the true pleasure

Talking about Epicureanism, many misunderstand the Epicurean followers advocate to pursue the earthly or carnal pleasure, such as : delicacies, alcohol or jewlry. Being distinct from the gluttons and playboys who driven by their sensory desire, the Epicurean believe that pleasure should be drawn from a simple life and calm mind.

Epicurus, also a Greek philosopher,taught a life principle of the hermit's way.

Epicurus advocates living in the way of the hermits. The epicurean followers are careless to the material enjoyment, but take importance on pursueing sipiritual calmness. Their theory is unique. According to the Epicurean definition of good and bad, the good things comes from pleasure and the bad things from the pain. Also, the pleasure for them is the absance of pain.

This theory appear weird because we commonly beieved that pleasure does not equal lack of pain; furthermore; establishing on greater enjoyment or value.

However, the Epicurus do not risk to achieve the worldly affair that for them possibly ruin the true pleasure, the stable and quiet life foor meditaing.

Eternal return

I 've found the definition of eternal return in wikipedia very precise.

resourses from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur in a self-similar form an infinite number of times. The concept initially inherent in Indian philosophy was later found in ancient Egypt, and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse, though Friedrich Nietzsche resurrected it on the grounds that it provides a reason for affirming life after the decline of theism.

I learned about this concept from one of my favorite books
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Before the story strats, the author, Milan Kundera, explains one important subject in this book, the heaviness and lightness.
He takes Jesus Christ's cruxification ,
the most sorrowful moment of theistic history, as the example, experiement its happening in the form of Eternal Return.
Through the simulating endless suffering of Christ, he demonstrate the extreme of the unbearable agony, the heaviness of life.
Oppositely, in human life everything happens only once and can never be corrected.
The lightness of life thus comparatively comes into view.

The existence of eternal return seems to me a reminder emphasizes on taking every step carefully, since everything done will forever runs in the cycle.
Once you hurt sb’s feeling, he might get recover after a period of time.
However, the heartbroken “him” will be eternally inhabit ting in the happening time and space and be dropping tears.
The idea of eternal return is a chain that never releases any being.

Panta rei

The title "Panta rei" is an greek pilosophy phrase, which is important and influential.

The origin of this idea is from Herakeleitos, an ancient Greek philosopher, who is of the
figure of " weeping philosopher" because of his dissapointment to his city after striving for improving it.

"Panta rei" means everything flows, more literally, everything is constantly changing.
his famous quotation

"On those stepping into rivers the same, other and other waters flow." explains his philosophy while unintendedly echo the very same idea of Confuius

論語子罕篇記載：「子在川上曰，逝者如斯夫。不捨晝夜。」

However, Herakeleitos did not sign for the change of things like Confucius, oppositely, he was exhilarated when discovrering this principle by observing things. He describe the invention as the light that break out from the chaos, the steadfast truth found among the complex surface of constantly changing world.

"The only unchanged thing is that everything changes." the sentence is commonly heard now, only that we do not know it is derived from Herakeleitos' idea.

Also The cultural diffrences can be seen from the distinct response of Herakeleitos and Confucious to Panta rei. Confusius signed for the change of things because he had once tried to bring back the good old time of the dynasty Chou, which was fated to be vain. whereas, Herakeleitos, the philosopher who love the most widsom, treasure every truth as the most significant things in life.

I am sorry that I haven't posted anything for near;ly a month, and even missed the deadline.
I am busy in dealing with other affair and I know that's not a proper reason even a good excuse.
Promise will psot wthe lack as soon as possible.