缺點
在我的認知裡面、有很多字、名詞、動詞、形容詞都是被大眾歸屬於不好的、帶有貶義的。。 美與醜、善與惡、優缺點等等。。
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道德經 第二章
天下皆知美之為美斯惡已; 皆知善之為善斯不善已。
故有無相生, 難易相成, 長短相形, 高下相傾, 音聲相和,前後相隨。
是以聖人處無為之事, 行不言之教。萬物作焉而不辭。
生而不有, 為而不恃, 功成而弗居。夫唯弗居, 是以不去。
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我想、古人的經典、多半是有含意的、有時候看看會覺得說學了一生的學問、well, 至少被迫在學校待了二十多年吧、>_<, 有時就被古人的幾句話打敗了。。。
東、西方都一樣、上古的學問、老實講、好像比現今更先進喔？？ 我們是進步、還是退步？？
缺點、是人應該都有缺點吧？？ 只是、我們都羞於告知大眾我們的缺點、因為、沒人會喜歡、重視、和。。 因此奬勵妳。。 現今教育、恩、 中國人的教育、都是要好的、出眾的、可以、恩、炫耀的。。 有缺點、那就是妳不行、東方/中國人的社會視你為負擔。。。
對與不對、我不知道、畢竟離開久了、沒那麼熟悉。。 但感覺是如此。。 也許我錯了、因為社會、是多方面的、並沒有特定的一種絕對。。 只是我們習慣於歸類法、以我們認知中的'認知'來區分彼此。畢竟、這樣簡單多了、大腦少轉幾圈也好。
就此而言、缺點、那是個禁地、是個絕不能提起的領域。。 也許、有些好事情就會因為那少許的缺點而喪失了。。 找個盒子、珍知又珍的密封起來、謝絕參觀。久而久之、自己也忘了那些'缺點'。。
那、缺點是好還是不好呢？？ 老實講、人有那麼多優點嘛？？？ 我是認為我沒什麼優點的。。 總覺得大多數人都會比我好、因為自己知道自己的缺乏處、永遠屬於學習階段。。 套句老話、沒出師、就是學徒。。 甚麼時候出師？ 生命結束的那天、因為不會再有學習的機會了。
這、是很實在的說法、絕不跟妳謙虛、因為、我寫不出老子境界的道德經、我畫不出吳道子的山水畫、掰不出那堆唐詩、宋詞、元曲中的意境、也說不出接近 Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle 的哲學道德思想。。。
說白了、我、甚麼都不會。。 只會看書。。看完了就忘。。 注意、看書而非讀書。。三行看兩行、忘一行。。 書倒是很多。。 因為都是用看的。。 沒事腦袋記那麼多幹嘛？？ 需要時、偶爾會浮現就好。。 畢竟 memory 小、沒機會 upgrade 了。。
人嘛、自然就好、需要時再發揮、沒事時、休息就可。。
為甚麼要說缺點呢？？ 因為覺得老講優點好像很無聊。。 當妳真的無聊時、妳可以想想他人所說的優點。。 恩、好像都差不多說。。 一點新鮮感都沒有。。 老套的連續劇喔。。
前陣子有親朋想買房子、說來想去說了ㄧ句： 離太近怕別人會吵。。 恩。。 恩。。 好像。。 是你比較會吵到別人耶？？？ 這。。 恩、小國寡民、老死不相往來。。 大同世界。。 Utopia, where are you??
老禪師有教過、風動、幡動、亦或心動呼？
心量大時、細微處不足為道、亦得廣果德輝。。。
現今五大宗教的始祖、仔細看看、幾乎都生活的很清苦、也許學問是要在清苦中才會領悟的。。 與今台面上下的、有不小的差距。。 古往今來、世風不在。
缺點、也是你的優點。刀鋒兩面、視時予之、川流不息。
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木桐
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
4th of July
4th of July
Fireworks, BBQ, days off work, etc, the fundamentals of the 4th of July holiday, a celebration of United States of America, the land of freedom, so it says.
Freedom, to what extent is freedom's true form? no one will ever know.
Yet, spread across, 4th of July to many, is just another long weekend, a chance for friends/family to gather together, to, eat...
Spectacular fireworks brighten the night sky, indicate years of revolution that actually succeed, just, how many of us truly appreciate the works done by the founding fathers??
Founding fathers, whom are they, what they done, etc, etc... a long forgotten piece of U.S. history that existed in textbook ready for next gen's test-only...
People often taking things for granted, not appreciate the difficulties of early ancestors, their hardships and struggles...
I'm not sure which category I should fit in, yet just feel more and more inrooted into this land, where I lived for twenty years... It's a major part of my lifespan, 2/3 of it...
As I told many of my friends in China, many ancient eastern philosophies that are actually performed by Americans than chineses... the compassion and willingness to accept others are just much greater performed by many Americans than those of Asian citizens...
I think, because U.S' history is only two-hundred plus years, most, are eager to learn and appreciate about other cultures, inevitable this year, the Chinese culture, Eastern thinkings...
The key lies in the 'eagerness to learn' factor, well, knowledge is a constant work, no one can say he/she learned enough... that's just a scary part of modern life... never ending learning path... drain each and every one's energy out...
Of course, U.S. has its dark sides, mirror has two faces, no doubt; no one is perfect, thus when you're at top, you will be hunger for more power, the controling factor.
At least, in many's view, U.S. is willing to take immigrants, in large quantities, I don't know, maybe world's larges 'take-in' country...
I'm not sure about Europe, but in Asia... U.S. is the #1 ideal country to immigrate to, if one can do it... especially in most Chinese's mind... Can't blame them, I'm one of them... I just got to this land bit early, and adopt to it... sort of...
This is a sad phenomenon for Chinese... even with the growing power of China's government, people still wish to migrate to other nation... is China not safe? or they just got too many tasks that can't bring up to the sun?? Much like early trends established by Taiwan since WWII... This is, the sadness of a current culture, that would need many generations to heal over the wounds caused by both WWs...
The trend is ongoing, which is fine, as people do have the will to live at their desire location at their capability, just like the outlaws fled from U.K. to U.S. to find the opportunities in the new world back in 1700s...
Which is what I said, U.S. is open to the world, taking in as many as it can, the process may not be nice in each case, but ok... how many nation in the world would take others for residents? or others want to go?
Just that, when you're here... please try to adopt to this nation, this culture... not bring in the bad habits of your olds and think this land owes you big time... or take the advantages of every bit of social benefits...
You leave your home nation to U.S. because you don't want to live there and often time, want to have a changeover... so, make the changes... living the lifestyle exactly as you were back in homelands in U.S. isn't a proper method of immigration... there isn't any 'immigrate' part in that process... you just 'move' from one location to another...
U.S. is quite a tolerable society that accepts many different cultures, which is its beauty to these dates. In my twenty years in U.S., I see cities changed its demographical ratio in a faster rate, well, I'm in California, no doubt...
Whites been push out of the city as Asians flown in, this is crucial in L.A., it's bit scary... the entire city became Chinese dominated, and those Asians, are... to my opinion... not very nice... often rude.. not sure what etiquette lesson they got, but.. yeah.. terrible...
Sometimes I think this is a sort of karma... as the founding fathers' method to get rid of the original Indians... well... there is a cycle... just took a bit longer...
In the city of Arcadia CA, well, south of Foothill Blvd. is occupied by Asians... north is for the Whites... city building codes are different for each region... it's like two cities...
About ten+ years ago we visited family friend there... a call came, she answered, speaking in Taiwanese, but in a weird way... after she hung up and told us... it's a wrong number... eh... wrong number and you speak Taiwanese with it?? that's never happen in North Cal.. or any other part of the nation... is L.A. a U.S. city anymore???
That was ten years ago... so... what will happen when a new wave of immigrants from China that are yet to come??? what more will change??
Luckily... many whom from Taiwan are now flow back to Taiwan... for a simple reason... national health care benefit...
Ethically, I do not know what to say about them...
Well, U.S.' medical expense is high for sure, part of the reason that drag big corps. down...
Certain people evade tax and social responsibilities while grabbing every benefits whenever they can, that's just part of human nature in some group of people, are they wrong... well... who knows... wish them well...
Much like the pre-'97 wealthy refugees from H.K. to everywhere in the world, then the return the land of promise after '04 when H.K. is on the rise...
In this age, people shifts around the world, some to make better livings, some to take chances, some, well, each has his/her story....
I only wish, if you decided to leave for another or not, have faith in the land where you live, try to understand more about the land that nourished you, it's your homeland, original or second, or third... feedback to the society... we only got this much of land, nation, where else you want to go next??
4th of July, land of freedom, yes, we cherish you and the goal, let's hope we can continue this tradition in old or new residents of this lovable land, it may not be perfect, yet it's what we have.
Let's, work on it.
Happy Anniversary, U.S.A.!!!
-TT
Fireworks, BBQ, days off work, etc, the fundamentals of the 4th of July holiday, a celebration of United States of America, the land of freedom, so it says.
Freedom, to what extent is freedom's true form? no one will ever know.
Yet, spread across, 4th of July to many, is just another long weekend, a chance for friends/family to gather together, to, eat...
Spectacular fireworks brighten the night sky, indicate years of revolution that actually succeed, just, how many of us truly appreciate the works done by the founding fathers??
Founding fathers, whom are they, what they done, etc, etc... a long forgotten piece of U.S. history that existed in textbook ready for next gen's test-only...
People often taking things for granted, not appreciate the difficulties of early ancestors, their hardships and struggles...
I'm not sure which category I should fit in, yet just feel more and more inrooted into this land, where I lived for twenty years... It's a major part of my lifespan, 2/3 of it...
As I told many of my friends in China, many ancient eastern philosophies that are actually performed by Americans than chineses... the compassion and willingness to accept others are just much greater performed by many Americans than those of Asian citizens...
I think, because U.S' history is only two-hundred plus years, most, are eager to learn and appreciate about other cultures, inevitable this year, the Chinese culture, Eastern thinkings...
The key lies in the 'eagerness to learn' factor, well, knowledge is a constant work, no one can say he/she learned enough... that's just a scary part of modern life... never ending learning path... drain each and every one's energy out...
Of course, U.S. has its dark sides, mirror has two faces, no doubt; no one is perfect, thus when you're at top, you will be hunger for more power, the controling factor.
At least, in many's view, U.S. is willing to take immigrants, in large quantities, I don't know, maybe world's larges 'take-in' country...
I'm not sure about Europe, but in Asia... U.S. is the #1 ideal country to immigrate to, if one can do it... especially in most Chinese's mind... Can't blame them, I'm one of them... I just got to this land bit early, and adopt to it... sort of...
This is a sad phenomenon for Chinese... even with the growing power of China's government, people still wish to migrate to other nation... is China not safe? or they just got too many tasks that can't bring up to the sun?? Much like early trends established by Taiwan since WWII... This is, the sadness of a current culture, that would need many generations to heal over the wounds caused by both WWs...
The trend is ongoing, which is fine, as people do have the will to live at their desire location at their capability, just like the outlaws fled from U.K. to U.S. to find the opportunities in the new world back in 1700s...
Which is what I said, U.S. is open to the world, taking in as many as it can, the process may not be nice in each case, but ok... how many nation in the world would take others for residents? or others want to go?
Just that, when you're here... please try to adopt to this nation, this culture... not bring in the bad habits of your olds and think this land owes you big time... or take the advantages of every bit of social benefits...
You leave your home nation to U.S. because you don't want to live there and often time, want to have a changeover... so, make the changes... living the lifestyle exactly as you were back in homelands in U.S. isn't a proper method of immigration... there isn't any 'immigrate' part in that process... you just 'move' from one location to another...
U.S. is quite a tolerable society that accepts many different cultures, which is its beauty to these dates. In my twenty years in U.S., I see cities changed its demographical ratio in a faster rate, well, I'm in California, no doubt...
Whites been push out of the city as Asians flown in, this is crucial in L.A., it's bit scary... the entire city became Chinese dominated, and those Asians, are... to my opinion... not very nice... often rude.. not sure what etiquette lesson they got, but.. yeah.. terrible...
Sometimes I think this is a sort of karma... as the founding fathers' method to get rid of the original Indians... well... there is a cycle... just took a bit longer...
In the city of Arcadia CA, well, south of Foothill Blvd. is occupied by Asians... north is for the Whites... city building codes are different for each region... it's like two cities...
About ten+ years ago we visited family friend there... a call came, she answered, speaking in Taiwanese, but in a weird way... after she hung up and told us... it's a wrong number... eh... wrong number and you speak Taiwanese with it?? that's never happen in North Cal.. or any other part of the nation... is L.A. a U.S. city anymore???
That was ten years ago... so... what will happen when a new wave of immigrants from China that are yet to come??? what more will change??
Luckily... many whom from Taiwan are now flow back to Taiwan... for a simple reason... national health care benefit...
Ethically, I do not know what to say about them...
Well, U.S.' medical expense is high for sure, part of the reason that drag big corps. down...
Certain people evade tax and social responsibilities while grabbing every benefits whenever they can, that's just part of human nature in some group of people, are they wrong... well... who knows... wish them well...
Much like the pre-'97 wealthy refugees from H.K. to everywhere in the world, then the return the land of promise after '04 when H.K. is on the rise...
In this age, people shifts around the world, some to make better livings, some to take chances, some, well, each has his/her story....
I only wish, if you decided to leave for another or not, have faith in the land where you live, try to understand more about the land that nourished you, it's your homeland, original or second, or third... feedback to the society... we only got this much of land, nation, where else you want to go next??
4th of July, land of freedom, yes, we cherish you and the goal, let's hope we can continue this tradition in old or new residents of this lovable land, it may not be perfect, yet it's what we have.
Let's, work on it.
Happy Anniversary, U.S.A.!!!
-TT
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