2019年1月19日 星期六

東城百合子自傳《笑迎風雨》「上天經濟學」

關於安享晚年，
一般說的多是存款、保健、旅行、交友……，
但東城百合子不談這些，她引人去看更深層的生命風景。
94歲的日本自然療法大師東城百合子
常被問到如何安享晚年，
她笑自己生活平淡無奇沒祕訣，若真要說秘訣，
也許可以說自己始終抱持一個信念吧！
這個信念就是──
「人只要掏空自己，
全心全意為他人的幸福努力，
必會得到來自上天的補充。」
東城百合子相信「無我」能讓人安享晚年。
東城百合子少女時期因經歷死亡，開始苦思生命真諦，
因而愛讀聖經，取得營養師資格後還立志當傳教士，
不顧家人反對跑去讀神學院。
那是基督復臨安息日會的神學院，
這教派正好十分注重健康素食，
在那裡遇見米勒博士（也是台安醫院創辦者）成為她
第一位「貴人」。
後來她又遇到兩位人生導師，
一位是主持聖經讀經會的手島一郎，
認為基督就是無差別的平等的愛；
另一位是常岡一郎，
教她「上天經濟學」，全心全意活在當下。
「上天經濟學」也就是老子說的：
「聖人不積，既以為人己愈有；既以與人己愈多。」
東城百合子並不是晚年才開始安享人生的，
她從年輕就警覺到不能隨外在無常現象擺盪，
必須向內尋找心的自在安住。
她因而看淡、看破了自我。
因為「無我」，所以歷盡滄桑仍能笑迎風雨，
安靜保守自己一日兩餐簡單規律的生活，
辦雜誌、寫作、上課至今四五十年如一日。
東城百合子自傳《笑迎風雨》中文版上市中https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010809261
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2019年1月6日 星期日

臺靜農：你不要老

1987.10 文訊
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1987.10 文訊
黃秋芳：龍坡丈室小歇腳 188~98
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2018年12月30日 星期日

Self-cooking "breakfast club" supports eat-alone seniors in Japan


Elderly people who live by themselves gather at a monthly cooking club near Tokyo to share the joy of eating together.
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2018年12月27日 星期四

71歲的薩文（Jean-Jacques Savin）乘木桶橫渡大西洋探險


A 71-year-old Frenchman has set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a large orange barrel.
He hopes to float to the Caribbean by the end of March -- and you can track his journey online.

法國老人乘木桶橫渡大西洋探險

法國退休老人、探險家讓-雅克·薩文決定使用特殊交通工具——一個膠合板木桶橫渡大西洋。在探險過程中, 這位法國老人自己也成了科研試驗的對象。

（德國之聲中文網）橙色的膠合板木桶長3米，寬2.1米。內部設有睡眠區、休息區、廚具、茶几和一些存儲空間。探險家薩文（Jean-Jacques Savin）可以通過地板上的一個透明孔觀看海中的魚。
現年71歲的這位法國退休老人希望在接下來的三個月裡獨自在這個膠合板木桶中度過。這位昔日的飛行員和跳傘運動員為這次旅行做了幾個月的準備工作。他計劃在三個月後到達加勒比海。"盲目"的旅行
週三（12月26日）, 他從西班牙加那利群島的耶羅島（ el hierro ）起航。起航後他在電話中說："天氣很好"。"我遇到了1米高的海浪，並以每小時2到3公里的速度前進"。他乘坐的表層塗了合成樹脂的膠合板木桶將完全借助海浪和風力漂往目的地。不過，薩文並不知道他會在哪裡登陸。他說："也許在巴巴多斯, 但我認為在一個法國島嶼, 如馬提尼克島或瓜德羅普島可能手續上更簡單一些。"
薩文將帆船運動員邦巴德（Alain Bombard）視為楷模。1952年, 邦巴德乘坐一艘小橡皮艇橫渡大西洋。沒有食物，他就以浮游生物和壓碎的魚為食。據法國廣播公司的報導, 薩文為這次旅行帶了幾升葡萄酒，為的是研究酒精在海上如何老化。不過，為慶祝除夕和一月份的72歲生日，薩文還額外攜帶了一瓶紅葡萄酒和一瓶白葡萄酒。
Frankreich Jean-Jacques Savin über Atlantik in Sperrholztonne (picture-alliance/dpa/G. Gobet)
聖誕節第二天, 他從西班牙加那利群島的耶羅島（ el hierro ）起航
退休老人成試驗對象
薩文還想利用漫長的漂流過程為科學做貢獻: 他為一家研究所帶上了一個測量水流的浮標, 並將自己作為在狹小空間內長時間逗留的孤獨試驗對象。
通過衛星定位系統，人們可以在互聯網上隨時跟踪關注這位冒險家的旅程。
李京慧/凝煉(法新社、德新社)
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2018年12月16日 星期日

The Science of Healthy Aging


What are some of the lessons you’ve shared?
There are so many. Some may seem small, but they’re important. For example, Mailman School researchers have been looking at how urban infrastructure and public policy can affect the lives of older city dwellers. We’ve shown that installing more street benches, giving older people free access to public transportation, and inviting them to take classes at local universities and at other institutions through which they can stay engaged can dramatically increase their levels of physical, social, and mental activity, and thereby improve their overall health. These are enormously cost-effective measures that can be implemented in cities around the world. 
And then there are larger-scale interventions. My Mailman colleague Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is now working in India, China, and Kenya to understand culturally relevant approaches to long-term-care programs for older people. We believe that expanding such programs is a critical need, because these and many other developing nations are undergoing social changes similar to those that occurred in the US many decades ago, when grown children began moving far away from their parents and so were no longer available to directly care for them in their later years. China has the most urgent need for new approaches, as a result of its one-child policy.
To get back to the US, what work must still be done here?
We are still in the process of defining what we want our lives to look like in our seventies, eighties, nineties, and beyond. While many people are truly happy retiring and devoting their time to family, hobbies, and leisure, others feel the urge to do more. We know this is true because Experience Corps, along with a handful of other nationwide volunteer programs for older people, always has long waiting lists of would-be participants. I’m an advocate for these programs not because I think doing volunteer work is the only way to age healthfully but because I’ve seen firsthand what it can mean for older people to know that their lives still have a larger purpose. I’ve sat with retired police officers, plumbers, lawyers, corporate CEOs, and others who, after mentoring children, have looked me in the eye and said things like, “This is the most important work I’ve ever done.” That conviction inspires them to get out of bed every day, to walk to a nearby school, and to stay physically and mentally fit. And as a result, a child who might otherwise have dropped out of school goes on to graduate. Two lives are changed. 
We need to design more roles like this for older people, whether that means having them serve as community health advocates, companions for homebound people, or mentors to younger employees at their companies. We need to stop bemoaning the challenges posed by our population’s aging and instead ask ourselves a bold question: how could this transition be great?
Columbia Magazine talked about the secrets to living a longer, healthier, and happier life and why the graying of America may be a good thing with Dean Linda P. Fried.
MAGAZINE.COLUMBIA.EDU
The Science of Healthy Aging

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2018年11月28日 星期三

Henry Miller 的 "80歲感言" On Turning Eighty 的摘句有趣。


我今四十餘，從此終身閒。若以七十期，猶得三十年。
卷429_33 「游悟真寺詩（一百三十韻）」白居易 　
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Henry Miller 的文集，可在中國出版社找到。
今天注意到港版Taipei People封面有他的讚美。去Wikipedia 讀他的簡介，"80歲感言" On Turning Eighty 的摘句有趣。
Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.[37]
HCBOOKS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) "80歲感言" On Turning Eighty；Taipei People；
Henry Miller 的文集，可在中國出版社找到。 今天注意到港版 Taipei People 封面有他的讚美 。去Wikipedia 讀他的簡介，"80歲感言" On Turning…

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2018年11月25日 星期日

您卻還要自命為青年嗎？

大法官：您的身上已經寫滿了老年的字樣，您還要把您的名字登記在少年人的名單裡嗎？您不是有一雙昏花的眼、一對乾癟的手、一張焦黃的臉、一把斑白的鬍鬚、兩條瘦下去的腿、一個胖起來的肚子嗎？您的聲音不是已經嗄啞，您的呼吸不是已經短促，您的下巴上不是多了一層肉，您的智慧不是一天一天空虛，您的全身每一部分不是都在老朽腐化，您卻還要自命為青年嗎？啐，啐，啐，約翰爵士！(朱生豪譯、吳興華校)
William Shakespeare
2015年11月26日上午7:10
eek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly?
Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double,
your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity, and will you yet call yourself young?
Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!"
--Lord Chief Justice from "The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth" (Act I, Scene II)
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