主题：【讨论】死亡、宇宙，与存在 -- 九霄环珮

和你们说的都有点像. 战胜死亡恐惧的最好办法是寄托于身外之物. 生命就像一条河, 最终流入大海. 个体存在无声无息的消失; 情之所系却会继续存在, 归于更广阔的空间.

But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it——so at least it seems to me——is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

An individual human existence should be like a river——small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should with to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

(其实就是新概念英语第四册了. 坚持到底的人有福了 ^_^)

九霄说了他自己的心得. 法无定法; 深邃的, 感性的各得其所好了. 不过我们大概都同意, 充满智慧的文字比宗教要有用得多.