[思格不足者人格可以如何高尚？]
一般平庸者似乎認為，
1. 凡是和謀生無關的抽象思考，都是不切實際的。
2. 批判別人的思想是只有敵人才會做的不友善的行為。
3. 思考應該適可而止，否則就是鑽牛角尖。
4. 半桶水的思考已經足夠應付生命中遇上的問題。
5. 和平及理性不能共存，愛和虛偽可以結婚。
6. 面子較之真理和真相更重要。
但是他們不懂得愛面子，討厭批判的人，思格一定不足，
而思格不足者為了保護自己，就會擁抱虛偽，損害人格。
It is true that we can’t fix ourselves
by breaking someone else,
but we can definitely advance civilization
by critically breaking a thinking person’s
illogical and dangerous ideas and thoughts.
We can forgive a person out of kindness,
but we must not let go of his thoughts
because defective thoughts in history has
already resulted in serious consequences
and created evils on a higher level.
Moreover, we have no right to forgive a
person’s evil on other people’s behalf.
Whether that person wants to grow or not,
whether he wants to fix the cracks in
his ideas and thoughts or not, remains,
of course, his personal freedom of choice.
( Jason Ling )
不少偽教徒雖然自稱是基督徒、天主教徒，佛教徒，
道教徒，或者信奉儒家思想的人喜歡討論，討厭批判，
認為批判並非理性及和諧的解決方式，又認為愛就是包容。
因為批判者是革命家，喜歡呼籲信徒在心靈上動刀兵，
我們是和平分子，不但在「身體 body」方面不喜歡動刀兵，
在「我 ego」方面不喜歡動刀兵，
在「心靈 soul」方面也討厭晝夜思想，討厭爭執和糾紛，
只想舒舒服服、和和睦睦地達到 tranquility 的境界。
人類精神文明中最進步的科學精神和宗教精神，
就毀在擁抱這些思想的掌權者或者有影響力的人的手裡！
參考：
《基督教裡的宗教精神》(二)
《基督教裡的宗教精神》(三)
《基督徒的分類》(八)
宗教一旦擁抱虛偽，就會將「宗教精神」重新包裝，
產生「疑似真理」appearance of truth，
不但褻瀆神明，而且為禍人間。
Truth does not do so much good in the world
as the appearance of it does evil.
( Duc Francois de la Rochefoucauld )
[最美麗的就是灰色]
虎對倀說：
你不需要在真理面前謙卑，你只要對我謙虛就可以了；
你不需要對別人有誠信，你只要對我有誠信就可以了；
你不需要對別人負責任，你只要對我負責任就可以了。
很多人的世界只知道黑的罪惡和白的高尚，
從來都不知道灰色地帶裡道貌岸然的人的愚昧和虛偽，
結合疑真疑假、混水摸魚的歪理，
可以帶來多麼嚴重、但表面上不會見血的罪惡。
有人說，每個人都可以找到屬於他本人的愚昧/盲點，很對！
只不過有些人願意改過，有些人拒絕改過。
有人說，每個人的心裡都有一把尺，很對！
只不過有一些人心裡的尺是一把可以扭曲的蛇尺。
No vice exists which does not pretend
to be more or less like some virtue
and which does not take advantage of
this assumed resemblance.
( La Bruyere, Characters, 1688 )
參考：《和理非非》(上) 《和理非非》(中) 《和理非非》(下)
[愛和智慧手牽手]
當我們年齡越大，經驗越豐，
見識過那些自稱仁慈但討厭智慧的人所犯的罪行之後，
我們就明白「愛和智慧」是一個銅幣的兩面，
任何缺少其中一面的都是一枚假銅幣。
When I was young, I used to admire kind people;
as I grow older, I admire wise people because
wise people concern themselves with the kindness
of the whole system whereas kind people without
wisdom tend to be selfish and self-righteous.
They have a tendency to forgive the misdeeds
of their friends and even condone the violence
of an evil system and then justify themselves
shamelessly. Yes, there are kind, sanctimonious,
and yet fuzzy-minded bigots.
Yes, hypocritic kindness do exist！
( Jason Ling )
All that we are is the result
of what we have thought.
The mind is everything.
What we think we become.
( Buddha )
Yes, you are kind but what you say is not true.
Watch your beliefs and thoughts carefully for they
will induce foolishness, usually at an intermediate
level, thereby slowly transforming your character
and making your kindness hypocritic.
No act of hypocrisy, however small, is ever neglected.
( Jason Ling )
正如聖經所說：
「好樹不能結壞果子；壞樹不能結好果子。」
《馬太福音 7:18》
Nothing is hidden so much that
it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
( Paracelsus )
很多人都不明白，詭詐既有高層次和低層次之分，
亦有好心和惡意之分。
好心人的詭詐一向最令愛智的人頭痛。
「人心比萬物都詭詐，壞到極處，誰能識透呢？」
《耶利米書17:9》
參考：《原諒》(二)
[虛偽才是真正的普世價值]
從屬靈的角度來看，
宗教的生存，本來應該是神的問題，不是人的問題。
如果神不急，人急甚麼？
而且宗教的盛衰，
可以從人的口裡 [不是心裡] 交託到神的手裡，
不是安枕無憂嗎？怎可能會出現危急存亡之秋？
但從天主教現任教宗上任以來的言論來看，
天主教已經先知先覺地開始重視宗教的生存問題。
天主教感覺到宗教的生存是世界性的問題，
是回歸「宗教精神」的問題。
物必先腐而後蟲生，擁抱虛偽必然自取滅亡。
也許我們會說「高層次的虛偽」Intelligent hypocrisy
成為了宗教裡的「靈癌」，
專門侵蝕那些自認讀過書、有學問的教徒的心靈。
但相反的看法則是「禍福相倚伏」，
對善對惡都不固執，思考適可而止，嘻嘻哈哈皆大歡喜，
扮演難得糊塗，才是真正的智慧！
當好人和壞人互相毀滅之後，
旁觀的聰明鴿子就可以不費一兵一卒，歡天喜地承受大地，
替逝去的好人祈禱，甚至替他們立碑，
所以「靈癌」其實是聰明教徒的「智慧」：
半取半捨半行善、半聾半啞半糊塗、半智半愚半聖賢；
凡是揭穿他們謀生藝術、妨礙他們在地國生存的人，
他們都會靜悄悄地秋後算帳，
因為「虛偽」才是真正雅俗共賞的普世價值！
You are the light of the world.
Your hypocrisy must be securely hidden
not only before others but also from yourself,
that they may not detect the tinge of darkness
in the seemingly shining light of your fame
and doubt the intentional tolerance of hypocrisy
by your heavenly Father.
You will be glorified by your collaborators
because all of them will wish they had
the courage and intelligence to do the same.
( Jason Ling )
如果彌賽亞重臨世上，夠膽在我們的心靈上動刀兵，
揭穿我們的虛偽，我們一定會將他重新釘在十字架上！
而且會防止良善的撒馬利亞人這些異教徒拯救他。
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them,
but they love their martyrs and
worship those whom they have tortured to death.
( Fyodor Dostoevsky )
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
( Thomas Hobbes )
這個世界有一些人對真理持有兩種相反的態度。
他們認為物理學方面的艱深和困難是應該的，
思考上的艱深和困難卻是不必要，是自尋煩惱的。
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
( Lord Byron )
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe
──you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
( Lord Byron )
Nothing ever goes away until
it teaches us what we need to know.
( Pema Chodron )
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
( Henry David Thoreau )
In order to be effective
truth must penetrate like an arrow
──and that is likely to hurt.
( Wei Wu Wei )
Words that wound the fools are words
that heal the open-minded people,
and may even heal the world.
( Jason Ling )
If people would dare to speak
to one another unreservedly,
there would be a good deal less sorrow
in the world a hundred years hence.
( Samuel Butler )