My three friends
I
have never visited China, but my heart is full of love for that great country,
and it is an ancient civilization. Oh, dear it is nobility matching the Egyptian
civilization!
My
obsession with China began few years
ago, when I read for first time about it, and enjoyed my soul by it's history,
philosophy, art, and literature. At that time I considered my self as a friend
to China and brilliants Chinese.
Is that possible? I mean became friend, to hundreds people never ever meet
them in your life ,not mention they are lived since ages. It is happened to me,
I have many friends from China I only knew them through papers and words, it is
glimpse from the blessing of reading, by
the alphabet we can travel to any place, any time and meet anyone whether in
great palace or poor cottage, by this bless I traveled a lot to China, let's
discover what I saw during my imaginary journey, with my three friends in ancient
China.
I saw Lao-tzu beside The Yangtze river, thinks about (tao)
for now and then wander in his thoughts across the world, once reach the sky, once
more go down to the earth to create( tao) or the road to humanism, for explain
how nature works, how the human harmony with life, through 5000 words, picked
them from the depth of his soul, then put them together, in book named(tao te
ching) which we know it as (the way and virtue). I heard him sigh and mumble:
"My words are easy to understand and easy to perform.
Yet no one under heaven know them or practices them.
My words have ancient beginnings.
My action are disciplined.
Because men don’t understand,they have no knowledge of me.
Those that who know me are few.
Those that abuse me hundred.
Therefor the sage wears rough, closing and holds the jewel
in his heart.
I seeking for that jewel in the heart and philosophy of Lao
tzu, hoping to can handel with daily proplem, and life suffering, specially
anecity. I learned so much and becam see the life by more resoniable, he teach
me"to attain knowledge, add things every day, to attain wisdom, remove
things every day", "from caring comes courge".
I followed tao as Lao tzu hint it, afterward find it in Western philosophy philosophy particulary soticism,
and relegion, take differint names, but every time I remmeber, the old man who
riding ox as I saw him in portrait by Zhung lu, an artist luved during the ming
dynasty, the great master, his personality explained by Confucius when said
about him to his puplis when meet him"I know how birds can fly, fishes
swim, and animal run, but the runer may be snared, the swimmer hooked, and the
flyer shot by the arrow. But there is the dragon on the wind through the clouds
and rises to heaven, today I have seen Lao tzu, and compare him only to the dragon".
During that period of Lao tzu life, I sit witch Confucius
disciples, watching the master teaching and advising, his quotes and notions
has been compiled into classic work called"Analects" it is considered
the origin of China national spirit and wisdom, analects in China as Bible in
the west.
That man suffered a lot in his life, one day while walking
through mountains, accompanied by his disciples, t tracked them, and I have
seen situation I never forget, it is indicated to injustice and persecution in
our world, the master and his disciples surprised to find an old woman cry
beside a grave, Confucius sent one of his student to ask the cause of her greif,
she said"my husband father's was killed by tiger, and my husband also, and
now my son meet the same fate".Confucius asked why she persisted in living
in so dangerous place, she replied"there is no oppressive government here"Confucious
turn to his company and said"my children remember this oppressive government
is fierce than tiger"so when confucius appintment as chief magistrate of the
town called Chang tu, the honesty sweep through the city, and put an end for
evil when became a ministre of crime, the chinese record told us"dishonesty
and dissoluteness were ashamed and hid their heads".
I believed what he said about a good person made a good
family, and a good family can establish a good state, where every one can live
in harmony, an if there is away to the real benevolence, the slogan of this way
must be what master said"do not do unto others, what would not want the
others do unto you".
When I entered to the kingdom of Chinese poetry, first one I
meet was "the banished angel" Li po, his poems and life stirred
smiles and tears, I smiled when emperor Ming huang received important message from
Korea written in dialect no one could understand, the emperor gave them three
days to decipher the letter, or they will be punished, one of them tell ming
huang about a poet of great talent and knowledge called Li po, the emperor summoned
him, but he refused, because his essay had been rejected by the officials at the examination, the emperor
gave him title of doctor of first rank, and when he came found his examiners
between the ministers, forced them to take of his boots, then translated the letter.
My heart depressed because of his hard life, when his wife dumped
him and took the children with her because he earned so little money, and my
tears gleaming every time I hear him say to his absent children's in great
affection:
" png-yang, my pretty daughter, I see you stand
By the peach tree and pluck flowering brunch.
You pluck the flowers, but I am not there.
How your tears flow like a stream of water!
My little son, po-chin grown up to your sister's shoulders,
You come out with her under the peach tree,
But who is there to pat you on the back,
When I think of these things my sense fail,
And
sharp pain cut my heart everyday.
Now
I tear of a piece of white silk to write thus letter,
And
send it to you with my love along way up the river.
his
last years were bitter, wars and revolutions happend in China influenced him , until died, when drowned in a river while attempting,
in hilarious intixication to embrace the moon reflection on the water, what a
death! Suitable to a rare soul like Li po, one of my Chinese friends.
我的三个朋友 我从未访问过中国,但我的内心对那个伟大的国家充满了爱,它是一个古老的文明。 哦,亲爱的,这是与埃及文明相匹配的贵族。 我对中国的痴迷始于几年前,当时我第一次读到中国,我的灵魂是历史、哲学、艺术和文学。 当时我把自己当成了中国的朋友,也是中国人。 这可能吗。 我的意思是成为朋友,数百人在你的生活中从未见过他们,更不用说他们已经活了很久了。 这是发生在我身上,我有很多来自中国的朋友,我只通过论文和文字认识他们,从阅读的祝福中窥见,通过字母表,我们可以到任何地方,任何时间,无论是在大皇宫还是贫穷的小屋,通过这个祝福,我到中国旅行了很多,让我们和我在中国古代的三个朋友一起发现我在想象中的旅程中所看到的东西。 我在长江边看到老子,现在思考(道),然后在他的思想中徘徊在世界各地,一旦到达天空,再次下到地球去创造(道)或人文主义之路,通过5000个字,从他的灵魂深处挑选出来,然后把它们放在一起,写成我们所知道的《道德经》(道德经)。 我听到他叹了口气,喃喃自语: "我的话很容易理解,很容易执行。 然而,没有人知道他们或实践他们。 我的话语有古老的开端。 我的行动是有纪律的. 因为男人不明白,他们对我一无所知。 认识我的人很少。 那些虐待我的人。 因此,圣人穿着粗糙,关闭并将宝石放在心中。 我在老子的心和哲学中寻找那颗宝石,希望能与日常的进步和生活的痛苦,特别是anecity打交道。 我学到了很多东西,并且变得更加共鸣地看待生活,他教我"获得知识,每天添加东西,获得智慧,每天删除东西","从关怀中来courge"。 我按照老子的暗示,后来在西方哲学哲学中找到了它,特别是在西方哲学哲学中,我取了不同的名字,但每次我都想起了一个骑牛的老人,他是明代艺术家鲁维德(zhung lu)的肖像,伟大的大师,他的个性是孔子在遇见他时对他说的:"我知道鸟能飞,鱼能游,动物能跑,但符人可能会被网住,游泳者钩住,箭射的传单。 但是风上有龙穿云升天,今天我见过老子,把他比作龙"。 在老子生活的那段时间里,我坐在孔子的弟子面前,看着大师的教导和建议,他的名言和观念被编成了经典的着作《论语》,被认为是中国民族精神和智慧的起源,《论语》在中国作为西方的圣经。 那人一生受了很多苦,有一天,在他的门徒的陪同下,在山间漫步,我看到了我永远不会忘记的情况,这表明了我们这个世界的不公正和迫害,大师和他的门徒惊讶地发现一个老妇人在坟墓旁哭泣,孔子派他的一个学生去问她的死因,她说:"我丈夫父亲被老虎杀死了,我丈夫也被杀死了,现在我的儿子也遇到了同样的命运"。 孔子问她为什么坚持住在如此危险的地方,她回答说:"这里没有压迫政府",孔子转向他的公司说:"我的孩子记得这个压迫政府比老虎还凶",所以当孔子被任命为常土镇的首席地方官时,诚实扫过城市,当成为犯罪的部长时,就结束了邪恶,中国的记录告诉我们:"不诚实和放荡是羞愧的,隐藏了他们的头"。 我相信他所说的一个好人是一个好家庭,一个好家庭可以建立一个好的国家,每个人都可以和睦相处。 当我进入中国诗歌王国时,我首先遇到的是"被放逐的天使"李波,他的诗歌和生活激起了微笑和泪水。当明皇收到韩国用方言写的重要信息时,我微笑着,皇帝给了他们三天的时间来破译这封信,否则他们将受到惩罚。, 当他来到部长之间发现他的考官,迫使他们把他的靴子,然后翻译的信。 我的心郁闷,因为他辛苦的生活,当他的妻子甩了他,并采取与她的孩子,因为他赚这么少的钱,我的眼泪闪闪发光,每次我听到他说,他缺席的孩子在极大的: "png-yang,我漂亮的女儿,我看到你站着 在桃树旁,采摘开花的早午餐。 你摘了花,但我不在那里。 你的眼泪如何像水流一样流动。 我的小儿子,宝琴长大到你妹妹的肩膀上, 你和她一起在桃树下出来, 但谁在那里拍拍你的背, 当我想到这些事情时,我的感觉就会失败, 剧痛每天都割伤我的心。 现在我撕下一块白丝写这封信, 把它带着我的爱送到河边。 他的最后几年是痛苦的,中国发生的战争和革命对他产生了影响,他死了,直到死了,当他试图在河里淹死时,以滑稽的方式拥抱月亮在水面上的倒影,真是一个死亡。 适合一个罕见的灵魂,像李波,我的中国朋友之一