人生的规则在自然的规则之下。遵守人生的规则首先要遵守自然的规则。自然的力量大于人的力量。不要在自然面前忘乎所以。人生要学会顺乎自然，懂得自然，适应自然，使自己成为自然的一部分，成为自然的朋友，而不是成为自然的敌人。我们的任务是如何利用自然，使用自然，不被自然现象所吓倒，在自然的变幻之中找到规律，使自己在千变万化之中，沉稳地应付已经发生的和将要发生的变化，成为自己的主人，成为自己精神上的主人，一个有意识有目的生活的人。
自然是无限的，人生是有限的。跟自然相比，一切人为的东西都是相对的，也都是有限的.
我们要学会把自然作为我们的助手。
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
人生的基本规则
There are so many topics to write, I have a few lineups.
古希腊哲学与修身养性
论幸福
什么是一个完美的人？
但是哪里是我的起点哪？好象那三个还不在最后的根上，这个根，我好像在上个星期找到了。其实，我觉得对一个人来说，最重要的是能够弄明白人生的一些最基本的规则，就像玩游戏一样，如果要想玩得好，玩得有意思，有规则 并且懂规则，是非常重要的。
有人说，人生是一场游戏，言外之意是不必对人生过于认真。不过，细心品味这句话，却无意中体会到了另一层含义。沿着游戏二字，我想到了人们通常最喜欢玩的几种游戏，比如说篮球、足球、乒乓球等运动项目，象棋、桥牌、扑克等娱乐项目，还有计算机游戏等等，似乎每一个游戏都有很多规则，你如果要玩的话，是一定要遵守规则的，作为一个观众，要想看得明白，看得过瘾的话，也是一定要懂得规则的，不然的话，不仅看不出什么门道，也不可能把自己溶入到游戏中去。我在美国住了二十年，也没有学会看这里的橄榄球比赛，所以一到橄榄球比赛季节，好像每个人都在为每场比赛激发得热血沸腾，情绪高昂，而我觉得自己永远是门外汉，冷冰冰的，好无趣味。
古希腊哲学与修身养性
论幸福
什么是一个完美的人？
但是哪里是我的起点哪？好象那三个还不在最后的根上，这个根，我好像在上个星期找到了。其实，我觉得对一个人来说，最重要的是能够弄明白人生的一些最基本的规则，就像玩游戏一样，如果要想玩得好，玩得有意思，有规则 并且懂规则，是非常重要的。
有人说，人生是一场游戏，言外之意是不必对人生过于认真。不过，细心品味这句话，却无意中体会到了另一层含义。沿着游戏二字，我想到了人们通常最喜欢玩的几种游戏，比如说篮球、足球、乒乓球等运动项目，象棋、桥牌、扑克等娱乐项目，还有计算机游戏等等，似乎每一个游戏都有很多规则，你如果要玩的话，是一定要遵守规则的，作为一个观众，要想看得明白，看得过瘾的话，也是一定要懂得规则的，不然的话，不仅看不出什么门道，也不可能把自己溶入到游戏中去。我在美国住了二十年，也没有学会看这里的橄榄球比赛，所以一到橄榄球比赛季节，好像每个人都在为每场比赛激发得热血沸腾，情绪高昂，而我觉得自己永远是门外汉，冷冰冰的，好无趣味。
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The philosophy of Despair
It is written in the very structure of the brain that each impression of the senses must bring with it the impulse to act.
One of the few things that we may know in life is this, that it is impossible for man to know anything absolutely.
To reach for the ultimate end of action is never to begin to act.
Greater sensitiveness to external things means greater capacity for pain, hence greater suffering, when the natural channels of effort are closed.
That the joys thus produced had no real objective existence, man was not long in finding out, and it soon appeared that for each subjective pleasure which had no foundation in action, there was a subjective sorrow, likewise unrelated to external things.
What, then, are you doing under these blue skies? The thing you do should be for you the most important thing in the world.
It does not matter if the greatest thing for you to do be not in itself great. The best preparation for greatness comes in doing faithfully the little things that lie nearest. The nearest is the greatest in most human lives.
It is not that "I come like water and like wind I go." I am here today, and the moment and the place are real, and my will is itself one of the fates that make and unmake all things.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The book was written by David Starr Jordan.
One of the few things that we may know in life is this, that it is impossible for man to know anything absolutely.
To reach for the ultimate end of action is never to begin to act.
Greater sensitiveness to external things means greater capacity for pain, hence greater suffering, when the natural channels of effort are closed.
That the joys thus produced had no real objective existence, man was not long in finding out, and it soon appeared that for each subjective pleasure which had no foundation in action, there was a subjective sorrow, likewise unrelated to external things.
What, then, are you doing under these blue skies? The thing you do should be for you the most important thing in the world.
It does not matter if the greatest thing for you to do be not in itself great. The best preparation for greatness comes in doing faithfully the little things that lie nearest. The nearest is the greatest in most human lives.
It is not that "I come like water and like wind I go." I am here today, and the moment and the place are real, and my will is itself one of the fates that make and unmake all things.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The book was written by David Starr Jordan.
Seven Principles
Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "extremes meet"; "everything is and isn't, at the same time"; "all truths are but half-truths"; "every truth is half-false"; "there are two sides to everything," etc., etc., etc.
1. The Principle of Mentalism. 2. The Principle of Correspondence. 3. The Principle of Vibration. 4. The Principle of Polarity. 5. The Principle of Rhythm. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. 7. The Principle of Gender.
The Principle of Mentalism
"THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental."—The Kybalion.
2. The Principle of Correspondence
"As above, so below; as below, so above."—The Kybalion.
3. The Principle of Vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."—The
Kybalion.
4. The Principle of Polarity
"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."—The Kybalion.
6 The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."—The Kybalion.
1. The Principle of Mentalism. 2. The Principle of Correspondence. 3. The Principle of Vibration. 4. The Principle of Polarity. 5. The Principle of Rhythm. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. 7. The Principle of Gender.
The Principle of Mentalism
"THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental."—The Kybalion.
2. The Principle of Correspondence
"As above, so below; as below, so above."—The Kybalion.
3. The Principle of Vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."—The
Kybalion.
4. The Principle of Polarity
"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."—The Kybalion.
6 The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."—The Kybalion.
The Kybalion
Now for a second proof. Three kinds of pleasure correspond to the three elements of the soul—reason, spirit, desire. In each man one of the three is in the ascendant. One counts knowledge vain in comparison with the advantages of riches, another with those of honor; to the philosopher only truth counts. But he is the only one of them who makes his choice from experience of all three kinds. And he, the only qualified judge, places the satisfaction of the spirit second, and of desire lowest. And yet a third proof: I fancy the only quite real pleasures are those of the philosopher. There is an intermediate state between pleasure and pain. To pass into this from pleasure is painful, and from pain is pleasurable. Now, the pleasures of the body are really nothing more than reliefs from pains of one kind or another. And, next, the pleasures of the soul, being of the eternal order, are necessarily more real than those of the body, which are fleeting—in fact, mere shadows of pleasure.
Greater far are the rewards of virtue than all we have yet shown; for an immortal soul should heed nothing that is less than eternal. "What, is the soul then immortal? Can you prove that?" Yes, of a surety. In all things there is good and evil; a thing perishes of its own corruption, not of the corruption of aught external to it.
In a word, love is the nourishment of the heart as food is of the body; to love is to fulfill the desire of nature, to satisfy a need. But if possible, manage it so that it will not become a passion.
Disgust and weariness follow you everywhere. You seek solitude, and as soon as you are enjoying it, it wearies you.
The people of Ancient Greece also made him one of their many gods—calling him "Hermes, the god of Wisdom.
The legends of the "Philosopher's Stone" which would turn base metal into Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily understood by all students of true Hermeticism.
Greater far are the rewards of virtue than all we have yet shown; for an immortal soul should heed nothing that is less than eternal. "What, is the soul then immortal? Can you prove that?" Yes, of a surety. In all things there is good and evil; a thing perishes of its own corruption, not of the corruption of aught external to it.
In a word, love is the nourishment of the heart as food is of the body; to love is to fulfill the desire of nature, to satisfy a need. But if possible, manage it so that it will not become a passion.
Disgust and weariness follow you everywhere. You seek solitude, and as soon as you are enjoying it, it wearies you.
The people of Ancient Greece also made him one of their many gods—calling him "Hermes, the god of Wisdom.
The legends of the "Philosopher's Stone" which would turn base metal into Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily understood by all students of true Hermeticism.
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