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Life Is Simple
When people think to themselves, "I am weak", they form pointless thoughts in their minds, like words, theories, or modes of morality to make themselves to feel stable and clear. But all this does is to make them slaves of language.
A person's sexuality can dominate him or her. In this conext, only the body controls his or her thoughts or actions. However, when people are concentrating on the desires of the flesh, they forget the needs of the mind (or maybe "soul", depending exactly upon what you mean). If one destorys everything, then one will forget life and death. ("mind" refers more to intellectual pursuits, if you are talking about relationships, perhaps "soul" would be better.)
Life is simple. So is love. In Chinese we have a word "xi huan". I don't know if there is an exact translation in English. I think it means more than "like" but less than "love". Love is a promise, and it is too strong. But generally, I think "xi huan" is included in the feeling of "love". To feel Xi Huan (is it a noun or verb? This fact is important but I don't know it) for a person is an easily understood feeling. It means simply that you really like to spend time with a person, and that you want to work towards keeping and improving the relationship.
I used to make "love" too complicated. I used to think too much, but this is because I was weak. Having gone through all these things, I now realise that I just want to live a simple life. To return to one's (or "my") original innocence, in which one (or "I") still held the belief that the world is crystal (maybe "clearly understood" idk) and peaceful. The wiser a person is, the more like a child he or she is (or "the more child-like he or she is. If you are going to use plural..."the wiser people are", then child-like sounds better). ("The wiser people are, the more child-like they are.")
Life Is Simple
When people think, they are weak. People just make up a lot of rubbish, like words, theories or moralities to make themselves to feel stable and clear, which only ends up to making themselves to become the slaves of languages.
Sex is violent. Only body has the power. However, when people are concentrating on the feelings of body, they will forget the mind and the body together. To Destroy everything, then you will forget the life and death.
Life is simple. So is love. In Chinese we have a word "xi huan". I don't know if there is a matchable translation in English. I think it is more than "like" but lighter than "love". Love is a promise, and it is too strong. But generally, I think "xi huan" is included in the feeling of "love". Xi huan a person is simple - it just means that you want to be together with someone in most of your time and you want to work on keeping and improving your relation.
I used to make "love" too complicated. I used to think too much, because I was weak. Having gone through all these things, now I realise that I just want to live a simple life. Go back to your original innocence, in which you were still believing the world is crystal and peaceful. The wiser the people are, the more like a child they are.
[Excellent work. I hope I got the correct meaning of 'Destroy everything'. I took it as not being a command to destroy everything, but saying what will happen if you do. Feel free to correct me if I got it wrong. As for 喜欢,some words or phrases never translate exactly from one language to another.]
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