Song Guiwu’s Viewpoint 42: Write your name on your conscience


 宋圭武观点42:把名字写在自己的良心上

此地长眠者,声名水上书”,这是英国诗人济慈的墓志铭。我国著名历史学家、翻译家何兆武先生也说:“人生一世,不过就是把名字写在水上。不管你如何努力,如何着意,还是如何漫不经心,结果都是一样的,名字一边写,一边随水消失了。”

这里有一个问题是,认为名字就是写在水上的字,虽然有种空无豁达的境界,但难免也多了一些伤感的成分,也面临人生有走入虚空主义的危险,同时这种虚空也稀薄了人生的氧气。

泰戈尔在《飞鸟集》中写道:“天空没有留下翅膀的痕迹,但我已经飞过。”这是把名字写在空中。这种把名字写在空中的追求,细想也还是带有一种伤感和虚空主义的境界,但泰戈尔的诗还是包含了一种浪漫以及积极自强的成分。

当然,还有一些人为了留名,把自己的名字刻在或写在一些旅游景点上,这是大煞风景的事,是给自己留可耻的名,是适得其反的留名,更不可取,这是应当受到社会处罚的留名方式。

还有的人把名字写在书里,或刻在石碑上。现代社会,新媒体泛滥,新媒体也成了个人写名字可以利用的工具。总之,把名字写到任何物质材料上的,都是不可能永久留名的,因为任何一种物质材料,都不可能永久存在。

如何真正留名,就是把自己的名字写到自己的良心上,这是最好最保险最具永恒价值的留名方式。

一个人的良心是一个人内在的神,这个神是与大自然天地灵魂相通的。我们讲天人合一,也可以理解成是人只有在良心层面才能与大自然天地本质上实现合一,而不是大自然天地与人的所有“心”都是合一的。因为没有良心的人,或有违良心的事,是不可能与大自然天地合其德的,天人也就不可能真正做到合一。所以,当你的名字写在你内在的良心上时,你必然就与大自然天地实现了灵魂上的统一,你与大自然天地也就本质一体了。由于大自然天地是永恒的,所以,你写在你良心上的名字也必然就有了永恒的价值。

所以,我们需要学习何兆武先生的通透豁达和天高云淡,但也不能陷入消极主义和虚空主义,还是要积极有为,奋发奋起,天行健,君子当自强不息,努力把自己的名字写在自己的良心上。

当然,要把自己的名字写在自己的良心上,可能还需要一些付出,可能还会产生一些人生痛苦,但这是必须要支付的代价,因为世上没有免费的午餐。再说了,要追求永恒的价值,付出一些短期的痛苦也是应该的,也是值得的。天地有大美不言,大自然天地是最慷慨的,大自然天地有丰富的宝藏,只要一个人不要太吝啬,能有一些短期的付出,能不怕短期的痛苦,能秉持好良心的本性,努力与大自然天地实现一体,大自然天地会给你无限的回报,大自然天地会给你无价的珍宝。

把自己的名字写在自己的良心上,愉悦内在的神,人生圆满,世界圆满,皆大欢喜,这是人生最优的选择,也是实现人生与世界双赢的选择。

好,谢谢,谢谢。

Song Guiwu's Viewpoint 42: Write your name on your conscience

 

"Here the resting, fame on the water", this is the epitaph of the British poet Keats.Our country's famous historian and translator Mr. He Zhaowu also said: "Life is a life, but is to write their names on the water.No matter how hard you work, how careful, or how carelessly, the result is the same, the name is written, along with the water disappeared." Here is a problem, think that the name is written on the water, although there is a kind of empty open-minded realm, but also unavoidably more sad ingredients, but also face the danger of life into the nihilism, at the same time this nihilism also dilute the oxygen of life. Tagore wrote in "Stray Birds" : "The sky left no traces of wings, but I have flown."This is to write their names in the air.This pursuit of writing their names in the air, carefully think also with a sad and nihilistic realm, but Tagore's poem or contains a romantic and positive self-improvement.Of course, there are some people in order to leave a name, their names engraved on or written in some tourist attractions, this is a spoil the scenery, is to leave their own shameful name, is counterproductive to leave a name, more undesirable, this is the way to leave a name that should be punished by society. Others write their names in books or carve them on stones.In modern society, new media are flooding, and new media have become tools for individuals to write their names.In short, it is impossible to write your name on any material material, because any material material can not exist forever.How to really leave your name is to write your name on your conscience, which is the best, most secure and most eternal value.A person's conscience is an inner god, which is communicated with the soul of nature and heaven and earth.We talk about the unity of nature and human beings, which can also be understood as that only at the level of conscience can people realize the unity of nature and heaven and earth in essence, rather than the unity of nature and heaven and all the "hearts" of people.Because people without conscience, or things against conscience, can not be in harmony with nature and heaven and earth, and they can not truly achieve unity.Therefore, when your name is written on your inner conscience, you must realize the unity of soul with nature and heaven and earth, and you and nature and heaven and earth are essentially one.Because nature and heaven and earth are eternal, so the name you write on your conscience must also have eternal value. Therefore, we need to learn from Mr. He Zhaowu's open-minded and open-minded, but also can not fall into the negative and nihilism, or to be positive, work hard, the gentleman when self-improvement, and strive to write their own name on their own conscience.Of course, to write their own name on their own conscience, may also need some pay, may also produce some pain in life, but this is the price that must be paid, because there is no free lunch in the world.Moreover, to pursue eternal value, pay some short-term pain is also appropriate and worthwhile.Heaven and earth have great beauty without words, nature heaven and earth is the most generous, nature heaven and earth has rich treasures, as long as a person not too stingy, can have some short-term pay, can not be afraid of short-term pain, can uphold the nature of good conscience, and strive to achieve integration with nature heaven and earth, nature heaven and earth will give you unlimited returns, nature heaven and earth will give you priceless treasures.Write their own name on their own conscience, delight the inner god, life is complete, the world is complete, and everyone is happy, this is the best choice in life, and also the choice to achieve a win-win situation in life and the world.Good, thank you, thank you.