Year after year, flowers are similar; year after year, people are different.
Gengzi goes, Xinchou comes. People are different, things are different, things in the world are very different. The year Gengzi, I am afraid, is the only year in my Life without any day more happy. Pestilence, tyranny, villainy, good people suffer, wall country arrogance, freedom suffers, values collapse, moral degradation ……
The world is in distress, and people are asking about the fate of the Xin Jiao. Whether it’s the 14-year-old prodigy Anand from India, or the Hong Kong public opinion expert, they all predict that the bad luck will continue this year. A few days ago, “Apple” and “East” went to Wong Tai Sin to seek fortune in Hong Kong and got 93 sticks “Confucius heard Wei Music” and 25 sticks “Zhu Hongwu ascended to the throne” respectively, the former has “Zheng Wei’s voice cannot bear to hear The former sign has the sentence “Zheng Wei’s sound can not bear to hear”, “Zheng Wei’s sound” “The Book of Rites” refers to “the sound of chaos“, now Hong Kong is Zheng’s noise; “Zhu Hongwu ascends the throne” means that will be a big kill The first guillotine has been opened on Tsang Yu-sing, after the democrats were exterminated, it is the turn of the local establishment. History continues to cycle.
Think of the late philosopher Lao Siguang. When he was young, he met a master who taught him divination techniques, and then carefully studied all the ancient texts of the occult, and was one of the few people who could calculate the great six nones (a more complex ancient divination techniques), and his acquaintances called him “Guigu Zi”. I was amazed by the fulfillment of his prediction that Mao would die in the coming year in about 1975, and when I first met him in 1981, he had helped me to calculate my past and was quite accurate. Later, I asked him if he really believed in the occult, and he said, “You find it unacceptable when a computer is a thousand percent wrong, but if 50% of the fortune telling is right, you think it is accurate; scientifically, the occult lacks foundation, but it often comes true, so from experience, you can’t reject it out of hand.
He said that Confucianism has a distinction between “righteousness” and “fate” in terms of personal orientation, with righteousness referring to right and wrong and fate referring to success and failure. He believes that “righteousness” comes first in all matters, i.e., the choice between right and wrong, while “fate”, i.e., the measure of success or failure, comes second. The choice of righteousness is sometimes determined by the fate.
At that Time, when the news of China’s decision to regain Hong Kong in 1997 had just been announced, Professor Law initiated the organization of the Society for the Study of the Future of Hong Kong, and I was invited to participate. Needless to say, our efforts were insignificant, and we became a handful of mantis-ridden losers. I reckon that when he organized such a discussion, Lau Si-kwong probably also predicted success or failure, but he obviously did not give up his persistence and efforts because he predicted that he would fail.
This principle of his life had a great influence on my later life choices. I have also talked many times about the division between righteousness and fate. However, there are many things that we understand in principle, but when there is a real-life test, we often put them aside. The year Gengzi began with the concealment of the Epidemic and everything that followed, including the cooperation of the WHO, the Hong Kong National Security Law and the “Voice of Zheng”, the lopsidedness of the media and social media in the U.S. election, and the “money makes the devil go round” of the wall country. …… “Meanness is the passport of the mean, nobility is the epitaph of the noble”, Kitajima’s famous line is perfectly embodied in this year.
The vast majority of intellectuals and media in the East and West do not have the entanglement of righteousness and fate, they mostly do not hesitate to focus on success or failure, without any consideration of right and wrong. Some intellectuals and media people in Hong Kong who used to support the freedom struggle have recently chosen the principle of success or failure.
Mother Teresa said something along the lines of: people don’t reason, but you still have to reason; you do good things and are accused of having ulterior motives, you still have to do good things; you are honest and frank and are attacked, you still have to be honest and frank; the things you have created for years are ruined, you still have to create ……
Looking ahead to the year of Xin Jiao, maybe the evil reality continues, maybe money and power continue to run rampant and even intensify, maybe everyone in society is fighting to become a rhinoceros, and the traditional Western conservative values that insist on upholding individual rights are under attack, but it doesn’t matter, having seen the worst of the world, you are no longer afraid of the worse. If you insist on making the right and wrong choices first, the clarity of your mind will make the year Xin Jiao “a good day”.
This is not the spiritual triumph of the loser, but the belief of the loser that righteousness comes first and the insistence of the heart.
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