目前分類：王大師英文集 (10)
- Dec 15 Tue 2009 21:19
The witch and the vagabond
- Dec 01 Tue 2009 21:55
I exist as I am - (on Whitman's wits)
- Nov 24 Tue 2009 21:10
Human History: A Story of Civilizational Race
- Nov 24 Tue 2009 21:07
Battle cry against cruelty
A spot of human stain smudged on a dirty window pane
Murky shadow cast thru an unintended tangled chain
- Nov 22 Sun 2009 12:01
Endless suffering, human desire
- Nov 22 Sun 2009 11:49
One Mid-April Night Serenade
- Nov 22 Sun 2009 11:43
Taoist notion of human freedom
Once a master was asked whether human beings have free will. The master then told the disciple to raise any one of his feet, the disciple raised his left foot as was told. The master asked him, did you have free will in choosing which foot u could’ve raised. The disciple answered, “Yes, I had the total freedom as to which foot I could’ve raised, and I raised my left one. I had the total control over them, hence I own my freedom.” Upon hearing this remark, the master went on to have the disciple, again, raise any one of his feet. This time the disciple had no ability in raising either one anymore .”
- Nov 22 Sun 2009 11:02
The Thailand Odyssey
It is not quite an overstatement to say that human nature has often been sanctified as holy and benign in many works of spiritual literature and holy books; and it is usually depicted as distinct from the lesser animal heritage. The Christian myth likes to celebrate the dawn of human birth as divine occurrence, set to work by the Lord’s urge to create. And we are, thus, created in His image as perfect gestalt, not one ounce of improvement can be added. Confucius and Mencius believed that human nature is basically good. The allegorical water’s tendency to flow downward etched deep memories in every Chinese’s collective consciousness. The modern Cartesian notion of the west, on the other hand, works on the assumption that humans are rational beings, capable of cool-headed, unbiased calculation. However, hard-wired in the human brain, lying deeply, and enveloped within layers of outer cortices, is the reptilian part of our human inheritance. Homo sapiens have evolved, it seems, not out of primordial, innocent angels, but out of their primal animal ancestry.
