Hosting your own blog versus wordpress.com (link)

This article is from here…

It’s an old question, argued over countless number of times, with everyone having their own opinion. Similarly I have mine, which I will now give you. Let’s take a look at our options here:

Use WordPress.com as your blog host

This is thehe first time bloggers choice, to just open a WordPress.com account and start blogging, but although it may be easy to start with, later on if you decide to move, it can be quite a problem for you.

LINK: http://www.wordpress.com/

Some of the advantages:

1. Access to pre-installed themes, plugins, statistics counters that are both checked & working
2. Always updated to keep up with any changes in the wordpress software
3. Free for all users
4. Full time support for the servers & wordpress account
5. No coding language skills required, even the most non-tech savvy person can start a blog on wordpress.com
6. Quick to setup, within a matter of minutes

Disadvantages:

1. Cannot edit CSS, until the recent addition of PAID editing
2. Lack of plugin addition to the site
3. Limited to what wordpress.com offers you in terms of free services
4. The limited choice of themes/layouts
5. When moving to a hosted account from wordpress.com, you will take a huge hit in terms of Google ranking & SEO due to the change of domain names.
6. You are totally dependant on wordpress.com to keep your account active and hosted, which isn’t such a bad thing, but again, out of your control
7. You must use a user.wordpress.com subdomain for your blog address. Domain Mapping may change this, but will be a paid service

Install WordPress on your hosting account

This is the more complicated & costly but ultimately more controllable choice. Advanced users or those who know what they are getting into with a plan and/or a project in mind would be at home here. It’s also recommended over the WordPress.com method as hosting and domain registration are today in the reach of most people with the abundance of offers for the same.

LINK: http://www.wordpress.org/

Here are some of the advantages:

1. By being involved in your blog, with the back-end code of php, there is greater opportunity for learning
2. Expand beyond just having a blog when you own & operate your own domain, you can add gallerys, forums and other avenues to your site
3. Hosting your own blog can be more personalized in terms of choosing a domain name, that can even further enchance your SEO oppurtunities
4. Infinite possibilities with the blog in terms of themes, layout, code, plugins, etc
5. The chances for SEO & ultimately ad-revenue generation is alot easier when you have 100% control of your blog
6. The entire revenue generated is yours to keep
7. There are no limits when you have your WordPress blog hosted
8. Total control over how your site looks, by way of being able to edit the CSS & PHP files
9. You can move hosts if you wish to expand and get more resources
10. Your choice of plugins to install & utilize

There are ofcourse disadvantages:

1. By having your own domain, you have to pay, for both hosting & domain registration
2. By hosting your own account you are faced with the eventuality of having alot of traffic to your site, and being required to move to a higher cost package of hosting. This alternatively can be a good thing as it means the blog can be a very good candidate for ad-hosting via programs like Google Adsense
3. Everything about the account, from security to modifying the website, is your responsibility
4. If you intend to make money off the blog, you have to take into account the costs of maintaining the website
5. Users need some understanding of php and databases in order to get started and progress with their own blog
6. You don’t get a highly skilled & dedicated team of people at the back of your blog, ensuring that it’s updated for you and includes fully functional working & valid back-end code
7. You need to find quality web hosts so you don’t suffer downtime and eventually put off readers from visiting your blog
8. You will occasionally have to deal with unwanted limits, and bad support which can hurt your blog and stunt your blogs growth

There’s a third choice, by way of more flexible & similar WordPress.com hosting sites, one of them being daria.be.

*For the purpose of this article I have taken for granted the user is working with WordPress as the chosen CMS*

Internet: “The Big Picture” link

This is an interesting article.
What are the major pieces of the Internet,
and who are the major players in each segment?

Welcome to “The Big Picture” of connecting through the Internet to reach online resources.  The purpose of this page is to answer the question: “What are the major pieces of the Internet, and who are the major players in each segment?” If some of these links don’t make sense, it’s because you are not an “alumni” of my internet courses

This page displays the main pieces of the Internet from a User’s PC… extending all the way through to the online content. Each section mentions the most significant parts of the Internet’s architecture. I also provide links to the top “couple of vendors” in each category, and then an external link to a more extensive lists of vendors.

In creating this one web page to describe the “entire Internet”, I split the diagram based on the function being performed. I recognize that a company may perform several of these functions. I’ve included several “leading edge” components as well, such as LMDS for the local loop (This page is intended to be forward-looking). I also recognize that there are many additional details that could be added to this page, but I am trying to adhere to a 90/10 rule. If this page identifies 90% of the mainstream pieces and players, that should be sufficient to convey “the big picture”. (The remaining 10% details would probably triple the size & complexity of this one meta-diagram.) I welcome any comments you have to improve this page – especially if I’ve omitted anything significant. Russ Haynal.

These are the Main Sections:

• User PC – Multi-Media PCs equipped to send and receive all variety of audio and video
• User Communication Equipment – Connects the Users’ PC(s) to the “Local Loop”
• Local Loop Carrier - Connects the User location to the ISP’s Point of Presence
• ISP’s POP – Connections from the user are accepted and authenticated here.
• User Services – Used by the User for access (DNS, EMAIL, etc).
• ISP Backbone – Interconnects the ISP’s POPs, AND interconnects the ISP to Other ISP’s and online content.
• Online Content – These are the host sites that the user interacts with.
• Origins Of Online Content – This is the original “real-world” sources for the online information.

	User PC – A Multi-Media PC equipped to send and receive all variety of audio and video. Sound Board /Microphone/Speakers for telephony, MIDI ,Creative Labs/SoundBlaster, Yahoo’s List for Sound Cards. Video/Graphics for 3D graphics, video, playback . Matrox, Diamond Multimedia, Yahoo’s List for Video Cards. Video camera – Connectix, Yahoo’s List for Video Conferencing, Yahoo’s List for Manufacturers. Voice recognition – Yahoo’s List for Voice Recognition.
	User’s Communication Equipment - This is the communication equipment located at the User’s location(s) to connect the Users’ PC(s) to the “Local Loop” (aka Customer Premise equipment – CPE) Phone line – Analog Modem (v.90=56K) US Robotics , Rockwell, Yahoo’s List for Modems. Phone line -ISDN(128K) Yahoo’s list for ISDN. Phone Line – DSL (6 MB) , Yahoo’s list for DSL., ADSL Forum. Cable Modem (27 MB) Cable Modem University (and their neat table of Modem Vendors) Electric Line (1 MB) Digital PowerLine by Nortel Satellite (400 Kb) DirecPC LAN – 3com, Yahoo’s list of Network Hardware. Routers – Cisco, Ascend, Bay Networks, Yahoo’s list. Firewalls – TBD Vendors, Yahoo’s list for firewalls. User services – Many corporations also provide “User services” to their employees such as DNS, Email, Usenet, etc. Links for these services are described further down this diagram in the user services section.
	Local Loop Carrier - Connects the User location to the ISP’s Point of Presence Communication Lines -RBOCS: (Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Cincinnati Bell, NYNEX, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, US West),GTE, LEC’s, MFS, TCG, Brooks, Cable – List of Cable ISP’s. Satellite – DirecPC. Power line – Digital PowerLine by Nortel. Wireless – Wireless Week, Wireless Access Tech Magazine, Yahoos’ List for Wireless networking. Equipment Manufacturers: Nortel, Lucent, Newbridge, Siemens.
	ISP POP- This is the edge of the ISP’s network. Connections from the user are accepted and authenticated here. Remote ports Ascend (Max Product), US Robotics (3com), Livingston (Portmaster), Cisco, Yahoo’s List for Routing Technology.
	User Services - these are the services that most users would use along with Internet Access. (These may be hosted within a large corporate LAN) (Webhosting is discussed under the online content section) Domain Name Server – BIND, DNS Resources Directory. Email Host -,Sendmail ,Microsoft Exchange Usenet Newsgroups (NNTP) – INN, Special services such as quake, telnet, FTP User Web Hosting – See the online content section for details. These servers require fast interfaces and large/fast storage.
	ISP Backbone - The ISP backbone interconnects the ISP’s POPs, AND interconnects the ISP to Other ISP’s and online content. Backbone Providers -  Russ Haynal’s ISP Page. Large Circuits – fiber Circuit carriers, AT&T, SPRINT, MCI, Worldcom (MFS, Brooks), RBOC’s, C&W, Qwest, Routers – Cisco, Ascend, Bay Networks, Yahoo’s list. ATM Switches – Fore, Newbridge, Lucent, Ascend, Yahoo’s List of ATM Manufacturers. Sonet/SDH Switches – Nortel, Fujitsu, Alcatel.Tellabs , Lucent and Positron Fiber Systems. Gigaswitch – Gigaswitch from Dec, Yahoo’s List. Network Access Points – Russ Haynal’s ISP Page The Broadband guide (links to 4,000 vendors)
	Online Content - These are the host sites that the user interacts with. Web Server platforms – Netsite, Apache, Microsoft, Yahoo’s List of web servers. Hosting Farms- Many online resources are hosted at well-connection facilities These servers require fast interfaces and large/fast storage.
	Origins of online content - This is the original “real-world” sources for the online information. Existing electronic information is being connected from legacy systems. Traditional print resources are being scanned and converted into electronic format Many types of video and audio programming is being broadcast via the internet. For example, look at Radio_locator. Internet telephony is growing on the Internet Start with VON and then explore this list from Yahoo. Look at this list of interesting devices connected to the Internet.

Other Resources:

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SEO: WordPress.org or wordpress.com ?

I launched two site using wp,
one is hosted by wordpress.com
another is hosted by bluehost.com (I have to install wp by myself)

seems the function on wordpress.com is better on
following fields:

SEO, People get to know me easier here than other site

post from Email, when I use the outsite hosted wp, the email post can only work with “plain text”, but here the blog can accept Email from my hotmail.

Cons of hosting at wordpress.com:

you can not upload customer’s Theme

the diskspace for hosting is high

my main concern is the SEO, can I make it as good bluehost as hosting here?

Concrete5 vs. WordPress

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Concrete vs. WordPress

September 19, 2009

Hi guys,

I’ve had a few clients and friends tell me about how much they like using WordPress for their websites. In the past it felt like WordPress was kludgy to use as a full website and not as a blog, but they insisted that the host of add-ons available makes it extra simple for them to integrate web services like YouTube, Flickr or podcasts, and that it is the best way to go.

Concrete has been the best CMS from my experience, but I was wondering if any of you knew more specifically what makes Concrete a stronger competitor than WordPress, or if there is any reason at all that I should use WordPress for anything other than a blog?

Thanks!
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Blocks – Lovely, Lovely Blocks

Sep 20, 2009 at 2:12 AM

For me, the key strength Concrete 5 has is its blocks. Being able to drag blocks around zones in a page is very natural, and makes C5 a good fit for brochure, portfolio and some education sites. Having the underlying model of blocks in a page is very strong. Coupling that with the flexibility of the template system is a real winner.

WordPress can be made to do a lot, but it never feels right to me to shoehorn an application into being something that’s too far removed from its original purpose.

Having said that, a very useful feature in WordPress are the shortcodes. If a site (not a blog) is going to include a lot of social media (YouTube, Flickr, Podcasts) then I’d be considering WordPress.

It’s not really which is better, but which is more fitting for the purpose.

You cannot compare

Sep 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM

concrete5 is the CMS for web site
WordPress is the CMS for blog

So you cannot really compare.

I built two sites using concrete5 and WordPress last month.

http://tanakateruyo.com
http://will-plus.com

I used concrete5 for web site, and I used WordPress for blog.

I went for the third option… use both.

BTW, concrete5 now has blog block.

Unfortunately, there is no good Japanese language support. So I still have to keep using WordPress.

But if you speak English, concrete5 can take care of everything~.

frz

concrete5 vs. wordpress… how the ceo sees it.

Sep 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM

well first off.. http://concrete5.org/about

but that being said..
wordpress is a great blog. we use it for a blog ourselves (although our blog is pretty dead now that twitter is here)

wordpress is just not a CMS: There’s no real permission system you can use to let groups of people carefully manage parts of the site well. There’s not a very detailed versioning system, you can preview what something will look like before publishing, but that’s hardly an exhaustive list of who made what change and when. There’s no in-context editing so you’re always explaining to a client that “you have to go here to the ‘pages’ section of your dashboard to fix that typo” – that’s super counter intuitive. Its akin to introducing someone to a typesetting machine when they want to write a quick note. concrete5′s in-context editing makes the non-tech-savvy website owner feel comfortable with making the small changes on their own, that gets them thinking creatively about bigger challenges, which is a good thing.

in the big picture, what really sets concrete5 apart from wordpress, and also joomla, drupal, and we’d like to think all of our competition, is the underlying realization that at the heart of every website is a relationship between developer and owner.

most websites are not tv commercials or billboards that some agency should get paid a lot of money to make perfect and then the client should never touch.

most websites are also not applications that some developer should build to never-changing requirements and once compiled will remain the same forever.

websites are more like houses. You want someone with a lot of experience to build the bones and make it livable, but the person who lives there for a decade is going to want to be able to make changes to their house later without having to call the original builder. That original builder doesn’t want to be heading back out to install a ceiling fan or paint a wall, and the owner doesn’t want to pay their rates for that kind of work anyway. The owner should be able to do some of that work on their own, and they should be able to hire the handyman down the street to do some of the work. There shouldn’t be fear that their whole house will fall to the ground because the neighbor kid helped them change bathroom faucets.

Today the web is missing that. Even when you choose to use a standard open source CMS as a building material for a website, more often than not it becomes customized to a point where only the original builders know what’s going on under the hood. Installing a new add-on on a drupal site could very easily destroy functionality that works already, and if you’ve hacked wordpress into a CMS its gonna take the next developer a bit of time to figure out what’s going on – at best.

That is the challenge we’re trying to take on with concrete5. Make a safe building material for the web, where blocks/add-ons all work with one another, and developers don’t have to hack their way around so a owner can have a safe home that will grow and change with their organization over time.

看了林志颖的个人简历，我被震撼了(转贴）

10岁遥控车比赛全台湾亚军，对记者说自己的梦想是做一名赛车手。
15岁依靠打工买下平生第一辆车（一辆50CC摩托车），并自己动手改装，使之能发出8种声音。
15岁尚未出道的林志颖因完美的外形和健康阳光的气质被广告商拉去拍了三个大广告——白兰洗面乳、宏基电脑、金车麦根沙士。
16岁因演出学校舞台剧，最后5分钟出场，被飞碟公司星探发现，正式签约飞碟唱片公司。
17岁发第一张唱片，正式出道，一年不到，红遍东南亚以及整个华语世界，绰号“亚洲小旋风”，被媒体称为娱乐圈“最神的神话”。
18岁成为第一个完全以国语歌曲演唱入主红?体育馆歌手及红?开唱最年轻歌手（该记录至今仍然由林志颖保持）。第一次来访香港的林志颖，使得香港启德机场经历了十年来一次难得的轰动经验，一种外来的震撼，从没这样的颠倒过，被香港媒体称为“过江龙”。
18岁举办世界巡回演唱会的最年轻歌手记录保持者。
18岁拥有第一辆宝马跑车。
18岁成立自己的摄影工作室（分店一度开到六七家，月盈额200万）。 !
20岁7张唱片销量全球突破1000万张。
20岁抛下巨星光环，毅然入伍当兵。
22岁以跳箱、射击、投弹、匍匐等等几乎所有项目接近满分，在役期间荣获四次荣誉假，并获得“总统奖”嘉许的成绩退伍。
22岁接受泰国国王莆眉篷的邀请担任莆眉篷70岁大寿生日会演唱压轴嘉宾，并接受泰国王后和公主的接见，公主一见钟情，差点成为泰国驸马。
22岁开始投资股票。
23岁拥有第一辆法拉利，用自己的红色法拉利战车，第一次赛车比赛拿到季军奖杯。
23岁巨星身价签约香港百代EMI唱片公司。（报纸写的是两年三千万港币）
24岁赛车出车祸，右脚掌断了三根骨头，打了四根钢钉固定。
24岁参加世界国际A级越野赛，成台湾第一个参加国际顶级赛事的车手。
24岁以一百分的成绩取得专业救护资格证，成为台湾第一批EMT（Emergency Medical Technician，即紧急救护技术员）之一。
25岁拍摄第一部电视剧《绝代双骄》，泰国收视第一，红遍两岸三地，再次成为台湾身价片酬最高艺人。
25岁成立自己的第一支赛车队ESSO JIMMY RACING TEAM。
25岁一年内四次刷新台湾龙潭BMW M3最快赛车单圈记录。
25岁潜水执照。（注：是这一年在新闻中提到潜水执照。在垦丁海域潜水、飙水上摩托车、玩机械帆船等水上活动，其实是林志颖学生时代便热衷的）
26岁出演电影《红字》，拿到亚太影展最佳男演员特别奖，《红字》一剧拿下当年泰国年度票房第一，也是泰国历史上总票房排第二的电影。
26岁在珠海赛车场拿到赛车生涯第一个冠军。
26岁成立自己的科技公司。（林志颖之后很长一段时间内一直亲历亲为，与朋友一起将公司发展壮大，甚至在内地拍戏时还坚持每天开远程会议，处理台北公司事宜。公司设计软件接?畹亩韵蟀?ň?健⒁?械龋?侨?ㄍ逦ㄒ灰患易龈梅矫嫦钅康墓?荆?BR>27岁担任美国国际反毒大使（亚裔艺人第一人）。
27岁赛车达到颠峰状态，拿到9座职业车赛奖杯，7个冠军奖杯，2座亚军，并成为台湾年度冠军车手。
27岁成为台湾第一位授薪职业赛车手。
28岁美国总统布什授予白宫荣誉奖章。
29岁获得国际杰出青年奖。是首位华人、全球演艺界继汤姆克鲁斯后第二位艺人获此殊荣。并于美国领取杰出华人奖，旧金山定10月17日为“林志颖日”，授予“美国荣誉公民”。
29岁拍摄《天龙八部》，为2003年百度年度搜索第一电视剧，台湾收视最高武侠剧。
29岁正式投身中国职业汽车拉力赛，加盟上海佳通轮胎车队。
29岁搬入装修半年多的居室。（林志颖的家堪一座科技中心。朋友戏称林志颖过的是007的生活，家整的像骇客帝国一样，全是机械化的东西，说不定从哪里伸出什么东西。不仅如此，他家里的电子设备都是和他的手机相连接的，即便身在美国、内地，林志颖也可以用手机远程控制家中上百样设备，比如在回家的路上，他就可以设定家里的温度、湿度，可以放水温水这样一回家就能洗澡，可以在内地招待台北家里的客人等等。该系统是由他自己的科技公司开发的。）
30岁加盟云南红河拉力车队，获得中国拉力赛年度车手第8名。亚洲雷诺方程式获得第五。
30岁于珠海举办第一届“林志颖杯“交通安全明星邀请赛，与好友陈维良先生合作成立“珠海平坐赛车咨询公司”。
30岁拍《书剑情侠柳三变》时发生意外，由于吊索的扣环插入，致使林志颖脊椎旁的一块小骨头骨折。台湾医生一致建议林志颖至少要休息三个月。但临时换演员，意味着剧组要遭受巨大的损失。林志颖不顾家人反对，在一个疗程后，带着强力镇痛药回到了剧组。不仅如此，由于治疗耽误了十二天的时间，此后的拍摄林志颖甚至每天工作十五六个小时为剧组弥补损失。
31岁组建自己的第一支拉力车队“林志颖车队”，聘请曾经世界排名第三的英国著名选手小麦克雷为其车队效力。
31岁改装成了台湾第一把绿色瞄准器的BB枪，半年后台湾的公司相继效仿生产。（此事在31岁这一年在节目中由朋友爆料，具体时间不详）
32岁“林志颖车队”获得中国拉力赛年度季军车队。
32岁成立“梦飨家”餐厅。
32岁出演第一部时装偶像剧《放羊的星星》，为2007年百度年度搜索第一电视剧，2007年港台最受欢迎电视剧，及2007年台湾最高收视偶像剧，并入围2008年韩国首尔电视节最佳长篇电视剧。
32岁受邀骑哈雷重型机车率领600多辆大排量国内外名牌摩托车和近千名国内摩托车迷于广东江门巡游，600辆摩托车组成奥运五环，支持[敏感词语]。该活动经公证创北京奥运组合图案吉尼斯之最。
32岁担任国际马拉松大使。
32岁考取游艇执照
32岁意大利车商法拉利大手笔包下上海F1赛车场，提供上亿台币名车，邀请林志颖担任艺人专业驾驶培训课程教练
33岁2008年新飞泛珠三角超级赛车节春季赛第一回合冠军、第二回合亚军，夏季赛第一回合冠军、第二回合冠军
33岁四川汶川地震，捐款100万人民币（台湾捐款最多艺人），亲自赴灾区当义工（台湾第一位赴灾区艺人），认养两名地震孤儿，08年6月珠海赛事中将试驾所得的钱款全部捐献给赈灾区，并捐出冠军奖杯义卖。
34岁“挡不住的林志颖”上海演唱会，2008年10月17日 19:30（P.M）上海虹口足球场。
34岁2008年10月26日在中国深圳南山后海F1赛场举行加盟中国天荣队仪式，林志颖正式成为中国队后备队员，该队是世界F1赛场（F1赛车、F1摩托艇）上唯一的中国队。(演艺圈里首位参与此项殊荣的艺人，也是香港、台湾地区的首位华人选手)（中国队现计划安排林志颖进行集训和参加F2摩托艇世界锦标赛）
震撼！！！一直以为他只是一偶像……没想到他的人生都在实现一个一个目标，不停歇……

钱穆：王维的境界
资料来源：《中国文学论丛•谈诗》 作者： 钱穆 本站发表时间： 2009-01-10
“我认为若讲中国文化，讲思想与哲学，有些处不如讲文学更好些。在中国文学中也已包括了儒佛道诸派思想，而且连作家的全人格都在里边了。”今天我讲一点关于诗的问题。最近偶然看《红楼梦》，有一段话，现在拿来做我讲这问题的开始。林黛玉讲到陆放翁的两句诗：

　　重帘不卷留香久，古砚微凹聚墨多。 　

　　有个丫鬟很喜欢这一联，去问林黛玉。黛玉说：“这种诗千万不能学，学作这样的诗，你就不会作诗了。”下面她告诉那丫鬟学诗的方法。她说：“你应当读王摩诘、杜甫、李白跟陶渊明的诗。每一家读几十首，或是一两百首。得了了解以后，就会懂得作诗了。”这一段话讲得很有意思。

　　放翁这两句诗，对得很工整。其实则只是字面上的堆砌，而背后没有人。若说它完全没有人，也不尽然，到底该有个人在里面。这个人，在书房里烧了一炉香，帘子不挂起来，香就不出去了。他在那里写字，或作诗。有很好的砚台，磨了墨，还没用。则是此诗背后原是有一人，但这人却教什么人来当都可，因此人并不见有特殊的意境，与特殊的情趣。无意境，无情趣，也只是一俗人。尽有人买一件古玩，烧一炉香，自己以为很高雅，其实还是俗。因为在这环境中，换进别一个人来，不见有什么不同，这就算做俗。高雅的人则不然，应有他一番特殊的情趣和意境。

　　此刻先拿黛玉所举三人王维、杜甫、李白来说，他们恰巧代表了三种性格，也代表了三派学问。王摩诘是释，是禅宗。李白是道，是老庄。杜甫是儒，是孔孟。《红楼梦》作者，或是抄袭王渔洋以摩诘为诗佛，太白为诗仙，杜甫为诗圣的说法。故特举此三人。摩诘诗极富禅味。禅宗常讲“无我、无住、无着”。后来人论诗，主张要不著一字，尽得风流。但作诗怎能不著一字，又怎能不著一字而尽得风流呢？

　　我们可选摩诘一联句来作例。这一联是大家都喜欢的：

　　雨中山果落，灯下草虫鸣。

　　此一联拿来和上引放翁一联相比，两联中都有一个境，境中都有一个人。“重帘不卷留香久，古砚微凹聚墨多”，那境中人如何，上面已说过。现在且讲摩诘这一联。在深山里有一所屋，有人在此屋中坐，晚上下了雨，听到窗外树上果给雨一打，朴朴地掉下。草里很多的虫，都在雨下叫。那人呢？就在屋里雨中灯下，听到外面山果落，草虫鸣，当然还夹着雨声。这样一个境，有情有景，拿来和陆联相比，便知一方是活的动的，另一方却是死而滞的了。

　　这一联中重要字面在“落”字和“鸣”字。在这两字中透露出天地自然界的生命气息来。大概是秋天吧，所以山中果子都熟了。给雨一打，禁不起在那里朴朴地掉下。草虫在秋天正是得时，都在那里叫。这声音和景物都跑进到这屋里人的视听感觉中。那坐在屋里的这个人，他这时顿然感到此生命，而同时又感到此凄凉。生命表现在山果草虫身上，凄凉则是在夜静的雨声中。我们请问当时作这诗的人，他碰到那种境界，他心上感觉到些什么呢？我们如此一想，就懂得“不著一字尽得风流”这八个字的涵义了。正因他所感觉的没讲出来，这是一种意境。而妙在他不讲，他只把这一外境放在前边给你看，好让读者自己去领略。若使接着在下面再发挥了一段哲学理论，或是人生观，或是什么杂感之类，那么这首诗就减了价值，诗味淡了，诗格也低了。

　　但我们看到这两句诗，我们总要问，这在作者心上究竟感觉了些什么呢？我们也会因为读了这两句诗，在自己心上，也感觉出了在这两句诗中所涵的意义。这是一种设身处地之体悟。亦即所谓欣赏。我们读上举放翁那一联，似乎诗后面更没有东西，没有像摩诘那一联中的情趣与意境。摩诘诗之妙，妙在他对宇宙人生抱有一番看法，他虽没有写出来，但此情此景，却尽已在纸上。这是作诗的很高境界，也可说摩诘是由学禅而参悟到此境。

　　今再从禅理上讲，如何叫做无我呢？试从这两句诗讲，这两句诗里恰恰没有我，因他没有讲及他自己。又如何叫做无住无着呢？无住无着大体即如诗人之所谓即景。此在佛家，亦说是现量。又叫做如。如是像这样子之义。雨中山果落，灯下草虫鸣，只把这样子这境提示出来，而在这样子这境之背后，自有无限深意，要读者去体悟。这种诗，亦即所谓诗中有画。至于画中有诗，其实也是同样的道理。

　　画到最高境界，也同诗一样，背后要有一个人。画家作画，不专在所画的像不像，还要在所画之背后能有此画家。

　　 ……

　　清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。

　　这里面也有一人，重要的在欲断魂三字。由这三字，才生出下面“借问酒家何处有，牧童遥指杏花村”这两句来。但这首诗的好处，则好在不讲出欲断魂三字涵义，且教你自加体会。

　　又如另一诗：

　　月落乌啼霜满天，江枫渔火对愁眠。姑苏城外寒山寺，夜半钟声到客船。

　　这一诗，最重要的是“对愁眠”三字中一愁字。第一句月落乌啼霜满天，天色已经亮了，而他尚未睡着，于是他听到姑苏城外寒山寺那里的打钟声，从夜半直听到天亮。为何他如此般不能睡，正为他有愁。试问他愁的究竟是些什么？他诗中可不曾讲出来。这样子作诗，就是后来司空图《诗品》中所说的羚羊挂角。这是形容作诗如羚羊般把角挂在树上，而羚羊的身体则是凌空的，那诗中人也恰是如此凌空，无住、无着。断魂中，愁中，都有一个人，而这个人正如凌空不着地，有情却似还无情。可是上引摩诘诗就更高了，因他连“断魂”字“愁”字都没有，所以他的诗，就达到了一个更高的境界。

【钱穆专栏】http://www.longquanzs.org/columndetail.php?id=77

Dog lover

I was walking in the park,
a dog ran to me,
I touched him gracefully,
the lady behind him smiled to me :
“Are you a dog lover?”
“yeah” , I said ,
“He can tell” , the lady smiled again.

Sent from my Nokia phone

post from my Mobile phone

This is just to say

Erica-Lynn Gambino

(for William Carlos williams )

I have just
asked you to
get out of my
apartment

even though
you never
thought
I would

Forgive me
you were
driving
me insane

今天想到世界永远不结束

八识规矩颂：

浩浩三藏不可穷，渊深七浪境为风，

世界就这样，永远不结束。

结束(转寄)

发信人: freeman08 (自由自在), 信区: Wisdom
标 题: 结束
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 30 12:50:04 2009, 美东)

浩浩三藏不可穷，渊深七浪境为风。

什么意思？

现象永远不结束，结束的只能是迷惑，而已。

结束：认真看这个词，突然把我感动得要哭了出来，

看来古人对于一个词的含义规定真的很有智慧，很有智慧。

原来理解的结束，好象意味着世界就终结了。

其实不是，结束，就是打个结，捆起来，

那就是古人做Ahchive啊。

前面的事情做个总结，把它放到那儿，然后开始新的一段。
此之为结束。

要说古人都是猴子进化过来，自学成才凭空造字，我真的不信。
想：心相也
思：心田也
恕: 如心

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