聊聊信仰和文化

最近在哲学思辨讨论组里比较活跃:

说易经,有点难避开信仰这类话题。很容易自然地和其他的经对比分析。


是的,易经是中华先祖的生活经,从伏羲氏一画开天到她”建立”第一个人类”二进制”代码为特点的”天气预报站’(这个有点想像类比成分),创造”水”字…开始,咱祖先在漫长的时间里沉淀提炼出来的高级智慧逐渐从一横,两短横(有的是一撇,一撇一折…),携带着口头表述的发展,汇聚成书面的文字,并发展演化进步,成为我们现在在这里交流的汉语语言和文化,并和医学、天文学、哲学、社会学、农业学、文学….相互联系渗透影响和促进,成为一个易经文化系统。这个过程,是中国文化的发展史,社会进步史,也是世界一份极其珍贵的智慧发展科技史。说易经是中国文化的源头,与中国文字的这般多方位多角度齐头并进演化是一个问题的两个方面。而易经文化,重点是要通过生活提炼出我们生活的这个地球环境是如何决定和影响着人类的生存和发展。所以,围绕太阳,月亮,地球和人的研究是易经的主线,是人类生活生存能量的基本密码。


文化是什么?文化是天天渗透于我们的生活细节但没法用语言简单描述的东西。有文化的社会,人们的信仰就是这个文化。我们的文化既然是围绕日月人地球展开,怎么体现在我们的点滴生活里?


“天啊!我忘了”
“老天爷,快下点雨吧”
“上天作证,我…”
… 这些不需要人教,每个说中文的中国人都会说!!!!都会说!我们口里的老天爷,来自祖先心里的天地人合一,这恰恰是所有中国人的文化,所有中国人的信仰。试问每个中国人:你有信仰吗?


在没有文化沉淀或自身文化沉淀过程中因为社会结构和分配方式的走向而受影响的社会里,信仰可能沦为控制人们思想的工具,比如基督教,伊斯兰教,佛教。为什么这么说?他们不是都提倡忏悔自省关爱互助吗?佛家修身心语:心如莲花,不再恨人;基督教认为上帝是监察人心的神。古印度瑜珈(Yoga)、中国的气功、西藏密宗、或是印地安人的信仰里都提到心轮的打开— 这些对爱和心的认知为什么说其实是控制思想的武器?得看背后的目的。为了某个目的,基督教宣扬人去世后可以升入天堂,佛教说人归西后能进入西方极乐世界,伊斯兰教宣扬阿拉会在人去世后赋予人新的生命。


中国人骨子里是寄希望于来生呢?还是这一生能向天再借500年??

友:The Two Hands in One Direction

My partner went through a major surgery recently. The two chief cardiovascular surgeons came from two different hospitals. When they walked out of the surgery room for this ten-hour operation to tell me it was successful, I saw heartily smile and confidence on their faces. They are celebrating their successful cooperation as good friends and also as business rivals at the same time.

My whole family is sincerely grateful for Prof. Yin’s reaching out to Chief Dr. Zheng for this surgery operation in order to save my partner’s life. Although the various situations before the surgery operation were very complicated, the two doctors who treat saving a patient’s life as the fundamental starting point, in the face of difficulties and resistances, with their superb medical skills, saved a life struggling in the line of death.

Prof. Yin and Chief Dr. Zheng have done several combined surgeries before, like many other good doctors and surgeries, crossing hospitals, cities, and regions, to save patients’ lives. It reminds me of a short video by Richard Sears, an American living in China, who is called Mr. Hanzi(汉字先生). In his short video, he was telling what the Chinese character友(friends; friendship) vividly means.

Profoundly and pictographically, 友 yǒu (friends; friendship) draws a picture of two hands reaching out in the same direction. Over the long history, Chinese ancients regarded同志曰友- people with the same innate purpose and determination(志) as friends. Their wills resonate with each other and their hands extend in the same direction.

What if the two hands are not in the same direction? That is well reflected by another simple Chinese character 争 zhēng (contend, dispute, fight, strive, compete). Vividly, when two hands pull one thing in two opposite directions, they are fighting and competing. And our ancients carved this meaning into the character争. Compared to斗(fight), 争 involves two components.

We always say: competition promotes development. Fortunately, good friends, being the competitors at the same time, give each life endless motivations.

Looking around, when Su Yiming and Max Parrot claimed their Gold and Silver; when Apple and Huawei compete on the mobile market; when solar and wind increasingly devote more as human renewable energy, when the east and the west integrate and promote each other mutually, they play as friends also as the rivals who understand each other’s efforts, persistence, courage, failure, and success the best.

We all have two hands, they are in the opposite positions, but they mutually complement and support each other.

丹: From Ancient Alchemy to Human Health

In today’s world, weapon competition under high-tech integration measures the infinite possession of material wealth and fierce economic strength. But, do you know how gunpowder for weapons was invented as one of the four major inventions in ancient China and why it was all about human #health?

Ancient Chinese believed that living between heaven and earth, humans can prolong their lives by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. About 4000 years ago, during the Yellow Emperor period, they started to collect this essence to improve health so that they could live in longevity. In 1700 BC, the existence of the Oracle character of “丹(dān) – red, cinnabar, powder, pill” recorded the early birth of ancient mining, refining, alchemy, and how 丹 was used in making a life-prolonging elixir.

Vividly, 丹 draws a mining well and the mining powders inside. Nowadays, the basic meanings of 丹 include 1)cinnabar, 2) the color of vermillion; red, 3) a kind of refined medicine.

Unlike many other religions’ beliefs on this planet that God will forgive human repentance and give immortality to the afterlife, ancient Chinese always looked for present longer life and spent a big amount of effort in making pills of immortality out of the mining essence of earth. Historical books and museums give proves of the existence of the ancient alchemy furnaces that hold the secret knowledge of longevity over thousands of years.

When we dig deeper, we will find that 丹 has an extended meaning of whole-hearted, or, absolute sincerity. Why?

While people were refining pills out of earth essence for immortality, with the Yin & Yang theories, with the traditional medical concepts regarding the human body and mind as a whole, experienced Taoists told us that humans have our own essence for prolonged life in our body too.

Many people know about Qi Gong(气功) and heard about Dan Tian(丹田). Qi Gong practices body Qi flow through a deep breath down to the abdomen area where the human lower Dan Tian resides. The human brain, where the human upper Dan Tian is, regulates all human biochemical processes, behaviors, and mental emotions. In the middle is the heart, also the king of the body, acting as the bridge, the energy amplifier of body Qi and Blood circulations. In another word, the human heart transforms the human body and spiritual energies.

With an absolute sincerer whole #heart, a human’s innate essence of life would be awakened to blossom into higher spirits.

After a long time of enormous manpower and resources spent in over-consuming earth’s essence to satisfy human’s material needs and pursuits, while war, conflicts, violence, poverty are still threatening human harmony and development, now, it is everyone’s responsibility to act in stopping the gunpowder’s killing earth and lives and pursuing a harmonious and peaceful world together with #MotherEarth.

This is what history meant for the world’s future.

#chineseculture#mandarin#love

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静: Stillness is the Biggest Movement

Time brings a great change to the world. With technology’s daily fast development, substance brings forth the fresh at every single moment. A richly decorated crystal and jade palace today will all flutter away like a passing cloud one day. Only the eternal history and culture, passed down by hundreds of generations through the precipitation of words and characters. Over those countless springs and autumns, classics emerged with wisdom were invisibly carved into fabulous Chinese characters, long and new.

At this new noisy age, let’s walk on a new road to talk about “静-Stillness and quietness” today.

Over the long history of Character development, there was not a big change of “静”, remaining with a left part of “青-cyan” and a right half of “争-strive, compete, fight”. There was an interesting saying that the two-characters word “清净-the cleanness and clearness of water” will be “静” when the water part is removed from each of them. Calm like water, it could be a mirror reflecting all things on the planet. What a heartsease and harmony with the rest of the world it describes! But, why this “静-Stillness and quietness” is of half of “争-strive, compete, fight”?

“青-cyan” implying a meaning of the east and spring, is the color of new growing plants. An old version of “争” vividly draws an image of two hands dragging one thing toward two opposite directions, implying strive, compete and fight against each other. Profoundly, ancestors borrowed the nascent vitality of vegetation into a metaphor of how to steadily eliminate distractions, following the original intentional heart, getting the desired ending through this “静”. Putting simple characters of “青” and “争” together reflects profound philosophy: Dynamic and static are two states of things. Stillness gets birth out of the dynamic state and they transform mutually into each other.

Without dynamic reference, there can be no static existence.

As here we are talking about the dynamic and static states, it relates to one point connecting to Einstein’s theory of “Relativity”: the speed of light is the limit speed of the three-dimensional world. The Scale Reduction and Clock Slowness effects show that as long as anything reaches the speed of light, it slows down the time to a speed of 0. It can be assumed that things moving at the speed of light are relatively static for all surrounding objects that also move at the speed of light.

Stillness and quietness in the static state are relative.

  • When a bus runs on the street, we feel it is too fast to catch. But if we are on the bus, we cannot feel it’s moving at a steady speed if we do not look outside.
  • When a flower blooms quietly, the time of a universe of flowers is used up.
  • When seeds germinate, it is in quietness without anyone’s notice.
  • In our body, all cells and organs are changing and replacing at every moment, quietly and inevitably.

We live on the earth, although our Mother Earth rotates at a speed of four hundred and sixty-six meters per second at the equator, we cannot feel it, neither talk about the orbital speed of the earth around the sun of approximately 107,000 kilometers per hour.

All important processes of life happen slowly in a quiet static status. Humans come into this world, bringing their own spirit to combine with the fertilized egg, and then returning back to the universe, it is all in the same quietness. All the processes of human growth happen slowly and silently. No one can go from one year old to twenty years old quickly and soundly…

But, life develops in quietness and statics.

  • In the quiet blooming, flowers flow out the gorgeous colors and the intoxicating fragrance.
  • In the quiet germinating, seeds burst out the unstoppable breaking-ground rising force.
  • With all the quiet metabolisms, the human body grows taller and stronger, while the human thoughts and spirits are growing wider, deeper, higher, and thicker.

The earth absorbs and emits light and heat in her rotation and revolution between the sun and moon, among the universe, so as to sustain her own living system and provide the energy and material base on which everything depends. The earth, like a loving mother, nourishes the development of human beings, and what dominates this motherly love is her active beating heart with big love, under her quiet and calm appearance.

The “争-fight, strive, contend” in “静-Stillness and quietness” is actually telling that there is a big movement and change undergoing in the quietness and calmness. It is reminding us to experience the power in the quietness and calmness, and the power of life from the things that constantly move and change us.

When we are sincere and calm with peace and love in heart, we will always discover the beauty of life.

When we can always discover the beauty of life, we can peacefully handle businesses, corporations, organizations, societies, and even global economic and political matters.

沧海桑田,科技日新月异,物质推陈出新。今日琼楼玉宇,他日不过过眼云烟。唯有永恒的历史和文化,通过文字的沉淀而流传万代。不知经历了多少个春秋岁月,经典和着智慧被毫无痕迹地雕刻在一个个精彩绝伦的汉字里,弥久还新。

在今天这个喧嚣的时代,我们来独辟蹊径地聊一聊“静”。

在漫长的文字演变过程中,“静”没有多大的变化,一直保留了一半的“青”,一半的“争”的字形结构和基本意义。也有说“清净”如水的两个字,去了水,不就是一个“静”。静如流水,好一番心静则明,水止能照万物的心平气和、与世无争。那么为什么“静”的一半得是“争”呢?

青,寓意东方和春天,是初生的自然之物草木的颜色。争的说文解字版形象地表示出上下两只手分别向两个方向拉扯一物,寓意运动,变化和斗争,代表世事多变,人心波动。古人借用草木初生的一片生机盎然里的生命力,排除干扰,秉持初心,方得始终的向上发展;用浅显的故事反映了深刻的哲理:动静代表事物的两种状态。静,源出于动,相对于动;没有动态的参照,就没有静态的存在。

说到动和静,不得不提爱因斯坦的相对论:光速是三维世界里的极限速度。The Scale Reduction and Clock Slowness effects效应指出当事物的速度达到光速时,他们的速度都降为零。由此可推论当所有的事物的速度都为光速时,他们相互之间都是静止的。

这个静止是相对的。

  • 当一朵花静静地绽放时,消耗的是这朵花的世界的所有时间。
  • 当种子安静的发芽时,没有人能够注意到。
  • 在我们的身体里,所有的细胞和器官在每一刻都在悄无声息地变化和新旧更替着,完全不以人的意志为转移。

我们生活在地球上,虽然我们的地球母亲在以赤道466米/秒的速度自转,但我们丝毫感觉不到这个速度,更别提地球绕太阳的轨道公转的速度约为107,000公里/小时。我们这个喧嚣的世界从外太空看回来,不过如一颗挂在深蓝天际的美丽的静谧的蓝色星球。

这个世界的生命中所有重要的过程都是在安静的状态下缓慢发生的。人类来到这个世界,带着自己的灵魂与受精卵结合,一切的过程都是在悄无声息中进行。没有人能快速地从一岁一下子到了二十岁…

但是,生命在所有这些静谧中生机盎然地发展。

  • 花朵在静静的绽放中流淌色彩的斑斓和馥郁幽香。
  • 种子在静静的发芽中爆发破土而出迎难而上的生命嫩芽。
  • 人体在新陈代谢中长高长大,也积累着认知、思维和精神的高度,广度,深度和浓度。

地球母亲也在日月之间的自转和公转中吸收和发散着光和热,维持她自身的生命系统,提供万物赖以生存的生命能源和物质基础。地球如慈母般滋养着人类的发展,支配这份母爱的是她身体深处那颗活跃的跳动的大爱的心。

静中有争,其实是在说静中有动,告诉人要学会从动心的现象与心绪中体验静心,在静心中体会和获得生命的动力。

“做人宜诚,处事宜静”。当我们心平气和,诚挚做人,静心感受身边事物以及我们所拥有的一切,就会不断地发现生活的美。当我们能不断地用心发现生活的美,我们就可以和平圆满地处理业务,团队,组织,社区乃至国际政治经济的一切事情。

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脏-藏: Recharge Your Treasure Boxes

Life is like a rechargeable battery, requiring career recharging, professional recharging, health recharging… from time to time, to maintain a high energy level.

Did this concept exist before the battery’s existence? Yes. And, we can learn it through a single character “脏”.

Ancestors used this “脏” to present human internal organs: Heart心脏, liver肝脏, spleen/stomach脾胃脏, lung肺脏, and kidney肾脏.

In ancient books, “脏” came from “藏”, which means the essence of the body, the hidden treasure and the deposit of life. They are like our body’s treasure boxes:

1. Heart: is the KING of internal organs, the foundation of life, and is in charge of the spiritual mind activities. Heart relates to emotions of joy and hatred. Hatred hurts the heart. Love heals hearts.

2. Liver: is the “traffic police of the human body”, stores blood, regulates the flow of Qi and mental emotions, has the greatest influence on human emotions. Pressure hurts the liver, but a soft temper indicates a healthy liver, a healthy body, and a happy life.

3. Spleen/stomach: is the key to the biochemistry of Qi and Blood, represents the foundation of a human’s acquired life. “Anxiety hurts the heart and lungs, depression hurts the stomach and intestines.”

4. Lung: as the great prime minister under the heart king and above all the cells, lungs balance, govern, and control the vitality of the body, is the first line of defense of our body. Sadness depresses lung Qi and laugh is the cheapest and effective way to praise the lungs.

5. Kidney: is the innate root and driving force of life; the innate foundation of the human body, warms, moisturizes, nourishes, and stimulates the internal organs. Panic/fear damage kidneys; calmness gives strength in dealing with shocking situations.

Even more profoundly, and ironically, “脏” also has a meaning of “dirty”! “脏话”, the human dirty words, are the words from the internal organs, with “dirty” negative energies, a complex mix of hatred/anger/sadness/depression/panic, controlled by a blinded heart.

Interestingly, we discharge our energy during the daytime and we recharge when we sleep at night. If only part of the electricity is charged at night and 100% released during the daytime, where does the remaining energy come from? It’s borrowed from the five internal organs, our innate deposit of life energy. As a result, bad sleep is an indicator of a bad temper, and bad health conditions.

In addition, increasing deposits of positive spirits into our treasure boxes promotes human life.

Chinese characters carry great wisdom of life. Read my book to know more Chinese wisdom: https://lnkd.in/gwkkKFj

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I am Under a 3 Weeks Quarantine

Due to a very important family emergency, I had to put on hold everything at hand and fly back to China from Canada within a week.

Very urgently, I went through a 48-hours-leading-time pre-boarding COVID19 FlyClear RT-PCR swab test and antibody blood test. With both tests’ negative results, I successfully got my Green-QR-Code; and boarded on the international airplane, flying towards Guangzhou.

At the moment we boarded the plane, we were all treated as high-risk virus carriers:

– The crew and all working people on the way were all in full protective clothing
– The airplane landed at a separate terminal building
– We must register all personal ID information together with COVID test results with the Frontier Pandemic Prevention Center
– We went through a fully closed-loop entry channel
– We did the second time swab test before entering the custom
– We claimed our luggage and followed the guidance to take a bus to a quarantine hotel which was uniformly arranged by the government
– We got 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th swab tests on the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 14th day in the hotel, together with daily temperature tests
– All food, water, laundry, shower supplies are uniformly organized by the government and hotel
– After 2 weeks of quarantine in the hotel, we will register our arrival at our home to the local administrative department and go on a 7-days strict home quarantine, and more swab tests
– …

All the above mandatary steps went through a smooth process with a very well-organized team and under good controls.

What do we feel? Severely restricted freedom? Grumpy?
Oppositions? Objections?

No. We all feel relieved, as, out of the hotel is a free, healthy, and very fast-developing world despite this “scaring” pandemic.

What we are doing now, is for everyone, including our own freedom and health. And we all work together on this.

I love my home country. She makes me feel being taken care of, being protected, and being safe.

#love#unity#COVID19#china#kindness

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志: That Innate Purpose and Determination

What means the determined will and the noble integrity of a person? Does a scholar, or a gentleman or a soldier acting on behalf of their true hearts describe any meaning of a person’s determined will and noble integrity?

I think it does, and so did our ancestors. They created the character 志 to present a person’s innate purpose and determinate will, to describe a person’s noble integrity.

志 with 士- scholar, gentleman, or soldier on top of a 心-heart, it vividly draws a picture of a determined person with strong self-awareness and wills.

There is a tough guy in my life who deserves this tough character 志.

China’s most beautiful landscape avenue, Sichuan-Tibet Line 318 National Road, is the best choice for cyclists to challenge the limit:

1) A total length of 2,142 kilometers, 14 mountains, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters and about 100 kilometers distance cycling a day.

2) Snowy mountains, hail, exposure to the burning sun, and high temperatures happen in one day;

3) Altitude sickness because of riding uphill and downhill in a single day’s attitude ranging from 2600 meters to 5130 meters extremely requires and challenges human body physical limit.

Every year, there are countless groups of cyclists cycling there to taste the limits of life.

He was a member of one cyclist team there years ago. When he told me how his days looked like to him, this was his words with tears and laughter: “问坡何时止,坡曰骑到死!” — “When asked the uphill road when it would end, it says: Until you ride to your death!”

When the uphill road never ends, when the body physical limit is constantly being broken, when you seem to be the only one on this world on that never-ending cycling road, when you have very limited water and food in your back bag to save energy, when your whole body is completely exhausted and in massive muscle soreness…, your innate determined will to not give up is the only thing that drives you towards your daily purpose,…, and your life purpose.

This applies to everyone in everyday life, as well as career and business. It is just that we need to get a chance to discover our deep innate purpose and our strong will in reaching it and never giving up.

When the 14-year-old girl Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympic Women’s 10-meter diving platform with a world record high score, her strong will is to earn money for mom’s illness treatments. Nothing could move her from her strongest will to perfectly complete each of her dives.

In the end, strong wills and determinations are coming from human hearts: love. A person with 志- innate purpose, determinate will, and noble integrity is a person of love.

From “Eagle’s Take Away” to Higher Leadership

Part one: Origin Article “Eagle’s Take Away” By: Farooq Omar, Aug-10-2021, Published by Dennis Pitocco at BizCatalyst360

I have been examining, in regards to humanity’s mind, characteristics and conduct. Thinking, we are just the experts of ‘pardons, whining and taking cover behind ‘uncertainties and buts’ more often than not.

In all honesty, we people are maybe the most ‘unreliable, tentative and powerless species, and blossom with our repulsive limit of finesses and misleading wizardry.

No big surprise, the extremely greater part of we people are the only feature of so-called achievement, however, a bombed living being. We have not many greats, however, Eagles are all pretty much as extraordinary as Alexander and conceived greats, unafraid, free from reluctance or indecisiveness.

I did a bit of examination from our adjoining living creatures and contemplated the limits of Eagles, and it flabbergasted me with their astonishing characteristics of genuine significance. Subsequently, I have put not many on them for a concise similar investigation through imparting to the crowd for their short ‘quick’ evaluation and exercises learned.

The Eagle is an entrancing bird. Known for its force and capacity to fly at high elevations in the sky. It flies where no other bird can fly and does not fly with any other bird as well.  As kids, we are frequently advised to take off like an Eagle. Reach skyward and fly. Gracious, yet if by some stroke of good luck, it was that straightforward!

Eagles separate themselves from other flying birds, they don’t move around with different types of birds. Their character is clear, they fly alone and at an extremely high height.

According to people, personality is vital. Be clear about your personality and a big motivator for you. You need to know and get yourself and be aware of the sort of organization you keep. He who works with the insightful will be astute and a buddy of imbeciles will be obliterated. Show me your companions and organizations and I will foresee your future. You need to have a brand separation and a decent brand separation results in a decent standing and eventually conveys achievement.

Eagles can see far. They have the force of center, prescience, lucidity of vision. The Eagle can consider objects to be far as 5 kilometers away, regardless of the obstructions are, the bird won’t lose sight yet will maintain its attention on its prey. It keeps fixed on its objective and stays persevering until it snatches its prey or accomplishes its objective.

Eagle feed on new prey each day. Many individuals continually brag about their past accomplishments. A few groups continue depending or living on their past accomplishment for they dread that they may not accomplish as much later on. The day that your “yesterday” reliably turns out to be more radiant and in your eyes, more effective than your “today” and “tomorrow”, you have entered the time of annihilation; you have begun to kick the bucket.

Like the eagle, don’t depend on your past progress. Try not to leave in the yesterday, embrace current circumstances.

At the point when a male eagle chooses to mate with a female Eagle, the female bird surveys the responsibility, devotion, ability, and endurance of the male hawk by over and again dropping a twig from a high height for the male hawk to get before the twig gets to the ground. On the off chance that the male Eagle gets the twig whenever the female bird tosses it, it is really at that time the female hawk will permit that male Eagle mate with her; and if the male hawk can’t get the twig before it gets to the ground, it loses its shot at mating with the female hawk.

Master of perfect Change & Re-Birth

At the point when the bird begins feeling powerless and trusts it’s going to bite the dust, it resigns to a spot and culls out each quill on its body until it is totally exposed. The Eagle either passes on that way or develops new quills. On the off chance that the bird develops new quills, it has made for itself another opportunity.

Resurrection includes the passing of the former self. The Eagle needs to settle on an agonizing choice at around age 40. Bite the dust or go through an agonizing interaction of resurrection which will expand its life for 30 additional years. This interaction includes the agonizing undertaking of taking out its own snout and culling out its claws with the goal that new ones can develop. This whole cycle requires around 5 months to finish. Life exercise?

At the point when the bird begins feeling powerless and trusts it’s going to bite the dust, it resigns to a spot and culls out each quill on its body until it is totally exposed. The Eagle either passes on that way or develops new quills. On the off chance that the bird develops new quills, it has made for itself another opportunity.

Eagles love the tempest. They get invigorated when tempest mists assemble. Why? They invite the test it brings. They realize the tempest winds will lift them over the mists. Over the mists, they can rest their wings and become more grounded. Life exercise?

We humans could see the chances, enveloped by our difficulties in case we weren’t so occupied with, grumbling and attempting?

At the point when an eagle takes part in a fight with prey like the snake, the eagle realizes that its space of force is the high height. The Eagle doesn’t remain on the ground to face its conflict in light of the fact that the ground is the space of force of the snake; consequently, it changes the fight ground.

There are numerous things we can gain from nature, yet on most occasions, we tend not to focus on what we can gain from nature. One special species that fruitful individuals gain from is the bird. In the event that you apply the conduct of the eagle to your way of life – ‘personal to professional’, you will most likely walk the way of achievement.

“We ought to gain proficiency with the method of sustaining our childhood and make them ready to do everything without help from anyone else. Engaging youth is the initial move towards the administration building. In our general public, we generally anticipate, when our youngsters can take the obligations or are ready to lead society. We ought to take in the exercise from this “Initiative Trait of an Eagle”.

Require few moments, burrow profound, think profound and share your contemplations?

Part two: Comments between Farooq and Helen:

Helenqiuhong:

YES, dear friend Farooq Omar, “There are numerous things we can gain from nature…”, as we are part of nature. And mutually, all spices in nature live together, depending, relying on, changing, and impacting each other, to maintain nature balanced.

Yes, we can learn a lot of spirits from eagles. We may also need to understand that for all those eagles we see roaring in the sky, they passed their life test when they were young: eagle mothers push their young babies down the cliff to practice their fly skills and strengthen their muscles and wings. For those eagles who could not wave their wings strong enough, they died.

So, what we can observe from eagles are from those survivors.

Eagles are hunters! All their behaviors and characters are the reason also the result for their being hunters. Humans are not hunters. Human leaders are not hunters, but servants. The human world would benefit more from its internal harmonious nourishment and also its harmonious relationship with all other creatures and nature. If a person is not putting serving people in the heart but always trying to get stronger, it is dangerous.

Leaders foresee the world’s future through their hearts and wisdom, but not by their eyes. They grasp the universal laws and apply them in long-term daily practice with persistence, perseverance, and patience.

Here I have a small story to share:

Legend has it that when Lao Tzu (or, Lao Zi) was fifteen, he worshipped a man named Chang Cong as his teacher.
Later, the teacher became seriously ill. Lao Tzu went to visit, but couldn’t forget to ask for teaching. And here came a conversation between them like this:


Lao Tzu said respectfully: “Teacher, you are so ill, what else can you tell your disciple?”
Chang said, “Even if you don’t ask, I have something to tell you.”
Then Chang opened his mouth and asked Lao Tzu to look into it and asked, “Is my tongue there?”
Lao Tzu replied: “Yes.”
Chang asked again, “Are my teeth still there?”
Lao Tzu replied: “They are all gone!”
Chang asked again: “Do you understand what I want to tell you?”
Lao Tzu said: “The tongue exists because it is soft! Isn’t it because teeth are hard that they have all fallen out?”
Chang said with satisfaction, “Hey! The world’s rules are all in it. You’ve got it, and I have nothing to teach you anymore!

Thank you for a great article to inspire us to think!

Farooq Omar:

Much obliged dear Helen for your clever remark. I do concur about starting serving. However, people are the most exceedingly awful trackers as humanity’s set of experiences shows it. Worker pioneers are to serve in one manner yet then again, take their accomplishments by heartlessly acting to accomplish their purpose… 

It very well might be corporate, political, or something else. It is tied in with getting everything to acquire their predominance or gains. Take a gander at all the domains in history and it is very simple to evaluate and see what I am alluding to. 

For your reference, I am writing some administration qualities of the hawk. 
#lessonslearned ), however, my post is #not explicit to “initiative”, yet what we can realize and accept as a part of our character to be better. 

– You should have a dream that aids and leads your group towards the association’s or alternately society’s objectives. The vision should be large, just as engaged. A major, centered vision will deliver large outcomes. 

similarly, as birds should chance themselves for the endurance of their families, you should not be hesitant to risk yourself. Somebody who will face challenges, while remaining not really set in stone, will get seen and culled out of the group.

– Effective leaders are bold. They deal with issues directly. Regardless of the size of the issue, a decent pioneer assaults them without respect for themselves. It wouldn’t occur to you to be apprehensive in light of the fact that your intuition is to ensure what you adore and esteem. Others observe your enthusiasm and assurance and draw strength from it. (Nelson Mandela)

– Watch an eagle when a tempest comes. While different birds fly away from the tempest, a falcon spreads its strong wings and uses the current to take off to more noteworthy statures. The falcon exploits the very tempest that lesser birds dread. The difficulties in the existence of a pioneer are many. These are the tempests we should look at as pioneers to ascend to more noteworthy statures. At the point when birds assemble connections, they really put resources into them. 

– Great leaders are issue solvers. They don’t say anything negative as the chickens do. At the point when the tempest comes, they love to accept difficulties as the falcon does. Genuine leaders are not managers. They develop with their kin.

They endeavor to cause people in the association or society to develop to their full capacity. They educate and guide very much as the mother falcon does. They give constantly difficulties, yet they additionally never quit any pretense of engaging and coordinating.

I can add a lot more to it, but I am sure it will (perhaps) answer some of your in-built questions and apprehensions.

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him”
— John F. Kenney
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute…. it says a lot and is linked to what I just stated.
— Warren Buffett

Thank you again for your rich and insightful 💥 comment my dear friend 
 Helen Qiu. You are full of knowledge and wisdom. 👍 🎩

Helenqiuhong:

Farooq Omar my friend, I just posted a short article. It is a coincidence that I happen to be re-organizing all my posts and articles and it comes up into my eyes right before I read your article. My new post is quite relevant to what I would discuss with you with your today post.

When leaders lead heartlessly to achieve some pre-achievements, it might be on a road leading to a fierce and dark future for all the others but to the leader, it looks bright. This is what I say by “dangerous”.

Leaders do not need to be like eagles.

If you ever heard of Lao Tzu, one of the greatest people in human history, he was just an ordinary person in his life, even no many people knew him and his stories. The only thing that all of us know about him is the 5,000 characters “Tao Te Ching” he left to a valley guard when he traveled out a Hangu Guan valley. Then he disappeared into the air.

But his 5,000 characters “Tao Te Ching” is the most valuable treasure for humankind. His spirits and wisdom carry the highest level of leadership mindsets.

Farooq Omar:

 “At the point when a tempest is coming, any remaining birds look for cover. The bird alone evades the tempest by hovering above it. In this way, in the tempests of life… May your heart take off like an eagle.” Amen

Helenqiuhong:

Dear Farooq Omar, when a true leader puts the world’s better future in the heart, this leader does not need any frame, any title, any position, any paws, any hunting skills, because leaders serve.

But, this does not say the true leader does not have a dream, instead, he(she)not only has the biggest dream but also does everything to make it true.

He(she) not only takes risks but also endure through all hardships and storms with perseverance and patience. His(her) skills and minds can twist as much as it needs.

He(she) is boldest, like how quiet and flowing water can also wash over all dirty and pollutions, can also turn over
ships that are destined to be turned over; he(she) is boldest like the air, although completely transparent and seems to be light and easily ignored, but when it blows over everything, its energy is inventively enormous and unstoppable.

He(she) is the biggest problem solver, as he(she) aim at world level big matters, which is big enough as: in 20 to 30 years, will the human being be able to answer their children’s questions: why we are all dying because of the climate crisis?

When storms come, the true leaders act as the water and air, being part of the storm, bring the highest level of energy and leadership to clean up the world and drive away the darkness.

They endeavor to cause people in the association or society to develop to their full capacity, but at the same time, they are kind and gentle caregivers, like mothers and fathers to their children. Their loves are unconditional.

Thank you for this meaningful discussion on higher-level leadership, Farooq Omar.

(11:19am EST, Aug 11, 2021)

Teeth vs. Tongue — The Hard vs. the Soft

Legend has it that when Lao Tzu (or, Lao Zi) was fifteen, he worshipped a man named Chang Cong as his teacher.

Later, the teacher became seriously ill. Lao Tzu went to visit him, but couldn’t forget to ask for more teaching. And here came a conversation between them like this:

Lao Tzu said respectfully: “Teacher, you are so ill, what else can you tell your disciple?”

Chang said, “Even if you don’t ask, I have something to tell you.”

Then Chang opened his mouth and asked Lao Tzu to look into it and asked, “Is my tongue still there?”

Lao Tzu replied: “Yes.”

Chang asked again, “Are my teeth still there?”

Lao Tzu replied: “They are all gone!”

Chang asked again: “Do you understand what I want to tell you?”

Lao Tzu said: “The tongue exists because it is soft! Isn’t it because teeth are hard that they have all fallen out?”

Chang said with satisfaction, “Hey! The world’s rules are all in it. You’ve got it, and I have nothing to teach you anymore!

“Tao Te Ching/Lao Tzu” – Chapter 43: 天下之至柔,驰骋天下之至坚.

Water is the softest and weakest while benefiting and embracing the whole world, but how can it be defeated? The sharpest knife can take lives, cut steel, but never able to cut water apart.

Stones are strong, but consistent drops of water wear holes in the stone. The tide rises and falls, the stones become the pebbles.

Steel against steel, the result has to be lose-lose. While the fast-moving wheels need to break down, we use very soft brake pads.

In daily life and #business, the #principle is the same: #Perseverance leads to #success, as it enables the practice in achieving a huge return on a very small investment; a big payoff from a small effort.

Human hearts could be our softest gifts from the universe. And those who win the hearts of the people win the world.

#chineseculture #ancientwisdom #unity #authenticity #love #hearts #kindness #businesssuccess #strategy

The Heart is The Only Place in the Body That Barely Grows Cancer

In 2008, Dr. David Vesely, the chief scientist of the Health Science Research Center of the University of South Florida, found that the heart can secrete the last-life hormone, it can not only kill more than 95% of cancer cells within 24 hours, and it also has an excellent therapeutic effect on other terminal diseases.

And, the human heart is the only place in the body that barely grows cancer cells.

Why?

If we look at Chinese characters, for all the human internal organs, besides 心-heart, all the others,肝- Liver, 脾- spleen, 肺-lung, 肾- kidney,胃- stomach, and 肠-intestine have a root character 月 which means the materialized flesh of the body.

Why?

Taoism and TCM say: “心主神明” – The heart governs the deity.

The deity refers to the mental consciousness and thinking activities, and in Taoism and TCM’s viewpoints, it is the key master of the human body and soul. When a person is settled physically and mentally, and the mood is stable, the body will quickly regain strength. So:

“The best doctor is you, naturally the healthiest. The heart is the strongest medicine, and the human body has its own repair and self-heal mechanism.”

Thinking in reverse, the biggest and best way to control a person is to scare him, to fill him with fear. Diseases and misfortune will follow him then.

Take good care of our hearts.

#love#heart#health#mentalheath#cancer#ancientwisdom#authenticity#chineseculture#TCM#Taoism