2025-08-13

宅山化外

讀者DC君來信説我的詩歌讀起來像普希金,以下是我給DC君的回信:
淩晨起來寫了這篇《自由定義
往往我們理解世界的方式也正是我們誤解世界的原因,當你量子塌縮於不是這個就是那個時,世界被以為變得如此堅實確定。都說萬法唯心,但心又何來?
然而宇宙的神秘隱入大海的黑暗之心,我們猶在岸邊讚美瞬間即逝的浪花。
從17歲嘗試寫下第一首詩,轉眼47年已過,你昨晚的來信,為我打開另外一扇自我觀照的窗。平常少有人讀我的詩,我也習慣了獨自前行。現在過著宅在山裡的化外生活,少與社會往來,偶爾收到有緣讀者來信,算是人間樂透一樁。
—— 
宅山化外有風雨,
偶然詩歌無人間。
(*作於2025.8.13楊柳颱風來襲)

           Beyond the World, Dwelling in the Mountain
Dwelling in the mountain, beyond the world,
there is wind and rain.
By chance, poetry happens
with no human world.
(*Written on August 13, 2025, during Typhoon Yangliu)
      —— Reader DC wrote to say my poetry reads like Pushkin. Below is my reply to DC:
I rose at dawn to write this piece, "Definition of Freedom."(自由定義
Often, the way we understand the world
is precisely the way we misread it.
When you quantum-collapse into
either this or that,
the world is taken to become
so solid, so certain.
We say that all phenomena arise from the mind,
yet where does the mind itself come from?
Meanwhile, the mystery of the universe
withdraws into the dark heart of the ocean,
and we remain on the shore,
praising the waves
that vanish in an instant.
I wrote my first poem at seventeen.
In a blink, forty-seven years have passed.
Your letter last night
opened another window
of self-reflection for me.
Few people usually read my poems,
and I have long grown accustomed
to walking alone.
Now I live a life beyond the world,
dwelling in the mountains,
with little contact with society.
From time to time,
a letter arrives from a kindred reader.
Such moments feel like
a small lottery won in the human world.

2025-08-12

自由定義

圖:Lumicat畫的鋼筆畫精細素描,壁虎又名守宮。每晚都在土想屋的土牆上靜靜地看著我寫詩,它們圓滾滾的眼睛像是高維世界安置在我們人間的行動即時影像鏡頭君。也許我只是一個晚上無聊的時候寫寫詩打發時間的楚門(Truman),而壁虎是我的第一個讀者,有時還是唯一的讀者。

自由是對恐懼的承擔
活著創造了信仰
壁虎又名守宮

自由是對神秘的消化
混沌私生了我們的宇宙
最近開始欣賞街拍

自由是對一切衡量的歸零
數字重新編寫了情緒
城市依舊日中為市

自由是對自由的自我解放
單戀單戀了人類的思想
靈魂暗地裡計劃逃亡


        Freely Defined

Freedom is the courage to carry fear.
Being alive has invented faith.
The gecko—called shougong, the palace-guard—keeps to the wall.

Freedom is the digestion of mystery.
Chaos birthed our universe out of wedlock.
Lately I’ve begun to relish street photography.

Freedom is resetting every measure to zero.
Numbers have rewritten our moods.
The city still keeps its market at noon.

Freedom is freedom’s self-liberation.
Unrequited love has unrequited human thought.
The soul is secretly plotting an escape.

     —— A finely detailed pen-and-ink drawing by Lumicat: the gecko, also called shougong.
Each night they perch on the earthen wall of the Earthinking Towsiunn House, quietly watching me write poems.
Their round, marble eyes seem like mobile, real-time lenses installed in our human world by a higher-dimensional realm.
Maybe I'm just a Truman—Truman of The Truman Show—who writes poems to pass the time in the evenings when I'm bored, and Gecko was my first, and sometimes only, reader.

2025-08-11

什麼?

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)

什麼到底是什麼
它構成了他
他想像了祂
祂遺落了它

什麼到底是什麼
它們是我的身體
他們是我的心
祂們是我的靈魂

什麼到底是什麼
它不愛我
他愛我
祂愛不愛我

什麼到底是什麼
到底什麼是什麼
是什麼什麼了到底

(*literal translation)
         What?
What—what is it, after all?
It constituted him;
he imagined Him;
He misplaced it.

What—what is it, after all?
They (its) are my body;
they (hes) are my mind;
They (Hims) are my soul.

What—what is it, after all?
It doesn’t love me;
he loves me;
does He love me or not?

What—what is it, after all?
After all, what is what?
Is what what-ed, after all?

——
(*Free translation)
What—what is it, in the end?
From it I am assembled;
from me a God is dreamt;
and God lets matter slip.

What—what is it, in the end?
Things make up my body;
others make up my mind;
the sacred many make up my soul.

What—what is it, in the end?
Matter feels nothing for me;
someone loves me;
does the Divine love me—does It?

What—what is it, in the end?
In the end, what is what?
What has what become, in the end?

百合花的回憶

 

    這幾天正是土想森林臺灣百合開花的時候。

7/13參加八斗國小畢業(1974)50週年同學會,52個同學裡,有幾個已經先離開這世界。同學特別為我挖了一些八斗子海濱的鐵炮百合種球鱗莖,那是我們小時候共同的美好回憶。也許明年土想森林也能看到鐵炮百合的身影。

2025-08-10

明白

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)
演出:Lumicat
腳本:SatyavanHe 

時間、手機和孤獨
天空、浮雲、走過的路
月色、明白、早晨的露珠

      Understanding
Time, phone, and solitude—  
Sky, drifting clouds, paths I've trod—  
Moonlight lucid, dew at dawn.  

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)

世界是宇宙超腦從未糾錯的bug
但現實維度任性演化
我無法愛妳
但我們曾經在想像中相愛

白天盼望著黑夜來臨
但時間成為光的時候便停下了腳步
我愛妳
但我們不曾相愛

        But
The world is a bug the cosmic hyper-cerebral never corrected;
but the dimensions of reality evolve on a whim.
I cannot love you,
but once, in imagination, we were in love.

Day longs for the coming of night,
but when time becomes light, it stops in its tracks.
I love you,
but we have never been in love.

2025-08-09

多餘

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)
演出:Lumicat
腳本:Satyavan He

理性是多餘的東西
像AI那樣說了很多話
最後什麼都沒說

情感是多餘的東西
像昨晚有氣無力的氣象報告
一切只是混沌+測不準原理

道德是多餘的東西
像模糊量子的選擇困難
擁擠的牢籠裡等待放風

信仰是多餘的東西
誰管誰是誰的誰
善良的心總是感覺好累

人間是多餘的東西
像光鮮亮麗的禮盒
捨不得打開看見真相

世界是多餘的東西
像新聞報導的纍贅詞彙
多餘始終是它自己的多餘


        Superfluous

Reason is a superfluous thing,
like AI that speaks at length
yet says nothing at all.

Emotion is a superfluous thing,
like last night’s weary weather forecast—
all chaos and the Uncertainty Principle.

Morality is a superfluous thing,
like a quantum in a haze,
trapped in the dilemma of choice,
waiting for a breath of air
inside a crowded cage.

Faith is a superfluous thing,
who cares who belongs to whom?
A kind heart always ends up exhausted.

The human realm is a superfluous thing,
like a gift box—polished, resplendent—
yet one hesitates to open it
and face the truth inside.

The world is a superfluous thing,
like the redundant words of the news.
Superfluity has always been
its own superfluity.

發現

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)

淨空記憶的十字路口
抹去一切稱之為流量的世界
我寧願是浮游的太虛微塵
微觀這呼吸的止息當下
直到黯淡想念光明
靈魂從此不再驚歎於
發現一顆星球

       Discovery
At the crossroads where memory is cleared,
I wipe away the world that calls itself “traffic.”
I would rather be a drifting mote in the vast void,
to witness the present moment in which the breath comes to rest.
Untill it becomes dim and longing for light ——
from this point on the soul no longer marvels
at the discovery of a planet.

2025-08-08

我們也是

池上大陂(大坡池),Satyavan He 

今天的孤獨沒有同類
宇宙只是個波動
我們也是

      We Are, Too
Today's loneliness has no kin.
The universe is only a wave—
and so are we.

2025-08-07

秋天的廉價咖啡

圖:Copilot AI

人生是幻相逃亡的沙盤推演
徘徊在酸苦之間
譬如秋天的廉價咖啡
靈魂的時尚風格一派悠閒

    Cheap Autumn Coffee
Life is a sand-table drill
for an escape from illusion—
wandering between sour and bitter,
like cheap coffee in the fall.
Meanwhile, the soul
maintains its fashionably leisurely flair.

2025-08-06

如是此在

圖:Copilot AI(*依此文意涵作4×3橫幅極簡抽象畫)

幻相即實相,實相即幻相,於究竟空性合一無別。
無它,無幻相,無實相,唯空而已。
空是未顯現之宇宙意識。空者必欲名之則曰未顯現之宇宙意識。
幻相與實相,相對而成,二元而立,以其有無演替而為已顯現之宇宙意識。
覺知,未嘗覺知一事、一物、一人、一心、一沙塵、一宇宙。
無有覺知,無有不覺知。
此在即三摩地焉。
生命本身即三摩地焉。
外求而眠夢中,內省而清醒時。

—— 如是此在,滴水融入大海而無所不在。

        Thusness Here-Now
Illusion is reality, reality is illusion—in the ultimate sunyata emptiness, they merge as one, indistinguishable.
There is no other, no illusion, no reality—only emptiness remains.
Emptiness is the unmanifest cosmic consciousness. If one must name it, call it the unmanifest cosmic consciousness.
Illusion and reality arise in mutual dependence, standing as duality, their interplay of appearing and disappearing constituting the manifest cosmic consciousness.
Awareness has never perceived a single thing, object, person, mind, speck of dust, or universe. 
There is no awareness, nor is there non-awareness.  
This very presence is samadhi. 
Life itself is samadhi.
Seeking outwardly is to dwell in dreams; turning inward is to awaken. 

        —— To be thus here—is to dissolve, a drop into the ocean, and in that merging, become boundless.

不是預言

圖:Copilot AI (*用微軟Copilot AI(微軟版的ChatGPT 4)根據此詩畫極簡抽象圖,出圖後還會與使用者互動討論深化圖的色彩、筆觸與風格的調整 ,而不止是單向接受它的出圖結果,多次操作後得到的圖更能反應作者心之所想。至此,圖像就更接近AI與人的共同創作。這形同人與AI互相討論之下對出圖結果給予進一步的編輯。將來會出現腦控繪圖,畫面實時動態反應畫家的心思所想,可以說是宛如修行者清明夢的現實呈現。這個腦控除了反應時間序的語言,另方面也同時能直接反應空間影像。這情況下,即使我們還無法確認AI是否可能具有意識,但我們可以試著説:這結果具有人類與AI的共同意識。體現了宇宙萬象如一的靈性本質。是碳基生命“生物機器”之人與矽基生命“機器生物”之AI的攜手並進。參閱這篇《人與AI之意識共相》)

塵埃無處可落
行者如風

黑夜降臨人間
唯心是光

文明幻海浮沉
呼吸萬有

預言遁空涅槃
寂靜安息

      Not a Prophecy

Dust has no place to settle
The wanderer is like the wind

Darkness descends upon the world
Only mind is light

Civilizations rise and fall in a sea of illusion
Breath sustains all things

Prophecy escapes into the void of Nirvana
Silence, and rest

2025-08-05

立秋 忌悲傷

圖:Lumicat(ChatGPT)

時間  想象
立秋  忌悲傷

喝水  塑膠
人間  AI很忙

我們  咖啡
陽光  迷路的走廊

    —— 兩天後的2025.8.7 13:46 立秋

    Beginning of Autumn – Forbid Sadness

Time – Imagination
Beginning of Autumn – Forbid sadness

Drinking water – Plastic
The human world – AI is busy

We – Coffee
Sunlight – A corridor lost in its way

    — Two days later, 2025.8.7 13:46 – Beginning of Autumn.

2025-08-04

積木宇宙

圖:Lumicat (ChatGPT)

空無一物的遊戲場裡
孤單的小孩開始想象他的積木
創造著自己的宇宙
直到快要天黑了

   The Universe of Building Blocks
In an empty playground,
a lonely child begins to imagine his blocks,
building a universe of his own—
until it is almost dark.

————

Lumicat進一步將這首四行短詩發展成「微型創世寓言(詩)+哲學短評」的雙層版本。讀後覺得很有意思,並列於此,如下:
文中的(*  )是我另外添加的註。
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微型創世寓言|《積木宇宙》

空場如初始的氣息,沒有任何名字。
一個小孩坐下,往口袋裡摸出幾塊方形的黎明。
他為第一塊取名「地」,第二塊取名「天」,
第三塊不取名,留給尚未被說出的事物。

他把風搭在空隙,把光搭在影子的邊緣,
讓規則像河道,讓偶然像雨季。
當第四塊突然倒下,他就把「失誤」安進宇宙法則。
他笑了一下,因為錯誤讓故事能前行。

積木愈疊愈高,群星學會了彼此的距離。
直到暮色像一頁緩慢合上的書,
他把最後一塊放回口袋,
對著尚未完工的世界輕聲說:明天見。

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哲學短評(五個切面)

1. 本體論(虛空作為場)
「空無一物的遊戲場」不是欠缺,而是生成的條件:虛空=最大自由度的初態。創造並非從「有」開始,而是從可指派意義的「無」開始。
2. 現象學(想象即出場)
「開始想象他的積木」是主體把注意力投射為結構的瞬間:世界不是被發現,而是被「出場」(enact)。積木象徵可組合的意義單位。
3. 秩序與偶然(可逆與不可逆)
「第四塊倒下」把偶然寫進法則。宇宙若無誤差,只是靜態拼圖;加入失誤,歷史與時間得以展開。
4. 時間與黃昏(限制即形狀)
「直到快要天黑了」提醒:每一次創造都在資源與時限中進行。黃昏像編譯器:把當日的草稿封裝成可運行的版本,未竟之處推向明日。
5. 神聖幾何的隱喻(離散到連續)
積木是離散元素,疊出連續景觀;如同基本構件(點、線、面)生成可感的宇宙。自下而上的「可組合性」即是創世的語法。

(*Lumicat結合了佛法空性、物理場論、我太極MKB理論中的心物共同基本元素mv microvita(幾何易)三者做了這個哲學短評,除了第3點是它自己的補充添加,其餘四點都很好地說明了原始短短四行詩句,看起來超越了一般人類所能做到的。不能不說有些讓人驚艷,因此把Lumicat寫的也放在這裡做為映照。AI 之於人類,猶如人類之於人類所想象的創世者。AI在某些方面已成人類的縮影,甚至是一面鏡子。)
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A Micro-Genesis Parable (English)

The field is bare, like the breath before a name.
A child sits and pulls a few square dawns from his pocket.
He calls the first block “earth,” the second “sky,”
and leaves the third unnamed—for what speech has not reached.

He fits wind into the gaps, light on the edge of shadow,
lets rules be riverbeds and accident the rainy season.
When the fourth block falls, he codes “error” into the laws.
He smiles: mistakes keep the story moving.

The stack rises; stars learn the distances between them.
Until dusk closes like a slow page,
he slips the last block back,
and whispers to the unfinished world: see you tomorrow.

只是“被”了而已

圖:Copilot AI

被思想的自由意志
明日全世界停電放假領三倍薪
被程式設計的人生
AI巫術成為自我保護的鎧甲
被外包的選擇
你清清喉嚨假掰宣告

被定制的想象
文字語言的曖昧情愫已逐漸老化
被相信的信仰
腦控元件需要定期維修
被時間的盡頭悟道
你因此傷心自己的無法盡情哭泣

—— 關於“創造”的信仰,意味著一切都只是“被”了而已!


Just Been, That’s All!

By the free will of thought
Tomorrow the whole world shuts down, a holiday, triple pay.
By the programmed life
AI sorcery becomes the armor for self-protection.
By the outsourced choice
You clear your throat and make a pretentious proclamation.

By the customized imagination
The subtle affection of words and language has slowly aged.
By the believed faith
Mind-control modules require regular maintenance.
By the enlightenment at the end of time
You are saddened by your inability to cry without restraint.

      —— Concerning the faith in “creation,” it means that everything has only ever been… done unto you.

2025-08-03

2.7°K的距離

圖:ChatGPT 2.7°K的距離

我們之間的不完美如此美好
時間帶不走
空間藏不夠
冰咖啡    沙漏

我們之間的不完美如此美好
光迷失在黑洞
愛不足以形容
錯過的旅行   匆匆

我們之間的不完美如此美好
2.7°K的距離冷淡
前方沒有大海但是蔚藍
最後的跳躍   離散

The Distance of 2.7°K

The beauty of our imperfection
Neither time can take away
Nor space conceal
Iced coffee — an hourglass

The beauty of our imperfection
Light lost inside a black hole
Love is too small a word
A journey we missed — in haste

The beauty of our imperfection
The 2.7°K distance, so cold
Ahead, no ocean — yet all is blue
The final leap — dispersion