【2017.11.29 週三 轉載之李航博士的文章：認識真實的本身】

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認識真實的本身

香港中文大學信息工程碩士入學晚餐會上的致詞

2015年9月4日

 

首先祝賀你們進入香港中文大學學習。

 

由於諾亞方舟實驗室就在附近，我偶爾會到貴校的美麗校園散步。走在幽靜的山旁小徑上，我有時會遐想，是否是那些大師，如錢穆、林語堂、高錕也曾在這裏散步，思考問題。很是羨慕大家有這樣好的學習環境。預祝各位在中文大學學業有成，渡過愉快充實的時光。

 

今天我想給你們分享一個本身的想法，也是一個本身想跟其餘年輕人說的。請容許我從一則寓言故事提及，這是存在主義哲學家克爾凱郭爾（香港譯做祈克果）在他的表明做《致死的疾病》中講的故事。

 

有個農夫去城裏趕集，賺到一些錢，買了一雙新襪子和一雙新鞋，因而就把它們換上；又去喝酒，直到喝得酩酊大醉。回家的路上，農夫臥倒在道旁睡着了。忽然有輛馬車駛過，車伕大喊：趕快讓開，否則壓着你了。農夫被驚醒，看了看本身的新襪與新鞋，已認不出是本身的腿，對着車伕說：你只管壓過去，那不是個人腿。

 

不少人沒有認識到真實的本身，而把外在的東西，如衣着、裝飾、頭銜、職位錯看成本身，做爲本身努力的目標，或者本身炫耀的資本。他們和醉酒的農夫同樣好笑。

 

你手裏拿的iPhone，你開的豪華跑車，你畢業的名校，你有的博士頭銜，都只是你的外在屬性，不是你真實的本身。

 

人的價值在於其內涵，真實的本身意味你的能力有多高強，視野有多寬廣，洞察有多敏銳，情懷有多高尚。人的本源在於生命，真實的本身意味着你天天可以過得多麼健康、愉快、充實，感到生的難得。每一個人都生活在社會上，真實的本身意味着你能給他人帶來多少幫助、幸福、與快樂，從而改變世界。人生是短暫的，真實的本身意味着當你離開這個世界的時候，可以留下多少有價值的東西。

 

我但願你們在進入中文大學這我的生的關鍵時刻，認真地想想，如何讓真實的本身的部分更加充實、豐富、和多彩。而這一切都須要從理解本身開始。

 

認識真實的本身，這是我今晚想跟你們分享的。謝謝。

 

 

Realize Your Genuine Self

      Speech at the welcome dinner of MS in information engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sept 4, 2015

 

First of all, let me congratulate each and every one of you for becoming an MS student of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

 

Because Noah’s Ark Lab is just nearby, I occasionally come to your beautiful campus to have a walk. Strolling along the trail at the foot of the hill, I sometimes wonder whether the greatest scholars who worked at the university before, such as Chien Mu, Lin Yutang, Charles Kao, took a walk there as well.  I really admire you who will study in this fantastic environment. I sincerely wish you a pleasant and successful stay at the university.

 

Today I would like to share one thought with you. In fact I also want to talk this to other youths. Let me start with a story, which was written by the Existentialism philosopher Sören Kierkegaard in his book 「sickness unto death」.

 

There was a farmer who went to the town to attend a bazaar. He made some money, and thus could buy himself a pair of shoes and socks. He took them on. He still had enough left over to get drunk on. He was then trying, in his drunken state, to find his way home. He laid down in the middle of the way and fell asleep. Then came a wagon, and the driver shouted to the farmer to move, otherwise he would run over the legs of the farmer. Then the drunken farmer awoke, looked at his legs, and because of the new shoes and socks he didn’t recognize them, he shouted to the driver, "drive on, they are not my legs."

 

Many people cannot realize their genuine self. They mistakenly take external things, such as clothing, decoration, title, position, etc as self, and make them as goal of life or means of boasting. They are just as silly as the drunken farmer.

 

The iPhone which you hold in your hand, the luxury sport car which you drive, the famous university from which you have graduated, the doctoral degree which you have earned, they are all external properties of you, but not your genuine self.

 

The value of a person depends on the depth of his character, and your genuine self means how high your ability is, how broad your vision is, how deep your insight is, and how great your soul is. Life is the foundation for us as human, and your genuine self means how much you can enjoy healthy, happy and fulfilled life every day and appreciate being alive. We all live in the society, and your genuine self means how much you can help others and make their lives easier, happier, and more fruitful, i.e., how much you can change the world. Life is short, and your genuine self means how many valuable things which you can leave behind, when you pass away from this world.

 

I sincerely hope that you seriously think about this question at the important milestone of your life: how to make your genuine self stronger, more substantial, and more colorful. All must be begun with understanding of your self.

 

Realize your genuine self.  That is the advice which I would like to give you today.  Thank you.