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Thursday, March 30, 2017
A Lifetime Book to Read !!
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最近讀了一本沈重但意義深遠的好書「凝視死亡」~~~
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📚 我們人類卻不是長生不死的生物。我們該如何面對生命終點,一個大家都須走的路,如何活著有意義而不是充滿痛苦!
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🌹作者Dr. Gawande 為本書拍攝的真人真事感人的50分鐘紀錄片~
1. http://www.thirteen.org/programs/frontline/being-mortal/




1. http://www.thirteen.org/programs/frontline/being-mortal/
Dr. Gawande illustrates the inevitable path we all need to confront in life, which dose not have to be so suffering , but can be a meaningful one !! The following is a 50 minutes documentary movie produced by the author Dr. Gawande , which features 7 moving true stories in his book " Being Mortal "~~~~
2 , 7 Short. episode https://www.youtube.com/watch…
“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone’s lives.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone. Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again, I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be. We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way. Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don’t want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can’t, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, “Old age is a continuous series of losses.” Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: “Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“In fact, he argued, human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting, capricious, and insatiable. They provide, ultimately, only torment.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Sunday, March 26, 2017
The most beautiful afternoon tea in Taipei !!



When we were children , we discovered seashells on the beach or built castles in the sands without any concern that the wave might come and wash them away in the next moment !
Life is a game , and you are playing a role now with no sense of embarrassment or pretense !
The moment you start seeing life as non serious , a playfulness , all the burden on death , of life , of life - everything disappears! You can fly with open arm .
You , as a zen master , can live alternatively , not as a serious person . Zen has created a world of its own which is very playful , full of laughter, where when great masters behave like children .


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Monday, March 13, 2017
How to find a good lover ?
如何找到一個好的愛人?
我的觀察是,如果你不快樂,你也將會碰到那些不快樂的人。
不快樂的人,受到同樣不快樂的人吸引。
不快樂的人,受到同樣不快樂的人吸引。
這很好,也很自然。還好如此,否則那些人會摧毀別人的快樂。
只有快樂的人會被快樂的人所吸引。
只有快樂的人會被快樂的人所吸引。
物以類聚。聰明的人被聰明的人所吸引,愚笨的人被愚笨的人所吸引。
你會碰到那些與你同層次的人。
因此首先要記得:如果一個關係是來自不快樂,那麼它必定是苦澀的。
因此你要自己能夠快樂、愉悅、
因此你要自己能夠快樂、愉悅、
慶祝,你才能夠發現一個同樣的靈魂,
這樣的兩個舞蹈的靈魂的相遇,將是一場美麗的舞。
需要被愛是幼稚、不成熟的。需要去愛是成熟的。
不要因為寂寞就希求一個關係,不。那你就走錯路了。那麼另外一個人就是被妳當成工具,你也會被他當成工具。可是沒人想被當作工具!
不要因為寂寞就希求一個關係,不。那你就走錯路了。那麼另外一個人就是被妳當成工具,你也會被他當成工具。可是沒人想被當作工具!
每一個個人都是他自己的目的。使用任何人作為一種工具都是不道德的。
首先要學會獨處。靜心(meditation)是獨處的一種方法。
如果你單獨時能夠快樂,你就已經學會快樂的奧秘。那麼,現在你與人共處時也能夠快樂。如果你快樂,你就有東西能夠分享,付出。而且當你付出時,你也獲得;不會說是先獲得然後才付出。
如此,你就有去愛別人的需求。
一般人的需求是被人愛。那是錯誤需求。
那是個幼稚的需求,你還未成熟。那是個孩童的態度。
那是個幼稚的需求,你還未成熟。那是個孩童的態度。
小孩子出生後,當然,他無法愛他的母親;他不知道何謂愛,他不知道誰是母親,誰是父親。
他全然無助。他的母親必須愛他,他的父親必須愛他,整個家庭必須將愛灑在他身上。
他全然無助。他的母親必須愛他,他的父親必須愛他,整個家庭必須將愛灑在他身上。
因此他學到一件事:每個人都必須愛他。他從沒學過說,他必須要去愛。
但是他會長大,而如果他維持這樣的態度說每個人都要愛他,他整個人生都會很痛苦。他的身體會長大,但是他的心智仍然是不成熟的。
一個成熟的人會去了解別人的需求:我必須去愛別人。
想被愛是幼稚的,想去愛是成熟的。
想被愛是幼稚的,想去愛是成熟的。
而當你已經準備好能夠去愛某人的時候,一個美麗的關係就會出現;否則它是不會來的。
“在一個關係當中的兩者,可能會對彼此很不好嗎?”
是的,那就是全世界都在發生的事情。要對人好是很不容易的。
你甚至對自己都不好,你怎麼有辦法對另一個人好呢?
你甚至對自己都不好,你怎麼有辦法對另一個人好呢?
你甚至不愛你自己!你如何能夠愛另外一個人呢?愛你自己,善待自己。
那些所謂的宗教聖人一再教導你們不要愛自己,不要對自己好,要對自己嚴厲!他們教導你們要對別人柔軟對自己剛硬。這是荒謬的。
我敎你們的第一件和最重要的事情,就是愛你自己。照顧自己。
學習如何原諒自己─永遠原諒自己。那麼,你就會開花。
學習如何原諒自己─永遠原諒自己。那麼,你就會開花。
在這樣的開花當中,你會吸引其他的花朵。
石頭自然吸引石頭;花朵自然吸引花朵。
那麼那就會是一個帶著恩典、美麗、與祝福的關係。
如果你能夠發現這樣一個關係,你的關係將會成長進入祈禱;你的愛將會成為狂喜,而藉由愛,你將會了解何為神聖。
---- OSHO
Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Hottest Man of all Time !!!!
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Read for Me !! Love and Dignity
《不只為愛朗讀》
人不因為曾做罪惡的事,而完全是魔鬼。--「為愛朗讀」作者:班哈德.施林克
《為愛朗讀》小說講述在20世紀30-40年代,一名德國少年米夏與一名中年女子漢娜的一段忘年戀。開始兩人的愛情甜蜜熱烈,某天漢娜卻不辭而別,直至八年後倆人在法庭上重逢。
漢娜因在二次大戰後期擔任納粹關押犯人處警衛的工作,成為一名被告。米夏作為法學院的學生,在旁聽過程中發現了漢娜的秘密,這個祕密足以推翻法庭對她的指控:但這個秘密卻是漢娜誓死捍衛,寧願入獄也不願暴露的。
15歲的米夏和38歲的漢娜之間,甜蜜純潔的愛情,因為年齡和認知產生了更大的神秘面紗;極力維護的尊嚴,因立場和身份產生了距離,使倆人的愛情無可替代。
在漢娜服刑的幾十年,米夏一直堅持為她寄朗讀的錄音帶,漢娜靠錄音帶學會了識字寫字。
刑滿時,米夏已成為一名青年律師,漢娜已白髮蒼蒼。然而就在出獄前一天,漢娜站在一堆書上上吊自殺,米夏從此再也沒有愛上其他女人。
但《為愛朗讀》不是一個單純的愛情故事。作者巧妙地把這段看似匪夷所思的愛情,放在特殊的歷史背景中,描述了米夏對父輩的不解和不捨,對歷史的困惑和掙扎,對愛情與理性間的矛盾,以及漢娜自卑,自尊,及自贖的過程。小人物如此悲微、無奈、勇敢、且深具反省力。僅管她不識字。
米夏和漢娜相識於一切不幸的開頭。在與家人長期隔閡的教授家庭成長,因患黃疸病也遠離學校:一個孤寂和封閉的男孩,遇見成熟女性漢娜,她的細心照料,體貼疼愛,讓這個15歲少年的愛欲和情慾都得到了滿足。他們常以清水沐浴,將身體洗得十分乾淨,如同他們的關係一般,沒有邪惡,沒有骯臟。每次做愛後,漢娜都讓米夏為她朗讀各種名著篇章,他聲情並茂,她如痴如醉。
有一次,米夏外出,為漢娜留下一張字條,沒想到她大為發火,這時米夏並沒有察覺異常,僅只是當作漢娜對他的愛與依賴。米夏曾寫過幾封長信給漢娜,漢娜無動於衷,甚至在提起時,顯得抗拒。但他們仍然沈浸於約會,沐浴,做愛,朗讀這美妙的文字。
米夏也曾經小小地反叛。他與同學出遊,刻意隱瞞與漢娜的關係,與同齡女生蘇菲約會。也許就是這些小反叛,讓米夏更加堅定,與漢娜之間的愛情,如同烙印不可磨滅,無可替代。
漢娜不辭而別之後,他變得困惑,疑心,惱於自己年少單純的愛情,被成熟的漢娜玩弄摧毀;他變得冷漠無情,又極端敏感,在與蘇菲發生關係之後,終於明白,他失去漢娜,同時也失去了毫無保留愛他人的能力。漢娜之於米夏,如同生了一場大病,病好了,可是傷口卻無法愈合。
法庭上倆人再碰面時,漢娜作為犯人被指控,米夏作為法學院「集中營討論班」的成員旁聽。審判過程,米夏突然察覺到漢娜的秘密:她是一個文盲!
父:你還記得嗎?你小時候,每當媽媽給你講些其實是為你好的話,你是如何大發脾氣的?……但對大人來說,我絕對看不出任何理由,可以代替別人做決定,而推翻那人自己覺得比較好的做法。
米夏:即使他們自己後來也覺得,那樣做原來更幸福,也不該強加嗎?
父搖搖頭:我們現在並不談幸福,我們是在談論尊嚴和自由。在你還是一個小孩子時,就已經明白其中的差別了。
入獄期間,米夏堅持為漢娜朗讀,錄成錄音帶,寄給她。《戰爭與和平》《奧德賽》,那些光彩的樂章通過米夏生動的朗讀,使他們的心近在咫尺。漢娜通過錄音帶和書籍,終於學會了識字寫字,並且給米夏寫一些短短的紙條,他為她感到十分高興,但米夏卻從未回信。
如果說在愛情中的米夏和漢娜,早期身份懸殊,重逢時兩人更是猝不及防地站到彼此的對立面。曾為納粹工作過的漢娜:遭遇那段殘酷歷史的哲學家父親,因為介紹猶太民族思想的作品,被大學解聘——這些是作為戰後新一代的法律生米夏,在思考正義的概念下無法定論的,他所看到的是漢娜表面的冷酷,父親的苦悶;他無法體會的是,在那個納粹統治的社會環境下,那代人早已失去了人性和尊嚴。
漢娜代表的是懵懵懂懂捲入戰爭洪流,稀裡糊塗成了納粹分子的底層工作人員。漢娜為了逃避自己不識文的恥辱字,她被動地在世間沈浮,為了僅有的自尊放棄工作和所愛的人。甚至在法庭上,她仍然是懵懂的。法官質問她為何要眼睜睜地看著那些人們在教堂裏燒死,也不開門。她回答,因為覺得那樣的情況打開門會更混亂(我有時在想,也許她也覺得那些人在教堂被燒死,比被送去奧斯維辛殺死要更體面更有尊嚴一些吧)。
面對審判,她兩次問法官:那麼,要是您的話,您會怎麼做呢?這並非挑釁,而是真的迷茫。她不知道自己對工作盡忠職守,犯了什麼錯。
最後她喃喃自語說:那是不是我當時不報名參軍就好了?
這也是作者給讀者們思考的問題。漢娜本來在西門子工作,上司要提拔她當個幹部,她為了隱瞞自己是文盲,拒絕提拔而報名參軍,後面成為一個「無需識字」的女守衛。在旁人看來這是多麼可笑的自尊,多麼微不足道的真理啊!但這畢竟是一個文盲,她的自尊和真理,她的戰鬥也只能是她的戰鬥!
米夏父親代表的是作者對知識份子層面的批判。他曾說「人類作為主體而存在,人不甘心淪為客體」,但是現實中,父輩們在納粹主義崛起時期卻不敢對抗風潮,做理應做的事情。這是『為愛朗讀』對於潮流,知識分子,小人物,虛偽正義另一種解讀方式。
納粹主義的陰影被父輩倉促地逃避,漏洞百出的問題,前後矛盾的證詞,讓法庭的審判越來越像另一個不正義制度的形式。
可是米夏,在漢娜和父親之間,他感受到了人性懦弱和殘忍的另一面,感受到那些法庭外躁動的「熱情」,與自己的煎熬相反。
漢娜的自殺,導演讓觀眾從兩方面解讀。
一方面,出獄後的漢娜存在一定的羞恥形象,雖然工作人員請求米夏協助漢娜的生活,可是在唯一一次探監時,漢娜激動不已地伸出手握著他,想要重新找回往日舊情時光的溫度時,米夏抽出了自己的手。
另一方面,漢娜為納粹工作時,心思單純,僅只當作工作對待。然而在識字閱讀之後,漸漸醒悟和理解了當時自己犯下了怎樣的錯誤,給倖存者帶來怎樣嚴重的傷痛。她無法寬恕和原諒自己,只能選擇死亡。
值得一提的是,一位與米夏同樣作為年輕一代的戰後倖存者,正是此次審判的主要原因,她寫的一本控訴納粹罪行的書,開啟了這場審判。漢娜在遺書中將自己的積蓄托米夏轉交給這名女子,也是想要得到救贖,但女子「不屑的拒絕」了。
這意味著直接遭受戰爭傷害的倖存者,他們往往沒有能力也不願意寬恕任何納粹分子,他們根本無暇考慮這些人中的一部分,是出於怎樣的過程,是否有著不得已的理由。他們只能看到自己的傷痛。
寬恕是一種道德行為,但在他們眼中寬恕並不能抹去屠殺的過去。
因同名小說改編的電影,獲81屆奧斯卡許多大獎。
但妳或你,看𢤦了其間作者想要呈現的意念嗎?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCqSm4Phug
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zykpR5fDM0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzg8GdGgy-0
Where to find Joy in Taiwan ?? :)
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say,
“Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Happy Woman's Day !!!!!
親愛的朋友們,
😍國際婦女節快樂!我不是Clinton Fan , 更不是女權運動支持者,但是她以下這些話我會努力記下來:「太多女孩們都對某人或某個東西駭怕!」「女孩們, 必須相互提攜相互支持,顛覆這個保守的典型的女性形象!」
我認為,勇敢的有愛心的面對自己,面對周遭,尊重自己, 尊重眾生尊重世界,接受美麗的與不完美的勇氣,不是一味追求平等,才是光榮的女性形象。
快樂幸福哦~~~
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Dear Friends,
😍Happy International women's day !! As I am not a Clinton Fan,and not a Feminism supporter ;however , I would like to bookmark this after her speech : "We need to lift and support each other to shatter the stereo type of a conservative woman , " while still , "too many girls are afraid of someone or something."
In my opinion , we Girls need to be Courageous, be compassionate , and be respectful toward ourselves , and toward all sentient beings , the world !! Having courage to Accept the beauty and imperfection of everyone's attributes , and do not deliberately strive for gender equality merely for the sake of such , where it is the true woman figure should represent !!
Happy
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-you-should-bookmark-this-hillary-clinton-speech/article/2616718

我認為,勇敢的有愛心的面對自己,面對周遭,尊重自己,
快樂幸福哦~~~

Dear Friends,

In my opinion , we Girls need to be Courageous, be compassionate , and be respectful toward ourselves , and toward all sentient beings , the world !! Having courage to Accept the beauty and imperfection of everyone's attributes , and do not deliberately strive for gender equality merely for the sake of such , where it is the true woman figure should represent !!
Happy


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