It is only a background, standing in the historical background of the long history,
together with the audience, some understanding and discussion of what is known. ]
1 About my hometown I
lived in Little Rock when I was five years old. I walked past a gas station, a large field, and about a block to a vegetable market.
But if I go back there today, it must be completely different, or there are already tall buildings. The world is getting bigger and bigger, and new things are emerging.
We see forests, mountains, tundra, canyons in our memory, highways and urban areas in our eyes, and McDonald's under the Eiffel Tower.
Hometown is impossible to return, because it no longer exists.
2 With regard to time
, time cannot be seen, heard, weighed, or measured in the laboratory.
Time is just our subjective feeling of how we have changed
before and after, what we were like a nanosecond before and what we would be like a nanosecond after.
The Hopi see time as a landscape that
exists before and after us, and we move through it, piece by piece through it.
Can a clock measure time? No, they measure themselves, and the objective reference of one clock is just another clock.
3 About death
Everyone is afraid of death.
Someone walked and stopped, fell, never got up, and then started to stink and rot.
4 About Intersection
Time passes faster and faster with age.
A day, or a year, or a century, is a cycle of life and death, a turmoil.
Meet someone, know his name, say a few words, and then he dies.
Others are like waves that come and go, and waves of wheat that blow with the wind.
We regret losing our friends, but what can we do?
5. About mutual affirmation that
I met someone by chance, and I had a gut feeling that he was like me, and we talked for two days and there was no doubt about it.
But we can't be sure. We have both confirmed each other's stories, but how do we know whether this confirmation is true or not, or is it just an echo? I know what I'm saying is true, but I thought, "Maybe he's playing with me," and he kept that in mind.
We parted ways, promised to keep in touch, and never heard from each other since.
Years later, I think I saw him at a train station in Brussels and disappeared into the crowd.
What a pity.
We can never be sure, even if we want to be sure, even if we can be sure.
6 About Faith
Do you believe in God? Laplace said, I don't need to make that assumption, maybe he's there right now.
Many things go unanswered and ultimately boil down to mystery.
There is no answer except to appeal to religion, if you have faith, you have the answer.
7 Regarding culture
, it is not created, perhaps, it is a process of continuous accumulation of various fields interacting with each other.
8 Regarding religion
I grew up reading the Old Testament, my wife grew up reciting the Koran,
my eldest son is an atheist, my youngest is a Scientologist, my daughter studies Hinduism,
I can imagine the living room Religious wars can start.
But we can tolerate each other and live in peace.
Compassion, Forbearance, Righteousness, and Love
are what Buddhism and Christianity, and even other religions teach, a simple path to kindness.
The nails and blood in religious legends are just to make religious art more charming.
What a talking serpent tempted a woman to eat an apple and we'd never be saved;
There are priests and priests who spread heaven and hell everywhere to use temptation and fear to rule people's minds and save our souls who have never been lost.
Various religious ceremonies, such as kneeling, lamenting, chants, worshipping bread and wine, may not be the original intention of Buddha or God.
No wise man will come from the east to worship the manger.
There has never been anything divine other than the goodness of earthly mortals.
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