Why the United States is Seldom Short of Talents?

9288  Why the United States is Seldom Short of Talents? 20210530

Though Donald Trump is having a very bad fame in the United States, but to see deeply into his leadership, you will know why the United States has got so many talents. Donald Trump is fast to nominate people. As soon as he fired someone, he had another choice quickly. He needed not to wait and he did not hesitate. Talents are just like oranges in the supermarket, he can pick as many as he likes. 

Do the United States people are really more talented than other countries?

It is never an easy task for other leaders. Good leaders do not like to fire people, not because they are kind-hearted, but because it is difficult to find someone to replace them. They have to suffer the bad oranges more than Donald Trump. 

Why?

There are many answers. 

However, I could only offer one. 

It is because, though the United States are a country of individuals, but they are not ruling the country individualistically. 

The leaders in the United States are backed up by gangs. They are ruling the country in gangs. Each gang consists of many huge enterprises and big companies etc., and they are large organizations with lots of talents. They can offer good tools at any time for the leaders to use. 

What does it mean?

It meant the United States is a co-operative country, too. They are working in gangs. I am sorry to use the term "gangs", but it is easier to show the nature of the matter. They might not be groups of bad guys; they are simply enterprises people sitting together. They are self-centered people always, yet they can be grouping into large organizations and you will find useful oranges amount them. 

A not very complete or even biased gang is in your back. You need not to comment about them, you need only to know that they are at your back, a place not by your side, but your back. And it is perfect for the likes of Donalds. Donald Trump needs not be a de facto leader; the unseen gang bosses are. This is yet another notable story. Who is ruling America?  

And historians would know that why the United States is a country of hundreds but not thousands. They can last hundreds of years but not thousands. 

Within the talents group, you will see very high brow people with extremely high income in their pocket and they are too proud of themselves though they will tell you that they are only proud of their core-values and that meant money. That is the first reason of why they are controllable and always obey. It needs money to control them. And the Government of the States is functioning very well. It is controllable with the gangs. 

And within the group of talented people, you will not see a genius. 

They were largely technical talents only. They are financial people but not economists. They are technologists but not scientists. A real scientist needs to be a philosopher yet there are none in the talent groups. And you will remember Thomas Edison and similar followers. They are inventors and can create money, but they are never artists. They cannot think deep in the minds. There are no arts in the United States. They have green backs but no minds. You will not see Beethoven or Shakespeare in USA.  

To compare with the United Kingdom, you will see the United States is highly not balanced. The United Kingdom is a Kingdom, they have the Royal things to control the other side of the mind. They have more artists with titles of Royal approvals. Though it seemed to be old-fashioned, yet they are more balanced. 

And the arts in the United Kingdom are almost free. The country needs not to pay extremely high salaries for them. Only need to give them fame and tell everyone that you are happy with their arts and they will develop and keep growing by themselves. A membership in the Royal Societies or Royal Academies needs no investment. They will bring money back to the country instead. And may be the only person received money from the Royal family was Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a false name for a secret writer writing for a King with secret payments( ? ). Though the payment was not proved yet it is believable he was supported by a King secretly. 

A genius writer was artificially created but not the result of their culture, it is the joke of the old-fashioned European culture. 

Our first question is why the United States is seldom short of talents, yet from that very question, the deeper side of politics can be seen.  

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May in 2021

2021年5月

天上星星星有火，

地下人人人無私。

高飛深空億萬里，

慧眼傳真欲語時。

(May In 2011)

Each and every of the stars up the sky

has a fire

Each and every of us down here

is selfless

Flying into the deep emptiness millions of miles

Images related with a clear eye 

oh...............  

what is time and what words could try

  

Why Did a Heavenly Garment Need not Sewing?

9286 Why did a heavenly garment need not sewing 20210522

It was so beautiful you can never find a suitable word to describe about the heavenly garment. When it was put on an angel, it was more than perfect and you will be fainted and wake up in her heavenly home on the clouds. It must be the happiest moment one could encounter in his whole life. 

Yet someone has got some trouble with the garment. They wrote books arguing about which part is the blouse and which is the pants. And they argued that the garment was first made only the upper outer fitting and it was completed by one of the salesmen to add a pair of pants for it. 

It is the saddest thing for the Hong Lou Meng. (Dream of the Red Chamber). (They thought the book was in two pieces, and it was the works of two different people.)

Why they could never see the beauty in the beauty? 

Is it because someone had played a little trick on their eyes?

Yes it might be. 

Yet it may be not. 

It was a deep-seated thinking pattern built long ago on their brains that leaded to blindness in them. 

They can never see lights again.

The Confucian doctrine were in two parts. 

In the external part they taught you how to behave. Be a nice boy and be good. That seems ok and was hotly welcomed by the highest scholars. 

In the inner part they told you that you are self-centered, you need to sweep the snows on your door steps only, and do not mind the other business. They taught you how to be selfish carefully. 

And the only truth on earth is to obey your elder. The elder is truth. You need not to seek the truth elsewhere. You need to memorize them only. 

What is wrong with that? Two thousand years suffering cannot make the fools wake up. And they can never see the beauty in the angel.  

The thinking pattern had to be handled. 

And the worse part in the Confucianism is the total outcome of the internal plus external part: You cannot find any direction. You would go nowhere on the universe and you do not have any aim in life except getting rich hopelessly and giving up your soul. 

It is not important for a fool to have no aim in life. But it would be disastrous for a whole country. 

It would be by then the foreign powers set foot in.

Confucianism is coming back in China. Turmoil is expected. 

Huge kneeling bronze statues were setup in university campus, and they were only students of Confucius, they were kneeling before a grand standing statue of Confucius himself. He looks so humble and feudal. 

In the statues you will see who is coming back in China.   

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Why Can't the Chinese Understand Novels ?

9285  Why Can't the Chinese Understand Novels 20210519

At first, I thought it was only because of stupidity. Or that they are not smart enough to see deeply into the novels. 

It all started by a book, Hong Lou Meng, or Dream of the Red Chamber. 

The book carried a very simple idea. Though the book is long and seems to be complicated, yet the central theme is obvious and cannot be neglected. 

It was all about the Hero in the book, Jia Bao Yu who found it unbearable to live in the suppression of Confucian thought and managed to flee the control by running away. He had only one lover Lin Dai Yu who did understand and encourage him. However, Lin was not permitted to marry him and were dead due to  sadness. Jia Bao Yu was assigned another typical Confucian woman whom he could not bear. He decided to flee in protest against the suppression. The writer of the book remained anonymous because it is dangerous to write openly against Confucians and the book will definately be destroyed. He told the story in a parable form to avoid the notice of the bureaucratic powers. 

The plot was setup in a kind of tragical yet extremely beautiful atmosphere that the readers can be enlightened. 

However, it was such a simple story that most of the Chinese scholars could not understand.

There are walls of shelves in the university libraries, all loaded with books talking  about the novel. Yet it was almost none of the writers who can point out the fact. 

Absurd was that many believed the book was written by two writers. One wrote the first 80 chapters and later publishers completed the story in 120 chapters for the sake of a better sale. It was unacceptable because in the deeps of the art, once the spirit of a work was created, no other structure but the original thought of the writer can bear the inner beauty of the spirit. No one can build another building in the original spirit without violating it. 

Yet most of the scholars could not reach the inner beauty of the book. One could not help to doubt whether they had read the book before publishing their findings. 

Would it be the result of the then United States secret service which had played a little trick on the issue?

The two-writers theory was promoted by a second-class scholar Hu Shi by the time. And suddenly Hu Shi had found himself on the peak of the Chinese culture.  35 western universities awarded him with honorary doctorate degrees almost at the same time. Maybe he was the most honored scholar in the whole world. It remained a secret why so many of the academic administrative people had such a special interest on him at the same time. 

Was it all about the ideas of a two-writers story or, a secret plot to promote Confucian culture in China?

Can such a simple trick be the real cause of the misunderstanding?

I had written about the issue in my books. However, I cannot find a place to publish my books in China. And that is not important.  More strange issue about the novel is that, up till this moment, the two-writers issue is almost finalized in China. One cannot find a copy of the Dream of the Red Chamber in China with the name of an anonymous writer. It is a fact that the novel was assigned the names of two writers until the year 2021 of today. 

Will there be other factors besides the trick of the United States? 

What are the real understandings of the Cultural Authorities in China?

While it remained a difficult task for the Chinese people to find out the real issues about the novel, other classical novels have a similar fate. The Water Margin and Journey to the West were books not easy to comprehend, because the bureaucrats had rewrote them secretly.

What are the inner reasons? Could a simple trick have such a big influence?

Of course there were other reasons.

It is a deep-seated thinking pattern that had determined the thoughts.

Confucian thoughts are still one of the dominating factors in the inner souls of China. 

The Confucian doctrine was not only a behavior manner in China. Its philosophical explanation about life and  universe dominated the spirit of many while the leaders of the cultural authorities have not been serious enough to handle the case. 

It was in such a situation that many people could not understand a simple story like Hong Lou Meng.

China is undergoing a difficult path of change in its culture. 

China has been changing from a self-centered philosophy into a mass-centered idea of the universe. It is more than a simple task for a single person to acquire a better knowledge about life, but a complete mind-formation of a whole nation. They are changing from selfishness to a cooperative manner of unselfish love. Confucianism was more than external behavior problem of young people. It was the basic philosophy in the older form of Chinese culture. If China is to standup permanently, China needs a philosophy of its own and it could not be self-centered confucianism.

The talents of novels in China would be happy if the Chinese can really think about the future of their own culture.  

 

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Why Hong Kong hasn't changed?

9283   Why Hong Kong hasn't changed?   20210504

Hong Kong hasn't been changed internally. Everything internal remained the same. I meant Every Thing. The external structures seemed different, but it remained the same internally. 

The internal web is just like an octopus. It has got millions of hands and the hands were everywhere in the internal body of Hong Kong. 

No one can escape the internal grap of the octopus hands. It can reach your inner family members and change them. 

Newspapers? TV stations? Universities? Important institutions? They are all funny stocks only.  The internal cells were all members of a secret power, external flags were only a better hiding shelter for them. 

External approach is important some times. Just like an urgent turmor need to be taken away. But the real reason behind the turmor was untouched. 

They were like secret virus grown in the cells of the body, and they were linked up with a secret web. When you use a scissor to cut away some of the links, the links were just like octopus hands, they can re-grow and healed in a very short time. The worse of all is that people  love the secret web. Because it can give the mediocre people a chance to occupy important positions. If you cannot run a good business, if you cannot find a girl friend or boy friend, if you cannot get into a certain organization, some one will offer you help. Only that you need to surrender your soul. And people are loving it like mad. It was an open secret in Hong Kong. 

I am isloated since I was fired by a newspaper. And since then, my friends left me and joined the isolation. Those were highly educated people. They were writers and editors and intellectuals. 

I cannot publish my books not only in Hong Kong. I went to Taiwan and approached several book distributors and naively believed I can have a chance there. The editors kindly received my scripts and refused. It seems they had received the same order as their reason to refuse me were all the same. 

I have found no way to publish my books. So I changed to write songs. Hoping to find out in the field of music  true beauty of human nature. 

I had contacted some student singers in Jiangxi Province. They were happy to sing for me because I paid for them. However, not a long time afterwards, all of them stopped singing for me. It seemed they had received the same threat. I begged and begged, but to no result. 

And I had contacted several publishing house in Wuhan and Heilongliang. I sent them my books hoping to publish them in China. And I was too naive to believe there were no secret networks in China. They all turned me down and gave the same reason. I was told that it was not because my books were badly written, but because the books do not fit the taste of the Chinese people. I was quite doubtful with that because one of my main theme in writing is the Spirit of China. And I could not believe their explanations. I can only believe their networks were huge. I could never forget how I approached a Shanghai culture authority to register copyright for me and were refused years ago.  

I found closed doors everywhere. 

The isolation hasn't been stopped. 

I found my school mates were staying away from me. I have lost most of my friends in the fields of literature, now I have lost my older school mates too.  I cannot sleep for almost a year since March 2020. Who was the one behind my school mates?  I have reason to 、guess it was from Canton this time.  

For me it is not important at all. If I could not sleep that was because my wisdom is not strong enough to encounter such isolations. People were trying to kill me so many times, and I had disclosed it in my blog, but you will not see them in ALL the Hong Kong news medias. 

Theat of life did not stop me from sleeping, it was Hong Kong and Taiwan and even Mainland China that worried me. If the secret networks were built up so strongly everywhere, it will not be a long time to have the US control over China.  And history will laugh again. 

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• 4  李察寓言

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Do you like to eat pineapple?

9282   Do you like to eat pineapple?   20210426

A friend in Taiwan called my wife, asking if my wife likes to eat pineapple or not. And she asked about our address in Hong Kong. It was obvious that she would send some pineapples to us as a present. 

She is our old friend. We knew her many years ago. She is the kind of people who never bother about politics. And suddenly I saw the minds of ordinary Taiwan people. 

Taiwan issue is part of the US-China conflict. Now the ordinary people in Taiwan is worrying about the livelihoods of Taiwan farmers. She would do something to help. 

The central problem in the US-China conflict is a war of mind. Any one loses in the war of mind will have a bad time in the near future. 

To ban the Taiwan pineapples is just like shooting a useless rifle shot. It will not sink the Taiwan island.  But it will drive away the minds of the people. 

Almost all wars are wars of mind in the beginning. From a little gift you will see how the minds have changed in the pineapple issue.

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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)

Cantonese Poem by Lee Chard

9281   20210402

On a crazy fools day

傻 仔 之 歌  （新稿）

癲癲得得。

馬騮屎忽。

腳長襪短。

鞋鬆褲甩。

點紅點綠。

梅菜豬肉。

坐地起價。

煮飯唔熟。

一日三餐。

艱難嗰艱。

將將就就。

養返幾嚿。

時來運到。

有備無患。

快快趣趣。

知情識趣。

良宵苦短。

有啲戇居。

時代變化。

點樣去追。

有水冇水。

寫返幾句。

求學求知。

用心閉嘴。

做事均真。

人人發憤。

真貨冇假。

咪俾人蝦。

你愛我嗎。

打者愛也。

若果無愛。

千祈咪打。

和平寶貴。

打仗嘥米。

無論東西。

不要排擠。

美女容顏。

風雲變幻。

早晚不同。

俾佢玩殘。

這個世界。

有人自私。

年少無知。

知道得遲。

一時意氣。

一蚊大曬。

自以為是。

霸住條街。

橫衝直撞。

亂過馬路。

有頭冇腦。

有啲老土。

收心養性。

讀書明理。

世界咁大。

總有知己。

無邊無際。

有風有沙。

無親無故。

有國有家。

峯迴路轉。

漸行漸遠。

順風逆風。

圖書萬卷。

廣東俚語詩 改作 A Cantonese Poem

9280    20210402

牛耕田，馬食穀，

兩代賺錢有幸福。

馬行日，象行田，

過河卒仔只往前。

兵殺敵，賊閃縮，

兵賊難分逐個捉。

男勿變，女莫哭，

貧賤夫妻要和睦。

流水清，死水濁，

人望高處尋滿足。

慳啲使，儲吓蓄，

巧婦煑出無米粥。

水愛土，金燒木，

光合作用葉變綠。

機易打，書難讀，

賭仔何曾買大屋。

命未定，運可卜，

命運當前勿退縮。

求灑脫，不隨俗，

犯規和尚食狗肉。

逍遙遊，心歡喜，

人類將來會飛起。

生不易。死也難，

落手落腳玩人間。

What is the ground of a selfless mindset ?

9279   What is the ground of a selfless mindset   20210330

Being not selfish is the source of happiness. Anyone who is not selfish will find life  full of fun and far away from misery. 

And this is the changing point of human evolution. As the first successful co-operative society has been born, helping others and be not selfish would be popular. People need not to fight against each other and be friendly and co-operative. Life is full of joy, could be live fully. 

Important is the grounds of a selfless mind. 

The grounds are philosophical yet it is easy to understand, could be taught to a child in a few words. 

1. Material is perishable. Everything has got a life span. Nothing can last forever. 

2. Humans are building a world with perishable materials because they are also replaceable. 

3. Humans are perishable, their minds are not. Humans use their mind to make use of the perishable to build the world. 

4. Minds are linked up into a grand-mind. A single mind is weak, minds need to communicate to gain power.

5. The grand-mind has a will.

6. The will is to live and to grow and to seek with all effort for possibilities. 

7. Self-interest is meaningless as it is the source of misery and will not be successful. No one can bring his fortune to the other world. 

8. A better option is love and love means not selfish.   

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9279無私的思想基礎是什麼20210330

不自私是幸福的源泉。 任何不自私的人都會發現生活充滿樂趣，遠離痛苦。

這是人類進化的轉捩點。 隨著第一個成功的合作社會誕生，幫助他人而不是自私自利將受歡迎。 人們不必互相對抗，只會友好合作。 生活充滿歡樂。生活是真的生活，因為可能充份發揮。

重要的問題在於無私的思想基礎。

這思想基礎是哲學的，但很容易理解，可以用幾句話教給孩子。

 1.  物質是會毀滅的。 一切都是有生存期限的。 沒有東西是不朽的。

 2.  人類用會毀滅的物質建造世界，因為物質是可以替代的。

 3.  人類本身會毀滅，但他們的心靈卻不易毀滅。 人類用自己的心去使用物質來建造世界。

 4.  心靈連成一體，就是人心(grand-mind)。 個別的心靈是軟弱的，心靈需要溝通於人心以獲得力量。

 5.  人心是有意志的。

 6.  人心的意志是生存、生長和探索。人心的意志在於努力去尋找可能性。

 7.  自私是沒有意義的。自私是痛苦的根源，自私只會失敗不會成功。 沒有人可以將財富帶到另一個世界。

 8.  人的最佳選擇是愛，愛是不自私。

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What is the Biggest Joy?

9278   What is the Biggest Joy   20210319

The biggest joy is not that we have a future, but knowing it is certain to have a future. The joy is in the knowing. 

To know is the most difficult part. 

We have been fallen in the darkest despair for a long period in history and our own life. Every one would have that experience that everything has gone wrong and it is nowhere to fix it and it is frustrating. 

Now we have a future. We know it is possible to be rich for everybody and we know we won't be finished even if we are dead as there is a future and the future will be there after life. When people said it is no after life, they did not have prove it and it is not sure. But we are sure that even our material bodies are gone and our deeds will remain and the minds behind the deeds are same to survive and minds will not be diminished. That is joy. 

We all need to balance ourselves in our life. It is easy not for everyone. Some people find it difficult to balance. Some too rich and some too poor. Some too smart and some too slow. Some too absent-minded and some too mindful. 

And the most important issue in balancing is to have the urge to go forward. Just like riding a bicycle. You need to paddle and you need the energy. You can never stop. 

What! Someone exclaimed. I am retired and I am dying and you tell me not to stop?

Yes you have a future ahead. Lives have a life span yet the deeds are forever. You will enjoy it in your future. Your legs are tired but your minds will not. You wanted to go. Your mind will not stop. You will dream even in dying. 

And the joy is in the going, not only in the arriving. We are all in the going. The arriving is for everyone; you simply cannot stop your mind. You will be there. 

A grand vision is ahead of us now. We knew that to be rich for everyone is possible, and happiness is possible. We knew human beings will last for a long time and we are building a planet of happiness for present and future. Building is joy.

Will there be some people refusing to go forward and insisting to go backward?

Of course there are and there will be.  

It is simple as riding a bicycle. You need a friction. You need a force to draw you behind. If there is no friction, you will not be going as the roads are too slippery. And balance is impossible without friction.  

And the biggest joy is to know that even the friction will go together with you to the future! You can choose to go backward and you will be there with us together! 

It meant we are all there and we will be all there. 

It is the biggest joy. 

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• 4  李察寓言

• 5  Fables by Lee Chard

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Why would the Spring flowers open?

 9277   Why would the Spring flowers open?   20210316

I felt a little upset about the winter frost gone too fast. We in the Southern islands have little chance to see the beauties of the Winter and then suddenly I saw from the weather announcers that the temperatures were above zero in many Northern places.

The other signal is from the south. The red cotton tree flowers are more than opened. They dropped. You would find them on the ground telling you all chills had been gone. There would not be any cold weather anymore, at least, this year. Though you might find it a little uneasy as you have seldom been looking up at the high trees that they were already there for a while. Now they would show you the signs on the plain mud on the earth. 

And suddenly I have found some strange fruits on the Virgin Female(女貞) tree. The fruits were so small like a large bunch of grapes. I had thought they must be seeds and I were wrong. The flowers had waited almost a week to open and perfumes were everywhere in the hills now.  And I was more than happy when I looked around to see other trees and flowers were same. They have all been waken up, and, what does it mean?

The most extraordinary scene was a large White Orchard tree(白蘭樹). The tree had been shaking and smiling at me in the strong winds last Winter. However, she was not shaking and was just stretching her green in her fine and large leaves. I tried to spot her flowers though I did not see them. 

Why would everyone be wakened at the same time? 

I have been thinking about an idea of a grand human project these days. And it must be one of it. 

What project? My friend asked me. 

Well, we are all in the project. Not only the flowers, it is everything. We are in a huge project of growing. And the project will last for millions and millions of years, if the word everlasting should be careful to use. 

I was amazed at the wealth China have been achieving.  And I was sure that the wealth in human beings would be achieved in the not very long years to come. How long would the days for us to see a happy and very rich planet earth? Would every thing be settled in one thousand years or one hundred thousand years? By then there will be no difference in our blood and skin color. And the civilization had long been melted together, we can talk to each other more than languages but minds. I read from the papers that there was a concern about the color of a baby in the Royal Family in England. It would be so funny in future to have a concern like this. We would all be same and share the total happiness by then. 

And I was also extremely happy as I had found the ancient teaching of Zhong Zi. He was buried for so long and I had discovered him. That we were and will be the same. All differences must be wrong paths in the past.

And I saw the scornful eyes. Some of my friends could not believe it. They told me, you will be dead very soon and how can you say it is a project? Everything is perishable. 

That punched at my face directly. I started to think, is it true that everything is perishable? 

Yes, things will perish, yet deeds will not. What you have done is done and will last forever. You can wipe it in memories yet it can not be wiped in the total project. Every action must have an effect on the project. Deeds are actions and actions could bring in results. It must be an unending sequence and the procedures will last. You say a word to someone and the word, no matter it is nice or vice, will be forever.  The project is running like the coming of Spring.  

If you could find something non-perishable, you must be absolutely happy. And now we have found it, and it is in the deeds everywhere in all the Universe and it is more than one. It is more than deeds that will be continued and will not be dead. 

It must be my mind that was laughing. Will it be something more than the deeds that could be lasting?

Yes. With every deed done, there is a mind behind it. If you have expressed a concern, the concern was from your mind. 

Minds could change, but it will be always there. If you have expressed a concern, the concern would stir up other concerns and minds were flowing everywhere in the planet. A mind is not a mind if kept in the mind. It needs to be communicated and will be lasting in the communication forever like the deeds. 

And I must be wrong in judging the mind. You can almost keep nothing in your mind as they would evaporate and express in your dreams and I cannot be sure whether the dreams were waves and can be leaked. And you might let your mind be exposed by then.

And some minds are cold and they would say "So What!"

So what is so special if you have found something like deeds and minds are lasting when the things are perishable and dying?

No, though things are perishable but could be replaced as the project is going on. Last years flowers were gone and new ones are coming. That is the real meaning of the project. We keep building with perishable things and the planet is built. 

And so what!

Yes. That meant we have hope. 

What do you need a hope for!

You can go for it and you are happy!

That is why we need to have an eye for the future. The future is not only for a short period, but for an unending quest. We are all sons and daughters of Father Kua(夸父) and we are constantly searching and questing.

At one time in history we were so despaired about everything and with the rise of a rich country like China we can see where the hope is and in the millions of years to come, we could change the planet into a planet of happiness and we could bring in other planets and the Universe is growing.

And one more thing: 

We will be there to witness everything as minds are lasting and will not be diminished. You are there if your mind is there. 

  

  Would you be there? See you. 

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Books by Lee Chard

• 莊子宇宙 

• 明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 莊子寓言

• 李察寓言

• Fables by Lee Chard

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

• 真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

 

We are in a Human Project

 no. 7276

We are in a Human Project   

Humans need to know a few things before knowing about the Project.  

One is to know the "self". 

A "self" is something happening rather late in each of the humans. First you have a body, but you are only a lump of flesh can only breathe and eat. You will not know even yourself. You do not know your own name nor your own self. You cannot use the word "I" until a later stage.  A "self" is a later development.

 

If you have a "self", you have a leader in you. You can control your body. However, you need to feed your own body, and satisfy its many desires. Your body is your first tool and your own slave. If you cannot control it, it will control you. Your "self" is not the same as your body. Traditional thought about life is that life is only a mixture of body plus a mind and this could be the main trap for humans. Matter and mind concept has created a wrong path for many to chase after material interest. They do not understand why life is so short and that produced worries. Earthly interest is the only thing some people are seeking after. They thought mind is only a vague idea which is not important at all. 

Wise people on earth soon divide themselves into two groups. One is Matter-First and the next is Mind-First. Humans have been fighting for a very long time in history due not only in religious reasons, but in this philosophical difference. 

What is the basic form of human beings? 

It might not be matter, nor mind, but a very special form like a Project of the Universe. 

The Project is built with matters.  All matters are perishable, or decayable and sometimes replaceable. Yet the Project is not. There is a format for each one matter in the Universe, and all the formats have been pre-installing an element to perish in time. There is a life span for everything. Nothing can last forever.

 The two longer-lasting things are the mind and the Project. 

Minds are growing and mixing constantly. Each life may have a mind to govern itself. Minds are like controlling powers of the Project; they kept things going. Minds are building the Project with perishable materials; therefore the matters in the Project must be changing always, yet the minds did continue. 

Minds are inheritable. Lives vanish, minds remain.  Everyone on Earth are a part of the Project. Everything is decayable, and the only non-decayable thing is in the Project which is controlled by minds. 

Are all minds non-decayable? It is hard to determine. However, it is the longer-lasting mixture of minds that keep things going. 

The Project itself is alive and non-decayable. We have a growing Project and we are parts of the growing Project. 

And an interesting question is how long could the Project be growing. Will it be forever? It is very likely to be forever; it depends on some more studies about time and space, etc. 

Now let us get back to the views of an individual. 

First you have a body, and the body soon acquired a "self", which is possibly the early activities of a mind. And the mind is not separated and not alone. Many things have and will be communed into the mind. Languages, ideas, civilizations, are all basic elements of a mind. A mind is but a little part of a grand mind. And the most important feature of any mind is its urgent need to communicate with other minds.  A lonely death is the major nightmare of many. The need for communication is vital. 

Why it is vital? It must be a built-in feature of the human species. And the need for communication is not only for you to have a happy moment but for the need to exchange and mix up ideas for the human wisdom. Human wisdom is based upon the communication of all human beings and in the future, human wisdom might lead humans to go forward for a more important goal. 

And this basic function of human minds is in its growing. We are in the early period of minds as we have a short history of civilizations which are not more than a few thousand years. In the millions of years ahead, a better human wisdom is expected and by then, all old problems like poverties and wars are ended and we can foresee future humans will be happy to create another species of humans. New planets will be found and prepared, hoping the new species of human would have a far better human wisdom to work for the future Projects of the Universe. People will not be seeking a self-interested longer life but the perfect growth of a better future. It has been a build-in quality in human nature. Any life will produce offspring and so do the human species. This is the reason why people are questing and going onward always.  

Life is short and bodies die, but the grand wisdom remains. The Project is always waiting ahead for everyone. My own body is not a selfish aim in my life. Very short-sighted people seek only individual need and when they finally come to the end of their life, they felt sad feeling not satisfied. If one can see the human species are going on like a grand mind of wisdom and generations of bodies keep on coming and going, just to make the grand mind more mature and will finally bring all the human species into a higher form of success and people are witnessing the grand beauty of it all, one will be extremely satisfied. 

The question is can "I" see it? 

Yes if you are concerned with the Project, you will see it. 

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Books by Lee Chard

• 莊子宇宙 

• 明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 莊子寓言

• 李察寓言

• Fables by Lee Chard

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

• 真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

Is There A Creator ?

9275  Is there a creator  20210222

This is one of the most important question in our time. If you cannot answer this, you will have a hard time moving forward. 

It was not easy to answer, but now we have a bigger chance to get closer to the problem. As the world is turning gradually into a cooperative mode of thinking and people are more mature not to destroy anyone who dare to raise this question, we have a better chance to answer it. 

We shall have a definite answer if one day human beings can create another human being. That meant you are not only to create another life, but another species. The species you created need not be the only species on earth. You can create a complete series of species like our planet and you can find a place to accommodate them and you will give them a chance to reproduce and recreate themselves. They will be growing and evolving like us. Maybe they will have a hard time at the beginning but they have been given enough wisdom to survive all difficulties and can prosper and live very well on another earth-planet. You will create orders for them, and you will also create exceptions for them. They will not be totally balanced like living in a toy garden, but in a constant struggle to balance themselves so as to keep fit and survive. And you will create angels or miracles for them. In some urgent moment, you will give them a hand like an angel have arrived and save them from the hell they are in. You will answer or neglect their prayers from time to time. And when they are living too balanced and losing the stamina to go forward, you will give them a dark angel of evil to push them off balance. And they will walk again by themselves. Oh you have been too thoughtful and it is important for the wellbeing of your creation. Their survival will be discontinued if your design is not good enough. You are very skillful in a non-balance way to achieve a better future.  

Well, is it absurd or is it possible?

Can we human beings create another species of human?

It is certain human beings in the future can do this. It might happen if not in 1000 years onward, but in 1000 million years later. 

Why it could happen? 

Because the wisdom of humans is unlimited if they can go out from the selfish self to a grand union of thinking networks, the possibilities could be unlimited. They are thinking in mind networks, not brains. 

It is possible for future human beings to think in a thinking network, and all minds can be parts of a huge network and they are wise and cooperative, and most important of all is that: they have gained time. 

Time is a given thing. But you have to fight for it at the same time. If the human species can last for another one thousand years, they might very possible to last for another million years. Anything can happen then with a wisdom much higher than the present one. 

If human beings can create another human being, that meant they are creators. It might be possible that they were created like this. It could be a simple but grand cycle and we are a little loop in it. 

And now this is another important question for someone who likes to think:

Why are you doing all this? To create another species? What for?

Before we forgot our original question about the creator, we would be more interested in the new question of why. Why do we need to create another species? 

Is it for fun only? Or is there a purpose to make another more advanced species? Who has given you and your successors this stamina of going forward forever? Are you working in some kind of grand experiment to quest for something more important and it is the aim of beauty? Are you dreaming for an impossible dream? Are you sure nothing is impossible?

Now we are getting very close to our original question. Is there a creator? You have a definite answer already. 

 

If human beings can achieve something like this, they will tell you there is a creator. And it will settle your mind. Because it is a question of no importance at all. Because you will be sure that the quest itself is more important. You are the creator and you are trying desperately to quest for something even more beautiful. You want to know more and you are working on it. 

What? Is the creator still working on something more? Yes, by answering this question, you will find out the most important thing in the Universe and your mind are settled. You will find peace within your mind and you know what to do. You are strong and nothing can deter you from going onward. 

 

It is possible for humans to create another human. 

You will ask me why it is possible; will human beings be smart like that?

It was answered long ago by a Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zi. 

He had made it cleared that all things in the Universe are related and can be communicated. That meant you can know all things in this Universe. And that meant you can do all things you would like to do. And you don't need a philosopher to tell you about that. Those are but very simple common senses that we should have. They are important. 

And let me, a humble little one on earth tell you the rest: 

If you cannot do it now, you can do it later. 

Because, you are not a short-lived single creature, you are a total species and you are growing generation after generation.

You can keep on reading and more will be shown here.

Because, many questions remain unanswered here and need more elaboration. 

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Books by Lee Chard

• 莊子宇宙 

• 明天誰會富起來(中國精神與世界大勢)

• 莊子寓言

• 李察寓言

• Fables by Lee Chard

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

• 真假莊子(莊子著作李察全譯本)

A Breakthrough for Humans

9274   A breakthrough for humans  20210218

        ( wealth growth of human beings)

This is a dream line of imagination. Human beings are getting rich since 17th Century, but the peak is near and human beings will not be richer in the next one thousand years, if and only if they can not have a breakthrough in science. 

Human science is on the same path since 17th Century. They are going the same route without change. 

They are using a better phone, a better car, a better house, but they are still using phones, cars, and houses, etc. It is 5G now for the phones and auto-pilot for cars. May be 6G in a short while and auto-something-more for the cars. It is just like a plant. You can expect the flowers and the fruits to come. And then more colors for the flowers and tastier for the fruits, but you are doing the same thing every day and every year. 

If there is no breakthrough, human beings will not have another climbing on the flat curve. It will last a long time waiting. For how long? One thousand years will be a short while. 

What kinds of breakthrough? 

Can we have a new mathematics which needs not to use numbers? 

That meant another branch of our civilization. And the point is can we have a new civilization for our new planet?

This is the real situation of human kind. 

Chinese Culture has a hint for the change. But even the Chinese themselves are too busy using the old science to satisfy the markets. 

A new breakthrough needs true wisdom. And true wisdom needs to answer forgotten old questions like:

What are we? Where are we going? Where are we from? What are we going to do? And more interestingly: How do I see the world from another angle? 

Maybe we can find a new solution for the new breakthrough. 

We need a new wisdom before a new science is born. 

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我的房間

 

Some Important Issues At Our Time

9273   Some important issues at our time   20210203

1. Human co-operation  

 

 

The first question is why. Why are the Chinese getting rich so quickly and how do they do that?

It might be a complicated study for those who are serious in getting rich, yet we can explain it in a very simple manner. 

The Chinese are right- brain-oriented and they have a totally different approach in thinking methods. The Chinese language are more convenient to create and sort out problems. Yet this is not the reason of their success. The Chinese are successful because they are working in a co-operative society. Their aim is to serve the people and it is real. This is the first-time human beings are changing from a self-centered and self-interested way of living to a cooperation and mutual trusting society. It is socialism. When a people has had a sense of a whole and has had a sense of dedication, they are strong. And this is a turning point in human evolution. They will be thinking differently as they are using a group-mind which is much effective than the self-centered individual calculation. Future scientists will find out the true differences of the thinking patterns of the approach. And this is the meaning of socialism. We as human beings are evolving from working individually to working together as a whole. This is the real reason of the Chinese success.

2. Democracy vs Socialism 

Some people are fighting socialism with a very special tool. They promote democracy. 

Thus you will find some strange propaganda in the world to-day. That is "Democracy vs Socialism"( not Capitalism vs Socialism). They do not like a co-operative way of living and insist a self-centered interest by using a term of "democracy". With this lovely term, self-centered interest was painted with a color of holiness. The very rich people would feel safe to keep their wealth. To see the real essence of the so-called "democracy" need another way of thinking technique: Internal understanding. 

People in the past view the world in two ways: mind and matter. The mind-matter form of thinking soon changed into a material-seeking mindset. Mind and Matter can never be balanced. There was a faith to believe in nothing except capital, or money.  And the term "Capitalism" was replaced quietly into "Democracy" . They would "contain" or destroy any form of socialism in the world. They would refuse co-operation. Actually this is the most serious strike against human evolution. Human has been evolving into mutual help, they know the importance of love and care more and more. But some people are against it with a selfish manner. 

3. Internal understanding

To find out the real truth behind the lies we must have a new tool of thinking technique:  The inner way of seeing the world. The mind-matter way of thinking was not necessarily the only form of thinking. We can see from another angle for anything. We can see the internal as well as the external. For example, "democracy" is an external way to believe the true intention of the people is represented. However, The true mind of a people cannot be determined by a simple hand-raising-mechanism. The mind or a group-will is a complicated long-term behavior of the minds of the people. It is never an easy and simple thing. And "democracy" is not holy and not the final settle of the human co-operation. And democracy can never be the road blocks of human evolution.  

4. Evolving into a net-of-minds 

We are evolving from an individual-mind to a group-mind. 

In terms of evolution we must see things in millions of years, not in our very short life time. However, if we can try the internal way of seeing things, traces could be seen. Numerous insights are found in human behaviors. Unknown links and even mind-waves are always a puzzle of many. Many people believe they have internal connections with each-other. And we are not necessarily thinking within our brains but in some unknown places outside our bodies. Some people believe we are thinking in mind-waves and not only brain-cells. We will not be thinking individually but in a much larger network of minds which will be more effective and we can find out the goal of human evolution and know where we are going. We are building a future garden of happiness in the planet and we would produce another or many other similar beautiful planets in the universe in the future. We will create not only a single life but a complete species of all creatures in the universe and we will find our goal not only in the final destination but in the roads of our development. We shall reach the truth, the beauty and the good and we are happy. And finally one more important issue: 

If you can see the future, you are the future. We are the future if we have a mind of evolution. We shall be there.   

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Reference:

Lee Chard: 

An evolution background of the US-China conflict (20200722)

The conflict between United States and China are but a small episode in the long run of a much important human evolution.

Human has been changing from a state of body centered period into a soul centered period. 

The first period took millions of years since the early evolution days of human. And it was only 2000 or more years later humans had come to notice a strange and new feature about their life. 

This strange feature is not easy to comprehend. Some thought it is a soul, or a mind, or a calculating function of the brain, or it is only the calculating thoughts. 

And some people believed there is a radio transmitter and receiver of mind waves built-in somewhere inside.

It seemed natural that in the animal state humans need not to think much. Now humans are more advanced as they are all armed with a brain as a thinking tool and they are the winners on earth. 

Is it only a "thinking tool"?

This may be puzzling for humans. What is a soul and what is a mind? Maybe it is still a longer way to come to a complete understanding.

Yet the situation had started 2000 years ago. 

We are changing from body centered to soul centered since then.

Mankind is changing little by little in this two millennium. 

Only a few geniuses had noticed this change. They were philosophers, writers, composers, and artists. 

We can see the situation in major masterpieces for the last 2000 years. From Beethoven to Mozart, from Tolstoy to Dream of the Red Chamber, from Buddha to Jesus and Zhuangzi, they had painted a picture of soul for mankind. If anyone needs to know what is a soul, he can search from any of the masterpieces. And anyone who had been deeply moved by the thoughts, he must be the kind of people who had the same feeling. 

The masters studied the spiritual and material sides of the universe. And they have a similar interest to look at the spiritual side. 

But the world had gone into the opposite of their findings. Most of the world regard money more than anything else. People need to survive, anyway. And soon the survival need had been replaced by greed. Wars have never stopped. Materialistic greed has been major living force for many. 

Soul powers are weak and Material powers are strong. 

The world has been changing, as the first success of socialist countries appeared. 

The major conflict between United States and China is a conflict of material greed and a collective thinking system. 

Mankind had been thinking in the cages of individuals for two thousand years. And now is the time mankind can actually think in terms of a collective way. The standpoint of a whole is different from a single unit. "What am I going to do?" is different from "What are we going to do?"  They can see differently in another perspective. Their aim is to serve the people while the elites in US is to grab the money.

It is an evolutional background of the US-China conflict. And this is the first time ever in the history of mankind.

When Jesus of Nazareth told his followers do not work for food, but work for a food for eternal life, he is the first philosophy from the West to observe the soul side of mankind. Now a time gap of two millennium had been lapsed, how far has mankind advanced? We will see the result in a not very long future.

The conflict between China and the United States is actually a war of mind. 

The war has been accumulating its power for 2000 years. 

In the West, Jesus of Nazareth has offered a concept of love. The concept has a deep-rooted source of thought that we as human beings are living as a soul more than a body. Love is unavoidable if we have the conviction of soul and love would be impossible if we were occupied by earthly interests.

Materialistic greed is the reason of war.

This is the main cause of unhappiness of the people who cannot think of themselves as a whole but a single and unconnected individual. They are basically helpless in the concept of an unrelated status. 

Materialistic greed is universal. 

By the other end of human culture, people has developed a collective way to survive. And a collective mind is thus created. 

A collective mind can see differently and the greed problem can be handled more properly. 

Ancient philosopher Zhuang Zi had presented the concept of a whole that meant we are one. And Zhuang Zi encouraged people to aware the inner side and external side of things.

Zhuang Zi did not mention love, but the concept of love was hidden in the inner feeling, which was also mentioned by Jesus. They had found the same thing.

To think in a whole was never an easy thing as the Chinese was dominated by the Confucius school which was not same as Zhuang Zi. The Confucius school was family centered and it was a small unit. It was actually individualistic and cannot avoid the setback of greed.

Now we can see the conflict of minds more clearly. 

It is materialistic greed fighting with a soul always.

It is a war happened within the mind and it was shown in the conflict of a material centered system and a socialist system. 

However, materialistic greed can be found in both the systems.

And you will see some strange people are working hard to promote materialistic thoughts in the socialist system. The conflict had started and enemies infiltrated.

Some people welcomed "One country Two systems" in a hidden wish to promote "One country Two minds", hoping that when people are not united in one mind, the country is weakened. 

Socialistic view is never the same as materialistic view. Yet now they are sharing the same roof. When you are obliged to share the systems, you are also obliged to share the minds, and you are now living in a conflict.  

To serve the people may be still the major thought of most people, however, you can see other kinds of public education are silently going on.  Focuses of the media were often found in the form of lower taste of material life in mainland China. (And this is the final hope and secrete weapon of their enemies. Their enemies are investing heavily on this.) 

A strong mind is utterly important in such a situation.

If two systems are to be maintained for a period of time, the problem of mind must be the first priority for the country.

Human evolution is a complicated and difficult way. We shall see many wars ahead of the millenniums. 

 

 

 

  

Journalist

 

              

鐵腳馬眼神仙肚

鳳膽龍肝人間舞

卻把真知磨作墨

為建明天起藍圖

 

What is a footprint?

Life is like a bird's footprint on the snow, said an ancient poet.

Yet it is not the same as a man's footprint.

Footprints are roads.

When we have a road,  its nowhere we can't go. 

And this is the new insight from a new country.

reference:

人生到處知何似? 應似飛鴻踏雪泥。

泥上偶然留指爪，鴻飛哪復顧東西?

What is life like?

Seems to be a bird's footprint.

She would left her mark on the snow,

And gone without caring her direction.

The foot-prints of a giant

 巨人的足跡

風過   草動

鳳過   雲湧

巨人在大地上走過

留下了深深的足跡

從此

便有了路

我們

也學會了去創造

The footprints of a giant

Winds whistle and the grass flow. 

Phoenix flies and the clouds blow. 

The giant walked through the land.

Footprints remained then.

There is a way and

we are learning to create.

What is the meaning of China ?

9269  What is the meaning of China   20201221

This is a very strong message for the whole world. At the first glance, it meant getting rich is not only possible, but can be a very quick process. You will be rich in no time. And that is the impossible dream for the people in urgent need. Numerous countries are in great trouble of poverty or in the danger of going downward.

And China is not only a sample of getting rich; it is also a sample of possibility.  The Chinese seems to be an able nation. They can do many things. They can build hospitals in days and handle the virus problem more easily than many places in the whole world. And now they are trying to go to the moon.

What kind of message is that?

Can my country be rich also?

What is the real meaning behind the message?

The message is really, really encouraging. Wise people around the globe have been pondering and got the message already.

It meant only one thing at first. And that is the most important one. 

That meant to be rich is possible. It is not an impossible dream. If the Chinese can do it, we can do it. It was said, nothing is impossible, but that was only a vanity and now the vanity had become true. 

And the next question is how. 

How can we be rich?

 

The author would like to share a few points here. 

1. To tackle the problem with the effort of a whole nation. That meant think in the units of a whole and not in individuals. That meant not to be selfish. And if you are not selfish, you will be honest. Being honest is important to success. 

2. Balance your brain. Use both sides of the brain, not only can you manage details with the left side, but also use your instinct from the right side. If that meant you need to learn some Chinese, why not. A strong spirit can do it. 

3. That meant if you wish to harvest the fruits like the Chinese, you need to grow a tree. And if you are not selfish, you can start from the very beginning, and you will realize it will not be an instant success, but it is a possible success.