(Global Village Department Chat Room Notes vi)

abrook water poem

liupu(aged8) Li Qufei English translation

(mingdynasty,1368-1644)

abrookinfrontofmygate, a ditch of water in front of the door,

runstotheeastnightandday. Flowing eastward day and night.

"hey, whereare youheading,mate?" I asked where to go?

"i’mtot’vastoceanfaraway!" Cangming stopped!

148. Concentrate

Jin Yu: Come and see your masterpiece.

Huilan: What's wrong?

Jin Yu: There is no evidence to be honest, and the evidence is conclusive. You can tell at a glance.

Huilan: I'm cooking for you, don't affect my work.

Jin Yu: Just take a look, it won’t waste time.

Huilan: - How to put a plastic basin into the washing machine? How can it still operate when the basin is inside?

Jin Yu: You must have put the basin and put it in the washing machine and forgot to take it out. The basin and the clothes rotate together.

Huilan: It’s not the earth, why can it rotate? Hey, where is my belt?

Jinyu: Forget about one after another, you have to calm down quickly, it’s not far from dementia.

Huilan: How far isn't it?

Jin Yu: It’s time to calm down now, so there’s really no need to work part-time.

Huilan: People are in the world and cannot help but stop doing it until the end of the year.

Jinyu: If you want to be as content as me, there is no need to be a money slave. Even if you make tens of millions of dollars, what if you get demented? If you can’t recognize the way home, what’s the use of more money?

Huilan: Not that serious.

Jin Yu: Things always change from quantitative to qualitative, and you will see them in the long run. Do your own job well, why do you have to do part-time jobs? If you waste more money, the environment will suffer.

Huilan: It’s just a matter of typing around the environment, what’s the point of relying on one or two people?

Jin Yu: If you are useful or not, you will be healthy first. There are countless natural beauty and you can’t enjoy it all your life. If you have nothing to do, you will not be able to see the scenery more, forgetfulness will not happen.

Huilan: How many people can be like you, always floating around. They don’t make money, but they like to write in their spare time.

Jinyu: You don’t have to be like me, you just want to be healthy. You must know how to be content, health is profit.

Huilan: Do you think I really want to make more money, mainly to pass the time to enrich myself.

Jin Yu: You can't stay idle for a moment, just don't want to pick up books. Reading can enrich yourself, and you don't have to be busy with social engagements. You don't have to talk or go around. You can relax every day and gain knowledge.

Huilan: That is your hobby, not my pursuit, so why bother others to make things difficult?

Jinyu: Don’t you feel sorry for you? All signs show that Alzheimer’s disease is very close to you. If you don’t calm down early, I’m afraid I will be more sad. Don’t bother yourself anymore, hurry up and look at me.

Huilan: The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. How can you say that you can follow the same thing?

Jin Yu: What should I do?

Huilan: Just give me less anger. However, after I finish my work, I will no longer work part-time. Should you be happy?

Jinyu: You are healthy, I am happy. Can you not be happy? Travel lightly and feel contented. Spiritual pleasure is better than anything else. Healthy and happy. To the words of the great writer Tolstoy, you do not have to spend your limited life on the pursuit and accumulation of material things, but devote yourself wholeheartedly to the questioning and exploration of human nature, society and all mysteries.

Huilan: That’s all the things that big people do. We people just want to live our own lives. As soon as you say it, you go to heaven.

Jin Yu: Oh, it’s really about heaven. Jesus in heaven said, “What’s the benefit of a person who earns the world but loses himself?” Similarly, what’s the benefit of earning a few mountains of gold and silver but losing his health?

Note: alzheimers’ disease refers to anadiasis asthataffectsthebrainandmore and more confusedasyougetolder.
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