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??

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

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_health-heart-motherearth-activity-6851410367776718848-0uA2

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

How a Computer Uses 0 and 1 to Describe Everything

When my little girl uses an iPad App to learn simple coding like {if…} {then do…} {repeat…} {elseif…} {else…}, it is fascinatingly simple and easy. And the program lets the kids debug and refine the codes to make their small codes a closed-loop process at the end.

This reminds me of my old days in learning one basic computer language BASIC. Before learning BASIC, we learned how computers translate all signals into 0 and 1 and then finally show everything on screen using code 0 and 1.

In the end, all signals on computers are shown through each of the digital cells on its screen. With each cell appearing in a different color, all cells on a screen form up a screen image which refreshes at a very high speed that human eyes could not catch up and tell the changes.

On an RGB color mode screen, each cell is a combination of the three basic colors of Red, Green, and Blue, and each color is designed in 256 levels (256=16*16) and using two hexadecimal numbers 0, 1, 2, …9, A, B… F to present.

For example, if a cell has a color of FF9A04, it means:
Red: 255 (F*16+F=15*16+15)
Green: 154 (9*16+A=9*16+10)
Blue: 4 (0*16 + 4)

And for each color, from 0 to 255, they are stored in binary digits from 00000000 to 11111111.

So, for a cell of the color of FF9A04, the computer would be sending a string of digital binary like this:

1111 1111 — 255 — Red
1001 1010 — 154 — Green
0000 0100 — 4 — Blue

Combined with processing codes which are digital binary 0 and 1 too, at a very high speed translating, sending, and reloading, our computer screen freshes, and then we can surf in this digital world freely.

The same thing happens on TV, also audio products, and all computer program-related products.

This is an amazing world that can be completely described using 0 and 1.

#authenticity#ancientwisdom#ancientscience#love#unity

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_authenticity-ancientwisdom-ancientscience-activity-6823284845716766720-lhiH

Skin, Lung, and Heart

The human body is wise, like a small cosmic world, while the universe is a big cosmic world. In this small cosmic world, everything is connected as a whole from the Traditional Chinese Medicine’s(TCM) point of view.

TCM thinks that the human skin is closely related to human Qi and Blood circulations systems.

For example, between the human skin and lung:

“…When people are sad, their sadness depresses lung Qi, also dissipates Yin energy, and shows symptoms such as colds and coughs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung is connected with the skin and hair; people with poor lungs have a deficiency of lung Qi and lack protection from the Qi of the skin. Not only does the skin lose its brilliance, but it is also particularly sensitive to allergies. Skin problems reflect lung problems, and lung problems are manifested on the skin. Skin allergies can be treated through the lungs, and massaging the skin can also treat lung problems…”

Between the human skin and heart:

“…Sweat is the liquid discharged from the skin after body fluid is vaporized by the transpiration of Yang Qi. The secretion and excretion of sweat also depend on the opening and closing effect of Qi on the body. When the skin sweat holes are open, sweat is excreted; when the sweat holes are closed, there is no sweat. Because sweat is transformed by body fluid, blood and body fluid come from the same source, so there is a saying that “sweat and blood have the same origin”.


      Sweat can reflect good or bad health, and it is wise to be vigilant when sweating is abnormal. Since sweat and blood are closely related in physiology, they also influence each other pathologically. As far as the relationship between sweat and blood is concerned, excessive sweating can drain blood and damage fluid. On the contrary, if the body fluid is weak and blood is insufficient, the source of sweat is insufficient. Excessive sweating consumes the Qi and Blood of the heart, so profuse sweating can also hurt people’s Yang Qi. On the contrary, when the heart’s blood is insufficient, it can also cause pathological sweating, spontaneous sweating, or night sweats…”

Does our #MotherEarth have her skin, lung, and heart? If she is having a fever on her skin, what happened to her body?

#health#unity#authenticity#TCM#wisdom#climatecrisis

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_motherearth-health-unity-activity-6817828128497508352-5pzK

When the Moon Belongs To the White Rabbit

There was a white rabbit who loved the beauty of nature. She especially liked the moon. In her eyes, the moon’s dimness and brightness, waxing, and waning were full of charm.

So the king of the universe summoned her and said that she had a unique talent for admiring the moon and decided to give her the moon.

From then on, the moon was no longer everyone’s moon but belonged to this white rabbit alone.

The white rabbit still went to the grassland in the forest to watch the moon every night.

However, it was strange to say that the former leisure mood was wiped out, and there was only one thought in her mind: “This is my moon!” She stared at the moon firmly, just like a rich man stared at his cellar of gold.

Dark clouds covered the moon, and she became nervous, lest the treasure be lost;

When the full moon was turning into a waning moon, her heart ached, as if she had been robbed.

In her eyes, the moon’s dimness and brightness, waxing, and waning were no longer of charm and joy, but dangers were repeated, which evokes endless troubles and illusions of gains and losses.

#perspectives#authenticity#emotionalintelligence#chineseculture#wisdom#nature#love#peace#wealth#kindness#unity#universe

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_perspectives-authenticity-emotionalintelligence-activity-6817084964044189696-a-hs