道不息，生不止
来芳讲道 · 第十讲
道不息，生不止
Laifang on the Way · Lecture 10
The Way Never Ceases, Life Never Ends
在今天这个时代，
人们谈起“长生”，
常常想到的是科技延寿、细胞再生、AI复制意识……
In today’s world, when people speak of “longevity,”
they often imagine life-extension technologies,
cellular regeneration, or the uploading of consciousness to AI.
但这些“延长”，真的叫“长生”吗？
如果只是延长一个焦虑、空虚、分离的生命，
那不是“长生”，而是“久困”。
But is this kind of extension true longevity?
If what we prolong is anxiety, emptiness, or disconnection,
then we are not lengthening life—
we are simply staying lost for longer.
古人所说的“长生”，
不是为了不死，
而是为了与道同步、与天地合拍。
不是单纯延长生命，
而是活得更久，更稳，更通透。
What the ancients meant by “longevity”
was not merely to avoid death,
but to live in sync with the Way, in harmony with heaven and earth.
Not just to live longer,
but to live with greater steadiness,
clarity, and depth.
真正的长生，是道在生命中不断地流动
True Longevity Is the Continuous Flow
of the Way Through Life
长生是从生死对立，走向相对。
人是可以不断“生”自己的。
不是一次生命的延长，
而是一种内在的自我更新、觉醒与超越。
Longevity is the movement from opposition to continuity.
A human being can keep “growing” oneself—
not by extending a single lifespan,
but by continually renewing, awakening, and transcending from within.
总理的两种“生”：为未来而生，让精神不死
Premier Zhou’s Two Forms of Life:
Living for the Future, and Living Beyond Death
周恩来总理的一生，
从来不是为自己而活，
而是为了人民、为了和平、为了后世的安稳。
Premier Zhou’s life was never lived for himself.
He lived for the people, for peace,
and for the long-term stability of those who would come after.
他所追求的，不是延续自己的生命，
而是开出一条让人民可以好好活着的“生路”。
他活着，是为了一个更持久的世界；
他去世了，却留下了更长远的方向。
What he sought was not the prolonging of his own life,
but the creation of a path on which others might truly live.
He lived for a more enduring world.
And in his passing, he left a direction that still endures.
这就是他的第一种“生”：
为未来而生，为和平而活，
使“长治久安”成为可能。
This was the first form of his life:
To live for the future, for peace,
and to make lasting harmony truly possible.
但他还有另一种“生”——
一种精神的、不朽的、在人心中长存的生命。
他走后，人民仍在讲述他；
孩子们在画中、诗中遇见他；
研究者、外交官、平凡的百姓，
都在各自的生活中找回他的身影。
But there was another kind of life he lived—
a spiritual, immortal life that remains alive in human hearts.
After he left, people still spoke of him.
Children met him in poems and paintings.
Scholars, diplomats, and ordinary people alike
found traces of him in their everyday lives.
这就是他的第二种“生”：
精神不死，道不息。
This was his second form of life:
The spirit never dies. The Way never ends.
来芳曰｜Laifang’s Note
长生，是超越生死对立，
进入生死一体、循环不息的境界。
Longevity is the transcendence of life and death as opposites,
entering a unified, unending flow between the two.
总理那一代人，是生得伟大，死得光荣。
他们为和平而生，亦为长久而死。
Premier Zhou’s generation lived with greatness and died with honor.
They were born for peace, and died for enduring harmony.
我们这一代人，
若能在和平年代中继续追问：
“如何长生久视？” “如何让和平长久？”
那么我们，也正走在“道”的延续中。
If we in this generation can continue asking:
“How do we live long and see clearly?”
“How do we make peace endure?”
Then we, too, are continuing the Way.
