What is the merging of cultures?

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What is the merging of cultures?

Sometimes even two rivers cannot merge together.

Their water are separate.

Hong kong is the best place to observe how the cultures merge together.

The English people have been ruling Hong Kong for a long time.   You can see many people who speak English and dress in western style in Hong Kong. But their inner way of thinking is still Chinese.  They use inner patterns to think.

Languages are a big issue in thinking patterns.  But language is not the only factor in thoughts.  Old patterns are hidden.  People feel more comfortable with older thoughts.

Even though marriage cannot change the pattern.  People are very much the same,  not in the external look,  but in the internal mind.

Merging in cultures is a long way.

How can the left-brainers merge with the right-brainers?

It can happen in some highly intelligent people, but not all.

Mainland China and Taiwan is another case.

Both are using Chinese language,  although  deviations are happening.

If the mainland side can go back into the traditional Chinese language,   a difficult problem will be solved.   I don't know why they are not doing this. Subtle under currents might play a part in the politics.

It seems going back into traditional Chinese is political.   But politics is only in the surface.  Real and important issue is in the cultural direction.

It is an important direction to follow.

Something great in history will happen.

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What is the point of dying?

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What is the point of dying?

When you grow old, your roots can no longer draw water, nor even support yourself; your blossoms cease to open, and your fragrance fades. One day you will eventually fall, decaying into the soil. Yet you have already fulfilled your purpose. You did not waste your existence. You have turned into nourishment, enriching others.

  (A temple in Bangkok: 昭應廟)

  (It appears literature has sent the 108 spirits there.)

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Why it needs to know more about the super-nature?

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Why it needs to know more about the super-nature?

The nature and the super-nature is completely different.   Yet they are interrelated.

It is like the function of your mind and your body.

If you don't have a good mind, then you will not have a good body.

Although you do not know what is your mind.

But still you can keep a good mind.

Your mind might be your spirit, or you wish, or your idea,  or your concern, or your wisdom, or your love.

You can deny your mind.

You can deny the super-nature.

Everything will be as usual.

Do our nature have a mind behind?

For a very careful person, the mind of the nature is not the same as a super-nature.

But there must be something spiritual behind the reality.

You don't need to consume all your energy into the super-nature.

You just not to neglect and forget them.

Its fine to see how people study it academically.

And you can silence yourself.

You don't need to talk much, but you know.

There will be always a voice behind you.

You'll be reminded in due course.

Only that you can listen.  

Only that you keep your silence and not to be disturbed.

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What is the limitation of a ghost?

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What is the limitation of a ghost?

The following is an imagination about ghost.  Its not a fact and its not science.

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Not everyone can be a ghost,  I guess.

If everyone can be a ghost, then there will be lots of ghosts.  The planet will not have enough places to accommodate them.

Ghost stories are not often heard.   Humans are not experiencing ghosts every day.

Therefore, you can be sure that ghosts are not everywhere,  and they are not many, if they do exist.

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Why ghosts are always staying in the same place? 

I imagine ghosts are regional.  Many ghost stories are told by humans,  or created by humans. It seems ghosts are always living in the same area. 

The term "living" is wrong.   Ghosts are only "staying " in the same area but not "living" in the same area according to my imagination.

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Why ghosts cannot travel?   My ghost story about a ghost following her hair into my house is merely a personal feeling only.  It is not a proof about ghosts.

4.

Ghosts cannot see sunshine; or very positive person.   You don't need to care about them if you are the positive type.

5. 

Ghosts are different from evils,  they are not  necessarily bad, in the minds of the common people.

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Ghosts have a life span.......they cannot stay long.

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The population or numbers of ghosts can be compare with angels.

I thought ghosts are more than angels.

You heard people talk about ghosts more than angels.

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I dreamed about my father's ghost many years ago when he was dead a few days before the dream.

It seems to be a very dark place and I saw two light spots coming towards me.  I knew they were my father in my dream.

I said in a shaking voice:  "Do not come close,  I am scared."

Then the spots disappeared, never came back again.  I didn't know whether he had something to say to me or not. However, it was never said.  Please note,  I am not conforming ghosts.  It is merely a dream.

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What if the Chinese lost writing ability?

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What if the Chinese lost writing ability?

 

If the Chinese are not using their hands to write any more,  if they are not using pens writing stroke by stroke anymore,  they will lose their hand-brain connection quickly.

The older generation will not feel it because they have been using pens since they were young.

How fast will they lose their hand-brain connections?

It might be only a few years when the computer have completely dominated all spheres of writing.

Or it might need a generation or two to delete the ability of the hand-brain connections in the Chinese mind.

Few would notice the hand-brain connection is so important.

And few would notice it will be deleted by the Chinese themselves.

Writing skills are not taught to the younger children anymore.

They have learned to use keyboards but not pens.

Teachers are simply not teaching them.

Is it a trivial matter?

When you are dealing with strong neighbors and when you are dealing with army movements,  how to use a pen seems to be nothing at all.

But it is not.

When you are carrying a baby in your arms on the battlefield, you need to take extra care.

  

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What is the best way to reunite with Taiwan

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What is the best way to unite with Taiwan?  

It must be welcomed by everyone.

When everyone is happy, it is successful.

If the last resort of war is happened,  the consequences will be unthinkable.

A deep thought of the aftermath of the war is extremely unacceptable:  you can easily list out a few.

The best choice is united in a culture reunification.

When every one is thinking in the same pattern of thoughts,  cultural merge is easy.

But there is undercurrent to make things difficult.

The major force from the opposition is to interfere from underground.

The underground party refuses a cultural merge.

What is a cultural merge?

Cultural merge is using the same language.

Of all the cultural matters, language is the major one.

The traditional language must be used to reunite.

Oppositions are mostly political.   Because they do not want a reunification to happen.

If they can think it deeply they will see the importance.   But the point is they will not think.

Political interference can stop thoughts.  They were not allowed to think on their own.

Only when positive cultural currents are strong enough, then oposition force would stop.

From the basic essence of cultural development,  traditional form of written Chinese is the only road to reunite.   There will not be a second road.

In the age of computer,  traditionyal Chinese is easier to read.  The resolution points of traditional Chinese characters are far more bigger then the simplified one.  Why some people oppose it?   It is completely political.

Once the undercurrent political influences are removed,  the sun will rise.

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Why spirit is more important than politics sometimes?

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Why spirit is more important than politics sometimes?

 

It is hard to say which one is the most important.

Sometimes economy is important. Sometimes politics is important. But the foundation is always in the spirit.

You can use ninety percent of your time to work on your economy, because eating is most urgent always.  But too much attention on one side would disrupt the balance of the boat.

When to do and what to do is a fatal choice.......sometimes.

A huge fire erupted suddenly. Hundreds were killed.

What is it?

Is it politics or is it economy or it is simply an executional mis-calculation?

There should not be mis-calculation happened.

Examination will be failed if calculations are wrong.

Because, your culture is your water.

There will be no boats running without water.

The ninety percent calculations might be wrong.

A wealthy person gave lots of money to a cultural performance.  People made many thanks to this wealthy person before the performance.  Why it was before the performance?   Because he will leave before the performance.  He had given money,  but he was not going to see it.... it was not important to him;  he had no interest.

90% of his life is about money.  Can you blame him? Are you expecting him to singing and dancing with you?  He has done his part to fund the show.

(我唔玩喇，你哋玩埋佢啦,  Bye bye!)

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What is vertical situation?

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What is vertical situation?

Horizontal is politics or economy or medicine, etc.

Horizontals are our daily life.

Humans are living horizontally around the globe.  It is natural to care about your livelihood more than space.    You don't need to know where you are from,  but you need to know urgently what is happening  tomorrow.

All is vain if you cannot live.

Vertical concern cannot be neglected if we hope to develop further more.

Think Vertical is important.

If ninety nine percent of the population is horizontal thinking,  then there will be danger.

I hope the proportion could be rising a bit.

Now it is 99:1

I hope it can change.

98:2  will be better.

Can you think vertically upwards?

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"What shall I do?"

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  "What shall I do?"

This was the first sentence I learned when I was learning English. 

It was still in my mind after so many years,  when a strange thouglht about the universe floated.

Few would have a connection between the universe and his daily livelihood.

Once you have such connections, you feel different.

Why I need to know the beginning or non-beginning of this universe?

You can live perfectly well without any awareness about that.

Do I need to love my parents and brothers and sisters ? Do I need to love my country?  And now you ask me: "Do I need to have some concern about the universe?"

Yes, this is a feeling happened long ago in our history.   It is so called "The unity of man and nature"(天人合一).

It is more than love.

Because it is a concern, it is a feeling;  or even,  it is an unity.

You can be a true human if you have that feeling.

It was well said in a Chinese  expression:  頂天立地.  And this is not easy to translate into English:  it could be a true human if some one is  "A towering and unyielding presence".

The point is a "presence".

I would say:  "You are and I am a presence,  here in this place,  in this earth, in this universe."

Yet the question is not answered: 

What shall I do?

Maybe you have your answer already.

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How did I eat my lunch today?

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How did I eat my lunch today?

I was  visiting a temple in Thailand.   It was a very common place. It was not a grand temple.   It was a small temple located near the train station.   And I didn't know why I liked it very much. 

There was a coffee shop nearby.   The coffee shop was big and empty.   I was the only one to visit the coffee shop.   I had a cup of Thailand tea in the coffee shop.  The coffee shop lady was wearing a warm smile, which made the place even better.  The tea leaves are different from other places. And the tea was sweetened,   it was quite exotic and suitable for such a mood. 

Afterwards, I visited the temple.   There was a vendor selling noodles inside the temple. And they were about to close because the time is already three o'clock, which was not a lunch hour.

I asked the lady boss,  "can I buy some noodles?"

She opened her eyes wide and looked at me.   I was wondering what was the meaning.   

And then she said suddenly,  "Noodles? Ok!" 

She started cooking at once. 

There was only one table and one chair outside the temple.  It was quite an open area before the temple. 

I was sitting alone and watching the sun shining on the ground.   

Within a few minutes, the noodles were ready.  It was one of my best noodles in my lifetime.   

Actually, it was  plain noodles,   with some pork meat floating on it. Maybe it was due to my good mood,  I found it very  pleasant.  It was a special meal yesterday.  It can hardly be forgotten.  So I noted it down.

When I was eating,  I thought I was eating better than a king.  A king can never come to such a small place,  and a king can never enjoy such solitary entertainment.

How come my mood is so wonderful ?  

It made me think for a while.

    

 

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