Digging in the Garden of Eden

The paper first presents the translation of Hebrew Genesis entitled At the Start... Genesis Made New. The new version belongs to the field of ethno-poetics. It intends to take today＇s listener/reader back in time by capturing the characteristics of the original Hebrew and expressing them through the medium of modern English. If translations may be said to reflect archaeological layers of social history, At the Start... Genesis Made New attempts to dig down with the purpose of reaching the deepest layer： critical analysis of terminology in the Garden of Eden story provides insights into the primitive Hebrew society that invented this particular myth more than 3,000 years ago. The paper also looks at the same story as translated in the Revised Standard Version, first published as the Authorised Version or King James Bible in 1661, and The New English Bible published in 1961. Different world views characteristic of European society in recent centuries colours the understanding of the biblical text. The translations are affected in consequence. A comparison between the versions is revealing…

养生与道的漂移

本文阐述了养生即养心,所谓心即心灵结构。养生,是使道在心灵结构中漂移,以使心达到明媚自在、纯真欢喜之境。道的漂移,是万象暂住,即世界的暂住。万象暂住生成心,心暂住生成万象。养生是修行。修圣、修仙、修觉,为儒道释三家修炼追求的不同人格。修圣,是"仁修",身与心修于人间,得其意志,成于功名;修仙,是"道修",身与心修于天地自然,得其虚静,成于隐名;修觉,是佛修,身与心修于空相,得其觉悟,成于悟名。不同的养生修行,殊途同归,只为放弃心灵执障,证得自在真如。