以往总自比游学欧陆的鸿渐, 现今却觉得更象美国读书的辛楣. . .  难道我竟对这个文化产生认同感? 奇哉怪也!

No, I am not going to tell you the fable of monkeys trying to pick up the moon in the water.  What I am talking about here is something professional, a mental state that allows you to achieve stress-free productivity.

 

In Chinese Kungfu, there is a concept called Qi, literally breath, which is first advocated by Laotze, the founder of Taoism.  When you are practicing QiGong, or the Kungfu of Qi, the perfect calm which the mind or spirit can find, is defined as Jin-Zhong-Yue, or Moon in water.  In such a non-aggressive, zen state and a feeling of "passive" resistance,  whoever possesses Jin-Zhong-Yue is thus sensitive to all impressions, just as the mirror image of the moon in water is sensitive to the slightest breath of wind, and his or her Qi is in harmony with all beings.  The same concept exists in Japanese culture.  Represented in the form of Mizu-no-Kokoro, or Water's mind, such serene inner calm is a key state for those practicing Karate.

 

 

 

SO finally I bought David Allen's National Bestseller "Getting Things Done" last evening.  I was first enlightened by my friend Tom in one of his blogs (refer to 达达芬七) about this methodology, or art.  I was never keen about bestsellers.  The books i bought often have very limited print.  Two recent exceptions are this GTD and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (Thanks, Pan).