理性邊界的可能墜落

圖：池上，卑南溪

永恆是當下的隨機謊言

隱藏著一種魅影般的念頭
時常突襲我的理性邊界

以它全然的擁抱

奪走了屬於我的時間等待

      Falling at the Edge of Reason

Eternity is a random lie of the present,

concealing a phantom thought

that often storms my rational frontier

with its total embrace,

robbing me of my waiting time.

趁著夜色提前離開

 理性中帶著一些蠱惑，恐懼中帶著一些貪婪。

                          —— 中國脫口秀演員周奇墨在某次表演中引用演繹股神巴菲特（Warren Buffett）關於投資心理的表述。巴菲特原文“Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful”（別人貪婪時要害怕，別人恐懼時要貪婪。）

這幾乎是人類牧場裡面最普遍的社會氛圍，而欲望是推動這一切的基本能量。你無法拒絕它，就算拒絕了，也只是一種表演。表演的好還能獲得掌聲。

其實，你也可以選擇離開牧場，走向充滿未知與自由的原野。

（* “人類牧場”請參閱這篇《混沌燒腦與人類政治》）

很清醒的不明白

所以趁著夜色提前離開

我是晚風

我是虛空的存在

"Rational yet somewhat bewitching,fearful yet somewhat greedy."

      —— Chinese stand-up comedian Zhou Qimo（周奇墨）, quoting Warren Buffett's description of investment psychology in a performance. Buffett's original text“Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful”

This is perhaps the most pervasive social atmosphere in the human pasture, where desire serves as the fundamental energy driving it all. You cannot refuse it, and even if you do, it's merely a performance. Perform well, and you might even receive applause.

Truth be told, you could also choose to leave the pasture, and venture into the wilderness filled with unknowns and freedom.

   Leaving Early in the Night

Soberly unclear

Thus I leave early in the night

I am the night wind

I am the void's presence

真理外賣

圖：Copilot AI

精雕細琢的世界

台步款款搖擺

好一個欠扁的假掰

栩栩如生的幻相

洞窟微光等待

估計沒有人明白

自信為真的大腦

是誰說了算

唯有謊言絕不短路

任意揮灑的宇宙

隨機點擊打開

跳出一個真理外賣

       Truth Delivery

A meticulously sculpted world

Sways with catwalk grace

What a punchable pretentiousness

Vivid illusions

Flicker in the cave’s dim light

Perhaps no one truly understands

The brain convinced of its own truth

—Who really calls the shots?

Only lies never short-circuit

A cosmos of random strokes

Opened with a casual click

And out jumps a truth delivery

幻去

自我離開，

此地尚未人間。

為了消逝不再的美感，
落葉知情不報。

往日幻去，

一鍵記憶重設。

       Vanishing Illusions

Since I left,

This place reverts to pre-human state.

For beauty that vanishes never to return,

Fallen leaves withhold the truth.

Bygone days dissolve like illusions,

A single click resets all memory.

時光

圖：今天的池上大陂（大坡池），涼爽有風。

我說但我沒說

人間是靈魂日暮時的最後倒影

孤獨地想象當下和永恆

你如果打算啜飲這一夜的不眠

我在但我不在

我想但我沒想

世界是生命的歧路遊戲

盡情享受著虛無的盲猜樂趣

你如果摒棄了一切如果

我是但我不是

我來但我沒來

誰棲居心的神秘角落

時光不只是一種簡單的匆匆經過

你如果回憶了逝去的回憶

我愛但我不愛

        Time

I said but I didn't say

the world is the soul's last reflection at dusk

lonely imagining the now and the eternal

if you intend to sip this sleepless night

I am here but I am not here

I thought but I didn't think

the world is life's divergent game

indulging in the blind guess of nothingness

if you abandon all ifs

I am but I am not

I came but I didn't come

who dwells in the heart's secret corner

time is not just a simple passing

if you recall the lost recollections

I love but I love not

非偈

不生滅

不增減
無關一切思維意識
無關一切如彼如是

不落兩邊

不在中間
無關一切善惡道德
無關一切愛恨貪捨

不存在

不意義

無關一切宇宙神秘

無關一切實相真諦

不煩惱

不喜悅

無關一切你我自由

無關一切有無無有

     The Gatha That Is Not

Neither born nor extinguished,

Neither increased nor decreased.

Unrelated to all thought and consciousness,

Unrelated to all"as it is" and "as it seems."

It dwells not between opposites,

Nor does it rest in the middle.

Unrelated to all good and evil,morality,

Unrelated to all love,hate, greed, or renunciation.

It does not exist.

It holds no meaning.

Unrelated to all cosmic mysteries,

Unrelated to all reality and truth.

Without affliction,

Without joy.

Unrelated to your freedom,or mine,

Unrelated to all being,non-being, and neither.

如昔

若是我的靈魂還在

但問誰堪記憶

即使寡淡了它依舊執念於

我為何離開了我自己

只有此在當下

你說那遠行未歸的思想餘溫

以及剛才醒來的咖啡如昔

      As Ever

If my soul still exists,

I dare ask who would remember.

Even faded,it remains obsessed with

why I left myself behind.

Only in the here and now,

you called it the unfinished warmth of a thought long gone,

and the coffee that had just awakened, as ever.

存在是一首無需理解的詩

世界不在乎你的存在，
這是人類所能給你的慈悲之愛。
你擁有了最完整的自由，
而孤獨是必經之路。

是的，我想說：

存在是一首無需理解的詩。

      Existence is a poem beyond the need for understanding

The world is indifferent to your existence,

and this is the most merciful love humanity can offer you.

You possess the most absolute freedom,

while solitude becomes the necessary path.

Yes,I would say:

Existence is a poem beyond the need for understanding.

到此一遊

人類一裝模作樣

它們便開始皺眉頭

路燈頓時沉默，無言以對

要說理性護城河與情感陰溝的差別

記得別提話術和信仰

最好去問明天早晨的咖啡

    —— 人類世界，到此一遊，有什麼是我想帶走的記憶？在咖啡的幽微倒映中，存在即實踐，那唯有品嘗了才存在的香氣。

         Sightseeing

When humans put on airs,

They begin to frown.

Street lamps fall silent, wordless.

If you must distinguish the moat of reason from the gutter of emotion,

Remember: never mention rhetoric or faith.

Better ask the morning coffee of tomorrow.

      —— In this visit to the human world,

what memory would I wish to keep?

In the subtle reflection of coffee,

existence is enactment—

that aroma which exists only when tasted.

缺席與在場

 生活不是呼吸，而是那些讓你屏住呼吸的時刻。
                      —— 2011法國電影《觸不可及》

（*電影《觸不可及》（The Intouchables，2011）中常被引用的話，其實並非該片的法文原文台詞，而是一句廣為流傳的英文諺語“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”，並非直接出自該電影，而是一句常被誤以為出自電影的名言）

存在的缺席

迫使我們孤單面對

你不由得屏住了呼吸凝視

一杯已經涼掉的   但清醒的

在場的咖啡

       —— 咖啡漬痕於時間紙頁上的沉思拓印，在一切的消逝中照見精神永不冷卻的醒覺。

        Absence and Presence

The absence of existence

Forces us to face solitude alone

You can't help but hold your breath gazing at

A cup of coffee,cooled yet lucid

In its presence

       —— A meditative imprint of coffee stains upon the parchment of time—within the passing of all things, it illuminates a spirit that never cools into dormancy.

一個人

一棵樹   以它的枯影
反抗時光的冷暴力

一座山   以它黎明的棱線
描繪城市的黑歷史

至於我   一個人

以想象的孤獨
翻閱舊書頁裡被遺忘的風景

        One Person

A tree, with its withered shadow,

resists time's cold violence.

A mountain, with its dawn ridge line,

delineates the city's dark history.

As for me, alone,

armed with imagined solitude,

I leaf through forgotten landscapes

in the pages of old books.

冷淡

對不起，某某。

讓你看到我

那些人生的手足無措。

夢裡不該什麼都有，

除非冷淡拒絕   又

脆弱地不留痕跡。

      Apathy

Sorry, you.

For letting you witness

My disarray in life.

Dreams shouldn't contain everything,

Unless apathy rejects yet

Leaves no trace of fragility.

角落裡渺小的塵埃

圖：Lumicat

角落   

等待光影的經過

渺小

接受空間的寂寥

塵埃

理解了孤獨和未來

    Tiny Dust in the Corner

The corner

waits for light and shadow to pass

Tiny

accepts the solitude of space

Dust

understands loneliness and future

全部的自己

日漸遙遠的記憶裡，

我失去了很多。
但，並非一無所有。

沉默是靈魂最真誠的話語。

當時間寂靜歸零，

我就擁有了全部的自己。

       The Whole of Myself

In increasingly distant memories,

I have lost much.

Yet, not left with nothing.

Silence is the soul's most sincere language.

When time quietly resets to zero,

I come to possess the whole of myself.

難

我們的世界如此難猜

以至於謊言輕易面不改色

幸福像時間一樣廉價

我們的世界如此難過

以至於瘋狂成了唯一的希望

愛只能沉默

我們的世界如此難搞

以至於真理悄然尾隨其後

看透但不能說破

          Difficulty

Our world is so unfathomable

That lies effortlessly keep a straight face

Happiness becomes as cheap as time

Our world is so insufferable

That madness remains the only hope

Love is left muted

Our world is so unmanageable

That truth quietly shadows its steps

Seen through, yet never spoken aloud

永恆留白

圖：池上秋日田野

昨日已逝

我離我而去

今日初醒
此在從此不在

明日何日

有無之間的未來

時光愛我又不愛我

它的永恆留白

     —— 靈魂的圓滿恰恰由其空無本性所定義。人也許將在時間的留白處，填寫自己生命的註腳。

      Eternal Blank

Yesterday has gone

I have left myself behind

Today I first awake

Yet the here and now is henceforth gone

What day is tomorrow

A future between being and non-being

Time loves me and loves me not

Its eternal blank

      —— The soul's fulfillment is precisely defined by its intrinsic emptiness.

Perhaps it is in the blank spaces of time that one will inscribe the footnotes of one's existence.