared decades of years, yet the calculation is wrong.

The question is how do you count the minds?

Human minds are much stronger than a tree. A tree would fall in strong winds, yet a mind could be much stronger than the wind. Though many of the minds are weak, but the stronger minds are still there to protect the country.

Chinese minds are strong. They had not been destroyed by the Confucian doctrines for thousands of years. When they had decided to stand up, they had found they are still able to stand. 

And the Chinese are running fast. They had almost eliminated poverty. They are now living in a comfortable situation they had never been enjoyed. New problems arise not because of the lack of money, but too much money. There is a worry that too much money would produce corruption elements for the devils not outside but inside the soils of China. 

When the Chinese first built their new country in 1949, leaders believed by keeping the old format of a modest life could help the souls pure. They avoided luxuries painfully at all cost. However those are old concepts and it is not working very well. Since the Chinese had become rich and a lot of newly rich people had emerged. Many are born rich and they had no feelings about the revolutionary past.

One of the wealthiest merchants had sent his son to work as a golf-boy in the fields. It is hard work, but it served no good result in the mind of the young man. He simply hated the idea. The older wealthy people are keen to keep their purses tight and live a modest living all their life, yet the young people do not appreciate it. 

The point is not on whether your life is easy and comfortable. People would question whether humble and difficult poverty would made one smart. 

The point is whether you have got that insight to see into your life and the Universe. You need to choose your own life style according to your own resolution. And the resolution needs long years of learning to obtain. It could be a complete set of philosophy as the basic foundation of a clear mind. 

And the fatal point is that there are NO philosophy of any kind to secure a safe growth of the newer generations. Many parents had sent their children aboard to study and found a very unhappy result. Many had ended up stupid and too proud of their Western background and refused to learn anything when they are back. 

One of my friends had sent her son to Taiwan for secondary study. Hoping the severe army training there would help her son grow up easier. I did not hear from her afterwards. Though I doubt that could be possible. 

There are NO doctrines, NO religions, NO school of thoughts that could guarantee younger generation to grow up. 

The option is not where to send your child, but how are you to see the Universe. It must be a hard learning process for one to learn, to think and not to spend easy money to send aboard the children. 

For the time being I can but list some ideas here, hoping that could be a little window to view life and the Universe, and more importantly, the country.  

About the Universe, there is a future and the future is going to be better and brighter. There will not be any doomsday for the Universe. 

About life, that we are not material. We are souls not material bodies. We are not short lived. If we can see the future, we have hope. 

About our country, there had been a bad suffer from the Confucian oppression and the country is standing up now. Anyone with a heart would cherish the new born country as it is a hope for the whole planet. 

People in Hong Kong are not living in a free place. 

They are under threat from the underground powers every day.

The underground powers in Hong Kong (not necessarily US) are retreating externally, but the secret network is active. They are holding every position tightly and are using the same iron hand to control the minds of the young people. They will not argue about security laws, but the control remains the same. The old rules of the underground power are still in force. No one is allowed to say a word in the controlled mass media without approval from the underground powers. Many of the pro-voices to the National Security Law are from the underground powers, they use these voices to spread an umbrella for the secret network. That is why you see so many chameleons. They are color changing animals. They were yellow yesterday, but today they had become red. They are controllers of the mass media. They are holding mass media posts firmly with an iron hand. And it is interesting that this is simple facts yet few would see the reality behind. They were people of yellow and everyone knows about it. But they are actively pro-China now. The only reason is that they are two-faced. They are playing the real game secretly under the red curtain.

What are the situations about the mass media now?

It is same like before. They promote eating and sex and health advices plus some cheap philosophy to market the concept of self-love. The cheap writer had been granted a Nobel Prize. And by this Nobel Prize, you would see how hard and how much the US is staging a secret war with China.   

More and more Western style corruption are seen everywhere.

A war of mind is more than a war of ideologies. It is a war more than ideas and theories. We need to fight for the new ideas. We need not to be buried alive by the secret underground powers. 

 

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• 4  李察寓言

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• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

WHAT IS UNIVERSE ?

 

9306 What is Universe?  20210829

 

All things around us is the Universe. And you can say: 

WE ARE UNIVERSE  

The other question is whether the Universe is a living being. And that is not difficult for the human minds. Do you think the Universe is living? If you are living, then the Universe is living, too.

It needs a clear mind here. The concept has been changed from a “God oriented thought” into a “Universe oriented thought”.

It is great to think like this. We are a little improved in evolution.  

We might not be created but was born in a common surrounding we name that the Universe. We are the sons and daughters of the Universe. And We are the Universe. 

If you have built up a very strong sense of this, I might tell you another secret of the Universe.

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• 2  明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 3  莊子寓言

• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

• 6  莊子兵法(Zhuang Zi Art of War)(bi-lingual)

• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

why is the future a concern?

 9305 Why is the future a concern  20210817

 

If you are not concerned, then you will be disconnected. If you are concerned, you will be connected. 

All benefits will be coming from the connection. 

To concern is to connect. We are all connected human beings. Any people suffer will stimulate actions to help from the other human beings. And the concern is not just a temporary feeling, but a real source of energy to the humans. 

This connection is important for our wisdom. 

Human wisdom will be effective only when their concern is connected to the future and they will be considering a proper way to live for the future. 

One could choose to be ignorant and non-concerned with anything and remain forever a lonely cell in the planet and their only fate is to wait for their final death. 

And the concerned people will live through their lives and remain active. 

Because they know living is not in the physical bodies but for a connection of souls and the connection will last and will live to the future. They knew there must be a mission in the future and actually the mission has begun since ancient times. We are all in the mission and we are all living for a great purpose in the Universe and by keeping a faith like this, we human beings are strong and vibrant and happy.    

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• 2  明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 3  莊子寓言

• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

• 6  莊子兵法(Zhuang Zi Art of War)(bi-lingual)

• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

Why is the Future so Difficult ?

9304 Why is the future so difficult  20210815

Problem on this planet is that people cannot see a future. It was caused by the early religious thoughts in the West and Confucian thoughts in China. 

Confucius only thought of how to stop. His main idea is "Zhi Wu Zhi Shan"(止於至善) It means "to stop before the most excellency" What is the most excellency? It is the complete doctrine of the Confucianism. And that is a confinement, no one is allowed to cross the line. It is fine to stay inside the boundary for some, however, there is no future. 

And the final result of no future is very much the same of the West. When the Western people believes in a doomsday future, they had no future. And this is where the trouble is. They would start to rob. Materialism is the main concern of the people and it is deadly. 

There is a hope from the Chinese people when they steer their ship towards a bigger ideal to help each other in socialism, they had started to look up further. 

But it is no easy task. 

The Confucian boundary thought had deeply rooted in the old minds. And they had jointed the Western powers to control the thoughts of the Chinese people. All their hope is to rebuild the boundary and regain the lost powers. People will find it a huge surprise of how much the West had invested in this conspiracy. It could be the cost of a war with China.   

It is why you saw so many strange phenomena in China. Scientists and scholars would promote the thoughts of self-love hoping to lead the people to another direction. The name of Confucius is dimmer and will be retreated to the shadow, yet the thoughts of the vice were pushed to the front.

There were only two things in the Confucian-minded officers. 

One is technology. Though some would self-proclaim themselves scientist yet they are not. A scientist is very different from a technologist. Two is the cheap philosophy of self-love, which is the replacement of literature and all other mind matters. It is not easy to gain a chance to say a word if you are not a so-called scientist or, Confucian. They were stopped in the boundary already.  

China is in danger with these people. And it is a threat to the whole world. Seeing future is not an easy task. 

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• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

• 6  莊子兵法(Zhuang Zi Art of War)(bi-lingual)

• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

What is Future?

9302 What is Future?  20210730

Human future will be great. 

Humans are evolving and becoming better and better.  

Humans were given a pair of hands through evolution, and then they have brains. 

Hands and brains are tools. With a pair of good hands and a bigger brain, humans  have acquired a soul. 

What else could humans have and to what stage they will grow? 

The stages are limitless, as time is unending. 

That could be a picture beyond imagination. However, one would wonder, what is the purpose of being a human. 

All problems on earth will be eliminated sooner or later. Things like poverty and unequal status will be gone. Our wisdom will be raised up a lot. Humans will be always happy.  

For example, some people are lagging behind and they have a simple brain of few steps only.  Some could think in one or two steps ahead of the chess game. I want it, or I kill it.  Clever people have more steps in their brains. 4 or 5, or even more. It took a talented manager to have 10 or more steps in their brain. But they are still not wise enough. They are only working on the same level, and they do not have any upper angle view. 

In the long course of evolution, this problem will be problem no more. Future people will be very smart and will be very wise. They would see things in the inner side and would be super heroes.  

They will have more tools to think. 

They can communicate without seeing. They will develop unseen waves to talk to each other. 

They will see things in the pass. And they will see the future, if the evolution process is going on smoothly. 

They can talk to people in the pass. That meant they can communicate with dead people. For example, one  can talk with Albert Einstein and question about his theory. 

If people can break the barriers of reality, they could reach many spheres unheard of before. They can even talk to souls beyond the reality curtain. 

They can use the data base built up for the Universe, and even they can consult the Creator of this Universe directly.  

If such abilities be acquired or given to, what is the use of it? 

It meant humans will be more able. And what is the use of it?  

One would wonder, they would have got more wisdom in their minds. 

Yet wisdoms are also tools. What are wisdoms for? 

There must be a Mission for humans. 

We humans must be in the course to better equip ourselves and be prepared to go for a certain Mission. 

If everyone so wise and nice in the future, then what kind of Mission is ahead of these good people? 

It must be a very important and great Mission. And we humans will succeed in that Mission. We would have great pleasure in the long process of the unending Missions in the future. 

And the old question would come up again. 

What is the final target of the Missions?

And the old answer would be given once more: that the beauty is in the course of your path. You will find all things in the courses, not the final targets.     

That meant you can have it now.

What is future? 

Future is a Mission.  

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• 4  李察寓言

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• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

 

What is the Basic Attitude of Life in Chinese Civilization?

 9301  What is the basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization? 

There is no such concept as a “Doomsday” or a “Last Judgement” in the thoughts of the Chinese Civilization. They have never thought of an end of all mankind. In the Chinese concept, to grow is the greatest virtue of the Universe.  Growing is an unending process which will carry on without end. 

Chinese civilization is different from the West. Most of the Western religions believe that there is an end of the world. Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim have similar concepts about the end and a final judgement.  The first concept was from the Zoroastrians. They were from the Persian empire when Zoroastrianism was first developed. And the thought about the end of the world spread around the world since. They all believed that the world and the human race was created by a God and will be destroyed by the same God. ( please note: a “God” is not the same as a “Creator” in Chinese culture.)

There is an unexpected result of this doomsday concept. That meant there was no future for human race. 

One of the most imminent and direct result is that humans will not have a sense of hope. They would seek material comfort instead. Money is the only shorter term of safety for them. 

And this thought is the basic problem of the Western minds. It is more than any other harm to the minds. 

Central problem of the West is that each and every people is a “self”. There will not be any guarantee for the single units in the society. And the world is going to nowhere.  There will be no comfort for anyone. The lucky ones will have a family, yet families will be broken sooner or later when the time is passed. Anyone will be a lonely self when the final destruction comes. Human race will not be a comfort for them as they believe humans will be destroyed soon. And it needs not a religious people to believe that. Even the non-religious people cannot avoid this common believe when the scientists keep warning of a global warming or other mishaps which is bound to happen. It is darkness over the heads of Western people.

One of the symbols will be the street sleepers in major United States cities. They have some money from the Government and they are not hungry yet they have no homes and have to sleep on the streets. There are no sense of safety or happiness for them. They are the grey clouds of the Western capitalism. 

Capitalism is a system of  “self”.  Capitalism is composed of single units.  A sense of individual self is basic mindset of the West.  Yet it is very satirical to see similar pictures in China.  One of the forums run by the Chinese science people name their forums “SELF”, just to promote a sense of “self-respect” like the Beijing University people. (please refer to the attached photos)

Basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization is to grow, they do not believe in doomsdays, and they are choosing a cooperative way to organize their society. Socialism is a form of mutual help and love. 

And to grow means to evolve. The course of evolution will be a long and unending process. Humans will have a bright future. It’s a picture beyond imagination. A new revelation will be ahead of our time and tell us what the future will be. And that meant hope. Hope is real when people started to give up selfish thoughts and started to think about working together and loving each other.  And we will get over the shadows of selfish “selfs”. 

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• 3  莊子寓言

• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

• 6  莊子兵法(Zhuang Zi Art of War)(bi-lingual)

• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

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What is the Spirit in Beijing University?

9300  What is the spirit in Beijing University   20210721

"One must live for a great cause",  my teacher wrote for me in my Junior high school graduation ceremony. I kept that in memory and will never forget. 

"One must build his self-respect", this is the line given to the students in a graduation ceremony in Beijing University recently. 

It is contrary to the spirit of China. China is a good example of human evolution. Humans have been changing from a self-interest period to a cooperation period. Selfless dedication is the new spirit in China. To serve the people is the goal for the best students in China.  

A representative of the teachers gave a short speech in the ceremony and won many applauses. It was the response from the students which is an alert to see how the spirit in Beijing University has been decaying. 

Self-honor, Self-trust, Self-illumination, Self-assurances, Self-love, etc. were the theme of the so-called self-respect. Its all centered in the self while the main trend of   a selfless dedication spirit to serve the people was neglected. 

The speaker did not mention about the people and the country. His concern was how should one build his own self-respect only. That was Confucian doctrine. And the spirit of Confucianism must have been creeping in the University for a long time. The students gave long applause for the speaker. The moral in Beijing University was shown in that moment.    

 

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Recent Books by Lee Chard in printable form of pdf files. Read in mobile or print-out. US$12 each.  You will never find them in the Book shops and you may wonder why.

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• 1  莊子宇宙 

• 2  明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 3  莊子寓言

• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

• 6  莊子兵法(Zhuang Zi Art of War)(bi-lingual)

• 7  真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)