生死就在呼吸间，睡眠即是小死。别纠结世界真假，梦虽幻，但泪水与悸动绝不虚假。记忆并非本体，那个感知“我在”的觉知才是核心。不必苦寻终极，只要此刻真诚体验，哪怕身处幻梦，这份鲜活的当下，足以让普通人的一生，成为一部经书。

Life and death coexist in every breath; sleep is a mini-death. Don't obsess over reality—dreams may be illusions, but your tears are real. You are not your memory, but the awareness behind it. Embrace the now. An ordinary life, felt deeply, is its own scripture.

有些问题，从来不属于宗教，也不属于哲学，而是属于每一个在人生中曾经真正孤独过的人。关于生死、关于“我是谁”、关于记忆与意识、关于为什么此刻的心跳能被体验为“我”的心跳。这些问题并不需要终极答案，却会在人的一生中不断浮现，如同潮水反复冲刷着礁石。

一个人的生命，从未脱离过生死。呼吸之间，方生方死，方死方生。沉睡之时的断片，如同一次“无法经历的死”；醒来之时的重新开始，如同一次“小轮回”。生命在这样的循环中前行，而自我意识正是在这无数次“中断与再起”的缝隙里缓缓长成。最初是微弱的对立——我与非我的分界——如同石头或病毒般模糊；随着感知愈加复杂，这条界线逐渐清晰，直到某一天，一个“我在哪里”的疑问悄然升起。正是这条对立，让世界第一次拥有了距离，也拥有了美。

然而，自我意识带来的礼物，同时也是诅咒。能够觉知的生命，无法看到自身，只能看到非我，于是难免在潜意识里抓狂：执着于像的变动，或者执着于镜的绝对。有人沉迷于物象的剧场，认定那才是真实；有人执迷于镜外的原理，以为只要找到终极因，就能平息不安。但无论是对像的执着，还是对镜的妄想，都无法真正触及那个更深的事实：自我从未离开过自己。

在某些时刻，人会突然意识到，所谓“真相”并不一定存在于外界。真情是真的、当下的感受是真的、面对死亡时的恐惧是真的、那股“我确实在场”的觉也是真的。客观世界也许永远模糊，但这几个“真”无需怀疑。它们比宇宙的构造、比宗教的终极、比哲学的体系，都更接近“生命为何为生命”的核心。

因此，古人所说“如梦幻泡影，应作如是观”，否定的只是外相的固执，并未否定“如是观”的真实。梦境也许是幻的，但梦中流出的泪是真实的；剧场也许是虚构的，但观戏者的悸动毫不虚假。一个生命的价值，不在于看见世界的真实结构，而在于在幻象中仍能觉知、仍能感受、仍能行动。

有些人说，人生的修行，就是面对死亡。而所有真正面对过死亡的人都会明白：死对当事者而言无法经历。能被叙述的、能被体验的，只是濒死的幻觉、痛感、恐惧；真正的死，只能意味着记忆的终止。于是，生死的问题变成了“记忆与记忆者的关系”。失忆者依然在场，意识并未消失，这提醒人们：记忆与记忆者并非同一事物。生命的主人成为一个难以言说的存在，可以假设为能量，可以视作光点，可以理解为灵魂，但它并不依附记忆，也不属于肉身——如同大脑是一种工具，而不是意识本身。

如果记忆可以重建、可以丢失、可以复制，那么“我”到底是什么？或许，一种更温和的答案是：我，就是那个能够说“我在”的觉知。它无需清晰，也无需永恒，只要在此刻存在，就足以让宇宙变得有意义。

回望生命的经历，有人感慨曾被宗教束缚，有人困惑于哲学的晦暗，有人迷失于科学的冷静。然而真正能够安顿一个成年人的，往往不是终极体系，而是一些朴素的体认：当下是不会错的，真情不会骗你，意识到自己活着本身就是奇迹。即便世界如同虚拟的影像，即便人生如同连续的梦境，一个仍然愿意在梦中动情、愿意在幻里承担的人，已经活出了比真相更珍贵的东西。

每个人其实都在闭生死关，只是多数人不自知。几乎所有成人都有不同程度的心理苦楚，那是自我意识带来的必然成本。但也正是这些裂隙，让人对生命、对道德、对自己的存在更加敏感，也让人有了重新选择的可能。

有些人一生寻找信仰，有些人寻找意义，有些人渴望解脱，但终究有一天会明白：所谓信条，其实都只是“相信自己”这一句的延伸。而所谓自己，并非完美的实体，也不是永恒的精神，而是那个在疑惑、在恐惧、在思索、在爱恨中仍能觉知到“我还在”的微光。

在这微光的照耀下，一个普通人的一生，足以成为一部经书。

 宇宙毁灭或许只是逻辑错觉，现实如胶片，生命在帧间穿越。不必恐惧死亡，那不过是意识换了频道。意义不在结局，而在当下。只要此刻感受鲜活，哪怕宇宙下一秒落幕，这一瞬的“我”便已战胜虚无，足够永恒。

Cosmic doom is an illusion; life travels between frames. Death is merely consciousness changing channels. Meaning lies in the now, not the end. If this moment is vivid, the "I" of this instant conquers the void—eternal enough.

宇宙是否会毁灭，生命是否必然终结，这样的问题听上去宏大，却往往建立在某种未经检视的前提上：认为宇宙是一条从起点走向终点的直线，认为死亡是一扇从“存在”通向“消失”的门。人们常常忘记，把宇宙想成笔直的，是人的逻辑；把生命看作一段连续的经历，则是记忆制造出的错觉。

现代物理学已经多次提醒，人类赖以理解世界的三维空间不见得是世界本身，时间也未必是一条连续不断的河流。或许现实更像是一格一格的胶片，而生命只是在格与格之间持续穿越，只是因为相邻的帧差别极小，人们误以为自己活在一个笔直、不偏不倚的永恒时空里。于是，“宇宙终将毁灭”这样的命题，可能从一开始就没有意义；而所谓“生命终将终结”的忧惧，也未必抓住了问题的核心。

比起宇宙的生灭，真正切近的问题也许是“自我”从何而来。自我不是一瞬间闪现的，像灯泡被点亮；它更像一个在混沌中逐渐聚焦的影子，从无机物、单细胞、有机体，到能分辨“我”与“非我”的动物，再到意识到自身有限的成年人，皆属于同一个连续的脉络。即便是一粒尘埃、一块石头、一段病毒，也未必绝对没有“我与非我”的最初震颤。这一对立产生了距离，距离带来了审美，而审美又让世界第一次有了意义。可以这么说，上帝是否存在并不重要；重要的是，一旦有了能欣赏世界的眼睛，宇宙才算真正诞生。

然而，这个自我从诞生起就伴随缺憾。能觉之“我”从来无法看见自己，只能透过万象与经验不断推想；非我遮蔽了我，于是迷惘、焦虑、执着与妄念随之而来。宗教、哲学、心理学、科学，乃至艺术，都不过是人类试图回答“我是什么”“我在哪里”“我是否真的存在”的反复尝试。一个人越是独立思考，越会触及这种深处的孤独，也越会在无形中关闭“生死之关”，不为求解脱，只因为逃不过自我意识本身带来的逼问。

生命真正珍贵之处也许不在宏大的意义，而在那些最具体的当下。只要当下的体感是真实的，只要情绪的震动是真实的，只要那一念“不想被取代”“不愿被湮没”的执着是真的，那么生命就已经有了它自己的重量。梦可以是幻境，世界可以是幻象，但“观戏者”的诚意与泪水从来不在幻的范畴里。一切有为法如梦幻泡影，但“如是观”却绝非虚妄。

记忆与记忆者从不相同。身体与拥有身体的意识也从不相同。人们可以失去记忆，却依旧醒来；可以忘记昨日，却仍然在“此刻”里毫不含糊地存在着。因此，自我不必被简化为某种物质结构，也无须被囚禁在某段可被破坏的记忆里。若把它视为一种能量，也许反而贴切：能量不会凭空消失，只会转移其载体。死亡若意味着记忆散去，那只是重新开始的一种方式，就像换一个频道，继续观看尚未结束的戏剧。

于是，生死之问最终回到一个朴素的事实：过程本身已经足够丰盈。电影终将结束，但这从未让观看变得徒劳。宇宙若必灭，也无法抹杀每一次觉醒、每一次怦然，乃至每一次无声的哽咽。意义不是来自结果，而是来自那一瞬的真实。

人类往往过度追问“终点”，却忽略了“此刻”才是最永恒的存在。只要当下没有被否定，生命就无法被虚无击败。宇宙即便在下一帧落幕，也动摇不了这一点 —— 只要仍有一个鲜明的“我”在感受、在思索、在不愿放弃，那一帧就已经足够永恒。

 

现代人彻底沦为社会机器的附庸，在荒唐的信用中配合演出，看破不说破。文明脆弱如烟花，真正支撑世界的并非权谋，而是冰冷的科技。文明的延续不在于扩张，而在于节制与清醒。唯有找回理性的尺度，才能避免在狂热中自我毁灭。

We are silent cogs in an absurd machine. Civilization is fragile, built on cold tech, not schemes. Survival demands restraint, not expansion. Only reason prevents self-destruction.

在远古时代，人类几乎不需要一个庞大的社会。狩猎与采集、男耕女织，个体或小团体足以自给自足。分工简单，需求有限，人与社会的关系松散而自然。然而，随着时代紧缩，一切渐渐走向了另一端。现代文明的分工细密如发，使每个个体都牢牢绑定在社会的机器之上。个人对集体的依赖前所未有地加深，那种“无社会亦能活”的自由几乎成了传说。

社会像一个江湖，而现代国家犹如一个规模庞大的黑社会，只不过它并不需要挨家挨户地收保护费。这个机器的能量来自财政，而财政的根基不在金银，而在信用。信用从何而来？从学校的教育，从媒体的宣传，从生活中一次又一次看似平常的暗示。人类或许常常被低估，许多粗糙的洗脑其实并不起作用；但另一些观念却打进集体潜意识深处，化为社会运转默认的底层逻辑。

讽刺的是，人类的聪明既是救赎，也是麻烦。许多人无比清醒地意识到某些教条与神话站不稳脚，却又习惯利用它们维持自己的利益和地位。适应环境，是一种本能——外圆内圆，在荒唐之中活得体面，就像是时代要求的技能。于是，一个社会可以建立在近乎荒唐的理论之上，却依然运行顺滑。即使这些理论无法自圆其说，也无人真正愿意将其推翻，因为那需要承担代价，而多数人宁可继续“看穿不说破”。

现代社会的困境来自自身的成功。当经济系统化、金融抽象化、分工极端深化，社会结构被牢固焊死在“信用—秩序—依赖”的链条上。每一个个体都被卷入，不再可能真正独立。以人们的素质与处境，要期待自治或自我解放，显得奢侈；多数人甚至无力处理自身的焦虑与困境。

文明的悲观主义并非空穴来风。许多文化作品——从《三体》到奥运叙事，从末日预言到资本焦虑——似乎都指向一个共同的未来：一个越是依赖分工的社会越容易走向撕裂与冲突。当信用体系开始动摇，当技术被误用为战争准备，当“竞争”成为全民默认的核心价值，当“胜利”“成功”变成世界语言，历史的方向似乎难免走向某种热烈的终幕。那是一朵红红火火的烟花，在夜空中绚烂，随即归于寂灭。

然而，真正支撑现代生活的，并不是政治家、资本家、教员或思想家，而是另一种更深层的东西：数字、数学、物理规律，以及以此为基础发展出的科技。电与半导体，是当代文明最朴素也最关键的工具。科技的进步源于对现象世界的准确描述和可重复验证的信心，而非激情煽动或意识形态的鼓动。其余所有的社会角色不过是舞台上的演员。

因此，一个文明是否能够继续前行，关键不在于掌权者的口号，而在于是否能够精准地使用能量，是否愿意放弃盲目的多、快、大，是否能够克制冲动与焦虑，是否能在繁杂的分工网络中重新找回清醒的尺度。能量守恒，社会却未必守恒。文明的延续，需要比扩张更艰难的能力：理解、节制、清明、适量。

一个社会能否避免走向自我毁灭，或许最终取决于此。

—— 完 ——

 

谈论宇宙，实则是审视自我。意识带来焦虑，也催生文明。但意义无法外求，死亡或许只是转场。生命的价值不在结局，而在当下的清醒体验。承认有限，不执着永恒，在必死之身中活出无限的觉感，便是存在的答案。

The cosmos mirrors the self. Consciousness breeds anxiety and civilization. Yet meaning is internal; death, just a transition. Life’s value lies in the lucid now, not the end. Embrace the finite. Finding the infinite in a mortal frame—that is the answer.

人在谈论宇宙、生命或社会时，往往以为自己是在讨论外部世界，其实深处始终绕不开那面无形的镜子——自我意识。正是这面镜子，把生命从单纯的生物存续推向了不断追问意义的旅程；也正是这面镜子，使个体在追问中产生距离、对立、焦虑、幻想，以及文明。

从能量守恒到热力学定律，从病毒、原子到人类的自我意识，人类似乎不断试图以更宏大的解释来抓住一种无形的安稳。能源危机会不会到来？宇宙终将走向毁灭吗？这些问题看似关乎未来，其实隐藏着更古老的焦虑：存在本身是否可靠？生命是否有意义？

能量守恒提供了一种朴素的安慰：能量不生不灭。它不需要被拯救，也无需为它担忧。真正会焦虑、会疑惑、会感到意义摇晃的，是意识本身——尤其是那种将“我”从自然过程里抽离出来、对照着“非我”不断辨别的意识。
一粒原子、一块石头、一株植物或许都拥有极其模糊、极其不稳定的“我—非我”区分，但直到哺乳动物、直到人类，这种区分才变得尖锐而无法回避。

人类在这对立里长大，学会了欣赏，也学会了恐惧。距离带来审美，带来创造；但距离同样带来孤独、误解、甚至对自身的敌意。生命因此不再只是生存，而成为体验、怀疑与寻找的混合体。

人类的文明依赖分工而扩展，依赖制度而运作，但一切制度终究建立在个体的信念之上，而信念本身又往往不可避免地建立在教育、宣传、传统、故事，甚至一些并不完全自洽的叙事体系之上。社会越复杂，个体对社会的依赖越强，社会的“信用”也越依赖一种集体的共同幻想。
然而普通人并不天真，他们看穿得比很多权力机构愿意承认的更多，只是看穿之后未必想改变世界，而是为了生存而适应——外圆内也圆。

科技提供了另一种稳定感。数字的精确计算，物理规律的可重复性，让人类相信自己站在一个可靠的舞台上，可以理解、预测并改造世界。但舞台之稳固最终仍源自一种信念：自然是可被数字描述的。过去的人们以形而上体系维系秩序，如今的人们用科学的秩序取代了神圣的秩序，而两者在社会功能上未必不同。无论是宗教仪式，还是科学实验，都是一种重复自身以求确定性的方式。

人类真正的脆弱，不在于能量是否耗尽，不在于宇宙是否终会冷却，而在于自我意识带来的不可避免的裂隙：
“我究竟是什么？”
“我在哪里？”
“我是否真实？”

当“我拥有一个身体”与“我就是这具身体”混为一谈，当记忆与记忆者被误认为同一，当意识被误以为必须附着在某种物质结构上，人类便陷入了根本性的迷失。身体会老化，记忆会遗失，于是“我”也仿佛随之动摇。
但如果记忆者并不等同于记忆，如果意识与其载体之间并非一体，那么死亡与失忆在本质上也许并不意味着“我”的毁灭，而只意味着一次转换、一次重启、或一次脱壳。

宇宙是否必灭，生命是否终将消失，这类问题或许根本不成立。时间可能不是连续的，空间可能不是直线的，“宇宙一生”的叙述本身可能只是意识习惯所构建的宏大叙事。也许生命一直在无数“格”之中跳跃，始终生死、始终经历，而所谓“终点”只是某个视角下的错觉。
真正让生命不堪承受的从来不是终点，而是意识在过程中的摇摆：既受困于自己的有限性，又向往某种永恒；既贪恋记忆，又害怕记忆的重量；既渴望自由，又不得不寄居于社会的规则。

自我意识让人类走出动物的世界，却没有给出安顿自身的方式。人从此永远在寻找，永远在解释，永远在逃离一种无法言说的空白。于是哲学出现了，宗教出现了，科学出现了，国家和社会出现了，每个体系都在试图为这块空白蒙上一层稳定的意义。

但意义从来不是从外部赐予的。
一个无法逃离自身的存在，所有意义最终都必须落回到自身。

或许生命最根本的价值，不在于结果，也不在于宇宙的命运，而在于个体在存在当下那一刻的清醒、诚实与体验。电影会结束，但观看本身就是意义；宇宙会冷却，但生命在此刻燃烧的感受不会因此贬值。

如果有一个可被称为信条的东西，那大概是一种态度：
承认自身的有限，承认未知的巨大，同时维持对存在的信心。
不被景象迷惑，也不向虚构的永恒屈服。
既不执着于物像，也不执着于真相。
在必死之身中体验不灭的意义，在有限世界里活出无限的觉感。

或许这就是自我意识带给人类的双刃剑：让人不得安宁，也让人值得为此存在。

 

自我意识的囚笼与救赎

“自我”往往是意识的陷阱，让人陷入焦虑与孤独。其实宇宙或许只是幻觉，死亡不过是失忆的转场。别纠结宏大命题，生命的意义只在当下的鲜活体验。不必苦寻“究竟的自我”，只要此刻能真实感到“我在这里”，这份存在本身就足够庄严、温柔且真实。

The "self" is often a trap of consciousness, sinking us into anxiety and solitude. The universe might be merely an illusion, and death just a transition with memory loss. Let go of grand themes; life's meaning dwells solely in the vivid experience of the now. There is no need to search for an "ultimate self"—simply truly feeling that "I am here" makes existence itself sufficiently dignified, gentle, and real.

宇宙的诞生与终结，被许多宏大的理论包围着；生命的来与去，也总是被各种传统、宗教与科学所解释。然而，一个更古老更贴身的问题，却似乎从来没有被回答——究竟什么是“自己”？

从微粒到病毒，从有机体到所谓高级动物，一种模糊的不稳定的“对立”或许早已存在：有些东西被感受到，而另一些东西似乎是感觉的来源。哪怕是一块石头或一粒原子，也未必全然没有“我”与“非我”的分界，只是微弱得难以察觉。正是这种最初的“分离”，让距离出现，让美成为可能，也让宇宙获得观看者，从而获得意义。

然而，自我意识并不是礼物，而更像是某种陷阱。当一种生命学会照镜子，就再也难以回到那种无忧的动物式自在。拥有一个“我”，却发现看不到“我”，只看到“非我”；拥有一个身体，却模糊甚至怀疑身体是不是自己；拥有记忆，却无法确信记忆是否等于记忆者。自我意识越明确，内心的抓狂也越深刻：找不到自己，总会本能地抓住一些可见的东西作为替身，要么执着外物，要么执着某种虚构的终极因。

这种抓狂，不是某些人特有的，而是整个人类的普遍境遇。每个人都在自我与世界之间来回摆动。自我迷失、孤独、寄托、焦虑、好奇，以及那些无法用理性解释的恐惧，都来自这条同一条细微的裂缝。语言更让裂缝扩大——随诠随遮，想表达什么，最终总会遮住什么。于是交流变得困难，人与人之间似乎说着同一句话，却并非同一个意思。

而当这种被遮蔽的自我开始试图观察宇宙，宇宙也随之被蒙上某种逻辑的滤镜。比起古典的线性时空，现代物理反而宣告：空间可能不是直的，时间可能不是连续的，一切可能是帧与帧之间微小却永恒的穿越。眼前这个看似一致的宇宙，或许只是一种“连续的幻觉”，由记忆与逻辑共同拼出的舞台背景。舞台背后的真正原理，我们永远看不到，但舞台上的剧情却足够真实，足以让意识相信并沉浸。

能量不生不灭，不增不减；所谓“能源”只是容易使用的能量。当人类担心煤不够、石油不够、甚至宇宙终将毁灭时，忽略了一个更深的事实——所谓资源耗尽，并不是能量消失，而是科技与知识的倒退，使人类失去利用能量的能力。一如生命终将衰老，但意识或许仍是那股无法被摧毁的核心能量，只是换了载体、换了频道，继续流动。

若真如此，那么死亡不是结束，而是一种“失忆的转场”；而生命的意义，则并不在结果，而在于过程的鲜活。电影终究会结束，却不妨碍观看本身的意义。宇宙或许会冷寂，但每一个当下的体验，都无法被抹杀，也无法被任何力量更改。

然而，在所有的宏大命题之外，还有一个现实世界：现代社会已不再像狩猎或耕织时代那样自给自足，每个人对社会的依赖不断加深，而社会又建立在分工、分工建立在信用、信用建立在教育与宣传。这是一种靠巨大机器维持秩序的世界，常常把自身神话成无可置疑的权威。可这台机器并不总是可靠，而个体对社会的依赖，却是实实在在的。于是，文明看似进步，实际却可能越走越危险，被竞争、军备、焦虑、统一化的幻觉反向塑造。

人与社会的关系，与人与自我的关系有某种相似之处：都在依赖与怀疑、信任与焦虑之间摇摆。不管宗教、科学或哲学如何论证，最终都绕不开一点：生命的体验只能由活着的意识承担，谁也无法替代。

因此，有一种观点开始显得温柔而坦诚：意义并不是宇宙给予的，而是每一个当下的意识所赋予的。每一刻的感受都是真实的，每一次的害怕都是真实的，记忆中的真情也是真实的。珍视这些比追问宇宙的终极更重要。无论是睡着、醒着、恐惧、爱、痛、困惑，都是生命最原始的光。

所谓“究竟的自我”或许可永远无法被找到，因为那本来就不是一个可以被看见的对象。但存在本身无需证明，也无需依附任何外物。只要能在静坐、呼吸、气感、音乐、行走的流动中感到一种“我确实在这里”的稳固，那么这份存在就已经成立。

意义也因此成立。

宇宙也因此成立。

人间也因此成立。

也许最终，一切的答案只是——
存在本身就足够庄严，足够温柔，也足够真实。

War is not that great at all

People often imagine the environment as a colosseum. The environment chooses those who suit them, not the strong. It is the weak (the simple-minded) who suit their environment (and become part of the war machine).

War is not that great at all.

In order to adapt to the various war machines and try to be part of them, people are losing the ability to remain independent (especially to think independently) and their talents are diminishing generation after generation. War does not make us better.

People are divided into different prisons of the mind.

Not only are they used to these walls, but they are born into them. They feel secure as a brick in the wall, and they even enjoy it so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything for words like "glory" (or ironically, "freedom").

Modern finance is based on credit (trust in one's own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important.

Money can generate money and it is not necessarily the elite.   The one who born with power is not the smartest either. 

The 1% is not necessarily capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement.

10% often mistake themselves as 1%.

Be aware of the various slogans, including "freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx(whatever it is ) first", “they evil, we justice”, "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end".

Why do we have to follow any of them or any other supposed prophecy?

If people keep ignoring their inner loss of themselves and unconsciously clinging to various images (e.g. the body) or concepts (e.g. the Holy Name), World War III and the end of the world is inevitable, and it may have already begun in Europe.

Water does not know that she is water, and darkness does not know that he is darkness. When a man is seeking the light, he is blinded by dreams of various lights.

Most serious or intense busy people are dreaming, while the awakened are at peace because they are comfortable with the darkness that does not know the ultimate truth.

All we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true self), whatever it is, it is always there. (If there is an "author", some kind of ultimate power, it must always be there for us too).

Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.(If there is an everlasting war between light and darkness, it has nothing to do with races, nations, religions. It is a war between faith and fear, or hope and fear / faith and doubt.)

Mind yourself first. Loose both inside and outside light and dark. 

Let it (mirror/darkness/inside) be. Let it (image/lights/outside) come and go. 

Talk, even argue, don’t curse ,fight, even war.

(If necessary, for some kind of emergency, we can bet on a sports match. Every life is unique, not just a statistic.)

The opposition of what can sense and what is sensed, the opposition of mirror image, the opposition of I and non-I, is called objectified thinking，which is growing up with self-knowledge,

  both of which end up trapping us into a dilemma. Either be a miserable sensitive person or a happy ignorant beast. This is why drugs are everywhere(including digital ones and “spiritual” ones) .

Every pair of eyes is different, and we see ourselves differently from how others see us. This is why we feel alone.

The reflection of light takes time.

So we can never see us in the mirror as we are now, all we see is history. You have changed.

If the change is so rapid and you are so sensitive that you suddenly find a face in the mirror that seems to be a stranger whose facial expression does not match your current emotions, you too may go crazy.

Somehow we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any attachment (including concepts) such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā, etc., ........ that can never satisfy our desire to find the true Self or the real us. For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. What we really desire is the 'mirror' and not 'any image', so how can we be satisfied?

You don't have to do anything but realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time.

It's like you're looking for a horse on the back of a horse. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning) you will immediately stop looking.

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Most people look forward to world world war 3 unconsciously.

This is because they have been educated in a different (but practically identical) system of war preparation, where fighting for resources is unquestionable.

For example, hardly anyone questions the logic in "The Avengers' Infinite War" or "The Three Bodies", even though they have been taught the law of conservation of energy separately in school.

War is not that great at all.

In order to adapt to the various war machines and try to be part of them, people are losing the ability to remain independent (especially to think independently) and their talents are diminishing generation after generation. War does not make us better.

People often imagine the environment as a colosseum. The environment chooses those who suit them, not the strong. It is the weak (the simple-minded) who suit their environment (and become part of the war machine).

One would think they could use a war to settle the ultimate choice between faiths. (At first it seemed like other issues, such as "who deserve all sorts of resources")

If the law of conservation of energy is correct.

No energy gets consumed, it just keeps shifting or transferring between different forms.

So, much science fiction is wrong.

The speed (kinetic energy) of anything (such as a spacecraft) cannot be escalated infinitely.

That's why the speed of light seems to be the same for all.

In a way, we can say that life is also a form of energy.

Therefore, there is a limit to the number of any species.

There is no need for any war to reduce the population for fearing that there will not be enough energy to consume.

The Western push for individuality was an illusion and the reality was that the family could not be regulated into a screw or a brick to the detriment of industrialisation.

In the film Shawshank, there is a word called "institutionalisation".

People are divided into different prisons of the mind.

Not only are they used to the wall, but they have become a brick in it, they even like it so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything for a word like "glory" (or ironically, "freedom").

We, Homo sapiens, have used ideas/concepts to organise various war machines and exterminate many species. Maybe we deserve to use it killing each other. (Cf. Homo sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind).

But it is a shame to leave a marvellous universe without anyone to appreciate it. (Allow me to assume that aliens would make the same mistake as we do).

If people keep ignoring their inner loss of themselves and unconsciously clinging to various images (e.g. the body) or concepts (e.g. the Holy Name), World War III and the end of the world is inevitable, and it may have already begun in Europe in the conflict near the borders of Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

Any world will eventually be ended. This does not matter. For, life is an energy which will be recycled, which means that after the death of a life or an entire world there will be a new world.

But it is a shame that a beautiful world like Earth is being ended in a war of names/concepts. What can we do to prepare for it? We should do our best to stop it.

Be aware of all kinds of slogans.

If we are facing the end of the world.

Then it is not a catastrophe from outside, but from the "trap of self-knowledge" and the "trap of modernisation"/"trap of standardisation of extreme development (war machine)".

The trap of self-consciousness is, simply put, that having an "I" obscures the true self (losing oneself) and that one inevitably becomes anxious, nervous and distressed to the point of insanity, often resorting to conceptualised nomenclature.

The so-called "modernisation trap" is that the war machine, which has existed since ancient times, has been given an extreme boost by the application of mathematics in the standardisation of parts and components, and that the so-called nomenclature wars or battles have become increasingly intense and have approached the "singularity" due to the propaganda and ideological struggles of the respective unifying ideas.

Modern finance is based on credit (trust in one's own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important.

Money can generate money and it is not necessarily the elite.   The one who born with power is not the smartest either. 

The 1% is not necessarily capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement.

10% often mistake themselves as 1%.

Be aware of the various slogans, including "freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx(whatever it is ) first" "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end".

Why do we have to follow any of them or any other supposed prophecy?

Sorry for disturbing. (Neither side is free, they both blocked my statement.

(We are just bricks on different walls, when in fact the walls are the same).

Eve did not lie, there was a serpent, which is an allegory that talks about a sense of continuity such as time or memory. Without such feelings, there are no conditions for the formation of self-awareness or self-knowledge.

Humans are the most complex animals on the planet. If your body is too simple to perceive your environment clearly, you will find it difficult to perceive the movement and change of everything in front of you.

Without sensing moving or changing images, it is difficult to form the concept or idea of a mirror/screen/stage/platform (self-awareness or self-knowledge), which is often referred to as the ego.

The opposition of what can be and what is, the opposition of mirror image, the opposition of I and non-I, is called objectified thinking，which is growing up with self-knowledge,

  both of which end up trapping us into a dilemma. Either be a miserable sensitive person or a happy ignorant beast. This is why drugs are everywhere(including digital ones and “spiritual” ones) .

The reflection of light takes time.

So we can never see us in the mirror as we are now, all we see is history. You have changed.

If the change is so rapid and you are so sensitive that you suddenly find a face in the mirror that seems to be a stranger whose facial expression does not match your current emotions, you too may go crazy.

Somehow we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any attachment (including concepts) such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā, etc., ........ that can never satisfy our desire to find the true Self or the real us. For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. What we really desire is the 'mirror' and not 'any image', so how can we be satisfied?

You don't have to do anything but realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time.

It's like you're looking for a horse on the back of a horse. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning) you will immediately stop looking.

Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

The creator (author) could be a monkey who is typing at random. We just happen to be living in a readable novel in which logic seems to be at work, but not really, and it is the monkey who creates all the illusions that is really at work.

It doesn't matter who the author is. (It is the eternal ultimate question and secret, hidden not only behind all that we sense, but also by all the concepts we imagine, including the Tao, God and emptiness.

One might think that the creator (the author) is so important that all meaning depends on him. But is the meaning of an author complete if he has no readers, especially the author of a detective novel? You might even ask: does he really have any meaning, no matter how big he is, how long he lives, or how great he is in any way?

I asked my son the other day, when he was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?" ." No, at night it's black." He's clever." If there was a superman whose eyes could and always did see infrared or ultraviolet light, would the sky be blue or black for him?" Without the eyes of life, colour means nothing to the sky.

Why should we doubt the meaning of life, why should we not doubt the meaning of the universe, or even the meaning of the creator. No matter how small we may be, no matter how short our lives may be.

Lao Tzu: The sky/heaven and the earth (representing the Mother who created all things) are without mercy.

In order to fulfill the author's meaning, the reader must be ignorant.

A truth-teller (the fortune-teller who is always right) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.

Ignorance of our true nature is the source of our stress, anxiety, misery and suffering. Is it worth it? Depends on how much beauty, joy, love you can find in your life (sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you). If very little, you may deeply question why you were created.

Water does not know that she is water, and darkness does not know that he is darkness. When a man is seeking the light, he is blinded by dreams of various lights.

Most serious or intense busy people are dreaming, while the awakened are at peace because they are comfortable with the darkness that does not know the ultimate truth.

What we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true selves), whatever it is, it is always there.

However, within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need to believe.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

See you. When there is no war in the news, I stop.

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What was Adam's original sin?

It is good to see some of you using the Bible as a kind of allegory. However, I don't think this sin is about honesty or lies.

Self-consciousness, self-knowledge, is itself the source of sin, which is why it is called original sin.

Eve did not lie, there was a serpent, which is an allegory that talks about a sense of continuity such as time or memory. Without such feelings, there are no conditions for the formation of self-awareness or self-knowledge.

Humans are the most complex animals on the planet. If your body is too simple to perceive your environment clearly, you will find it difficult to perceive the movement and change of everything in front of you.

Without sensing moving or changing images, it is difficult to form the concept or idea of a mirror/screen/stage/platform (self-awareness or self-knowledge), which is often referred to as the ego.

I hope I have made this clear enough for you to understand.

If not, please refer to my other answers.

By the way, there is no need to confess to anyone other than yourself. If you can't forgive yourself, how can you forgive others.

And that despite everyone who is self-conscious or self-aware is selfish and has sinned, without us, there is no meaning of God, or at least any meaning of God must be done by us.

Please refer to my other reply. Min John Zhou's answer to "Why we were created (a Buddhist perspective)".

Why were we created (the Buddhist view)?

I don't think a Buddhist would think he was created. (I am not a Buddhist, by the way).

He might think he is a castle built on Lego bricks, or some forest based on woods.

And he may refer to the Lego factory or the seeds of the woods as a kind of emptiness or nothingness.

If so, this means that they (the Buddhists) are assuming a closed room, a hermetically sealed space. All detectives should be looking for the murderer within its confines.

By the way, some scientists (if not all) are doing the same thing. Otherwise, all their logic could be an ineffective effort at any time, because it could be undermined by some external factor anywhere.

People love Sherlock Holmes and admire his ability to be logical.

And we are justified in not liking chaos. Without a stable environment, such as a sealed room, which serves as a better weapon than our arms and hands, our logic seems weak. It is like a small boat in a rough sea. Although this boat is so stable, as in the logic that 1+1 always = 2, how can we expect it to be able to handle the chaos of the ocean?

But there is always a different voice.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: It is superstition to believe in causality.

(It is possible that 1=1 is an illusion and that 1+1 leads to 2 is also an illusion that we believe in as fact or truth, just as we do with other superstitions.)

To me, this means that the creator (author) could be a randomly typing monkey. We just happen to live in a readable novel in which logic seems to be at work but not really, and it is the monkey who creates all the illusions that is really at work. There are other unreadable books, possibly infinite, including some novels in which there is a different logic to ours, which must be absurd to us. If we happen to get into them, we might deny all the strange things we encounter in order to defend our own logic.

It doesn't matter who the author is. (It is the eternal ultimate puzzle and secret, hidden not only behind everything we sense, but also by all the concepts we imagine, including "Tao", God, nothingness.) Let it be. Whether it is a monkey, some kind of chaos, nothingness, or something more ridiculous, anyone is the same to us.

One might think that the creator (the author) is so important that all meaning depends on him. But is the meaning of an author complete if he has no readers, especially the author of a detective novel? You might even ask: does he really have any meaning, no matter how big he is, how long he lives, or how great he is in any way?

I asked my son the other day, when he was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?" .

"No, at night it is black". He was clever.

"If there was a superman whose eyes could and always did see infrared or ultraviolet light, would the sky be blue or black to him?"

Without the eyes of life, colour means nothing to the sky.

Why should we doubt the meaning of life, why should we not doubt the meaning of the universe, or even the meaning of the creator.

No matter how small we may be, no matter how short our lives may be.

Lao Tzu: Heaven/Heaven and Earth (representing the Mother Nature that created all things) have no mercy.

In order to fulfill the author's meaning, the reader must be ignorant.

A truth-teller (the fortune-teller who is always right) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.

Ignorance of our true nature is the source of our stress, anxiety, suffering and pain.

(Refer to my other answer Min John Zhou's answer to What is causing Dhukka?)

Is it worth it? Depends on how much beauty, joy, love you can find in your life (sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you).

If very little, you may wonder deeply why you were created.

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What led to Dhukka?

As far as I know, many Buddhists (I am not a Buddhist, by the way.) believe that what causes Dukkha (pain, suffering, stress, anxiety ......)   is our desire to cling to various attachments.

This seems better than blaming the world or life.

As Lao Tzu once said, our real enemy is ourselves.

We should not blame what we are attached or attached to; we should scrutinise the suspects who may be committing such attachments , namely ourselves.

But as Mao Tse-tung once said, there must be some reason behind all hatred or love. Is it possible that we are blaming ourselves too much?

Although according to Ludwig Wittgenstein it's superstition to believe in causality.

But if you have this belief that there must be a reason behind everything.

Then why do we have this obsessive desire to do so.

There is a parable in the Bible.

A madman passed a mirror as he walked.

For some reason he thought that the image in the mirror was of another person.

He admired the person's beautiful face and head very much.

Suddenly he panics, for if this head belongs to another person, where is his own head?

Where was his own head? Why could he not see his own head?

So, from then on, this madman ran around looking for his own head, but he could not find it.

Is this just a crazy person without a reason?

Is it absolutely ourselves that we see in the mirror?

You know it takes time for light to reflect.

That's why we can never see us in the mirror as we are now; all we see is history.

You have changed. If changes are so fast and you are so sensitive.

You suddenly realise that the face in the mirror seems to be that of a stranger whose facial expression doesn't match your current mood, and you too may go crazy.

Somehow (probably because of the self-knowledge), we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any obsessions such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā and other concepts, ........

can never satisfy our desire to find our true self or the real us.

For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. How can we be satisfied when what we really desire is 'the mirror' and not 'any image'?

This dissatisfaction leads us to try even harder to cling or attach.

And this dissatisfaction or this desire itself implies anxiety or stress and can be called 'Dukkha'.

"Images" are constantly changing and the fact that we have gained them at one time means that we can lose them at any time.

We can never see the 'mirror or the stage' or feel it in some way so that we can be sure we have found it. (It is always the one ultimate secret hidden behind all that we feel and all the concepts we imagine).

Let us suppose that the madman in the parable had no hands and that he could never touch his head to be sure that it was there all along.

If that were the case, how could he stop his madness?

Śūraṅgama Sūtra tells us that once we can stop this madness, we will get the peace we want, which is called Bodhi.

It seems easy because you don't have to do anything, just realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time.

It is like when you are looking for a horse on horseback. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning), you will immediately stop looking.

(According to Da Jian Huineng, this sudden realisation is the ultimate path and the only path to awakening or enlightenment or eventual liberation called Nirvana.)

But if this enlightenment was really that easy, you would all know it already, so why should I bother typing so much.

All we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true self), whatever it is, it is always there.

However, within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need to believe.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

Be aware to all kinds of slogans

 If we are facing an ending of the world.

Then it is not a catastrophe from outside, but from the "self-consciousness trap" and the "modernisation trap" / "standardisation (war machine) trap of extreme development".

The self-consciousness trap, in simple terms, means that having an "I" would hide the true self (lost oneself), one is inevitably anxious, stressed, and distressed to the point of insanity, often resorting to conceptual nomenclature.

The so-called "modernisation trap" is that due to the application of mathematics in the standardisation of parts, the war machine, which has existed since ancient times, has been given a extreme boost, and due to the propaganda and ideological warfare of the respective unified ideas, the so-called nomenclature dispute or war has become more and more intense and is nearing the "singularity".

Modern finance is based on credit  (trust in their own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important.

Money can generate money, and it doesn't have to be the elite. The ones born with power don't have to be the human elite either.

The 1% may not necessarily be capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement.

Be aware to all kinds of slogans, including “freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx (whatever) first" "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end".

Why must we follow any of them or any other so-called prophecy?

Sorry for disturbing.  (There are no freedom at both sides, they all block my speaking.

We're just bricks at different walls, actually the walls are the same.)

 the reflection of light need time.

So we can never see the present us in a mirror, all we see is the history.

You've changed. If the changing is so quick and you're so sensitive,

you suddenly find the the face in mirror seems a stranger whose facial expression doesn't fit your current emotion, you may also go crazy.

In one way, we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any attachments, e.g. body, thoughts, state of no thoughts, spiritual experiences, concepts such as Tao, God, Śūnyatā, ........

can never satisfy our desire of finding the true self or the real us.

Because they are all like images in a mirror, or TV set, or other stage or platform. What we really desire is "the mirror", not "any images", so how can we be satisfied?

you don't need to do any anything, just realizing the real you or the true self is always there.

It is like you're searching for a horse on a horseback. Once you realize you are riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning), you will stop the searching immediately.

Water doesn't know she is water, Darkness doesn't know he is darkness.

When someone is seeking brightness, he or she would be blinded by all kinds of dreams of lights.

Most of people who is serious or nervous and busy are  dreaming, the awaken ones are in peace because they are comfortable with the darkness of not knowing the ultimate truth.

All we need to do is having a faith in ourselves (the unknown true oneself), no matter what it is, it is always there.

However inside of each yang there always is yin,   every faith/hope is based on doubt/fear. 

If you've already 100% certain about something, there is no need of a belief.

So, the real ultimate war  between light and darkness is inside of us, not outside.

Sorry for disturbing.  

(There are no freedom at both sides, they all block my speaking.

We're just bricks at different walls, actually the walls are the same.)

 the creator (the author) could be a monkey who is typing randomly. We just happen to be living in a readable novel where logic appears working but not really, the actually working one is the monkey who creates all the illusion. 

Anyway it doesn't matter who is the author. (This is a everlasting ultimate question and secret not only hidden behind all the things we are sensing but also concealed by all the concepts we're imagining including Tao, God, emptiness。）Let it be, a monkey，some kind of chaos, nothingness, or some even more ridiculous thing, anyone is the same to us.(Unless we have to find and pay him for the copyright.)

People may think the creator (the author) is so important, that all the meanings depend on him. But if an author has no reader, especial a writer of detective novel, is his meaning complete? You can even ask: is there really any meaning for him, no matter how huge or how long living or how great in any way he is?

One day I asked my son who was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?".

"No, at night it is black." He is smart.

"If there is a superman whose eyes are able to and always see the infrared ray or ultraviolet light，to him is the sky blue or black?"

Without the eyes of a life, colors means nothing to the sky.

Why we're wondering the meaning of life, why we don't suspect the meaning of universe, and even the meaning of creator.

No matter how small we are, no matter how brief our lives are.

Laozi: sky/heaven and earth ( which represent the mother nature who create everything) has no mercy.

In order to complete the meaning of the author, the readers have to be ignorant.

A truth teller (an always right fortune teller) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.

The ignorance of the true nature of ourselves are the source of our stress, anxieties, sufferings, pains.

 

Is it worthy? depend on how much beauty, joy, love (Sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you) you can find in your life.

If very little, you may deeply wonder why were you created.

Sorry for disturbing. Bye. 

(There are no freedom at both sides, they all block my speaking.

We're just bricks at different walls, actually the walls are the same.)

See you. I would stop when there is no war on news.

There is a fable in Śūraṅgama Sūtra.

A crazy man was walking and passing by a mirror.

For some reason he thought the image in the mirror is another man.

He was so admiring that man's pretty face and head.

And suddenly he panicked, because if that head belongs to other man,

where is his own head? Why he can't see his own head?

So from then on this crazy man run all over the places looking for his own head but how can he find it.

Is this just a mad person who have no reason?

Is what we see in the mirror definitely ourselves?

You know the reflection of light need time.

So we can never see the present us in a mirror, all we see is the history.

You've changed. If the changing is so quick and you're so sensitive,

you suddenly find the the face in mirror seems a stranger whose facial expression doesn't fit your current emotion, you may also go crazy.

In one way, we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any attachments, e.g. body, thoughts, state of no thoughts, spiritual experiences, concepts such as Tao, God, Śūnyatā, ........

can never satisfy our desire of finding the true self or the real us.

Because they are all like images in a mirror, or TV set, or other stage or platform. What we really desire is "the mirror", not "any images", so how can we be satisfied?

This unsatisfactoriness cause more effort to cling or attach.

and this unsatisfactoriness or this desire himself means anxiety or stress which could be called "Dukkha".

The "images" are changing, and the fact we've gained them sometime means we can lose them anytime.

We can never see"the mirror or stage", or sense it in some way so that we can be sure that we've found it. (It is always a ultimate secret hidden behind all the things we sense and all the concepts we're imagining)

Let's assume that madman in that fable has no hands, he can never touch his head to be sure that his head is always there.

If so how can he stop his madness?

Śūraṅgama Sūtra tell us once we can stop this madness, we will get the desired peace, which is called Bodhi.

It seems easy because you don't need to do any anything, just realizing the real you or the true self is always there.

It is like you're searching for a horse on a horseback. Once you realize you are riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning), you will stop the searching immediately.

（According to Dajian Huineng, this kind of sudden realizing is the final way and only way to awakening or enlightenment or ultimate liberation nirvana)

But If this kind of realizing is really so easy, all of you would've already known it, why I need make the effort to type so much words.

All we need to do is having a faith in ourselves (the unknown true oneself), no matter what it is, it is always there.

However inside of each yang there always is yin,   every faith/hope is based on doubt/fear. 

If you've already 100% certain about something, there is no need of a belief.

So, the real ultimate war  between light and darkness is inside of us, not outside.