【商業】風合睦晨 | 南京句容市圖書館金科分館 ? 天堂應該是圖書館的模樣

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縱然我們有一萬個愛上圖書館的理由，然而無論如何也比不上文學家和詩人博爾赫斯對於它的認識和理解來得深闊有力。他在他的《關於天賜的詩》里這樣描述：「上帝給了我浩瀚的書海，和一雙看不見的眼睛；那盲目的圖書館雄偉幽深, 而我卻盲目摸索，心勞力瘁。即便如此，我依然暗暗設想，天堂應該是圖書館的模樣。」博爾赫斯在擔任阿根廷國家圖書館館長的時候眼睛近乎失明，但正是因為這點，他得以在更深的靈里理解和感知這個世界。雖然肉體的雙眼被關上了，但他靈魂的眼睛卻被真正打開了，他敏感的內心在黑暗的光里看得更加明晰。

We can fall in love witha library for ten thousand reasons. Yet, our fascination with it is in no way comparable to the writer and poet

Jorge Luis Borges』s

understanding of the libraryin terms of profundity and breadth. 「The God brings to me a boundless sea ofbooks but a pair of sightless eyes. The blind library is lofty and deep, whileI fiddle with the books, exhausted and without much fruit. Even though, I』ve secretly imagined that the Paradise should be like a library,」

Borges

so describes inthe Poem of the Gifts. He almost lost his vision during the time when he was directorof the National Library of Argentina. However, the misfortune endowed him with aspecial ability to understand and feel the world from his soul instead. God closed the eyes of his mortal being but opened those for his soul, which guidedhis sensitive heart to travel freely in the light of darkness. 「

「圖書館是無限的，周而復始的。假如一個永恆旅人從任何方向穿過去，幾個世紀後他將發現同樣的書籍會以同樣的無序進行重複。有了那個美好的希望，我的孤寂得到了一點安慰。」在他眼裡，圖書館是一個迷宮，一個「小徑分岔的花園」，一個深邃的宇宙。「肉體終將消失，而心靈的產物——圖書館卻會永存。」他又將世界本質歸結為一本圓形循環的書——包羅萬象，無始無終。「時間永遠分岔，通向無數將來。」博爾赫斯用他最真摯的感情和最深刻的認知觸摸到了時間的本質、宇宙的秩序以及人類心靈中那個真正的圖書館。

The library is a place with no boundary and an endless loop. If an eternal traveler goes through it from any direction, he will find the same books reappear without any particular order several centuries later. This beautiful hope has been a small consolation to my solitary heart.」 In his eyes, the library is a labyrinth, agarden of forking paths, a profound universe. 「The human body will diminish eventually, whereas the fruits of the heart – library – will live forever.」 He concluded that the world is not unlike a book of circular loop that encompasses everything and has no beginning or ending. 「The time itself forks to limitless futures.」 Borges touches the essence of time, the order of the universe and thereal library residing in human beings』 hearts with his sincerest feelings and profoundest perception.

圖書館，象徵的是人類精神尋求的至高點；而天堂，卻是人類靈魂最終渴望的棲息地。當我們抬頭仰望繁星閃爍的夜空，獨自思想宇宙何其浩瀚。我們向著自己的內心發問，縱使我們不盲，我們又能看清這眼前的世界嗎？我們真的有能力去認清這世界真實模樣嗎？當你踟躇在人類知識的圖書館裡，徜徉在書籍的時空流轉中，多如繁星的知識的亮光不停地閃耀，發出刺眼的光芒。我們渴望生命可以達至永恆，相信可以憑藉我們自己的智慧帶領我們自身踏入永生的大門。

The library represents the zenith of human beings』 spiritual pursuit while the heaven is the habitatwhere the soul craves to settle down. When looking up into the star-studded night and thinking about the vastness of the universe, we can』t help but askingourselves: Can we see clearly this world around us even with a clear vision? Dowe really have the ability to see the world as it is? When you stroll in the library packed with knowledge of the human beings and walk into the space-time created by all those books, knowledge and wisdom gleam like stars, giving out glaring lights. We long to be immortal and believe our wisdom can lead us to stride over the gate of immortality.

人類的驕傲一直都在帶領著我們在不同領域，甚或是精神領域修築著可以象徵人類智慧比肩上帝的通天塔。然而，窮盡一生追尋智慧的所羅門王在他晚年時感嘆：「虛空的虛空，虛空的虛空，凡事都是虛空。」他告誡世人不論是對知識抑或是對快樂的尋求，都是虛空、都是捕風；人在日光之下的勞碌以及對所謂的智慧、財富、美名、壽命、權力、地位一切的追求，結果也是虛空，沒有意義，沒有滿足，沒有盡頭。當生命的意義在面對死亡的挑戰時瞬間變得虛無縹緲，人類建造的巴別塔也隨即轟然坍塌。用知識構築起來的「圖書館」就像一道牆，它保護著我們，同時又束縛著我們，它既開啟我們的心靈，同時又遮蔽我們的心智。知識和智慧作為認知真理、道路和生命的手段，因著人類自身的狹隘和虛妄，那浩繁的圖書卷冊帶給人的只有紊亂和遮蔽，讓人迷失在靈魂的曠野中，正如博爾赫斯所形容的迷失在這茫茫書海的迷宮中了。

The proudness of human beings has been guiding us to build towers of babel, symbol of human wisdom on par with that of God, in different fields, and even in the field of spirit. However, King Solomon, who has been spending his whole life pursuing wisdom, sighs in the Ecclesiastes in his advanced years that 「Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.」 He warns people that the pursuit for knowledge or happiness accounted to nothing, like a chasing after the wind. The labor under the sunand pursuit for wisdom, wealth, reputation, long life, power and status endedup in vain. It』s meaningless, bringing no satisfaction and having no end. The moment the meaning of living is challenged by death and appears illusory, theTower of Babel built by human beings collapses. The library built with knowledge is like a wall, protecting us while confining us, opening up our mind while blinding our inner self. Knowledge and wisdom, though intended as a meansfor understanding the eternal truth, path and life, are written in the enormous volumes of books, which, as it turns out, bring chaos and confusion to humanbeings which are narrow-minded and vainglorious. This is like the blind leading the blind, and the result is the souls lost in the vast wilderness, like those lost in the labyrinth of books as described by Borges.

風隨著意思而吹，你聽見風的響聲，卻不知道它從哪裡來，往哪裡去。這風的源頭如同萬籟俱靜時人們心靈虛空處隱約傳來的微聲，啟示你與這源頭建立血脈連接的靈魂歸處才是天堂所在。萬物都因這源頭的思想、智慧而存在。人類的生命也只有在與這源頭重新建立起血脈聯繫後，智慧思維下的一切創造才有了真正意義上的標杆，也才具備了在這茫茫書海中找尋到那條通往永恆真理的道路的可能性，從而認清生命被造之初所命定的永恆意義。

The wind blows with the meaning. You hear the sound of the wind, but without a clue where it comes fromor will go. The call of the God is like a faint sound that surfaces from the emptiness of the heart when the world is quite and you are enlightened toconnect with God from the depth of your soul. That』s where the heaven is. The God, the almighty creator, is the source for thoughts and wisdom. All theliving things of his creation exist for reason of his thoughts and wisdom.Thus, King Solomon wrote in the Proverbs, 「The fear of lord is the beginning ofwisdom.」 Only when a blood bond is re-established between human beings』 lives andtheir Creator can any creations, the fruits of wisdom and thoughts, be properly bench marked, and can there exists a possibility for finding out the path towards eternal truth and thus figuring out the eternal meaning given to any life at its creation.

願這源頭的光能透過風合睦晨設計的這個不起眼的小小社區圖書館照亮裡面讀者的心，引領他們可以在這書海中找尋和感受到那真正的智慧。因為每當夜深人靜的時候，我們的靈魂深處仍會時刻的詢問--我們從何處來？我們是誰？我們向何處去？

Fenghemuchen hopes to pay tribute to the immortal God through this work.May his light pierce through this humble community library and enlighten thehearts of the readers, leading them to trace the real source of wisdom in thesea of books. We may have ten thousands reasons to turn away from and even rebel against him. Yet, as the night falls and the world is still and quite,the inquiries from the depth of our soul are resounding – Where do we comefrom? Who are we? Where are we going to?

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