Summer in Hong Kong

 

How to Settle the Taiwan Issue without using Blood?

 9367  How to Settle the Taiwan Issue without using Blood?   20220426

There is a method to settle the Taiwan Issue. China needs not to use blood to do that.  

It needs not to lose blood, and money too.  

Whenever bribery was involved,  bad result could not be avoided that it needs to trust and rely on greedy people.   

Blood and money are not needed to settle the Taiwan Issue. 

China needs only to use their own blood --- blood flowing inside their own brain. They need only to use this blood to think.  

Taiwan Issue is a mind issue. The minds need to be captured. 

In the case of Taiwan, to capture the mind is in two steps. 

The first step is to solve the language problem. The next step is to solve the spirit problem. 

We shall study the language problem here. And we will discuss the spirit problem later. 

If the language problem is settled, a lot of the Taiwan Issue is done.     

Only one job needs to do:  that is -   

"To promote the use of Traditional written Chinese."

It is not necessary to give up the use of Simplified Chinese at the same time, however, an  intention to promote the Traditional Chinese,  is ready to capture Taiwan minds. They will willingly be captured.  The minds are not only at your side, they love you.  How can you make people love you? That is the most difficult part. When a complete communication ground of culture is set up, there will be no barrier between the two. You have the same language now .  

And the first people to be benefited is the mainlanders themselves.

As the Chinese is easier to read in traditional form of writing. The "message amount"(訊息量) in each word is more than the  Simplified Chinese. It is much richer and it is beautiful. It is much faster to read in the Tradition Chinese.   People will love to read more. the Chinese people will be wiser and smarter, and the total growth will be much faster.  

Taiwan people will love the mainland people not only that they can be benefited from the affluence of China, but that they will have the feeling that they were actually brothers and sisters and were sharing the same language and same spirit. 

There will not be a concept of "conquerer" and "surrenderor". They will be happy to come to the Chinese side.  

And the basic part of the language plan is to arrange the Traditional Chinese vertically. It is important. The original Chinese was designed in a vertical form, each word is arranged from up till down, and the columns will help the eye and brain to create concepts quickly.

Vertical is more natural in Chinese. 

Inserts of foreign languages are optional but to follow the foreign way of  horizontal editing will create  a  lost in the Chinese language.  The horizontal format in computers and mobiles are a little problem, but it won't be too difficult to modified them. And it needs not be a fixed rule for all publications. Science and mathematic studies need horizontal printing. 

Chinese is a fast language. It is the fastest language in the whole world. With the design of a traditional form of writing and vertical columns,  images will be much easier and faster to show in the mind. That is important for a good thinking process. 

Simplied form of Chinese  reduced the reading speed, and thus the thinking power, however, they are still the fastest language in the whole world. It is because, Chinese is the only language activated from the right sphere of the brain. 

Now both sides from the Strait will share the advantage of the language. Sharing the language is sharing the mind. It is a good start for the two sides.  

為什麼人類的求知慾漸漸喪失?

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 以下是一篇舊文章。十年前的世界,  今天已經完全不同。其中一個最主要的分別,  是人們的求知慾正在漸漸消減。舊文章詢問:  真理在哪裏?  但是今天的人類卻對這問題,  全不感到興趣。多數人的問題衹是: 金錢在哪裏?還有就是:   白馬王子在哪裏?   就是這麼多了。其實真理才是最主要的大問題,  是關乎國運興衰的最重大問題。

真理在那裡？ ………………………… 李察 (問到底　2011 0212) 　

 　 如果真理不是在人類手上，那麼，我們每天那樣的努力，為的是甚麼呢？人類追求的是甚麼呢？

 　 如果考問李察，李察的答卷會是：追求的是一種「暫時真理」。真的、終極的真理，是在宇宙主宰手上的。以人類的力量，大約只可能得到臨時性質的了解。 　 　　

      我們引以為自豪的甚麼牛頓力學、愛因斯坦原理、或者中國人的內在理論，都只是這一類的臨時真理，可以暫時應用，但不可能永久堅持。因為，人類的了解，無法超脫於人類的六識認知。 　 　　

       只有一種超脫的可能：當人類能夠跟宇宙主宰徹底溝通，當人類真正得到了那種天地萬物與我為一的了解，就能徹底明白，真正超脫。 　 　

       亦可以這樣說：雖然真理並不在人的手上，卻仍是可能的。徹底的溝通，使人也可能獲得真理。 　 

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Why you saw more clearly than the fish?

 

9365  Why you saw more clearly than the fish  20220423

A note from the writer: 

I  had finished writing the article several days ago. But I was reluctant to release it as it is in the height of a conflict in Ukraine, few would have the patience to read something not concerned. 

And then I have a second thought. What we are discussing here is some thing about "level". It is an important subject in the art of war. If people can go up one level, they must be simply like watching the gold fish in a fish bowl. They could see more clearly than the fish.......

I heard the following story from a mobile:  

Someone had used a simple method to explain the theory of genocide. 

He invented a story that there were four people on the end of a rail track and a rail cart was running toward the four. However, he had found a fat guy was on the side of the rail track.  His question was whether he should push the fat guy to the rail to stop the running cart and save the four. He said it was  a moral matter to decide whether to push the fat guy is justified or not. 

He invented another story that if you are a surgeon and there were four people in the clinic waiting for organ transplant. One of them need to change a lung, the next to change a liver,  the third needs heart, the fourth a pancreas. You just had no organ donation and you didn’t know what to do. 

It was at this moment another guy came in your clinic; he was healthy. Should you use the organs from this guy to save the other four? 

He said genocide is not justified even using one life to exchange four. 

“Should you push the fat guy?” He asked the audience. 

From the response of the audience I knew he must be well-trained. And it was broadcasted during the height of the Ukrain-Russian conflict, when the United Stated president is accusing the Russian "genocide". Maybe he wanted to let the audience know more about "genocide".

A thought came to my mind. 

If the speaker was Buddha, he would never thought of pushing the fat guy into the rail, and he would have never thought about the guy is fat or not; but instead he would have jumped into the rail himself to save the four. 

Actually it was a famous Buddha story.

When Buddha was a king, a pigeon suddenly flew into his feet trembling for help and a fierce eagle was at the door step wanted to grab the pigeon. 

Buddha stopped the fierce eagle, “I will give you some food from my kitchen and please let go the pigeon”.  

But the eagle refused. He wants only the meat of the pigeon. 

Buddha said, “Ok, then I will give you some of my own meat.” He took over a sword and cut a piece of meat from his own thigh. But the eagle was angry when he saw the piece of meat. The eagle said, “ your meat is too small, not enough to trade for a pigeon. “

Then the Buddha King ordered his servant to prepare a scale, putting the pigeon on one side and his meat on the other side of the scale. His meat seemed to be not heavy enough to balance with the pigeon. 

Then Buddha cut another piece, and another piece, until he had cut himself all blood strained and the weight was still not enough. 

I dare not to say he was wrong. He was kind- hearted and noble. His mind of love is to be admired. He didn’t hurt anyone else to save the pigeon. 

However, it needs to raise up one level to ponder about the problem. Using a simple arithmetic calculation like 

        5 -1 = 4

cannot solve the problem.

An upper  "level" inspection can lead us into a deeper thought. 

How can the four people be saved? 

May be there was a reason of their sickness. 

What is the problem and how do we solve the problem?

Can you tell all the eagles or tigers or lions be  kind  eating only vegetables? It must be a real genocide this way as you would kill all of them. 

We need to go up higher to inspect the problem. 

All were like gold fish inside the fish bowl. You simply need to get out and look back, and you will see how were the fish swimming. 

Now we have only three fish here. 

From your eye they were but fish, but others thought they were giants. 

The Western Giant seemed to be in a suicidal mind trying to kill the other two. It is suicidal and he didn't know it. 

How are you going to tell those fish or giants not to fight against each other because it is suicidal?  How can you stop them? 

With a thought like this, now you can jump. 

You can go back to the fish bowl because you were still a fish not an outsider. Though your vision is more clearly than before. 

How would you tell the other fish the actual situation? 

It is absolutely not easy. 

And let us get back to Buddha on the sword, or Jesus on the cross to look upon them. 

They were on the air and we were swimming fish. 

They must have seen some thing. There must be some very extra-ordinary things happened in their mind by that moment. 

They must be inspired. 

They saw what we didn't. 

And now the task is still waiting. How would you treat a suicidal patient? Would you like to kill him or heal him? Or be killed by him? It must be the greatest problem since we were born. 

Don't tell me whether you are Western, Eastern or Northern. There were other problems other than suicidal for us.

We need to fly into the air one more time to look back. 

 

How can swimming be life-shortening ?

 9366  How can swimming be life-shortening  20220418

Chairman Mao would have lived longer if he was not swimming. I thought he might have ten more years before he dies. 

It was because swimming is a situation that could bring away Qi from the body. 

What is Qi? 

Qi is some kind of flowing inside and outside our body. Studies were still in the early stage, but we can watch it with our own experience. 

It is certain that each one would have a certain among of Qi in his body. The Qi is always flowing. An experienced Qi master can bring the Qi from one part of his body to another part. 

If I was sprained in my angle, I could move some Qi to heal it. 

Because the cells need Qi.  Qi can fix the wounded cells. 

It was a founding from my own experience. 

During my many years of Qi practice, though I am still a beginner, I have found Qi can be stagnant sometimes. It would stay in one place and make me feel uncomfortable and sick. 

It was by this time, to release the extra Qi is necessary.  

If Qi was staying in the head in an excessive form, one would have insomnia and many problems.

How to release Qi from the head?  There were many methods. Message, arm swinging, combing hair, or even bending down to touch the earth with the head can help. 

I use water sometimes.  

Stand straight under the shower and let the water run through the head and body can help to release Qi. 

And I went to swim. 

Swimming is helpful in reducing Qi from the body. 

It stirred my thought.  

Why I need to eat more after swimming? And why I cannot reduce weight even I swim a lot? 

It was because, swimming had reduced my Qi. For the younger swimmer, it might be good practice as the recovering can help the swimmer build up the body. But for the older people, recovering is not easy and have to resort to sleeping more and eating more to replenish the Qi. It would be harmful for older people in the long run. Because the total among of Qi would be less and life energy is reduced. 

Qi is one of the most important elements in the body other than blood. 

Qi is helpful in thinking. 

How can the thoughts flow? Does it need energy? The answer is yes. Qi can help. Energy must be coming from different sources, blood and electricity are important, and some of the chemical substance also. Qi is simply another element. That was the common understanding of the poets in history. To write fluently you need Qi. To write dryly is the result of Qi lost. 

Thinking too much is bad for sleeping. But it is not easy to stop thinking when you have to manage too many things in the day. One method is to write down the thoughts before sleep. It needs not a complete work of an article, but if you can jot down some of the points, or simply list out questions, you would find the thoughts would be tidy up and new finding would appear in the next morning. 

When you have written down the thoughts, you can have a good sleeping. Because by this time,  Qi is already released.  

It is a time of curiosity lost. Seldom do people found it interesting to study Qi. However, Qi must be another important element in composing the planet. 

Qi must be flowing beneath our earth. 

And Qi is related. 

Qi is related between couples, relatives, friends, and even strangers.  

Qi is a related energy for the whole population. 

If the total population is happy, extraordinary things could happen. 

The feeling would be echoed by the total Qi under our feet.   I have an imagination that even the color of the water would change, like the Yellow river. The Yellow river had been changing from yellow to green. There must be a reason of it, imagination cannot stop me from thinking it is related to the feeling of the total population.  

It was not only my own imagination. It was from Wen Tian Xiang. He wrote in his poem: “The song of the positive Qi”  

“There is a positive Qi in the Universe. The Qi is in many forms, bestowed on all ever-changing subjects.  Qi is rivers and mountains below and stars and sun above……”

 

 

 

Chapter 2 is important

to capture minds before the land

 

Will the US wait until 2028?

  9362  Will the US wait until 2028?    20220414

Will the US wait  until the time of 2028? Year 2028 is the expected time for China to be really rich. It was said that China economy will suppress that of the US and will become the world’s largest economy by that year. Will the US wait and not doing anything before China is too strong for them? 

Anyone will know, it will not happen. If you are to beat a giant, you must do it when the giant is still weak. 

And the Ukraine war is a "perfect" war. 

It happened so suddenly and the West was extremely happy to find a situation like this. It is just in time for them to consume Russia by this "perfect" war.

It is a good chance to consume energies of Russia like this.  Now  the time is NOT to contain China any more. It is a must to beat China before 2028. It will not be delayed until a time too late to do this. 

And it is so obvious a situation that the Chinese must have known it already. 

What if Russia is defeated?  

The Western fantasy is that  there will not be a China rising in 2028 if Russia is defeated. All hope lies in the following defeat for China.  All American worries will be gone. There must be deep concern and detailed calculation in the US side, though it will not be less from the Chinese side. The Chinese must have been expecting something like this long ago. 

It could be disastrous for China if Russia is defeated. 

Supporting Russia is urgent and essential. Ukraine is a front door for the next war. Maybe the next war is ready already. 

It is the best hope that Russia will win the whole game; Russians must not be defeated. Every inch of the Ukraine soil must be in the safe hands of Russia, not NATO. It is important.  

Supporting Russia is irritable to the US. But history is just going like this. When someone had determined to take action to suppress China before 2028, they must have predicted the irritation. 

And more irritation is expected in the Taiwan Strait. They will start doing anything to irritate China and to start the war after Ukraine. If the economy war is not working , there will be a military war following. It will happen any date before  2028. It is determined and could not be avoided by courtesy and bitter swallowing.   If China is not responding to the irritations, there will be other more serious initiations. 

Russia is not fighting with the Western single handedly. They will not be lonely when the same is going on in Taiwan Strait.   

Some people had hoped for a color revolution in China and they had bet highly on their secret political agents in a shadow. That would be very helpful for the West. 

Will it be the same fate for China as well as Russia? 

There will be only one exception for this weird history. If the agents did win the secret political war before year 2028, then the leadership of China will be in the hands of US. The US-Russia-China balance will be lost and China will be united with the US to beat Russia. When Russia is gone, US will be the boss of the whole world like the old times. 

 

Heavenly Horse, a poem

 

      皇天賜馬為因由，

      未敢書空勢未收。

      肆意飛騰韁在手，

      一塵不染一無有。<註>

*請參看〈西遊記〉第一回，是一塵不染一無所有之意。孫悟空的精神，是正面的積極的。正好與阿Q精神相反。

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Russia the Giant

 9363  Russia the Giant 20220405

Someone asked: “How can you say that Russia is a giant when their GDP is so small?”

GDP is not the only criteria to define a giant.  It’s the same with China.  China had been a very poor country.  Yet it’s certain that China is a Giant.

Russia is a most human like people.  It is because they were from the far North. They need to fight very hard to survive in extreme conditions. They are determined and very strong.  During the recently Covid lock down, Russians were same with everywhere else, rushing to shop in the supermarkets. It is strange to see that the most seek upon object was salt.  It reflects their ancient life when they have caught an animal and have to eat the meat raw but they have very little salt by that time. The ancient memory is still in the minds of the Russian. They can't forget the hard experience and remain a strong mentality. 

And they were far from bad culture pollutions.  Other Giants had suffered from culture pollution. For example, there were no “Ah Q” * in Russia. Confucianism had created Ah Q in China only. The Russians do have weak characters, you can find most of them in the Russian literature, yet there has not been a disease of Ah Q in the Russian mind. They are wise and  straightforward. And the Western materialism thought had not been influential in the Russian mind. They were not money oriented as some Western people did.  

Maybe they are not "smart" in the Western eye. It’s because of their geographical circumstance of coldness.  They were too busy fighting in the wild having less time to ponder the physics of the nature like the ancient Greeks. Maybe the only setback is their practical mind. They do not have much time to deal with abstract concepts like the early Greeks. When Peter the Great went to Europe disguised as a shipyard worker, he wanted to learn technical knowledge but not theory. 

Yet the Russians are great learners. Since the times of Peter the Great, the Russians were learning with a big effort. 

Now they have the most advanced literature and music, anyone who had read Leo Tolstoy or other Russian writers, may admit their literature is one of the best in the world. There were only a few could have reached that standard. For example, Victor Hugo from France or the Unknown Chinese writer who had written "the Dream of the Red Chamber” were comparable to Leo Tolstoy.  

And when Solzhenitsyn the great writer was in the United States, Many Journalists could not understand why he chose to live in the coldest place in the States. Why he didn’t choose a more comfortable place instead? They had found it mockingly funny. They could not understand it was the mother earth of Russia in his mind. When he said the American music were unbearable and criticized the American culture, they felt insulted. And he had never had a chance to publish his later books in the States.

Russian music is the noble spirit of Russia. You don't have to compare Tchaikovsky or the Swan Lake with the West, you only need to listen to Shostakovich and his Waltz no. 2, you will find it is far more subtle and deep in feeling then most of the Western Waltz music. The suffer and setbacks of the European people were not as far as the Russian. They were waltzing around in a different mood. And music is the few subjects that you cannot compare which one is better or worse. The hidden power of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven were in the minds of Russian too. They are only different. The sanctions given to the Russia music, will be a shame for the United States in history. 

The Russians were the first to try Communism which was an unforgivable crime in the eyes of the rich elites in the West. Though they had not been successful yet it is the first attempt to try to run the country in a collective way, which might be another option to handle human affairs. And there were ups and downs of the communism movement. Sad things did happen. It was too big an attempt and they were lacking necessary experience and deep thought about that.  

There were seen or unseen wars against Russia since then. The hatred against Russia and even China has never stopped. And it was by this time, the true side of human mind were shown. That the truth was not decided by the truth itself, but interests. Money was the only standard of truth. If communism was a threat to the rich, then it was evil and must be destroyed. 

And the world had changed. Something very strange did happen in the human mind and was neglected. Most of the world did not notice that humans had entered a time of “curiosity lost” during the time of the conflict between US and Russia. 

Most of the enthusiasm about knowledge had gone. The sudden shock of the whole world when Charles Darwin first presented his theory of evolution did not happen a second time. When electricity was first discovered, you saw how people flew their kites to the cloud trying to “catch” the electricity, people will not repent even the experiment had failed and many people died for this attempt and people are eager to quest the nature even more. However, all the curiosity had disappeared now.  

The time of curiosity had ended. We were in a stage of “curiosity lost”. When people heard that there was other thing called “Qi” which might be the other power other than electricity, they just shrugged their shoulders.  The fever to know is subsided. Scientist are thinkers no more; they are now makers only. When they had found a job in some huge factory, they simply work to make the products and do not question further. 

We might not aware that the curiosity lost is related to the political conflict when people are deep in the thought to fight for the interest of a few rich elites, they had forgotten the internal question of “why”. Why are we here on this planet? It is only a joke for them. 

Now there is a deeper conflict in Ukraine and other mishaps like the Covid virus in the planet. And one thing was sure that the virus problem will not destroy human and the Ukraine matter will be finished sooner or later. All rains will stop. There will not be a rain forever. The curiosity lost, which is a much serious illness of mankind will be gone also. And the three giants will be still standing side by side.  

One thing is sure that Russia will not be defeated and will be rich again. The Ukraine Episode will last for some more time but will not last forever. May be things need more time to be fixed. When everything was settled, we shall see a new atmosphere in the world. 

And the Russian will be happy to see, there will be a bigger change in China and the United States. The US will be forced to be friendly with the other giants. It is the only way out, if the American people ever wishes to be great again. 

Now we have three giants on this planet. And it is possible humans will get away from the trap of “curiosity lost” earlier if the planet people were in peace again.         

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Note: “Ah Q” was a character created by the Chinese writer Lu Xun in a short story “The story of Ah Q”, which had had a great impact of the Chinese mind after the Ching Dynasty was overthrown. Ah Q represents the negative side of human nature under influence of Confucius. The negative thought had been deep in the subconscious mind in the Chinese culture and was not easy to change completely until now.     

          

一篇十一年前的舊文

 為何簡單的問題，卻是不可解決？ ………………………… 李察 (問到底No.8039　　　　2011 0218 Friday) 　 

　　 　　

（作者按:

這是一篇寫在11年前的文章。今日重看，形勢已經不同。很多問題，包括奶粉問題等等，都在一種驚人的努力之下，逐步解決。希望明天更好。)

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所有的中國問題，似乎都是很簡單的。奶粉問題，簡單不簡單？上訪問題，簡單不簡單？如果派一隊人去，二萬人的一隊有效率社工，要用多少錢？算全部的社工都是最高資歷的，每人年薪三十萬元，給他們五年時間。算一算，其實只要三百億元，再外加配套支援七百億，總共一千億，平均每年只要二百億，就甚麼都解決了。 　 　　

有沒有這樣簡單？ 　 　　

當然是沒有這樣簡單的。沒有靈魂的人，或可妙手回春。但是，沒有靈魂的整個文化，就不是這一回事。

嚴格說，中國人不是沒有靈魂，而是靈魂被惡鬼控制。孔子的惡鬼，已經深入到集體潛意識之中。軟弱、無奈、聽命、搶錢的集體性格，決定了一切。 　 　　

從前叫做朋黨，今日叫做派系的特殊結構，無處不在。派出社工？只要想一想，問題尚未提出，罪名已經成立。孔子的潛在惡靈，全方位監視，甚麼都不能動。 　 　　

有人喜歡把一切問題，都算到共產黨頭上。其實，問題是未必與共產黨相關的。中國人曾經遭遇的所有重大問題：包括了太監問題、外戚問題、朋黨問題、外患問題、災荒問題、都在孔子當道的時候發生。 　 　　

甚麼黨的問題，只是政治問題。而孔子的問題，卻是文化問題。那一種政治形態好些，是外在的，表面的。內裡沒有靈魂，外在的體魄無論怎麼樣，都沒有用。 　　　 　　

如果本身是阿Q，你給他穿上美國西裝也好，英國西裝也好，他仍然是阿Q。 　　

簡單問題，不能簡單解決。因為，簡單問題的內裡，是複雜的文化失誤。只是，這樣的道理，無法向一群失去靈魂的人說清楚。

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