Prokofiev Piano No.3: Argerich

I wish I was there...!
The Score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AdBi5IBrto&feature=related
The Performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOb9NxoYbA&feature=related

True Love vs Infatuation

From the movie, "Slumdog Millionare", one argument on love has been discussed as following:

In the movie, one line appeared : "we could not live on Love", the secular one, which should be defined as infatuation, has shown the majority notion on love and relationship in today's society. This infatuation lives usually very ephemeral, 2 years being the longest ( depending on how much time spending together of course. )

I do still believe in true love, that seems an infrangible and unfathomable faith, and yet, I do not think many people will find their true love, probably only a few on earth. As one Tibetan master says, marriage is an impermanent event alike many other contracts, so that there is no guarantee for happiness, no guarantee for forever love, and no guarantee for non-betrayal, only when one person becomes a Buddhisattva would make the romantic love or marriage lasts forever without sorrow.

We can find the embodiment of Forever Love on incessant giving, passionate nurture, true appreciation, and non-selfish human behavior, whereas any other promises or contract will not do.

Pierre Bonnard : A Color Player

As if you are walking in a colorful palette of magic fantasy, you can smell the sweetness, feel the warmth, gaze into something delightful in his paintings.
You can see his small brushstroke indicating the direction of the win, and the intensity of the smile.

Pierre Bonnard : (1867-1947)

"論語"喚醒內在的心靈....

于丹說得好，"論語傳遞的是一種態度，一種樸素，溫暖的生活態度。"論語"的真諦，是要告訴大家，如何在心靈上快樂的生活。"

佛家在生活之外之道外，常說的是如何面對死亡 ，儒家說的是如何面對生活。

一個人的自信心來自於哪裡？它來自於內心的淡定與坦然！

子曰："仁者不憂，智者不惑，勇者不懼。"

所謂仁，就是愛人。智就是了解人。勇就是坦然面對的態度。就這麼簡單 。

心中有"天下"之前，必須先修身，齊家...!! 這是現代政治人物所忽略的條件。

難怪個個口裡說為民為社會為國，結果卻大部份是一群無仁無義無信，自私自利之人。以愛民為藉口，盡是諂媚矯做的發展自己的小黨, 自己的帝國。

每每我們總認為孔夫子愛說教，但在於丹筆下，他是一位活生生的智者， 論語沒有色彩，只有溫度的智慧之語，他喚醒我們的內在心靈。倘若我們沒有思考其邏輯巧思，只是當作教條，斷章取義，不知變通，所謂"道德"也只是舊式社會下的法律規章，毫無存在的意義！

Sommerlier Restaurant (小酒館 )

Dressing in summer red walking into the Sommerlier Restaurant (小酒館 ) , the last meeting in June, I initially did not like the place, a very business and crowded atmosphere, somewhat unfriendly and suffocated.

But the food was surprisingly delicious. Sliced scallop salad, Esgargots, and German style Knucle, Eisbein. ( Score: 79)

El Cantor De Tango 2： 探戈歌手

讀完" 探戈歌手" ，彷彿目睹布宜諾斯艾利斯在一首首的探戈樂曲裡漫步起舞，長久以來的經濟政治困境在句句的悲嘆中纏綿。

她像是一個美麗卻憔悴，年過半百的風塵女子，走過文化的迷宮，走入過往的倫敦巴黎，歷經悲鳴鄙視戰爭的史詩。人們總在街頭擁吻跳舞歌唱，沒有時間的趕場，像個迷失的老靈魂，像個自以為永遠比別人懂事的少女，卻已是殘花敗柳....

她就是布宜諾斯艾利斯。讓好多世界來往的人們迷戀忘返，如此古老現代卻又毫不真實的與世界脫節.... 只因探戈讓她擁有撩人的魅力，有如古代文人流連青樓的吸引力。

"探戈歌手是個最好的演員，不是普通的演員，而是能認同別人情感的演員"，他們，如同布宜諾斯艾利斯，充滿了幻想，充滿了狂野，"失落抑鬱，充滿了傑磝不遜，隱藏了不曾勇於公諸於世的情感"！(p.159)

在樂句停頓間，我們屏氣聆聽著歌手的呼吸，撫摸著舞伴的脈搏，依偎著胸口與體溫，讓兩個不相識的靈魂在空中交會，卻在下一首樂曲中毫不相識....作者說，"這像是競技的性事，不參與內心情感"，與Argentina Tango"起源於妓院不謀而合". (p. 15)

"當我們撇見迷宮圖案時，往往產生錯覺，以為是繪製的線條賦予她形象, 事實上，剛好相反，形象存在於線條之間的空白處。" 傳奇人物 Evita，也只會在這樣謎樣的夢幻城市裡迷倒群雄，她無法在正史中找到適當的位置，卻是在這裡作一位自命不凡的精神領袖。

布宜諾斯艾利斯，她再也沒有巴黎的豔麗，倫敦的知性，米蘭的時尚，翡冷翠的藝術，馬德里的狂邁, 她擁有各個城市的一絲風華，在永遠神秘的面紗中隱藏，隱藏在一首首的探戈裡，淫浪，大膽，炙熱，無奈，風情萬種。

El Cantor De Tango 1： 探戈歌手

"若布宜諾斯艾利斯是軀體，那麼探戈歌手就是靈魂，

或者一個是形，另一個是影，兩者相互依存，共赴生死布宜……諾斯艾利斯儼然一只記憶匣子，宛如一首深邃探戈，彷彿一則永恆神話，更像一座詭譎迷宮，...精彩絕倫的文學符碼、萎靡頹圮的孤寂氛圍、驕傲自負的民族性格..." Prologue on T. E. Martinez's Tango...

一種毫無理由的自大導致阿根廷的沒落, 卻也在筆者深邃的情愫裡找到歷史的軌跡!　探戈樂曲裡充滿了失戀，沮喪，慾望，熱烈，孤獨...像是找不到歸宿的身體在一首首的探戈樂曲裡相互依偎，一個個曾風華絕世卻孤寂落寞的靈魂在歌聲中頹廢宣洩。　

Intimacy reveals...

Some people cry mournfully after a passionate intimacy;

some people laugh incessantly afterwards.

It all depends on how much suppression you have been carried on...

金色筆記之7 ： Warrent Buffet 變乞丐了？

有這麼一個故事，一天，一個少年看到節儉的Warrent Buffet 走在路上思考著投資的方向，穿著隨便，不時低著頭，還把冬天帽子拿在手上。

少年不懂事，看到這麼一位堪稱世界首富的老翁，以為是拿著帽子乞討的乞丐。便對著他，以輕蔑的不禮貌的口氣，大聲嚷嚷，乞丐，乞丐，你擋到我的路了丫，別向我要錢！

這位成功的投資家，對著這位少年微笑，也不辯稱他的身份!

身邊的認得他的路人，深感不滿跑來請教Buffet，
他卻說：難道那不懂事的少年說我是可悲的乞丐，我就會變作是乞丐了嗎？
路人恍然大悟的說：是ㄚ，您還是投資大師世界首富。

當別人怎樣說我，罵我，把我冠上奇怪的稱號時，
從前，我會很生氣，被誤會...被誤解...
現在，需要佛慢升起.....
就像首富不會變乞丐一樣...
微笑！別在意...

金色筆記之6 ： 我與佛無二無別

宇宙間可以容納無限,就像我們的心識一樣...
生氣時，常常是因為氣自己，氣自己沒有被尊重，沒有被認同 ...
氣自己的貪念，瞠心，及愚昧引領著自己走向坎坷的道路。

但是，佛陀說：體性空，自性明。

我們不必要懷疑，心識的空廣性，廣大性，與本清淨無染性。
我們擁有無限的慈悲心，無限的能力，無限的智慧，無限的穩定力與專注力。

也許，昇起了一絲的佛慢, 總是沒有自憐自艾的驕縱!

Live for the moment's whim...

Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.

春天散播花瓣，不是為了未來的果實，而是為了片刻的玄思妙想。

金色筆記之舞 ： 行住坐臥間...

人真的是被自己的習慣牽著走....
即使是自以為喜歡創新的人...
習慣著自己的感覺, 習慣的聽某種談話方式，
聽某種音樂, 習慣和相仿的人在一起,
習慣的身邊有愛人陪或沒有人...
習慣的向外尋找刺激...

有時候覺得超級無聊...
但是，沒有人能夠擺脫這些發自心底的需求.
有人說，直到有一天，
我身體心靈生活獨立自主了, 我知道我生存在世界上該如何存在了？

我依然的彈琴，畫畫，吃飯，睡覺， 談戀愛，抱抱....
這一切才不是淪為習慣。 而是一分一秒的享受。
雖然寂寞孤獨依然！

因為凡人的快樂, 都如泡沫, 短暫而逝....一件事, 一個人帶來的喜樂是一小時, 一天, 一星期, 一年? 能多長？　

L' IDIOT

As walking into an art exhibition gallery, L' IDIOT (里帝歐 ) restaurant, I suddenly felt like flying back to a 19 century Tuscan cave simmering with olive, basil and mosaic atmosphere. While I sat beside the frizzling fire place tried to enjoy this special view in Taipei, I wished there were cushion on the chair pampered my physical indulgence.

Other than that, the taste is original, textured, fresh and light, not fancy or creative. Service is good; broad wine selection.

The best thing here is the Warm Chocolate cake, that melt into my palate, sweet and bitter, like chocolate cream massaging my tongue... (score: 76)

Chianti ....

Chianti , at Da-An Road, Taipei, a boutique, unique and romantic Italian restaurant!

Sitting in there, I can quietly watch all the pedestrians lobbying passing by the Taipei city, which is a transcendental experience. I see all kinds of people, relationships, and fashion styles. The stake was so so, not enough service people. (Score :79.5)

Chianti, Tuscany, a beautiful site in Italy.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.—Marvin Gaye

Blue and White Porcelain： 青花瓷

Critiqued by its cultural heritage and unfathomable fragility, Blue and White Porcelain always claims its highest price and value in the world wide auction, Sotheby's and Christies. US $3,000,000 is not uncommon.

I love Jay Chou's song so much that I fall into loving Blue and White Porcelain... :) As following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqkilWRVo2c

Venice 6: Titian ; 天地不過是一瞬

"自其變者觀之﹐ 天地不過是一瞬﹐而彩虹是天地的一瞬﹐而我是彩虹裡一瞬間的寄寓。"

我感覺到你當時的失落。往往走在歷史文物天地後，才猛然珍惜身旁的真情。。。人是活的，地理物件在時間裡流動，人們讓他活了，也許他擁有生命，擁有靈魂，是高層的主宰，是自然的因緣。。。但是，只要是有情感的牽繫與關懷，一切都變活了!
在天地間，人們不斷的自我膨脹，總以為宇宙之大，你我都可以一指使，一眼神而改變歷史，改寫自然，改變命運，茫然的錯覺人類擁有無限的權限與力量。錯覺...,這錯覺，使得人類痛不欲生。
殊不知，在你我一彈指間，一個眼神的交換，我們的命運便千千世世牽連在一起。 而你在靜觀彩虹時，霎那間更是領悟了無始無終的存在。願，你我在內心最深處，珍藏那霎那的永恆!!

Pink Lady

Secrete Garden...

On Love...

Giving out love without any expectation of returns seems a humanly impossible task, only non human being can perform such profound deed. Yes, Love is a verb, an action to be performed. That is why there is something eternal, something beyond: Bodhisattva's compassion and love .

Mothers, sometimes do feel themselves possess such moral ethics, yet they do not understand and inspect their own motives of loving their children, whether the motives are self-benefiting or not. On Mothers Day, we do need to be grateful for all mothers, for they do possess the kind of love that is most unconditional and non-self aiming compared with other kind of love, such as romantic love.

Not to beseech too much, we human beings do, however, give out love and care with an underneath wish for some returns, either moment of pride or appreciations from others, or further compensation.

And this is why, whenever we expect, we wish, we fantasize, and then we do not feel so happy after all.

After all, love is an action with an aftermath feeling of hollowness inside, if one does not have enough energy to give. Only if one has transcended oneself with universal oneness, he would not feel so empty at all.

For Lovers, two independent persons need to feel ONE together, truly one entity , in order to be truly in love. They can have different opinions with small things, yet they do need to possess the same universal spiritual view: to love one another is to exist. Otherwise, they are not lovers, but an unbalanced relationship, which can exist only when one becomes budihisattva.

A poetic afternoon...

"My friend is one... who takes me for what I am."

"O beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror...."

Poetry 1-2: 泰戈爾 , ( 飛鳥集, Stray Birds)

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

Life has become richer by the love that has been lost...

你曾引導著我，穿過白天擁擠不堪的旅程，來到黃昏落寞之境，

在夜的寂靜裡，我等待著它的意義...
小花問道：太陽，我要怎樣為你歌唱，怎樣崇拜你？

太陽回答：只要用你簡單而純潔的沉默。

你說：

當烏雲被光明親吻時，就成了天上的花朵...

生命因為付出過愛情而更為豐裕...

Poetry 1-1: 泰戈爾

Thou wilt find, Eternal Traveller, marks of thy footsteps across my songs...

"永恆的旅客"啊， 你將在我的吟唱中找到你的足跡....

The Singularity is Near....

為迎接電腦比人腦聰明的時代，網路業巨擘Google公司和美國太空總署（NASA）決定合作，支持在矽谷辦一所培養未來學家的學校。
英國金融時報3日報導，這間奇點大學（Singularity University）由發明家兼未來學家柯茲威爾（Ray Kurzweil）領導，他曾預測電腦科技將超越人腦，因而成為爭議性人物。
而Google和NASA合作辦校，等於支持柯茲威爾認為在本世紀中葉前人工智慧將超越人類的看法。
校址位在NASA的艾姆士研究中心，距Google總部僅一箭之遙。
奇點大學將會提供生物科技、奈米科技、人工智慧方面的課程。
奇點（Singularity）是指未來科技快速進展到一個理論上的時刻，此詞彙因柯茲威爾2005年出版「奇點迫近」（The Singularity is Near）一書而知名。到奇點時，機器可經由人工智慧自我進化，而比人腦聰明的電腦也可解決包括能源短缺、氣候變遷、飢餓等問題。有些人則擔心懷有惡意的人工智慧會把人類給消滅。
柯茲威爾表示，選在此時際創校，是因現在已很接近他所謂的奇點。

Tarot Card: an intuitive soul searching...

From the following 22 cards, you can close your eyes, ask a question, and then pick one yourself ..., from which will bring you to the most inner secrete of your subconsciousness, that associates the high power in the universe.


The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards:

ठेFool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World.

Man at the water front

Woman like any man, if she has an ideal idol, yet remove, she would not need to shop around for a better choice.