Language = Empty sound

很多年前我曾听過一位法師的讲座，有一句话让我印象深刻，“…语言只是一种空洞的声音…” 嗯…听起來很深奧！我沉思后，也就意会其道理。

比如我对某人说，“ma ni hao…” 这句声音傳入听者的耳内，进入大腦辨识… 各别的听者有各别的国家、群落、言语、文化、背景、經驗、价值观／概念化等… “ma ni hao” 这句话对各别的听者就可能会有不同的诠释！

虽然语言只是一种空洞的声音，不过我认为说者还是要对其所说的语言负责，避免用语言來做人身攻击。

最近我回复其中一位匿名者在 '两层的门' 的留言: “…很可惜的，如我的文字让你不悅。” 其实我这一句也想意谓，如果某事困扰你，不是那件事有问題而是你有问題！

读者给我的 blog 留言的不多，对我來说，我对每则留言都很感激。但有一些是匿名者，嗨…不要让我如在玩 '我猜 我猜 我猜猜猜' 的遊戏啦！猜中却没有奖，哈哈…

I listened to a Venerable talk several years ago, and a sentence impressed me. “…language is just a kind of empty sound…” Hmm…it sounds profound! I understood the truth of it after I thought about it.

For example, if I said to someone, “Ma ni hao…” this sound goes into the listeners’ ears and through their brain to identify… People of different of nationalities, communities, languages, cultures, backgrounds, experiences, conceptualizations, etc…will get different interpretations for “ma ni hao”!

Even though language is just a kind of empty sound, I think the one speaks needs to be responsible for his/her words. Please avoid using language to make personal attacks.

I replied to an anonymous comment to the post ‘Two layers of door’: ‘…sorry if my writing annoys you.” In fact, this also can mean that if something annoys you, it is not that thing that has a problem, but you!

My blog doesn’t get many readers’ comments, but for me, I appreciate every single comment. However, few of them are ‘anonymous’. Hey, don’t let me play a game like the Taiwanese game show ‘I guess I guess I guess guess guess’! I don’t get any prize even if I am right, ha-ha…