What is inner rhythm?

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 What is  inner rhythm? 

Inner rhythm is not the same as a music rhythm.

If you like music,  you know what is musical rhythm. If you can follow the musical rhythm, it can help you to dance. It means it can help you to move your body.  Then you know your rhythm is following the music.

But a musical rhythm is from outside. You need to give up your inner rhythm to follow the external power. 

If you can turn off the music, and if you can find a place to sit still,  if you can observe your own inner rhythm, you can find your own inner power. 

It is not in the music. It is not in somewhere else. It is within your own self. 

It is important to control your own inner rhythm.  It is important not to live under the influence of external rhythm. 

Although sometimes you like to listen to music. But you need to have your own inner rhythm.

Because, you are the master of yourself.

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What is a soul?

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What is a soul?

A soul seems to be something easy to know, but actually no one knows.

I don't know what it is a soul, though I know I have a soul.

It is interesting and it is a puzzle.

No one bothers what is a soul and few would try to inspect his own soul.

There will be trouble if you really try to inspect into your own soul.

Or it will be helpful if you try to know your own soul.

Humans are not acting.

Humans are only following.

Each one follows his own inner direction.

For the past few years I have suddenly some urge to learn music.

I tried to learn playing guitar and I tried to learn to sing.

And suddenly one inner voice told me not to do music.

I don't know where was the voice coming from.

Yet I have tried to follow.

What is a soul?

I don't know what is a soul.

I just follow it sometimes.

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What is the secret of creativity?

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What is the secret of creativity?

For example:  Can you create a watch case that is completely sealed?

Maybe you can use a kind of crystal glass. Put in the necessary parts of the watch, and then seal it.

And you can charge the battery from outside,  and you can move the watch hands from outside,  and you can set the alarms from outside.

Now the watch is completed.

You can throw it into the water,  you can use it in diving.

And this is not creativity,  it is only some improvement for the old concept.

What is creativity?

Creativity is dreaming.

If you can dream then you can create.

Some of the creativities is  technology based.

You need to have some know how to create things.

But other creativity is only dreaming.

Which one comes first?  Dreaming comes first, or  technology comes first?

And the secret is not to argue about it.

What you need is doing and trying.

Best is to tell others your dream.

If you cannot do it, maybe someone else can.

That's why I wish someone can work on my dream with a sealed watch case.  It is fun.

If life cannot be created, what can be created?

 20251102

If life cannot be created,  what can be created?

如果生命不能創造，那麼什麼是可以創造的？

 Can we humans create a spirit that can be fitted into our life and last forever?

It is a second ideal for humans.

Yes, we cannot create life,  but we can create our soul.

And I believe a good soul can last through generations.

A soul is the essence of a culture.

A soul is the product of a civilization.

And this is the ultimate meaning of life.

Life is only an external machine.

And the internal leadership is in your soul.

You are the master of your life.

We are the master of our humans.

We are beautiful human created by our ancestors.

Who created life?

Maybe we can not know it now.

But we know who created our souls.

It is our civilization that created our souls.

It is you who created your soul.

You are your own master.

Me too.

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Why a better watch can't be made up till this moment?

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Why a better watch can't be made up till this moment?

Can the hands of a mechanical watch be replaced?

Last night I was sleeping not very well.    I was half sleeping for the whole night. I found something not very interesting the next morning.

I kept looking at my old mechanic plus electronic watch last night.

It was a combination of  mechanic works and electronic works.

It was cheap and it is very good indeed. Its time is always correct,  and it can be used in swimming.  

However, it is a western design.

And I know the watch factory is closed.  I cannot buy a new one anymore.

Can the Chinese people design a good watch on their own?

I don't like electronic watches on the market.

If you want to see the time,  you need to push a button or do something on your hand.  You need to shake your hand or push the button to see the time.

I think it is not acceptable although electronical watches are selling very well in the market.

It is a failure of watch making.

Most electronical watches cannot swim or take a bath together with you.

I don't know why.

I don't know why they cannot combine the mechanics and electronics together.

Is the people not clever enough to design a better watch?

Or the markets not big enough for them to develop any study?

Or the knowledge levels are too low?

Can you expect them to create a better watch?

Who can answer this question?

Who can tell me the theory?  

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How do you make people happy?

 20251031

 How do you make people happy?

This is the most important simple way of life.

If you can make people happy, then everyone including yourself will be happy.

Is it difficult to make people happy?

It is so difficult that you dare not even try to make people happy?

May be not.

To make people happy is so easy sometimes with only a smile.

If you can smile, please smile.

This is the secret of daily life.  And this is the secret in politics too.

Sometimes you need to give away something to make people happy.

If it is to give, then why not?

It seems to be very simple,  it needs only to try.

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What did Trump proved to the world?

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What did Trump proved to the world?

The United States President Donald Trump had visited Asia this few days.

He had proved only one thing:   that there will not be major wars between the powers.

Tariffs are only bargaining tools.

There will not be a fight when you are talking.

Bargaining is talking.

When people are talking they will not fight.

The only remaining issue is Taiwan.

And it won't be big difficulties if deep thoughts are underneath.

You only need to make people happy and that is easy.

It needs not a war to make people smile.

When the United States President is gone,  another brighter agenda is waiting.

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What is wrong with left brain dominance?

 20251030

What is wrong with left brain dominance?

Left brain dominance was very clear during the second world war.

And it was very clear in the Japanese behavior.

Japan is a sub-division of the Chinese culture.

They invented a set of alphabet for the Chinese characters.  They thought it was more easy to use the Chinese characters.

And they were turning their right brain dominance into left brain dominance without knowing the results.

They can only calculate in a very simple way.

They calculated their steel and coal production and they counted their numbers of soldiers and they thought they could conquer the world easily.

The same might happen today, if the left brain is still not balanced.

People can calculate their war planes,  war missiles,  and the number of their warheads,  they thought they can conquer the world.

They do not have a total aspect of the whole scenario.

Chinese had almost fell into the same trap.  Some intellectuals had tried to romanize the Chinese characters.  Luckily they were not succeeded.

We need a total view about the world affairs.

It is not a simple calculation in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

We are in the era of a whole brain dominance.

Wars will not happen easily.

Humans have lots of methods to solve problems.

Humans must be helping each other but not killing each other.

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What if China wins all?

 20251029

What if China wins all?

 

It won't be a long time or it is happening right now that China is the major influential factor in the world.

In a word, China acutally wins all.

It will be the era, not of China but of the right brain dominance.

China is only a political term for a country.   From the point of evolution view,   it is the major shift from the left brain dominance to the whole brain dominance.   Humans will be judging all the human affairs in a more reasonable and more practical sense.   When the left brain can only use logical calculation to judge, the whole brain can manage all sides of problems.

What will happen if humans can see themselves in a total aspect?

It will be a true step forward in evolution.

People will be easily resort to violence and war if they can only use left brain calculation.

Now the situation is completely different.

The world will be really changing within a few years  if  people can learn to use the Chinese language,  and therefore helping themselves to shift the brain from a left dominance to a more balanced whole brain using,  world peace and a real progress of mankind will happen.

Can you put an air-mat under your wheels?

 20251028

Can you put an air-mat under your wheels?

Then you can change your habit of driving into skiing.

It is not a flying car,  but a skiing mover.

Important is the air-mat.

Can you create an air-mat under your wheels?

You don't need a jet engine to create the air-mat.

An air-mat ship is supported by jet engines, and the concept is rather old.

Can you do something on the tires to create an air-mat?

Yes, it could be slippery.

And slippery is what we wanted. We need an air-matted tire.

Future cars will be slipping around but not rolling around.

If you can make an air-mat,   you are almost there.

The car will be slipping around like a poker card.

Did you see how the poker cards flying on the gambling table?

They are all supported by an air-mat underneath.

To create such a slipping car needs time,  and money.

More important is time, it means your life-time, if you are lucky enough to have investments.

Are you willing to use your time for it?

Like James Watt invented steam engine?

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Why it is a pleasure to write in Chinese?

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Why it is a pleasure to write in Chinese?

                 龜   

This is a Chinese word: turtle.

I remember I cannot write it properly until I was in my early twenties.  I was a columnist since then.   One day I found I could not write this word and I was amazed. I sat down and used a few minutes to figure it out.  It was stayed in my brain from that time since.

Writing in traditional Chinese is a pleasant time.  

Why?  Why it is a happy and  treasurable experience?

Yes, we will have less and less need to write in almost any language.

You need to write no more.

You only need to say it.

Do you know how much of the pleasure you have lost?

I have been writing millions of words because I am a writer. I used to write with my ball pen.

I used to write very carefully.   

Because I am not writing for myself. I was writing for the printing factory workers.

They need to select the appropriate lead type from my manuscript and arrange it into small wooden cases for typesetting.

Handling the metal types can darken their hands, they are often nicknamed the ‘Black Hands’ . The manuscript is for their reference; if it isn’t written clearly, they may select the wrong character.

Writing could be a pleasure because you are writing for your readers.  I remember when I figure out how to write properly of the word "turtle",  it was so happy.

This is a simple understanding of the Chinese writing.   I believe in the future the Chinese will not accept the simplified characters anymore.  They will realize it sooner or later.   Because it is very practical and it is very beautiful,  especially in a moment when you need not use your hand to hold the ball pen to write.

You only need to use your eyes to read the words from the screen.  

Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao are the only places for traditional Chinese characters.

Every one will be happy reading traditional Chinese prints.

Traditional Chinese will come back sooner or later.

Taiwan people will be super happy about that.

It will be a joy.    It is more than happy.

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How to encourage reading?

 20251018

How to encourage reading?

You need to have a pair of eyes, and you need to have a book.

How the book was printed is also important.

You need a good resolution of the printing.

If the printing is in a bad resolution,  you will not like to read it.

Simplified Chinese is in a bad resolution.

It is not so dense as the traditional Chinese.

Everybody knows it but few would like to talk about it.

And videos are more easy.

You don't need to use your brain to enrich the images from the words.

It is harmful for the brain. And it is harmful for the culture.

Why no one cares about it?

Because it is politics.

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It needs a very strong will to correct this.

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How to encourage reading rather than eating?

 20251026

How to encourage reading rather than eating?

It is not easy, it is difficult, but it is a must for humans.

Your enemy would like very much to encourage eating in your own country.

Bad merchants would like very much to encourage eating in your home.

Because it is lucrative.

Evil thoughts are behind lucrative thoughts.   A nation of foolishness is easier to handle and  to destroy.

Reading can make people looking up,  while eating can help people looking down.

Efforts to push people going up is difficult, yet  extremely important and necessary.

A country of reading is a strong country. People will have a wider eyesight and they will search for a better future for humans.

And the problem is how,  when the absolute trend is going down.

Will there be a effective and real effort to encourage reading?

Eating and luxuries of life are spreading everywhere.  Fewer and fewer people are reading on the train.  They are not using eyes but fingers to stroll on the mobile.  Any country will be upwards if this trend is changing.

Can you find anyone holding a thick book like Dream of the something or the Monte Cristo on the subway?  You found sunshine inside the subway.

Question is how to encourage reading.

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Will there be fewer readers in the future?

 20251025

Will there be fewer readers in the future?

Readers are not the same as watchers. Watching videos is not like reading books.

You can sit comfortably inside a cinema to watch movies.   Or you can sit anywhere or stand anywhere to read a book.  And you can read your book when you are walking.   I used to read books when I was walking home after school.  Motion pictures keep running  inside your brain.  You are helping the writer to create motions and colors and sounds.

Of course, you understand what I'm talking here.  Because I think reading a book is better than watching videos.  It can help the whole generation be smarter and wiser.

Wisdomatic love is what we need in our time.

I have found a new term "wisdomatic love",  believing you know what I mean and need not to explain.

Can we encourage more readings and less watchings?

The trend is going on and no one knows what will happen in the near future:   if young people do not like reading anymore.

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What is your story line?

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What is your story line?

Everybody has his own story line, but the line is always finished upon his death.   Only a few people could have a line after his death.  Those are influential people.   Not everyone can be influential.  It is nothing about money and position,  but the golden deeds of one's life.

It was said that life is like a lamp.  The lamp will be off if people is dead.  

Some of the lamps could last longer than expected.  The lights are still there for a very  long time.

I am  reading the Alexandra Dumas story about Monte Cristo recently.   There is an amazing storyline in the book.   I never expected things would happen that way.   It is life.   Every life has got a story line differently.   Some lines are straight and simple.  But some lines are curved and difficult.   The curved place is from attractions and difficulties.   If you are the storyteller,   you must have lots of story lines in your stomach,   you will use them to tell stories.

And there will be storyline for a country.   It won't be straight like the US, and some times there will be ups and downs and deep curves like China.

You need to have all the curves for a strong mind.   History is the same.

There won't be a straight line for a great country.

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How do I read Monte Cristo?

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How do I read Monte Cristo?

It's just a different feeling when you read it in your old age.   First time I read it was eleven,  now I am seventy seven.   Actually, the feeling is the same,  though I can understand it more than before.

Reading a book is completely not the same as watching a movie.  Because the book can provide only language lines for you to read. The reader need to use his imagination to complete the scenario. For example, what does Monte Cristo look like?   Is he tall or short? Or, is there any mustache in his mouth?  You need to use imagination to enrich the words and the action.  You will have your own story within you. If it is in a movies,  you will see an actual actor acting and imagination is reduced. That's why reading can help to develop a brain more.

I was reading my own version of Monte Cristo in my home.  I was enjoying it last night like when I was eleven.   All the feelings have come back. Maybe for the first page I was reading it word by word.  The words are lined up vertically  because it was in Chinese.  I thought I will not try to find an English version or French version,  and I can't read French. The Chinese version gave me warmth.  Although the places are in France,  but the feelings are in China.  Only a talented writer can do this.   You forget everything when you were in the story.  It is the actual feeling ended up in your brain, but not the printed words.   The words are not there.  Although I still need to read it in a traditional Chinese version.  Languages are but a bridge.  You need a good bridge, but you need them only temporarily.  Actually, what you need is the story line. And deeply what you need is the spirit.   You need to free yourself from all the prisons in the world.   You were not allowed to do many things.  You are not free.   But now you are completely free from everything in the story.  You can join Monte Cristo to escape together from the tunnel.   You can make a knife from a spoon like him.   I keep a knife in my pocket since I was eleven from then on.  It was a gift from Monte Cristo.  I thought all men should be like him,  and me too.   My knife was confiscated by a teacher when I was twelve years old.   It made me sad.  The spirit is still here with me together,  thanks for the traditional Chinese version of the book.

No one can take it away from my mind. It is my treasure,  it is mine.

If someone asks me, what do you have?

I know I have the answer.

And I will ask in return:

And you?  What do you have?

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How to destroy smart young people?

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How to destroy smart young people?

  

I  was almost shocked when I read about how former French president Nicolas Sarkozy left his home for prison.

He had brought two books with him to prison.

One is a religious book, and the other book shocked me:  It was Count Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas (père) which I had mentioned not long ago.  I had finished reading that book since I were 10 or 11 years old.   I thought that must be a very good book because I can remember some of the scenes until now.  If I were in prison in the future,   I believe I will do the same as the Monte Cristo,  the hero in the book.

And now President Sarcozy  was about to enter prison, and he was bringing the same book with him.

What is left in my mind is not how good is the book, but how important is reading.

You will never know how important is a book which can help you activate your own brain,  but how important it is to activate your whole nation with good brains by reading.

It is a task more and more difficult now.

It is almost impossible to encourage young people to read.

Most of the young people were obsessed by TV or mobile games.

Of the three important functions of the brain:  receiving,  processing,  and delivering.......first important is receiving.

You will be far more smarter than other people if you can read.

You will be much smarter than other people if you can avoid the negative effects of videos. Videos provide color, images, sound, and other means to prevent your brain from working. You do not need to engage your brain for scenarios; they will provide everything, and you will remain a fool for the rest of your life if you only consume videos and never use your own brain to create anything.

When I was reading  Monte Cristo in a Chinese translation,  I can imagine how he managed to use a spoon to dig a channel to excape his prison room and found he had not exited the prison but entered the next prison room......

I cannot stop here because the story was too exciting.

He had entered the room of a very old prisoner who had taught him many things about life before he die.

Monte Christo disguised himself as the dead old man and let the prison guards put his own living corpse into a canvas bag to throw him into the sea and  excaped under water by cutting open the bag with his knife which was made by a sharpened spoon when he was in the prison room.

Why I can remember it after all this years?

It is because I have received the story through reading.

It was not received through a TV channel,  but a book in three volumes.

I still remember I finished one volume in one day and exchange it the other day from the school library.

And today I am worried about my own country young people who were given too many video stimulations to replace their ability to produce their own inner stories through reading.

There will be less smart young  people in the future,  if their interest in reading were destroyed.

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What is "Zhong Guo" ?

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What is "zhong guo"  ?

I do not know how the term "Zhong Guo" was translated into "China". There must be a history in it.

Interesting is the word "Zhong".

Zhong is not a leader. Zhong is not like the East or the West; they all have connotations of direction. Travelers head toward the East or the West, but the word Zhong does not convey a sense of direction. There is no point of “Zhong” on your compass.

This reflects the basic attitude of  the Chinese people.  They do not regard themselves as leaders. It is part of their culture and history.

Zhong means a place in the middle. It is a place between the left and the right, or between the East and the West.

How would you feel living in a place like this?

You need to feel it by your own experience.....

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Can we wake up from money?

 20251020

Can we wake up from money?

This is a problem of m and m.

Most of the people are sleeping in a dream of money.   What they are searching  for their whole life is only for the word "m".

Until one day they would die suddenly.  And we would all know that everyone will die.   But still, there are some difference.  

Some people are dying without waking up.

What are you living for?

Are you living for only money?

They have never think of the meaning of money.

You need a meaning for your own life.

Money is on your only satisfaction for eating and living and no more.

There will be one day for people when they found everything is meaningless,  it will be really sad by then.

Yes, we need to put out our efforts,  and we need to see the result.   You need to see the fruit of your hard work.

It is not only a figure in your bank to show your work.

You need to see something more substantial.

You need to be happy when you are finishing your work.

You need to have some satisfaction.

Only a meaningful job will give you this satisfaction.

We need to check the result of your satisfaction every day and every minute.

If you don't check it,  you will lose it.

It is your biggest treasure.

The meaning is your biggest treasure to work for it.

Try to wake up from your dream of money.

Do you have a meaning in your life?

Do remember it and do not forget it.

Please mark it down in your notebook.

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What is danger?

 20251019

What is danger?

Danger and safe are relative concepts only.

No one can absolutely sure if it is safe or dangerous anywhere, anytime.

But still you need to live.

In an unknown world,  our knowledge is very limited.   You can never know what your enemies have in mind.  

But one thing is for sure.

Your enemy will not know you either.

Your enemy will not know whether you have secret weapon or not.

Its important to keep yourself well guarded.

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An old article

2023.5.15

Why Sometimes Peace is Impossible? .

  

It is because the much stronger enemy wanted to destroy you.

It is always like this.  Cases are serious.

It is a life or death determination.

And it is an examination:  can anyone beat a much stonger enemy?

 The weaker side can prepare it well ahead before  things happened.

It is seldom to have such a simple understanding.

People need to wait until the danger is at the front door. They will have very little time to escape.

Want peace with your enemy?

Want to persuade your enemy to retreat?

But they are determined.

Someone encourages you to talk with them. 

Those people who encourage you to talk with your enemy is more dangerous than your enemy.

Please be well prepared.

Same  happened in China 2000 years ago.

When the enemy is not attacking you,  but they are attacking  your neighbor.

They dare not even to warn the enemies that they are prepared to fight. They only send gifts and lands to make the Qin Emperor happy.

It  needs to know that you will be the next target.  And they are determined.

When American  attacked Korean  Peninsula, it was said that  Mao zedong  had used nine unslept nights  to figure out the things and determined to fight directly.

That was a very short time.

But he might not be awared  that his real enemy was from within.

American people knew the  exact location of his son who  was in   Korea battlefield and killed his son.   The psychological result had hurt deeply afterwards.

People argued that this is not true.  But one thing they can never answer is that how could the enemy knew the location?

It needs not a talent to know all about this.

If your  enemy is prepared  and determined to destroy your country, it is a must to know their determination. It's  important to be well prepared before everything.

Keep an eye on the enemies with in, but they will argue that your neighbor is more dangerous than your enemy.

It is so funny.

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