The meaning of life and death,生命的意义.pptVIP

The Meaning of Life and Death Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ------Shakespeare HAPPINESS Happiness is the supreme goal of human beings. Or should be... The meaning of life depends on happiness. As George Santayana said: Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. HAPPINESS LoveFriendship Whether life is or is not worth the pain of being lived, or, rather, whether it is worth the pain and the pleasure of being live depends, first and foremost on one’s capacity for love. PAIN Cruelty is in us and in nature. Man embodies the cruelty of life. The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrows and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering, dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering – in short, the five aggregates（合体） of attachment are suffering. Buddhist collection of sacred texts Shakespeare Satire on the Seven Ages of Man All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse‘s arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furna