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《千秋歲·水邊沙外》秦觀 (1049-1100)
水邊沙外 城郭春寒退花影亂 鶯聲碎飄零疏酒盞 離別寬衣帶 人不見 碧雲暮合空相對
憶昔西池會 鵷鷺同飛蓋 攜手處 今誰在日邊清夢斷 鏡裡朱顏改 春去也 飛紅萬點愁如海
Tune: 《Ten Thousand Years》__ Qin Guan (1049-1100)
At water front away from sands
The city turns warm as vernal cold wanes Continue reading
What 慶功(’67) just wrote about the deaths of people close to him has moved me deeply, as I read it after a trip after Easter (which, of course, is the Christian answer to Death). So I feel a need to express some thoughts on this “eternal” subject, immature though they are.
Death is a debt that everyone repays, eventually. One common way to “QE” the debt is stoicism; another is religion. I subscribe to neither, but, in recent years, have developed some preliminary ideas of the “scientific” way to face Death.
昔者,仲尼與於蜡賓,事畢,出遊於觀之上,喟然而歎。仲尼之歎,蓋歎魯也。
舊時孔子參加魯國歲末祭祀,禮成之後,出去行下睇下,仲唉聲歎氣起來。孔子咁感慨,都係為左魯國嗟。
言偃在側曰:「君子何歎?」
弟子言偃係孔子身邊,就問:「先生,因咩事歎氣啊?」
孔子曰:「大道之行也,與三代之英,丘未之逮也,而有志焉。
孔子:「大道實行既世代,同夏、商、周三代賢君當政既時代,我無經歷過,但係好嚮往!
大道之行也,天下為公。
個陣時呀,實行大道,天下係眾人共有。 Continue reading
To all mothers….
When you are happy, the people around you will be happy.
(at 15.01, Dr. John Tan is in the audience)
矇矓起步
關於人怎樣從「不知」進步到「知」、從知其一到知其二到知全,從知到明,從已知到預知的各種過程及效應,古今的多個文化都各有闡述。莊子說「通達」卻是有獨見的,他把人的知與宇宙連而為一,述說人不但「知物」,還有「知人」和「知天」。他相信人的獨立性,卻把他放在宇宙的大格局中言論。
年輕時看過孫中山先生在『心理建設』一書,提出 “知難行易”,一反傳統的 “知易行難” 一詞。當時覺得只是不同的文字鋪排,同一意見的兩面表述,未有深入瞭解。
近年看多了一點書,才認識多些其中微言大義。
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怎樣做真人
莊子借古人的模範說:〝古之真人……不忘其所始,不求其所終。受而喜之,忘而復之。是之謂不以心捐道,不以人助天,是之謂真人。〞
翻譯成白話,即是〝古時的真人,不會忘本,也不追求自己的歸宿。他欣然接受週圍的人事和物質,視生與死為自然往返。這即是不用心計去影響道,亦不求改變大自然。這就是真人。〞
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