It is naïve of me to ponder, why would wisdom comes with age? Perhaps aging is part of the growing up process of acquiring wisdom. Seemingly true, that sage personifies wisdom with white beard, silky white eyebrows, wrinkles with tiny sharp staring look, but the divine beings also reflect the similar outlook with pinkish complexion, wrinkles free almost liken to a person aged 20 with white long beard. These I believed are the personification of wisdom. However, in the modern society, wise man comes in suits, age may be varied, but he is simply indefinable. Mistakenly we may also take a con man to be in his place. So this is our modern paradoxes and modern preconception. More often then not, as a person aged, one tends to be more in a contemplative mood. Contemplating that he may have forgotten his action, but his action may not have forgotten him. So there goes the dialogues with the self and the personified self, some called ego. A recollection of deeds is what we termed experiences and memories are the greatest enemy and friends. These memories are the threshold of pain, agony, frustration equally compounded to being happy, sad, hatred and greed. No matter how we rationalized these collective memories, the ultimate wisdom stood as what if, she never oust her spiritual master, as there is none to be ousted, he has never embarrass his instructor, when there is none to be embarrassed, as well as he has no marketer to bad mouthed others, when there is no master whatsoever. Wouldn’t it be ideal? Some times, being not bothered is never a calling of oneself. It is a destiny. When the path is crossed, foes become friends. When the path is split, friends become foes. Is this destiny? May not be necessary so. We live to take the 12 phases of Qi as the most important tenet in KanYu, but we fail to see it through our daily lives as these are reflected with the people within our reach. If it is not the one that has changed, it will be those closest to the one that has changed. Flux, this is called for the price of friendship, materialism, comradeship or kinship. There is always a price tag to everything – is this true? So the next time, we find that something has been lost, we would find something in replacement. Do we call this affinity? Perhaps, when we think of our desolated state when the people around us is no longer trust worthy, we found out there are more then a dozen of people who felt the similar way, do we call this synchronizing?
It doesn’t really matter when one aged. It matters most when one keep looking backward when the matters of the universe move forward. Move on, is the very word of advice I received from someone I deeply respected and trusted, but till now never had a chance to have a cup of tea together. Perhaps, it is good that the MeePok still taste delicious and mum’s cooking is the best. Sometimes, we wished the clock could be reversed, but how naïve this could be when one day as we aged, mum is no longer there and the MeePok guy has gone into commercially driven can food production, hopefully minus the melamine. Yet, do we still need to live for another day?
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Hello David Clever of you to choose the last figure of tarot: the fool (or mat) which symbolises the near end of a cycle before a new one starts!Did not know you are learned in that lore! Quite appropriate when tellong about the 12 phases. Does wisdom comes with age ? we had a poet singer who wrote a poem telling about young asses born from the last shower and of old asses of long forlorn snows! Not only the 12 phases of qi should we think of but also the two axis Qian Kun and Kan Libeginning in life developing along the Kan Li axis then stand up and develope the Qian Kun !outer activity the seen then inner the unseen ; the latter possibly a much more tiresome jungle to cross! So i would place the wise man at mid angle whatever old he might be!By the way 45 is also the value of Adam in a long tradition of wisdom Fare thee well my friend! drink your tea, eat your rice and wear your clothes!
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