one interesting article ( in Chinese)

http://leechardasks.blogspot.hk/2011/01/blog-post_09.html

  The System of Jesus

  I am just working on this topic.
  I will try to tell it from external and internal view.........

  coming soon...........

Desire nothing and you are strong, is it true?

No, it is not true. Desire nothing and you are gone. Definitely gone. 

Keep away from your desire, is the traditional teaching of Confucius, though it is never really respected by the Scribes in the Chinese ruling class. It is only popular in the rural areas. The peasants were living humbly and in extreme poverty, yet they never dare to desire anything.

To be a human being, we are born to have some desires. We need to have food, we need to have sex, we need knowledge, we need to communicate, and we need to do something. These are the desires given to us by the divine power. Desire is not a bad thing, greed is. Nothing is too much when we share, and nothing is impossible when we dare.  

How dare we are?

Yes, with a little faith, we dare.

What is faith?

To believe something from within, knowing what  to do, is faith.

People with a faith, is stronger.

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Soul searching……… Where is my soul?

This is not a proper question. We should ask:  Where is Our soul? We have lost our grand soul, since an unknown time. We have huge crime rate, we cannot find peace on earth, we are poor, we are poor materialistically and spiritually both.

Where is our soul?

If found, we will have peace, and we shall be rich, rich in spirit, and have enough money.

Where is our soul?

Soul is in Love, soul is in Wisdom, and Soul is in God.

What is love?  Love is one. When we can see the oneness of the universe, we would love our neighbors as well as our enemies.

What is Wisdom? Wisdom is to admit the holiness of truth. Never tell a lie, honor the truth, we could find the way.

What is God?  God is one.  God is in us, and we are in God. There must be God in a proper soul, without a God, a soul is not a soul. To search a soul, is to search for God.

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Tolerance produces greatness……Is it true?

This is very old thought coming from the Confucian scholars.

To become great, is comparable to becoming one. Greatness and Oneness are different philosophically.  They are two different mind-sets.

When the aim itself is greatness, tolerance had become secondary.  It was said the sea never refuses rivers, even they are very small, thus becoming great. However, more can be seen when invasion happens. Swallowing up neighbors produces greatness also.

The thought of  oneness can be seen in the early Zhuang Zi's works in China, Christian thoughts, and some Indian works.

They are two kinds of thinking patterns. When the aim itself is growing big,  people will not consider the welfare of every one. To enslave others are allowed, and love is minimum.

And this is the mind-set not only happens in politics, it creates completely different culture.

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「有容乃大， 無欲則剛」的意思是甚麼?Tolerence produces greatness, desire nothing and you are strong......What is the meaning?

最近， 在香港西區聖安東尼教堂正門前面， 貼上了一些 「有容乃大， 無欲則剛」之類標語。

有一些感受， 無法制止自己不說。


耶穌說：

假如你們有像芥子那樣大的信德， 你們向這座山說： 從這邊移到那邊去， 它必會移過去的； 為你們沒有不可能的事。
（馬竇福音十七章二十節）

有信德才是剛強之道。

無欲並非剛強之道。

儒家提倡禮教和服從， 提倡四種非禮( 非禮勿視之類的「無欲」)， 是消極的。有信德才是積極的。

其次， 基督的觀點是「一」， 而儒家的觀點是「大」。兩者不同。天下為一， 而我們只有一位真神。所以， 在「一」的裡面， 我們彼此相愛，連敵人也愛。「一」是全面的， 而「大」是片面的。孔子主張攻乎異端， 以直報怨， 層次和基督相去甚遠。「有容乃大」之類的標語， 是虛偽的。

把教堂裝飾得像孔子學院那樣， 是不好的。

(再者， 如果有一天， 人們發覺「四大皆空」比「無欲則剛」更動聽的時候， 會不會也貼在教堂門前。)

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Can we change our culture?

this is the difficult issue  I am trying to think.
I am writing.
slow, but it is coming.

Thanks for your patience    (2013.7.18)

What is the internal view of the Modern World?

From the external point of view, the modern world has got a minimum of conflicts.  All major conflicts are settled; there will not be a 3^rd world war, definitely.

And the modern world is fairly developed. People use mobile and airplane to communicate. There are uneven situations, but the uneven situations will not produce large conflicts. As all conflicts are minor. Terrorist attacks just proved they are unable to start a bigger war.

But the decisive factor is not to be seen externally. It’s all there within.

People at one time had great fear of using up all petroleum in the earth. And pollution, and economic crisis are always there, threatening everyone. Keep the machine working, is the hidden outcry of the leaders. There must be enough work for every one, and the markets must be open at all cost.  

But the most sensitive minds are never at ease. They have felt something. They knew there are big eruptions hidden somewhere, though no one could tell what is that.

If someone tells you, the mathematics and sciences are like petroleum, will one day be used up, and can handle modern problems no more. What do you think? Will you think that is absurd?

Not only mathematics, but also literature and art. May be the failure of art is more easily seen. Just go into any modern museum and you will see the emptiness of mind there. And please open a poem book (if you can find one); you will justify the same phenomenon. However, to find out the failure of modern science is not so easy. But you can just compare, to compare the different approaches of the Chinese, see how they see the inner world of the human body, and universe. You will eventually be convinced; there are different kinds of brains. Some left, some right.  And it needs much effort to turn the external eye into internal wisdom.

The Chinese? One would have different impression. The pollutions and all sorts of funny tales are strong convincing forces that make people neglect the actual things happening there.

And one more important fact is, the Chinese themselves do not know what is going on too. They are thinking more or less the same with the West. Keep the market and every moving part of the society moving, keep up the figures and every thing is ok. The Chinese themselves just simply cannot know what is going on in the Chinese medicine, they cannot tell you why. They are just doing according the teaching of the ancient books. May be it is true that the ancient Chinese did had seen some alien wisdom and preserving them until now.

The Chinese are seeking the Western technologies as eager as it could be.  And they seldom try to see it internally; there are no major outbreaks in the Chinese mind, up till now. They are sitting comfortably in the fault lines of something important, yet they are not aware. Some of the Chinese are trying to embrace Confucius, thinking may be it could help to fix the social conflicts and keep the active minds at bay. But Confucius is nothing to do with the ancient wisdom. Confucius was a “modern” (to compare with the real ancient times) clever man; his main concern was to help the ruling class to rule. He knew nothing about the original wisdom of the ancient wisdom. And the Chinese are as ignorant as ever. Glimpse of light come from the ancient culture itself, not the polluted modern Chinese land.

What is the internal view of the Modern World?

I would say, wisdoms are drying up as the petroleum. Modern sciences are same with modern art, can handle modern affairs no more.

The modern world is decaying internally, yet it is glamorous from the outside.

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              By Leechard

What is the soul of democracy?

Every thing has its inner and outer side. In the case of democracy, if we could view it from the inner side, much of the problem would be clear.

One question:

Drone usage.  Do drones eliminate terrorist or produce them?

According to a report in 2013.7.3. from the BBC, “Drones Strikes are a source of severe tension between the US and Pakistan. It is estimated that between 2004 and 2013, CIA drone attacks in Pakistan killed up to 3460 people.  About 890 of them were civilians and the vast majority of strikes were carried out by the Obama administration, research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism said.”

And the feelings are not easily obtainable from the West. What would be the direct result of such attacks? It is hatred.  And hatred is the fuel for terrorism.  Drones are doing a very bad job; they are counter-productive, achieving the opposite result. 

Another example.

19 brave firefighters killed in central Arizona wild fire.  They have nowhere to go suddenly, and were buried into the fire. In the most urgent moments, will there be a drone coming to help them? Will there be some kind of robotic tank, carrying water cannons and different sorts of heavy machinary, running to their help? Will there be rockets, water carrying CO2 bombs, bomb into the bushes and eliminate the fire quickly? 

All answers are negative. As all the drones and rockets and tanks are to create fire, not to eliminate fire. Yet they are too far away, not in Arizona, but in Pakistan.

And the question remains:

Why do wise political people do opposite things always? Are they not wise enough?

We need to look into the soul of democracy.

It is something happened deep in the soul of democracy.

Democracy is external structure people put into their group behavior.  It all depends on the group mind, or we call that a soul, or HTS (human thinking system).

Leaders usually act according to the frame of structure. The smarter they are, the more wrong they would be, if the soul were misleading.

The US is an important example for this. Deep in the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, there is NO true equality, and the spirit of it is the traditional kind:  Eye for eye (it is so called justice, not to be argue with), and the word “hatred” is omitted, as well as the word “love”, however, omitting love, is to allow “justice” to be done without other consideration, as the common passion of human love is excluded. It says that life, freedom, and the right to seek pleasure are self-evident. What does self-evident mean? It means a truth doesn’t need proof. But it might have missed a lot other rights, for example,

The right to seek not pleasure but truth, and the right to love and to be loved are also self-evident.

Deep in the minds of the early American, they simply couldn’t view things from a universal view, and to love even your enemy is out of the question. You need only to beat them.

Why is terrorism so difficult to handle?

Spirit of hatred is the reason. And drones are just the tools for creating more terrorists, not less.

We are talking about the souls of democracy, and that is seldom mentioned. People just like to talk about the “mature” kind of democracy. It seems the structure of democracy could develop from a naïve kind to a mature kind. But if you can see the soul inside the structure is decisive, you will search painfully for a better view for it.

We all need a change. To change what? Our soul.

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What is the inner problem with democracy?

I wish to write something about the “inner problem” with democracy. But I hesitated.  It is the reason why you can’t find me for the last two days in the blog. For I don’t know how to draw the inner picture.  I searched my memory, and searched my old book. I had mentioned a song in the chapter about “in and out” in “Zhuangian Theory”( A book in Chinese in my blog), but still it is not easy to explain what is “in”. Perhaps“in” is not definable. However, I will try to explain what is “in”.

If you cut an orange into two, can you find the “in” in the orange? No, still it is external side of the orange, you can cut it into four, or eight, or sixteen, until you can cut no more. Haven’t we reached the “in” of the orange? No, still we are in the external.

Then what is “in”?We know what is “in”, but cannot define it.

Only by sometime, you can reach the “in” with your mind.

“In” is something to communicate with. Use your mind, and you can reach the inside of something. Use your eye; you can reach only the external side.

How do I know the inner side of the orange?

By closing my eye.

Some people can use no mind, but eyes only. They have no intuition to see things, they have no love to reach minds, and they are crippled inside.

Here is a song by John Lennon. I used to doubt, whether it was exactly this song that had irritated the killer to kill him. 

“Cripple inside”

You can shine you’re shoes

And wear a suit

You can comp your hair

And look quite cute

You can hide your face

Behind a smile

One thing you can’t hide

Is when you’re crippled inside

You wear a mask

And paint your face

You can call yourself

The human race

You can wear a collar

And a tie

But the one thing you

Can’t hide is when you’re

Crippled inside

Well now you know that your

Cat has nine lives babe

Nine loves to itself

But you only got one

And a dog life ain’t no fun

Mamma take a look outside

You can go to church

And sing a hymn

Judge me by the politics

Of my voice

You can live a lie until you die

One thing you can’t hide

Is when you’re crippled inside

Lyrics by John Lennon revised by Leechard

(The original line was “Judge me by the color, Of my skin”)

And now, do we know what is “in”?

Yes, it is very easy. By closing our eyes, we can know what is it. And to close the eyes, is to use the inner strength within ourselves. We will not know how strong we are until we have reached inside and felt our inner energy.

And now, what is the inner problem with democracy?

Democracy is only a slice of the bread. It is only part of a process. It is only part of the complete course of human life.

Democracy, or any other kinds of Xemocracy, Yemocracy, should be a complete process of a group of human beings. Democracy should care about not only the political problems of the being itself,but also all problems of the human life itself.

Human life is not only living.  Living is a temporary word, there must be something higher then living: For example, achieving. We the group of human beings are not living for itself, but for a kind of total achievement, though the final aim of the achievement might not be known, but a better democracy should have the function to keep that in its working process.

Older form of democracy deals with only a small part of the problem: power and its distribution.

But a Newer form of democracy should deal with the complete process of the human life. We shall call it New-mocracy.

New-mocracy should have the power to seek a possible path, the power to rebirth itself, and the power to keep itself healthy and clean.

The inner problem of democracy is in its short span. It cares too little. It cares for only a slice of the whole living process.  For a slice of something, the soul is severed and not complete. The real inner problem is in its soul, or lacking a soul.

What is the soul of democracy?

It must not be greed, or hatred, or selfishness, or pleasure seeking………..

We have almost reached the inner problem by discovering the next question:  What is the soul of democracy?

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What is wrong with democracy?

We can examine democracy from two angles: internal and external.

And more important is the internal one.

What is the inner problem with democracy?

Lets start from here...........

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How do I use my right brain in writing (A question for the serious Western thinkers)

I have been writing in Chinese for the last 50 years. Now is the time for me to try English. Writing in Chinese is very easy for me. It is just like walking. You will not aware that you are using your foot to walk. Writing is just like spinning. Spinning in the right brain. Though you will not know what is happening there, but surely one thing you know, your thoughts are spinning out something.

How do I know that I am using my right brain?

I have one point, that if I use my left brain, I will know exactly what is going on, I will know what next line I will be writing, I will write according to my plan, but using the right brain, I will not know what I am writing. The spinning seems to be automatic, or driven by some unknown force inside me.

Known and unknown, is the difference of the left and right brain. 

However, what happens inside your right brain IS NOT totally unknown. If so, you might be either a genius or an unqualified writer. For any good writer will know, spinning out something is not enough, you must spin out a straight line, and the line would become an arrow, and the arrow had some object to hit on.  And you hit it. That is a process known to your right brain, it is not unknown. So writing in the right brain is combining the known and the unknown. You will know what is going on, what will be the final result. Just like cooking. You put in some stuff, hoping in a while, your cooker will turn out something. But what is going on inside the cooker, you will not be able to know.

What if I insist on knowing the inside? Well, you might be using your left side of your brain. You will lose your spinning power, your writing will be weak and uninteresting, and though in some form of writing, like drafting the legal document, you need this process, but it will never be an entertaining art.

And now, one question. What if I am writing in another language? To me, English is not my mother tongue, I am not so familiar with this language, am I using my left-brain more to write in English?

If Chinese is my legs, I can forget them in writing. But in English, I found myself is some what crippled. Though I still insist on the same principle in writing: you must have a target, and you must forget the legs (or, forgetting the spinning actions)

What is the difference?

Do I have the ability to find out?

Yes, the Chinese legs are quite different from the spelling languages. Chinese are pictogram. They are mostly right- brained tools. And we are lacking proof here. How do you know the Chinese are right brain tools?  In some studies, when using Chinese, different spots in both the left and right brains are activated. But from the linkage of the graph and the sound, we can guess that the Chinese are mainly a right-brained tool.

Chinese is a non-spelling language. It is more like a sign, then a logical arrangement. And the sigh is basically not connected with a sound. Like the word  “人” , it means a human being, but to pronounce it, you need to “remember” the sound, it sounds like “ren”.  What is the connection between “人” and “ren”?  It is not known. So I have a very weak reason to imagine: possibly, the Chinese are mainly a right brain function.  

Is the Chinese a very bad language? To pronounce is not easy. (or very easy, by using the right brain) In learning other spelling language, pronounce is mush easier. Because you have a method, and the method is known. Now, the connection between sound and sign is unknown.

Now lets allow the hypothesis temporarily, that the Chinese are mainly a right brain language.

And my first question is: will it be easier for me the kind of right-brainer to use Chinese (a right-brain tool)?

And the second question is: will it be more difficult for a right-brainer to use English (a left-brain tool)?

Yes in using Chinese, I am somewhat like skiing. I can skip many things. For the Chinese are mainly a sign language, using a sign is just like using a parable. You will use parables to connect the text, not words to connect them. And there are two kinds of Chinese, one the modern and daily Chinese; the other is Written Classis Chinese. It is the parable of parables.

Actually, the Written Classic Chinese is more like a right –brained tool. Thoughts inside a WCC brain can ski in parables and the thoughts can be represented in a higher level.

It is until now, I can change my first and second questions into a new question.

If I wanted to use my right brain more, what language is best for me?

This is a reversed question. And my object in writing this article is changed here: I am not enquiring how to write in English, but to enquire another more important question:

That for the serious Western thinkers, that if they wanted to probe into the other field of human wisdom, will it be better to use the Chinese language?  Is it a better tool to probe into the right brain, and the right-brained culture?

And my advices are:

1. Do not try to “spell” the sounds in the Roman letters. Try using the direct link between sound and sign. It is a right-brained method.

2. Do not learn the simplified Chinese, it is useless in searching the right-brained culture, learn the Classic Chinese first. The simplified one will come as a marginal return.

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Why I never try wireless plane?

Besides writing, I had tried fishing, sailing, swimming, judo, playing violin, cycling, photography, or even drama. Very much like other youth, one would try many things, until one day, you will find and settle on what you really wanted to do. 

And I have given up so many things. One by one, I know I cannot keep them, have to give up.

I had given up violin for three or four times. I have never had the chance to learn violin when I was young. I started learning it when I grow up. And soon I found I had not enough time to practice it, I have to leave.  Those were painful moments, but I have no choice. For a grown up man to learn the delicate instrument, is time consuming and never easy. However, several years later, I felt itch again. I would try another time, keeping it for almost a year, and give up again. It is disappointing to my violin teacher and me. It has been my dream when I was young, but dreams are not reality.

I have one thing I would never give up, and one thing I will never try. Writing is my only career, and I have been doing it for the last 50 years. The violin had almost at one time made me giving up writing. It was when I found practicing in the street is so interesting and I did it every day, delaying my writing to a dangerous point. However, I did not give up writing.  

The thing I will never try is flying.

I meant wireless plane flying.

I never dare to start it. When I was young, the price for a model wireless plane was so high, I did not try. Now the price is so low, even the poorest child can easily obtain one, but when I walked past the display windows, I dare not even look at them.

Because I knew in my deepest heart, that if I try this, there would be no way out. I will keep on flying my toy planes, and forget every thing.

So this is a little taboo for me. It is my secret restricted area. I can try many things, including my violin, but I should never try this.

It will transform my life, and change me into something else, and I shall never accomplish my writing tasks.

May be I will become an expert on wireless planes, or drones, but it is not what I wanted.

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Is there a hidden HTS ?

I suppose there is. There must be a hidden Human Thinking System within us.

I was a columnist for many years. I have been writing different topics in my columns. I used to think that all stuff I had written is solely my own thought.

Since when did I discover that my thoughts are not totally my own, but shared?

In my life, I have always been lonely. I didn’t share much of my thoughts with my peers. Sometimes I gave talks, and often I wrote. And the sources of my thoughts are from books.  I have been so lonely sometimes, that I lack courage to carry on. But the ancient wisdom is so encouraging that I know I must not give up. Every single thought is coming from somewhere, though it is developing.

But thoughts are only external Human Thinking System.

There must be some receptors within us.

Like pouring water into the ground, if there are no receptors, water will not be retained.

There must be lots of different receptors, and there must be relations in the receptors. One receptor can act on next, and the next on yet another next, thus arousing a very complex reaction.

For example, do I have the receptor of Love?

If I felt my receptor of love is empty and lacking something, do I have the feeling of hungry?  Am I hungry for love?

And all the receptors are hidden. We will not know, what is lying there.

I guess that the HTS are a set of very complex receptors and reactors. When enough input was there, the reactors will take action themselves.

We knew that the western culture was from Greece. How did the English people get their input from Greek language?

And how did the Greek mind get their input from the Egyptian wisdom? How did they receive and react?

We might not know the details of the reception and reaction.

However, artificial action or external interference did happen.

Human thoughts are very easily controlled and reformed into external structure. Once the external structure was built, it is not easy for the inner souls to escape and build new structures.

India and United States are two sad examples.

Ancient India talents created caste system. People are divided and classified. However, with great wisdom even of the Buddha Sakyamuni himself, the situation cannot be changed. The core problem of the caste system is not dividing people into classes, but to give up truth for interest. A culture base not in truth can never standup, until now. All major problems of India come from thousands of years ago. The external system of human thinking system is a huge barrier of growth.

Another example is United States. In the early days of independence, early talents of United States knew the nature of slavery. But they had avoided the issue, leaving it to be solved one hundred years later.   Because many of them, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were slave owners.  How can they have a just mind in creating the Declaration of Independence? Slaves are not included in the principles of the Declaration.  The principle of seeking pleasure in the declaration is completely wrong in philosophy, and the core problem of the Declaration is same with India:  Giving up truth for interest. These are hard lines not easy to accept. But it is true. If situations remain unchanged, two thousand years later, United States is no better than India.

Can the HTS avoided such external and artificial influences, and grow up in a healthier manner?

Can the external HTS structures be changed?

Of course it can be.

 I suppose the HTS is composed of  individual minds.

And the HTS is hidden. No one can know what is going on there. Even in the most authoritarian countries, minds did change, and different values are forming every moment, until one day, the currents could come up from hidden into open, the bad structures will change then.

8546 Is there a hidden HTS 20130624.doc   by Leechard