我是谁 之五

【原文】
When you become aware of the transience of all forms, your attachment to them lessens, and you disidentify from them to some extent. Being detached does not mean that you cannot enjoy the good that the world has to offer. In fact, you enjoy it more. Once you see and accept the transience of all things and the inevitability of change, you can enjoy the pleasures of the world while they last without fear of loss or anxiety about the future. When you are detached, you gain a higher vantage point from which to view the events in your life instead of being trapped inside them.

【译文】
所有形之物都转瞬即逝。意识到这一点，你便能减少对他们的依赖，并一点点的从有形之物中独立出来。这种独立并不意味着你就不能享受这世界所给与的物质的美好了。事实上，你将更加懂得享受。当你明白并且接受所有事物都是转瞬即逝、变动不居的，你便能在欢愉仍在时尽情享受，而不害怕失去或担心未来。一旦你脱离了物质的羁绊，便会得到审视自己生命中各种事件的制高点，而不是陷入其中而不自知。

【心得】
人们喜欢了解事物。被清楚了解的事物往往就进入了自己的控制之中。若想了解自己是谁，得先站得远些高些，从远处或者高处观察审视自己。这种视角的获得，需要将自己同各种有形的事物划分出些界限，分清楚什么是我，什么是物。有了这样的视角，才可以不以物喜，不以己悲。一切都在发生，请欣然接受。

Athens Half Marathon Runners, Let Me Show You How to get your running proof photos, for free

If you participated the Athens, GA half Marathon like me, you probably already got several emails from the PBC Sports Photography telling you that your photo are ready. When I got this email, I was so excited and went to their website to see the photos of my girlfriend, my friends, and of course myself. This is our first half marathon and we trained very hard for it. I finished 42 overall and 8th in my age group. Qing met her goal to finish in 2 hours. We all want the proof for sure. Plus, I managed to smile to every each photographer while I was running and I want to share the smile with all my family and friends.

So, you can imagine how happy I was when I saw my photos following the link in that email. After browsing all my picture, I naturally right licked the mouse on the photo and expected to see the right-click menu with the "save image as" option. Sadly, nothing happened. Then I realized that this side banned the right-mouse-click to prevent people from downloading pics directly.

Well, that's nothing new. They are trying to sell the pictures to you. That's the whole purpose of the business. They took your picture, give you some low resolution ones to preview, and sell you the high resolution ones. I think it's a good idea. The thing is, I do not have that $50 and I can survive with low resolution pics. (If you upload your photos to facebook or other picture hosting services, they probably will down sample it anyway.) So I decide to get the pictures on the website.

It's actually very simple, you go to the website following the link in your email, after it is fully loaded, copy and paste the code bellow into the address box of your browser and hit "Enter" key on your keyboard. A small window will popup, just click the small "OK" button on it. Now you can use right mouse click on the website.

javascript:alert(document.oncontextmenu='')

This is one more thing: when I right click on the photo I want to save, there is no the "save image as" option in the right-click menu. I used "save page as" option instead and save the webpage. When save the webpage, be sure to choose the "save as type" to be "webpage, complete". If you have multiple photos to save, just left click on the small version of the photo you want to download on the left side, and then right click and save the webpage. The program will warn you the same files are already there. Just choose overwrite when asked (Believe me, nothing critical will be overwritten).

When all this is done, just go the folder the webpage was saved. You will see one html file and a folder with the same name, go into the folder, you pictures will be there. There are going to be a lot files in the folder. Just sort the files by size. Your photos will be the JPG files with largest file size.

Enjoy.

我是谁 之四

【原文】
You are human being. What does that mean? Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and Being. Mother, father, husband, wife, young, old, the roles you play, the functions you fulfill, whatever you do——all that belongs to the human dimension. It has its place and needs to be honored, but in itself it is not enough for a fulfilled, truly meaningful relationship or life. Human alone is never enough, no matter how hard you try or what you achieve. Then there is Being. It is found in the still, alert presence of Consciousness itself, the Consciousness that you are. Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

【译文】
你作为人而存在。这是什么意思？这意味这对生命的掌握不在于能否操控它，而是找到“人”与“存在”之间的平衡。你或许是个母亲，父亲，丈夫，妻子。无论你青春年少或是垂垂老矣，也无论你扮演怎样的角色，身肩何种职责，你的所作所为，都属于你为“人”的这个维度。当然，这些值得赞扬，但却不足以代表完整真实且有意义的关系或者生活。只是做“人”是不够的，无论你在这一方面如何努力如何成功。
“存在”必不可少。
“存在”只在静止的警醒的当下的意识之中。这意识就是“你存在”。“人”是有形的，“存在”是无形的，这二者互相交织，密不可分。

【心得】
英语真有趣啊。我是谁这个问题有两个关键词，“我”与“是”。这个问题的答案是“Human Being”，对应的翻译就是人与存在。问题也就是答案。“Who am I”或者“What am I” 答案，都是以“I am” 开头的。“我”“是”或者我“存在”。而这两个词后面跟着什么，并不是最重要的。

我可以作为这个或者那个存在，但是只有一点是关键。我存在。