Friday, October 31, 2008

Almost Buddhist

前幾天在博客來寄來的廣告信中看到這本書(中譯本)
昨天在總圖找達賴的著作時碰巧看到就借來讀讀

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche這本小書對
戒定慧三學之間的關係
四法印(諸行無常、諸漏皆苦、諸法無我、涅槃寂靜)
有很清楚的譬喻和澄清
也提示了修持的法門
雖然有些詮釋有再斟酌的空間
關於緣起(dependent arising, pratītyasamutpāda)的翻譯不夠貼切
但無礙對四法印的覺察

這本書應該適合作為認識佛學本質的primer
推薦之

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附帶送大家一首歌──黃思婷的《自由》
(某次上課老師放的XD)
mp3 youtube

迷失在名利為福祿牽掛
像一場迷霧籠罩著你啊
淡薄的想法自在的人啊
像一場春雨滋潤著蓮花
浮生像落花寄流水年華
汲汲於經營奔波的人啊
心染的美麗看凡塵變化
盛開的綻放修持得昇華

啊… 啊…

觀自在看花謝花落
讓心情像自由的雲朵
看歡喜隨春雨灑落
滋潤哭泣的人們
觀自在看花謝花落
讓心情像自由的雲朵
飄過海呀越過山峰
乘著光影化身為彩虹

嗡嘛呢叭彌哞 嗡嘛呢叭彌哞

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

西藏宗教文化

學期還不到一半
但曾德明老師其人與這門課已經打破很多記錄了
不得不提一下

接觸佛學是很早的事情了
大概跟接觸道德經、莊子是同一時期
(也就是國小三年級左右XD)
不過也僅於
興致來時翻閱圖書館或手邊非常有限的經典或注疏
遇到比較大的困頓(不限於我自身的)會持經念誦發願回向

我國中快畢業時跟同學A走的法華經
及其後同學乾脆整套送我的普行法師全集──
金剛經、楞伽經、成唯識論、大乘止觀法門啟蒙、淨土指歸
這些才是比較有系統接觸佛學的開始
但過去六年時間有限
仍沒有得到很好的體悟跟啟發

我對佛學很有興趣
不過曾老師這門課上學期才開始在台大開課
PTT上討論不多
加之西藏佛教真的很繁複
看了課程大綱後更是有嚇到的感覺
所以課選上後決定看第一次上課的情形再決定要不要修
However,種種因緣
第一次上課就committed第二週上台做個小報告
所以課就修定了XD

第二週上台報告跟老師接過麥克風時
老師說我的手是冷的...
當時他也沒有多講什麼
不過也因為他什麼都沒講
更顯出一種高深莫測的感覺XD

老師第三個禮拜就記得我的名字了
在那麼大的通識課上
我真的還滿感動的
[record 1:在台大七個學期以來最快記得我名字的老師]
雖然說老師到現在大概已經叫得出三四十人的名字了吧@@

之後每節課就常常被老師叫上台寫中文字...
(第一次他有問過我會不會寫藏文XD)
因此截止至昨天已創下另一個記錄
[record 2:在台大七個學期以來叫我名字最多次的老師]
上上禮拜老師說叫我寫字的原因是──
我的字看起來有修行者的味道:)
昨天新版的原因是我血液循環不好orz...

不過老師叫我寫字的次數實在太頻繁了
[record 3:在台大七個學期以來上台次數最多的一門課]
上禮拜還特別跟全班澄清 他不會因為這樣加我分(也不會扣我分)

其實促成我po這篇的最後一根稻草是
我昨天上課前在(新生大樓)教室外面
看著樓下來來往往的行人跟腳踏車想一些有點大的問題時
老師走過來問我在想什麼
T^T我真的完完全全被感動到了

不過重點是
這是我第一次跟別人學習佛學思想與實踐
And I do learn a lot!
對空的體悟跟破除我執有了很大的突破

下學期不衝堂的話我會再來旁聽
對佛學有興趣的歡迎一起來:)

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

冷氣卡回收

第二次影響全校層級政策成功!
雖然只是2.5% off
但是台大宿舍住宿生應該多少要感謝我才是XD

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建議者身份 學生
建議議題類別 學生事務
主旨 冷氣卡
建議內容
學生宿舍區內福利社所售之冷氣卡回收時可否提供部分回饋,
如拿舊卡回收買新卡時可以享有折扣,
以提高住宿學生回收冷氣卡的動力?

回覆內容
同學你好:
目前所回收的學生宿舍冷氣卡有部分已是髒污變色或寫有字跡,
致使回收的卡未考慮再利用,目前僅以資源垃圾回收。
為提高住宿同學回收冷氣卡的動力,本組將再與會計相關單位研究,
提供回饋可行性。
感謝你來信建議

住宿組敬覆 2008/8/21

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建議者身份 學生
建議議題類別 學生事務
主旨 冷氣卡
建議內容
上次建議冷氣卡回收回饋的事情,請問你們研究好了嗎?
學校為了環保,這學期開始校內使用免洗餐具都會收錢
那請問學校為何不能為了環保,提供一些回饋給同學?

回覆內容
同學你好
所提建議與會計室初步溝通大致可行
詳細回饋金額及方式待正式核定後再公告執行

住宿組敬覆 2008/9/24

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971008校學字第0970040657號公告
公告事項:
學校為鼓勵資源回收再利用,
即日起本校學生將金額用畢之本校學生宿舍冷氣卡
繳回校內各冷氣銷售據點
可領取冷氣卡回饋金10元

Monday, October 06, 2008

Goldberg Variations by Gould 1981

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
-- Glenn Gould

title的連結沒有Aria Da Capo...
各位將就一下這個(從5:49開始)

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Finite Simple Group of Order Two

Lag了兩年...
原來數學學得好不只可以賣雞排還可以寫情歌XD

The path of love is never smooth
But mine's continuous for you
You're the upper bound in the chains of my heart
You're my Axiom of Choice, you know it's true

But lately our relation's not so well-defined
And I just can't function without you
I'll prove my proposition and I'm sure you'll find
We're a finite simple group of order two

I'm losing my identity
I'm getting tensor every day
And without loss of generality
I will assume that you feel the same way

Since every time I see you, you just quotient out
The faithful image that I map into
But when we're one-to-one you'll see what I'm about
'Cause we're a finite simple group of order two

Our equivalence was stable,
A principal love bundle sitting deep inside
But then you drove a wedge between our two-forms
Now everything is so complexified

When we first met, we simply connected
My heart was open but too dense
Our system was already directed
To have a finite limit, in some sense

I'm living in the kernel of a rank-one map
From my domain, its image looks so blue,
'Cause all I see are zeroes, it's a cruel trap
But we're a finite simple group of order two

I'm not the smoothest operator in my class,
But we're a mirror pair, me and you,
So let's apply forgetful functors to the past
And be a finite simple group, be a finite simple group,
Let's be a finite simple group of order two
(Oughter: "Why not three?")

I've proved my proposition now, as you can see,
So let's both be associative and free
And by corollary, this shows you and I to be
Purely inseparable. Q. E. D.

──A Klein Four original by M. Salomone

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要是歌詞全部都看得懂那數學應該不錯:)

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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Happiness

我想我剛剛度過了三年多來最快樂的一個半小時:)

Under the cerulean sky
that sometimes birds, beetles and planes flew through
Beams of shine scattered from the setting sun
The autumn wind was soughing in the grass and trees

Lying down on the bench in the farm,
with Peter Camenzind at hand,
Read a few paragraphs
and then closed my eyes to free my soul
Friendship, love, family, nature and the cosmos
When eyes opened,
The sky was still cerulean
The autumn wind soughing cool with chirps of insects

這大概是五六年來最接近落日微風一樹蟬此一境界的時刻了

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其間不知不覺哼了一首歌《山腰上的家 Home on the Range

Oh, Give me a home, where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Home, home on the range.
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

How often at night when the heavens are bright,
With the light from the glittering stars,
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed,
If their glory exceeds that of ours.

Home, home on the range.
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

蔚藍色的天 翡翠般的青山 山澗中的流水聲潺潺
回憶起兒時 在這美麗家園 常常獨自徜徉百花間
啊 我的家園 我那山腰上的家園
每當我歡欣 悲傷或厭煩 你總叫我無限的懷念

斜陽向西墜 蜻蜓池中點水 山間小鳥邊叫邊飛
每當月初昇 吹來陣陣香味 常見流星劃過銀河界
啊 我的家園 我那山腰上的家園
每當我歡欣 悲傷或厭煩 你總叫我無限的懷念

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Friday, October 03, 2008

Selected Papers 100308

evolution, theoretical biology
Prevolutionary Dynamics and the Origin of Evolution

cell biology
Linking Cell Cycle to Asymmetric Division: Aurora-A Phosphorylates the Par Complex to Regulate Numb Localization

membrane biology, biochemistry
Arf1-GTP-induced Tubule Formation Suggests a Function of Arf Family Proteins in Curvature Acquisition at Sites of Vesicle Budding

bacteriology, biochemistry
Molecular Architecture of the "Stressosome," a Signal Integration and Transduction Hub

cell biology, cytoskeleton
Evolutionary Linkage between Eukaryotic Cytokinesis and Chloroplast Division by Dynamin Proteins

prokaryotic cytoskeleton
Dynamic Control of the DNA Replication Initiation Protein DnaA by Soj/ParA

這禮拜換英國超級有錢的Errington Lab上Cell...
Cell最近每個禮拜都有bacterial cytoskeleton的paper
真是太超過了XD

biophysics
Modeling the Chemotactic Response of Escherichia coli to Time-Varying Stimuli

theoretical biology
Complex Networks Renormalization: Flows and Fixed Points

pattern formation, dynamical systems
Three- and Four-State Rock-Paper-Scissors Games with Diffusion
Predicting Spiral Wave Patterns from Cell Properties in a Model of Biological Self-Organization
Chemical Pattern Formation Induced by a Shear Flow in a Two-Layer Model

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

On Kepler Conjecture (Revised)

今天上幾何學時
海潮兄非常high的跑來打廣告──
預定下禮拜一(10/06)和禮拜二(10/07)5:30 pm在新數101
碰巧經過台灣的項武義老先生要來講裝球問題
(僅僅是預定...連數學系網站都還沒公告)

給不清楚裝球問題在數學史上地位的人一點資訊──
裝球問題是Hilbert's problems的第18個的第二部份
如果你不知道Hilbert是誰那我也沒輒了...

雖然刻卜勒的猜想的作者對項武義貶多於褒
不過項武義畢竟是個頗有貢獻的數學家
[請見單老師的書評...寫得很好]
蔡宜洵也說
項武義雖然老但是講起數學還是熱力四射
再說
如果真的不相信項武義證明的人
也可以當面去討教一下XD

所以強烈建議大家有課沒課的都應該來聽演講

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*這裡還有一篇海潮兄對刻卜勒的猜想書評
***五月底Nature有一篇跟裝球問題有關的文章

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