It has been a long time since I saw you all. After I was released from prison, I wanted to write a letter to report my safety, greetings and thanks for thinking about me. But I didn’t realize that my mind was so confused, my thoughts were tossing and turning, and my pen was stagnant, so I concentrated several times and gave up several times. The summer has gone and the autumn has come, the bad month has passed early, the chrysanthemum month will end, time cannot stay. But there are words in my heart that I want to tell you, but I can’t do it without spitting them out, so I drafted this letter between interruptions, the morning bell and the evening drum. When I put pen to ink, it was the twelfth day of the eighth month of the year Gengzi and the twenty-eighth day of the ninth month of the Nativity. When the first draft was completed, it was already October 10. At that time, it was autumn and the frosty sky. This morning, when the final draft was finished, I could see that the leaves were falling and winter was approaching. When I look up, the sky is gray, the valley is windless, the cold is hunting, the winter felling is stepping on the ground, and in a short time, the mountains and rivers are depressed, and the land is slaughtered, so I can imagine. The autumn is glorious and grand, the mountains and rivers are heavy and solemn, and all things are strong and sullen. They meet the end of reincarnation with the last splendor of life, knowing their destiny without fear, as if they have jumped headlong into the door of eternal life, and one can only praise the profound sanctity and transcendent beauty of creation, realizing that one’s sorrow and happiness are originally the rhythm of heaven and earth, so one can sing and cry without fear, and sorrow and happiness are in one’s heart.
Last spring, in March, I was forced to suspend my teaching career because of the suspension of classes. At the age of fifty-six, his career came to an abrupt end, quickly, but also early warning, the original is uncle teacher model in the first, after seeking mercy. Previously agreed to the spring and summer of the year of the year of the student-teacher reading program, aimed at continuing the winter of the year of the year of the Republic of travel, and then deepen, and more up to the next level, had to be canceled, since then lost the joy of sitting around and talking with each other and cutting. In July of this summer, I was deprived of my teaching position and dismissed from public office, and from then on I was expelled from the campus, and it was difficult to get together. –Since then, I have said goodbye to my middle age and taken a step into my old age, just like the imperial gunshot on that early summer night that made me say goodbye to my youth forever and immediately reach middle age. As the poet said, “There are not many days left to live, and nothing scares me anymore. In this way, here and now, in the midst of the global pandemic, the students are still studying, have not yet graduated, and are writing their dissertations, and are affected by this, so they are like lambs separated. In the morning and evening, for decades, the campus is the home, the only thing teaching, this is the job, to make a living. Once I take a break, although it seems to be a vacation, it is actually an exile, but I am also disappointed. What I can’t bear to cherish is the years and years, one after another, spring and autumn, and the interest of teachers and students gathering to read and discuss.
In the spring and summer, when we read, we can broaden our mind with the revival of all things, realize that the meaning of the law is human, but it is beyond human, so that the law is no more than the way of life of all people in the world, and understand that the meaning of the law is always human, so that the real law of man cannot disobey the universal truth of the natural law. Autumn and winter study, do not feel the wheel of time fly, to look up, the window contains Ling snow, confirming the human spirit is mostly tormented rising from the bitter cold lonely deep feelings and thick righteousness, is not afraid of the frost, tempering its learning, ice and snow its human character. At night, the campus is silent, only the ancient sages are solemn, and their voices are as loud as a bell, although time and space are blocked and the present and the past are connected. The only thing is that teachers and students sit quietly like a pine, and let their minds run through the sea and the sky, and the pain and itch under the sky, and peace is the king’s way, although the extreme power of the evil political pride primrose and the reality is like quicksand, so the locked brow is released in the heart and mind open, only need to work hard, and continue to work hard, Dongdao is not hesitant. A scroll in hand, the past saints and present philosophers in front of the eyes, sigh for the ancients, sighing today’s worries; look around, the sound of wind and rain are the sound of the heart, laughing at Mr. dream, dream after the birth of idiocy. Last night the stars were like the sea, this morning the white dew is like frost, the stars and dew are continuous, the sun and the moon are far away, the end of life and death, back and forth between the two ends, all thanks to the magic of this word paper. –Phew, the career of a scholar, infinite rivers and mountains. So, why don’t you prostrate yourself and join your palms in praise? So, don’t you offer your knees and give thanks to your heart? So, although suffering is still happy, teachers and students are happy, forgetting each other’s forms, only to work harder.
But it turns out that the words and papers are a series of changes from the past to the present. The most important, and the most headache, and the most likely to bleed into a river if you are not careful, is the group of human beings living together, we, men and women, how to achieve peaceful political coexistence, especially to avoid the rise and fall of the boat between the boat overturned. Otherwise, the jungle and the underworld, the rate of beasts eating people, all the doom and gloom. Therefore, we have to think about this, to think about this, to think about this, and to think about this, to deduce the twists and turns of philosophical thinking, which constitute the splendid view of ancient and modern legal and political theory. In this regard, since living in groups is the destiny and the only way for human beings to live, at least first of all, we should not kill each other, as the saying goes, “A million corpses will be killed, a thousand miles of blood will be shed,” to avoid unnecessary slaughter and sacrifice, to create a roughly balanced situation, to work in peace and rest in each place, to reproduce and live together, and even to enjoy the years, and civilization will be more glorious, so that is the first of the painful anxiety.
Since the distribution of interests is inevitable in the group living and gathering, in fact, the distribution of interests is the first thing, and because of the distribution, the group is twisted together, but then falls apart, so it is necessary to establish public power to mediate and rely on public power to maintain, then the power struggle will be standardized, so as to achieve the public order, especially the acquisition and flow of public power public procedures, the use of public power legalization, so it becomes the lifeblood of human living and gathering, the pivot of the maintenance of the group living of all people The totalitarian political system eliminates the public. –Totalitarian politics eliminates the public and the private, resulting in an ironclad, lifeless political and social structure under the unified structure of the party-state. The oligarchy avoids the public and ignores the private, confusing the public and the private, resulting in the same evil, which is also the opposite. From this, generations of people and billions of brains have worked hard to accumulate a vast body of legal and political thinking, which has converged to form the doctrine of public life. For this reason, peace, or peace, which is based on the law of the earth, has become the first and foremost political imperative in ancient and modern politics, and the place where the rule of law lies.
Just as freedom is the highest value of modern life, and justice is and will always be the supreme concept and ultimate goal of law, peace, precisely peace, is the god to which all politics is dedicated and to which the world is dedicated. And what kind of peace, how to achieve peace, how to maintain peace, what kind of political and virtuous foundation to lay peace on, all these questions, to urge the political improvement, forcing the way of governance to refine, enhance the cultivation of human morality, so that almost the world does not deviate from the right path, the world of people a few vicissitudes. It is here that, after the classical pivotal civilization, the modern Mediterranean-Atlantic civilization is the first to realize the change from the past to the present, advocating a system of public power sharing and constitutional checks and balances based on the sovereignty of the people, destroying totalitarianism, rejecting dictatorship, and having rule by the people, for the people, and for the people, which can be said to have opened up the world. On the other hand, in interstate politics, we advocate a global public law order based on the civilizational order, maintain the public law order with the treaty system, counteract the hegemonic order, abandon the cultural view of inequality based on the ladder of civilization, and strive to create permanent peace for humanity. Politics, therefore, is not something else, but revolves around power, aiming at constructing sovereignty, distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy, clarifying public and private, making decisions, and creating peace. In this regard, the philosophy of law is integrated with the philosophy of politics, and the way of thinking about law and politics in a specific historical context, the selection of a good system of government for a group of people living together from the discernment of the system of government, and The prevention of the natural law under the light of the Divine Principle against the evil law of man, constitute the great chapter of the human spirit in ancient and modern times. The constitutional democracy and people’s republics created by this change have long been proven to be the most superior system of government, with the sovereignty of the people as the political foundation, and the two-track structure of a civilized nation and a free nation, with the constitutional principle of separation of powers and checks and balances to support the political edifice. The change of the past and the present has been clarified, the prospect of modern statehood and constitutionalism is clear, and the establishment of education and people will certainly go hand in hand, while my heart is not worried, my heart is more worried, the teachers and students will be happy with their worries.
The only thing is that this word and paper are connected to the heaven and the people. The thinking of the rise and fall of the philosophy of history, the eternal anxiety of existence by the gate of love and wisdom, enables the present generation to look back at the past, and let the spirit break through the cage of the physical body, and gallop through the eight extremes and across the universe. Here, the so-called history defines human beings, and history means the self-awareness of human spiritual self-examination. Humanity is the slave of human history, and without history, there is no human being; the so-called humanity is historicity, and historicity is humanity. We are living in the long present that started from the curtain of ignorance and continues to this day, and it is bound to be extended to the present that is called the future in a hurry. Therefore, the present is history, history is the present, history identifies the past and the present, and history has no past and no present. As the ancient sages said, “Today is the beginning of heaven and earth”. It is also here that, in the sense of historical time, the oneness of existentialism provides the epistemological totality and its inevitable fragmentation. Because history is written by human beings, there is a confrontation between fact and historical fact, between historical fact and historical meaning. This is not a falsification of the legitimacy of history; on the contrary, it illustrates the objectivity of history and its necessity. Human beings need historical facts based on facts, historical thoughts and historical meanings based on historical facts, which allow us to maintain our humanity, to give existence to existence, and to give the world its worldliness. It is not difficult to understand why the ancients said, “It is better to read history to reflect the snow, so as to reflect the mystery. It is better to read the son to accompany the moon, in order to send the distant spirit. It is better to read Buddhism to beauty to save the empty space. What is said is that human feelings are heartless, historical righteousness has righteousness, like snow falling on the earth, austere and cold, clear.
Therefore, the so-called “steel day reading scriptures, soft day reading history”, the testimony is the interplay of the mind and the heart, and in their respective efforts to achieve the realization, the most appropriate. The scriptures are all history, and history is also scripture, the scriptures and history are combined, and the meaning is magnificent, creating a spiritual edifice for our species to reach the sky and the earth. But it turns out that the eight pillars of the sky, the circle is nine, all the dimensions of the link, its work and its knowledge, all in this change of the ancient and the youth of the celestial and human traffic like clear. In this way, as a European author said a hundred years ago, “we have the possibility of taking our own breath away”, and at the same time, we understand that humility is the virtue of those who are born as masters and the way of love, that we “cannot show any roughness before the world”, and that “reverence is the shyness of the spirit”, and therefore we are noble and fearless, resolute and firm, which is the spirituality of the Marxist-Schillerian proposition. The spirituality of this Marxist-Scherrerian proposition, its solid ethereality, its haughty purification, and, more importantly, the problematic nature of the world that it suggests and the metaphysical spirit of reverence that goes with it. Morality is the scavenger of politics, time is the disinfectant of morality, and the law of the earth is rooted in the mountains and seas of time, and is encouraged by the ruthlessness of heaven and earth, which supports and protects our colorful and flawed human world. It relies on the human spirit that wanders through the distinction between the present and the past, and gallops through the world of heaven and man.
However, it is a long sigh that despite this, we are so forgetful and still forgetful, as if all efforts to improve the present moment and enhance our mind are in vain, and we are just trying our best to ignore, neglect and forget the pain we have experienced, and we are even more secretive about the evils we have witnessed. As for the evils they have committed, participated in and watched, how many of them ask themselves late at night, and how many of them sincerely repent?
This is as the poet chanted: Now it is true – never to return.
If a person can return to the
to the scene of the crime, then he
It is impossible for a person to come to the place where he was abused.
In this respect, God’s intention
and our feelings about abuse
so absolutely coincides with our feelings of abuse that what remains behind is
So that what remains behind is: the darkness of the night, the
stinking beasts, giddy people, houses, lights…
houses, lights…
This is the nature of man and the will of God, the shackles placed on our bodies and minds by creation, from which there is no escape, which determines the mixture of sorrow and joy on earth, and the tragedies that will be repeated, so that we must not give up the distinction between the present and the past and the communion between heaven and man. Therefore, for twenty years, we have been reading history and discerning scripture, inquiring into the meaning of law from the meaning of history, investigating the human meaning in the meaning of law under the candle of the will of heaven, exploring one by one the truths based on natural reality, the truths that return to historical reality, the truths that are entwined with the truths of value, and the heavenly truths that are lighted in the universe and eternally transcendent, which are intertwined with the general situation of legal theory, and their inextricable and inextricable… In this way, the Chinese work of historical jurisprudence, a jurisprudential form that distills human politics through the historical perspective of law, is born.
What a wonderful phenomenon of the human spirit! It shows that, with the present moment as the historical witness, the human mind and heart are different in image but the same in reason, and are nurtured and enlarged in heaven and earth as the “five quotients”, namely, intelligence, emotion, ritual, righteousness, and spirituality. They are given by heaven and earth, revealing the twists and turns of the world structure and the vastness of the human spirit. The finite body is embraced by the mind to soar to infinity, and the mundane is crossed by the boat of thought to the other side forever. Therefore, the concept of immortality is not due to the fear of death, but rather to the transcendence of death. Everyone will perish, everything will perish, but only the human spirit and ideals will not die, rather, as Mr. Yinke said, with the sky and the same long, together with the three lights and eternal light. This is eternal life, beyond this present moment, without fear of physical decay, and without concern for wealth and glory. By this concept, there is reverence and dignity in the worldly life. This is the reason why the present and the past, life and death, heaven and earth, and my heart is not worried, and my heart is more worried, and teachers and students will be together in their sorrow and happiness.
Yes, my friend, life is like a sea, and the tide is surging and turning, and everyone walks alone and lives towards death. The changes of the past and the present and the time of heaven and man are the lighthouse for people to navigate. The world is like a long sigh, and the long life is the shiver of its open mouth. The world’s shadows sway, life is its swaying and swaying of the flying white. At last, on the altar of the sun and the moon, life takes innumerable ways to die, hoary and long-lived, and offers its ashes to mourn. Ashes like rain, turned into stars filled the sky, filling the human world, leaving the universe empty and empty. Perhaps, one morning, the ashes will fly and fall onto the paper as ink, and spread out, turning into letters, into strokes, into meter and poetry, into murmurs and divine inspiration, into morning dew and countless speculations, dreams and tremors, into the dark and loud of spring, into the weeping and singing of autumn, into orphans, churches, temples, tombstones, coffins and concentration camps, and the rosy roses blooming under the camp walls, into the fated clouds and the iron horses and ice rivers of destiny, as salt, as gasping, as displacement, as the afterlife and its May morning, as beehives, astronomy and the cherry-fresh nipples of women, as the homeland in exile and the solid hours, as the moist air and January, February and March, as the pale moon in the sky, which decays like the waning sun in the smoke of the sparse forests of the northern winter, as the numbered days of embrace and the countless “putting It becomes the blue sky of the American plantations in the fires of hell and the mountains of the Parisian barricades in the whirlpool of the earth; it becomes convulsions, sacrifices, debts and bones; it becomes the Jewish believers in the dust of every place and the boatmen of the Yellow River in the turbulent waves; it becomes the myths of the past and the love that crosses the walls of black hell, living as companions and embracing each other in death…
Thus, the annual spring and autumn gatherings, reading and then lecturing, and then drinking, asking questions to entertain the students, sitting and discussing the starting line, learning and life together, is a joy and a lesson for the teachers, which is precisely the so-called “academic training”. The career of an apprentice is just like this. A teacher’s career is just like this. It is only when the teacher and the student have converged their aspirations and enjoyed themselves in it that they can be like this. This is the reason for the name of “Sankai Gakkai”, which is to promote its meaning and to quench its significance. The “History and Law” was born and published in this way. To date, after many twists and turns, thirteen volumes of this collegial publication have been produced, with several volumes still to be published, and several proposed themes, such as “peace,” “usurpation,” and “crucifixion,” have yet to be considered. Only the latest two volumes, “Evil Laws” and “Leaders,” have been agreed upon and published since then, but they have had to go through several publishers and were finally printed overseas. It is a pity that before it burns, it has already been dimmed, and the land of China has seen only pomp and circumstance but not culture, and that the fire of false literature is strong while the culture is weak. This is not the number of days, rather than human, all in the evil politics against the will of God, the human heart, killing the spirit, blocking the mind, this is to be true, so it is true, people sigh and sigh again!
Remember, the spring and autumn sessions, around the topic, with each other to identify, attack each other’s mistakes, the most enjoyable. The topic is set, each of us works on it, divides the work, and gathers and discusses it as a group. The topic is not harmful to independent thinking, to the vast range of self-study thinking, and the combination of all thinking to help the shortage of independent thinking. Its past ancient model is Jixia theory, the hundred schools, and the departed; the heartfelt admiration is the Athenian love of wisdom, the pivotal era, and the wide scattered. But the great road to simplicity, the residual rhyme to be overlapped, although not to, the heart aspires to, then generation after generation, the fire is passed on, the culture will not be extinguished!
Two more than ten years of practice, teaching and growing, there are five links.
First, you must submit a decent essay on the subject and pass it before you are qualified to attend. Otherwise, even if the disciples of the master are also rejected, even if the celebrities and Zhuanxu are in front, they are also served with closed doors. Because there is no text to condense thought, it will not be able to rely on thought and deep talk, no deep talk to communicate, how to speak to the text will be friends, so that, to think to sharpen the thought, thought thought to stimulate each other, to inspire new thought. Otherwise, the flow of the general, lost the original intention of the meeting, why suffer. As for the genre, regardless of monographs and essays, regardless of the righteousness of the test, and even book reviews of stories, where there is a track, there is a definitive view, all happy. This matter is said to be straightforward and simple, in fact, the operation is very difficult. Because the national academic community has been coated with charcoal for a long time, all obedience to the party righteousness, but the horse’s head, there is no deep learning in the gradual cultivation of the rules contained in the model, then our value at this time, the old and new bad habits are deeply rooted, not only the intention of the firm knot bullying the mind, and indiscriminate filling of the number of commonplace, so that the academic conference has become a party of friends and public money travel, useless and inferior products of eighty-nine, or even one hundred percent. As for the absent-mindedness, credulousness, do not know what, so that plagiarism into the wind, not ashamed, is the norm.
Therefore, reading to think, thinking into the text, the text will be friends, according to the text on the road, the text is the first, thinking is important, the gate should be stuck tight, not a little slack. Otherwise, Confucianism is already thin, then open and close your eyes, an uncontrollable! Moreover, at a young age, it is the time to climb the slope, the starting road is correct, after which it is expected to be in the successive use of work to enter the hall. Therefore, the purpose of the conference is not only to stimulate the literary mind, but also to encourage the academic character, and to abstain from any wrongdoing since the beginning. In short, if we have a text in the case, we can evaluate it, and we can see the differences and similarities, and absorb and digest it, so that we can make up for our shortcomings. –The mule is a horse, pull it out and walk it. In the meantime, there are arguments of right and wrong, but not arguments of gas; only public-minded arguments of learning and fair-minded arguments, without greed for fame and evil thoughts for profit. Even so, there are still some fish in the net, although they have no choice but to reflect the fragility and vanity of our human nature, which shows that the academic order in China is still not in order. It is not only that we were unable to get papers, but also that the participants were selfish and bowed to bad habits.
In fact, its mind, its mind, have long escaped from learning, and, also can not catch up. Therefore, young talents do not see our generation, their own group to play high, can not blame them, inherent in their abhorrence and deep thought. But even if the young scholars, 30 or 40 years old, most of them have doctoral titles, and many of them already hold the title of professor, but most of them lack academic training, have shallow roots and weak bases, and have shallow knowledge, but they think very highly of themselves, and they are always ready to speak freely, which is also very obvious. –If they do not work hard for a long time, they will not be able to do well! As the ancients said, “The difficulty of knowing is not in seeing others, but in seeing oneself”. Therefore, we have to work hard and continue to work hard, and in the fire of transmission, we will slowly grow, and when the fire has arrived, Chinese civilization will give birth to a number of world-class masters, which is always desirable and necessary. Otherwise, the 140,000,000 living souls will be sexless, and also ashamed of other races and nationalities on the same planet of the same compatriots and siblings.
The second is the process of speaking, the theme of the report is over, each person must speak, often in turn, and the words must have something, words and evidence, tightly focused on the main theme of the thesis and its righteousness and evidence to attack the wrong point of fallacy, in the back and forth refutation of the analysis of reasoning and debate, to the subtle, to seek the vast. He rejects the hollowness of the casual arguments and the lack of boundaries of the rambling play, and abandons the unbiased, eight-sided, and cleverly clever. Thus, a few rounds down, the culture gradually become. There is a serious homework beforehand and then concentrate on the presentation, the professionalism of the scene, never see that “did not have time to prepare, then speak three points” of the evil appearance; there is deep thinking about the text, specializing in the academic style and academic honesty, not from time to time to political grievances in general instead of academic interpretation of the stink; there is knowledge for knowledge, do not know for not know the unashamed and open-minded, not to show off the greasy mercenary style of the jingoist and play the talent of the The lightness of the flimsy. I am a teacher and a friend, occasionally see the above bad habits and bad attitude will not be jealous and blame, because the true gentleman will hear and happy, no hard feelings, know shame and courage; in case of learning a little bit of insight is not stingy praise, cover the spark of thought to help the wind to fire, fire through the wind, candle the world’s people; to get a high view of deep thinking and heartfelt admiration, cited as a fellow teacher, a word for the teacher, glad that the world has more than a teacher and friend. So the division of people, regardless of seniority, regardless of young and old, but also more straightforward to each other, the public heart on learning, private care, and sincere reasoning, to treat people with a kind heart, wind and dance, not also fast.
Here, I would like to expand on the significance of oral presentation skills and what is commonly called “eloquence” in academic training, and to elaborate on them a little. As Xunzi said, “If the mouth can speak and the body can act, it is a national treasure; if the mouth cannot speak but the body can act, it is a national weapon; if the mouth can speak but the body cannot act, it is a national use. It is said that to sit and talk and act, to speak and act together, not to favor one over the other, not to mention the intention to depress the ability to express oneself verbally, only that it is virtue and talent, placed after the physical action. But the virtue of thin talent shallow people in the world, but good at wagging the tongue, three inches of incoherence to reverse black and white, people are tired of, so there is a “tricky words to make color fresh carry on benevolence” of the so-called, promote the simple and clumsy, nay say sensitive line of literary quality. But the trail is so, also respected the eloquence of the eloquent speech, the so-called spiteful into the text, the wonderful words, the heart of the embroidered mouth also. In the late modern era, after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the word prison, “trouble comes from the mouth”, the scholarly circle and society began to slowly succumb to the world’s clever wisdom to protect themselves, “live a very quiet life. As for late anti-intellectual populist as the base, authoritarian control for the purpose of the Mao-style dictatorship, their own literary and ink, and deliberately praise and blame, but also bent on denigrating the “liberal arts”, suppression and even abolition of social science and humanities academic, not to mention the cruelty to clean up the literati, so that the general public and shallow polytechnic professionals, most of them simply say that the scribes are just “eat the mouth of rice”, so the country’s literacy is swept away, “eloquence” from now on is not talent, but Fake big empty rampant, dirty and vulgar, so that the Shi Lin can not help but neatly carry on. People miss the so-called “Republican model”, which means that the longing for the past civilization, and civilization is no longer, brutal and vulgar will take over the magpie nest, so we have to clamp down.
Therefore, it is clear that the praise and derogatory, from its own, so that the gentleman’s neatness, as if the symbol, but let the mumbling, nagging, upside down, incoherent, taste like wax and other bad products, muddy water to fish, flooded. The fact is that, under the norm, excellent students, the transport of thought essay, not only in the heart, pen, and also in the mouth, and must have, only to really have. In fact, to think and to sort out, that is, to tell, to strive to tell clearly and understandably, in order to be clear in the mind first. The oral statement is intended to tell this story, and it is also in the same way that it is in the reasoning, which in turn helps the heart to tumble and the mind to sort out clearly. Moreover, it is as diverse and colorful as the world’s splendor. Or simple and concise, not boring, or long, spilling; or simple and gentle, natural, or clanging gold fay jade, coughing pearls spittle jade; or slow and methodical, felicitous, or thunder and lightning, jade vibration gold sound; or elegant people deep, hook and sink decision micro, or the ocean unrestrained, pillowed mountains and the sea; or deep and shallow, good temptation, or deep and implicit, words rich and meaningful forever. –The first thing you need to do is to talk, to convey your feelings, to speak with gusto, to sing, and even to cry. In a word, it is to speak, “I want to speak, I can speak, I speak everywhere”!
In the 1980s, after the totalitarian dictatorship of the Red Dynasty, there were no classroom discussions, roundtable discussions, or classroom questions and answers. Even if there were occasional discussions, the students were reluctant to speak up because of the influence of the one-sided government. The “silent Orientals” or “silent Asians” formed the stereotypical image of these faces at that time and place, regardless of where they were, and in both Chinese and foreign classrooms. In my own experience, I have been silent throughout my four years of college, although there were discussions in class, and it was only in my last year that I was asked to speak for the first time by the teacher, not knowing what to do or what to say. In the fall of 1983, I came to the graduate school of the University of Law on the banks of the Xiaoyue River to study for my master’s degree, and the stars changed, and I became a talker without realizing it. Behind the surface, there is a symptom. The time is gradually relaxed, this is to fly the mind, and there is a warbling birds, and even to sing the turn of the song. When the public clamor, otherwise, pointing to the society and politics, it will once again perform the rule of the mouth.
The third is that after the discussion, the collection of ideas, we must return to work, good revision of the paper. At that time, all the speeches were also organized into a paper, attached to the paper, so as to explain the evidence for and against, and to reflect the evidence of each other, more than ten years down the road, but finally failed to adhere to, good regret. It is here that there is a distinction between diligence and weakness, and a clear distinction between good and bad. The participants are willing to spend effort to revise their own papers, but they do not bother to take the time and effort to carefully organize and revise the records of the discussion speeches, so they turn in the papers hastily, or even do not change a single word and let the paper be full of mistakes, failing to live up to the thinking they had given. This situation is especially prominent among the famous scholars of my generation, and the younger generations are also lazy. It is clear that it is their own thoughts on the paper, but they do not want to take the trouble to set it up, as if this is a marriage for others, rather than their own practice, strange. Perhaps, there are a lot of things to do, and there are priorities. It is also possible that the words are not written to leave a trace, and let the thoughts fly away. But today, looking back, there is no fame and fortune to push, so there is no heart to drive, or show or hide, is the main reason. This in the famous scholar, more and more open, no cover up. Lu Zhi of the Tang Dynasty tersely said that the small people are narrow, “tend to near profit and taste far away from the map, effect small faith and hurt the Avenue”, used here, is also similar. I have been expelled from the academic world, there is no longer a stake in the entanglement, today, I took the opportunity to say a word more about this, heavy words, you do not blame.
Fourth, around the table to discuss, regardless of discipline, do not distinguish between generations, do not speak of affinity, only to listen to whether there is reason, only to see whether the subject should be cut, and in the doctrinal analysis of the array, in front of the truth as one all beings are equal. This is the vernacular, and even not free from the suspicion that it is a set of words and words of water. But whether we can physically do it, create an atmosphere, and shape it into actions, as if it were made in heaven and earth, in which everyone discusses matters with a fair mind, and everyone discusses learning with a public heart, without any stagnation, is what counts. In a free environment that has been nurtured for many years, the speech field is clear and well regulated, a tradition that has been inherited from generation to generation, and where this line of work is hidden is just the normal work, nothing surprising, nothing famous. But in the red dynasty, the party state, the Chinese cultural lineage lost, the apricot literary broken, and where this occurred in the three thousand years of the great change of the interrupted process, a lineage involved in the present, it is really to reach the above state, but it is very difficult. Not to mention that selfishness is a constant in human nature, if the heart and temperament can not catch up with the reputation, as if the authority has changed into authority, then how can we be embarrassed, things are difficult to do. The so-called “years” of “nurturing” here, my friend, may be up to several centuries, which has become a tradition, leisurely condensed gradually into a learned tradition, quietly connoted as the academic way of life.
The academic tradition is the mantle of civilization, cultivating the quality of literature internally and the political system externally, in order to fund the moral system, thus forming a tri-polar force of the moral system, the political system and the academic system, and laying the foundation for the world. Then the school system itself retains the source of living water, not only in seeking the tree of life of the school system itself evergreen, but also in refining politics for the political system, and giving the Taoist system with ideological aids. In this way, the intellectual stirring of the equal pursuit of truth and the spiritual sharpening of tolerance and acceptance of all dissent are the sources of living water for the school system. The reestablishment of the modern Chinese civilization has not yet ended, so we can open our hearts and minds to the trickle of water that will hopefully accumulate over the years to reach a vast and turbulent volume. What we are doing is just a little bit. In this regard, my generation is slightly better than the elders, and the new generation is stronger than my generation.
The fifth is to present dissenting views, to show the differences of mind and the plurality of hearts, without seeking so-called consensus. For any attempt to reach consensus in the world of thought, just as forced goodness will lead to evil, that is, an evil, may lead to the danger of spiritual suppression and tyranny of thought, or is it just an alias for tyranny. As the poet said, “All people are the same in the coffin, so let’s have a different look before we live! What a pleasure it is to get the reason for it! Rather, it is the purpose and the hope to show the diversity of ideas, to reveal the divergent rationales, and to search for a different way forward, so as to demonstrate the intricacies of academic theories, to experience the vastness of the human spirit, and to present the world of ideas in a myriad of ways, and to integrate the cultivation of talents and the cultivation of ideas in the same process. In this regard, “consensus” is a verb in the progressive tense, meaning process, meaning the present moment, not a noun, not a result. The pursuit of “consensus” is a form of generativity, not existentialism, and not epistemology. Here, the Rawlsian notion of “overlapping consensus” indicates the possibility of peace and difference, which expresses the possibility of human agreement based on sympathetic empathy and rational communication, but excludes any forceful will that might intervene in the process, which is not satisfactory. In this regard, Mr. Shizhi’s saying, “Tolerance is more important than freedom”, is a plain statement, but it can be regarded as the most important one.
The so-called “three schools of thought, theories and people”, which are read, spoken and drank, are centered around ideas, theories and people, and what haunts us is life and people’s hearts, their divisions and storms, their twists and turns, their ambiguities and openness, their contradictions and changes, and what hurts us more, their endless misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and the good intentions and bad results that pry the earth apart. The resultant sorrow, happiness and sadness trigger a tidal wave of thoughts, causing the heart and soul to swell, while the body feels heavy and the soul floats up. Here, the inquiry into the sample of the mind and the thinker means the reduction of his spiritual world in general, which is also a kind of life-political examination, and the homogenization of a great soul in its personality in the dimension of the philosophy of existence, just as the Christian faith means practicing the spiritual identity of one’s own mind with the personality of Christ, and starting from one’s own mind, one can hope to reach other minds.
Therefore, as Max Scheler said, the sense of cosmic unity in the historical mind, the true sense of unity, is based precisely on individual love, on the never-ending human desire for love. Love and desire, you are the source of life. Your strength and weakness, your ups and downs, determine the intensity of a living being’s life, manifesting as the spiritual light of a life. So, wow, all things are brothers, all things are good (Omne ens est bonum), and where the heart is happy is my country, and human feelings are my home (ibi patria, ubi bene). In other words, in the dual sense of civilizational identity and life politics, this means that the past life, the present life, and the next life are all three in one, merging in the present life of the researcher’s body and mind at this moment. Not only is “our present mind and thoughts are in fact a part of the past that emerges at the same time,” as the sages said, but the past is brought to life through us. Thus, the researcher of any thought, whether hidden or not, is a departed person, a messenger, a follower, and an unborn person who does not even know himself. Here also, as the philosopher said – and forgive me for dropping the ball so often, it is really the sages who have already said it long ago, and it is difficult for us to look back – “we are the children of a declining civilization, we are some born old people, and in this we are as young as the first people”. .
Yes, we, we humans, this mixture of a pile of vile and a ray of light, are destined to live a good life on earth and only on earth, to take care of our camp and must also live a good life, which is our only proper business, and that is why we invented thought, the need for thought, the ideal and dream to fill the sails of that boat of thought. And then, for a historical event, including the thought of the thought of the sample of the pursuit, as Mr. Funayama said, “to push the reason why, to identify the reality of its not quite true”, so that the current events of the day into the historical facts of today’s historical events, then the thought of the suffering into this moment of the heart, meaning that all history is contemporary history, all history is the history of the mind, all the history of the mind is the mind of this particular individual at this moment The growth process of this particular individual. The great mind gobbles up everything and suffers on our behalf. Oh, we, this existence in the mundane world, are thus blessed with physical, mental and spiritual nurturing and enjoyment. Physiological pleasure makes the flesh into a body, which belongs to me, and it is good to have a body when you are young. Mental pleasure, promote the body to grow into life, this life has a soul, soul and keep the house, the earth is safe, middle-aged mind when tackling clouds. Spiritual, that is, moral pleasure, so that life mentions the high degree of advancement in life, all things belong to the spirit, all things through the spirit, the late years through all things without words, there is silence like thunder. All this progressive transformation, vitality comes alive, gives existence to the spirit, makes existence obtain existence, and makes the world endowed with worldliness. Everything is meaningless, but the meaning is here. Thought, a state of thought of the unyielding human spirit, linking the present and the past, the two ends of life and death, and heaven and man, is where the vitality of this vitality comes to life. The anthropological investigation is actually close to the destiny of heaven; truth and fear often appear together. Otherwise, existence is nothingness.
In fact, for every theory, figure, or person, there is a need for theories and theories, and for theories and figures. In fact, for every theory, person, event, and work, no matter how far apart they are, no matter how different the subject matter is, they are all related to the present concern, and always unconsciously cut across the deep anxiety about the “China question”. It is a reality purely because I am myself, not only existing here, but also being given the gift of being here, from which everything I do can only start and go. In this regard, our teachers, all of you, with all your heartfelt concerns and worries, are continuing the sorrow of the centuries and sharing the universal care. The fact that they have been tossed around, that they are tired of this, and that they have been sentenced to imprisonment, is an indication of the splendid resurrection of a great tradition.
All these operations are the norm, the rules of the trade, the ordinary day-to-day use of the academic profession, and the proper duties of a scholar. It is only in the era of perversion, when the culture has been destroyed and reborn after the calamity, and when there is a gap between the young and the old, that it becomes difficult and precious. Originally, in time, the teacher for the winter and summer to accompany the reading, the students in the spring and autumn practice, devote their hearts and efforts, accumulated labor and wisdom, can be expected to become a small tree forest, perhaps water drops to raise the wave ah! Unfortunately, all the waist cut, only left to look up to the sky long sigh. The good thing is that the brothers climbing the mountain, each of them work hard, seek knowledge and ask the way, not to let up a little. The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of the subject. Ah, just look at the world, my disciples, not only to learn to show, will also be famous for poetry, and will also be BingDeJiang!
I want the solar wind to carry me across the equator. I would like to fall into the rich crotch of my lover and prostrate myself between her sweet breasts as if I were pouncing on the truth, I see the sweat-blooded horse galloping in the honeyed spring water in the Sahara, and I dance all night long for the first night of the strong man’s bride. But, but, by the gods, I have to walk with a shield and a halberd in the decaying hinterland of the earth, I am doomed to be deaf in the solemn morning bell of the petrified sea, I cannot escape the wheels of the pandemic century, death has already made a profound promise, and the ancient trumpet resounds in the land of skulls, the roses of the Gulag have never been so fragrant as at this moment. –In a word, I will face and resist the firing squad, I will refuse to use it to separate the sunrise and the moonset of every empire!
Christ asked: “Why have you turned your back on me?
But it turns out that the truth has been sitting for a thousand years, like a scar, which the world never hides. But it turns out that the truth has been sitting for a thousand years, and all things are in oneself, and one must seek one’s own way, and one can only save oneself. Abandonment? No, it is an embrace, as my disciples chanted, “The founder will recognize us from beyond the heavens, and the memory will save the first rose from tomorrow”.
Oh, the founder of heaven and earth, this is the day…
On the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the ninth month of the year Gengzi, and on the thirty-first day of the tenth month of the Nativity, the wind was blowing and the sun was shadowy, beside the old river. On November 18, it was changed again in the miserable wind and rain.
Note:1, the original text is in traditional characters, in order to facilitate the reading of simplified characters in the first, traditional later published separately.
- This article was revised several times, and the final revised draft was received on the morning of January 1, 2021, and was sent out for the benefit of readers.
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