《晏子春秋》：君子獨立不慚於影，獨寢不慚於魂。
晏子本意君子慎獨，古文新解，歪樓異想延伸。
人在高低維魂影之間，向死而生，望生而死，意識自幻相，遊戲爾！不慚者，不慚於選擇現實，不慚於體驗生命，求為己知也。乃異想胡占一詩，曰：
獨立不慚影，
世間生死多
獨寢不慚魂，
明白但不說。
覺迷一拓撲，
因此何相若？
From the Yan Zi Chun Qiu:
“A gentleman, standing alone, is not ashamed before his shadow; sleeping alone, he is not ashamed before his soul.”
Yan Zi’s original point was the gentleman’s integrity in solitude(慎獨). Here, an ancient text takes a new turn, going gloriously off-topic and spiraling into imaginative speculation.
Between the soul and shadow of higher and lower dimensions, one lives toward death and dies while looking toward life. Consciousness fashions its own illusions. It is all a game!
To be unashamed is to feel no shame in choosing one’s reality, nor in experiencing one’s life, seeking to know for oneself.
And so, in a whimsical act of wild divination, a poem came to me:
Reading Yan Zi, Imagining Otherwise
Standing alone, unashamed before the shadow,
So many deaths and lives in this world.
Sleeping alone, unashamed before the soul,
Knowing clearly, yet saying nothing.
Awakening and delusion, one topology,
Then what form is this, after all?
