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Battle Between Human and Nature
If you would like to have background music while you are reading, please click on the arrow below. To the dead- we mourn your loss and honor your memory. To the survivors- we express our sincere desire to work together to help. To all of us-having witnessed tragedy and experienced fear, it is time to …
Ang Lee: A Never-Ending Dream
If you would like to have background music while you are reading, please click on the arrow below. (Following Ang Lee’s second Best Directing win at the Academy Awards last night, this beautiful essay resurfaced. Translation of Ang Lee’s words, written in 2006, by Irene Shih {http://whatshihsaid.com/}.) In 1978, as I applied to study film …
After 35 Days of the Epidemic, I Saw the Reality of the World-2
After 35 Days of the Epidemic, I Saw the Reality of the World-2
疫情整整35天，我在抖音看到了最真实的人间
Honesty is priceless-诚信无价
The image ifs from https://www.almanac.com/plant/daffodils. Rice is in her eighties; she lives alone in an old house in a shabby alley in New York. Her husband died more than twenty years ago. She has developed a peculiar habit which has been caused by her grief and boredom. Every day, she looks through his belongings and …
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 54
善建不拔，善抱者不脫，子孫以祭祀不輟。 修之於身，其德乃真；修之於家，其德乃餘；修之於鄉，其德乃長； 修之於國，其德乃豐；修之於天下，其德乃普。 故以身觀身，以家觀家，以鄉觀鄉，以國觀國，以天下觀天下。 吾何以知天下然哉？以此。 What is firmly established cannot be uprooted. What is firmly grasped cannot slip away. It will be honored from generation to generation. (The world’s physical things, built on the outside, will be unplugged, for since you can hold it in your hand, it will certainly be taken off.) However, Tao …
Rebirth of a Fraud Victim: The Cup of Suffering(41)
The Cup of Suffering What was truly terrifying about that lawsuit was never simply winning or losing. It was this: how it slowly, little by little, consumed a person. The actual trial lasted only ten days. But before those ten days came five full years of struggle. Negotiations. Broken agreements. Renegotiations. Then everything overturned again. …
Rebirth of a Fraud Victim: This Is a Process(31)
This Is a Process This diagram brings together the experiences described earlier—from research at MIT, to a scam, to AI. They may seem different,but they follow the same process. And once you see this process, you stand a better chance of stopping it while there is still time.
A Transition – from an Earthly Being to a Divine Being(2)
The worker that had gone with me just stared at it with me, and we just stood there, numb. We turned around and went back home, and when I was back, I told my son that we needed to pray. During the prayer, my son started to weep, but I was completely numb and didn’t …
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 41
上士聞道，勤而行之；中士聞道，若存若亡；下士聞道，大笑之。不笑不足以為道。 故建言有之：明道若昧；進道若退；夷道若纇； 上德若谷；太白若辱；廣德若不足；建德若偷；質真若渝； 大方無隅；大器晚成；大音希聲；大象無形；道隱無名。 夫唯道，善貸且成。 About Tao The wise student hears of the Tao and practices it diligently. The average student hears of the Tao and gives it thought now and again. The foolish student hears of the Tao and laughs aloud. If there were no laughter, the Tao would not be what it is. …
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 10
載營魄抱一，能無離乎？ 專氣致柔，能嬰兒乎？ 滌除玄覽，能無疵乎？ 愛民治國，能無知乎？ 天門開闔，能為雌乎？ 明白四達，能無知乎？ 生之、畜之，生而不有，為而不恃，長而不宰，是謂玄德。 In embracing the One with your soul, Can you never forsake the Tao? In controlling your vital force to achieve gentleness, Can you become like the new-born child? In cleansing and purifying your Mystic vision, Can you strive after perfection? In loving the people and governing the kingdom, …
