我不知道怎么描述我的感受，描述桥牌和我做伴的日子。看着树叶黄了绿，绿了黄。有时候我也问自己，是不是在虚度时光。
读书和打牌是我的两大爱好。读书，可以神交古人，打牌，可以调整心性。周围的世界充斥着颓败的激情、扩张的欲望、破坏的冲动，仿佛要赶在最后一幕谢幕前完成匆忙的表达与宣泄。工作缩减为挣钱、朋友缩减为利用，爱情缩减为刺激，沉思缩减为感觉、阅读缩减为浏览、理想缩减为需要、信仰缩减为满足……人们只希望结果尽快到手，省略掉优美的过程，认为这才是最有效率，最经济的生活，而随意抹去了沉淀多年的智慧。很多人也把桥牌缩减成人生道路上的工具，为追求竞技场内场外的名声，为赛事中的金钱，为生意和仕途拉关系，或成为接近达官贵人的敲门砖……
在桥牌中，不仅是为了排遣无聊而寂寞的心灵，也是要找到生活和人生的哲理。也许在桥牌中总算能时刻保持一种沉思的生活，找到早已丧失了的耐心与秩序。
为什么喜欢，讲不明白，可能喜欢安静的感觉吧。随着年岁的增长，身体逐渐衰弱了，但生命却越来越精神化了。有时候，桥牌很神秘，激活了人内心的某种东西，似乎找到灵魂的皈依。庄子云“圣人之心静乎！天地之鉴也，万物之镜也”。在桥牌中，有与周围浑然一体的体验，一切形式的割裂都停止了，消退为无差别的统一，达到心灵顿悟。“静中静非真静，动处静得来，才是性天之真境”。在桥牌中，我似乎理解了先哲们话中的韵味。
对牌的感觉真是看不到，讲不清，也想不明。我既不知道，也不理解，又如何告诉你我的内心最真的感受？“道可道，非常道”，也许吸引我的那种神秘力量真的是不可能用语言来交流的。
你在与搭档智慧的接触中，进入稳定而宁静的状态中。当两个人思维传递的信息，不免常有互相干扰的时候，就产生了对牌理解的多样性，而当思维平静和谐时，这种理解达到高度共鸣，多样性就消失了。一般的思维方式对于这种矛盾感到困惑，因为逻辑和推理一直是阐述问题的手段。充满令人迷惑的矛盾，是客观存在而无法消除。这些矛盾是多样，有知识性的，理解性的，还有本身的性格形成的。而这种矛盾，使你即便穷其心智，按照逻辑的推理，却偏离了成功的常轨。因为必须用语言来交流自己内在的经验，而这种经验就本质来说是超越语言的。这也是多年的搭档争论不休，却仍然很难协调的原因吧。可能也正是这矛盾带给人快乐，让人终身孜孜不倦，在矛盾中找到真实的自己。
桥牌之道在于和谐，包括各种和谐，人与人的，人与环境的（包括叫牌法的），人自身的心性的和谐。桥牌和别的事情一样，整天随手打，看上去勤奋，不如边打边思考，才能掌握技术。在有技术的基础上精通理论，精通理论上富有智慧。有智慧还要对“道”有所把握。
桥牌之道是我苦苦想追求的。成为一个在这复杂世界里能自我协调的牌手，最精髓的本质是什么？整个桥牌世界是自己的灵魂，思维思想跟着桥牌宇宙一起律动。让桥牌变得有生命。
牌手们都太过于迷信技术，而不注重自身精，气，神的涵养。桥牌运动是一种剧烈的思想运动，他不通过空间的位移来实现。而是精气神在大脑中的融会，形成气质性的东西，是生命力，行为力，思考力，意志力的综合体现。
桥牌可以与智慧相随，与诗意相伴。它可以使人在清贫与苦难中，内心安详，可以使人在富贵与安乐中保持宽容与清醒。最温馨的岁月，不只是宽大豪华的房，高档的家具，桌上的珍馐美肴，而是有诗，有牌，有酒，有朋友的日子。
“如笃恭修己而生睿智，观物闲吟而意适神恬。”
The Feeling of Bridge
I don’t know how todescribe my feeling, describe the time during which
bridge accompanied me. When I observed the leafs on the trees changing its
color from yellow to green and then from green back to yellow, I
occasionally ask myself whether I am wasting time or not.
Reading and playing bridge are two of my favoritehobbies. Reading enables
me to communicate with the ancients, while playing bridge can help me to
adjust my mind. The world around us is full of decadent enthusiasm,
outstretched desire and destructive actuation, as if to finish its rushed
expression and catharsis before the last act. Working condenses to making
money, friendship reduces to utilization, love abbreviates to stimulation,
thinking is compressed to feeling, reading curtail to browsing, ideas
shrink to needs, belief becomes satisfaction…. People hope to reach the
result as soon as possible so as to eliminate the graceful process and
erase their wisdom accumulated for many years at their discretion, which is
believed to be the most efficient and economical life. Bridge is also
downgraded by many people to a tool of human life for the reputation of the
arena, for the money of the game, for the network of business or politics
or for the access to approach high officials…
In bridge, we want to find the philosophy of ourexistence and human life,
or to eliminate fastidium and loneliness in our mind. Perhaps by only being
involved in bridge then we can keep a thoughtful life and find our patient
and order which were lost long ago.
Why do I like bridge? I can not explain. Perhaps Ilike he feeling of
silence, As our age is increasing, our body becomes weak so the life tends
to be more spirit-oriented. Sometimes bridge is so mysterious that it
stimulates something in our mind as if something is found to put our soul
on. Zhuangzi said: ”Saint’s mind is so quiet that everything can be
mirrored including the sky and the earth”. In bridge, there is a feeling
that everything is integrated with us together, every kind of dissevers
stops and fades to an unification without difference so that our mind is
enlightened. “there is no absolute silence within a silence world and
silence can only exist within a noisy world which is the true way our earth
works”. It seems that I start to understand the implication of our
ancestor’s words.
The feeling of bridge is really un-visible,un-discussible and
un-conceivable. I neither know nor understand how to tell you the true
feeling in my mind. Perhaps the mysterious power of bridge that attracts me
can never be communicated by simple language.
When you communicate the wisdom with your partner, you are fully
concentrated in a steady and silent state. In the process of exchanging
information between you and your partner, it is not surprise that some
disagreement frequently happen which shows the diversity of understanding
to the cards.
The prime of bridge is its harmony, consisted ofcompatibility between
partners, between players and their environment and between player’s mind
and soul. Same as other jobs, it would be much better to think and play at
same time to improve skills rather than to play all day without thinking
which looks very studious. To be knowledgeable to bridge theory based on
the skills, to create wisdom based on the theory and then to apply TAO
based on the wisdom.
The TAO of bridge is what I have been seeking forwith my whole effort. To
be a self-compatible bridge player in this complicated world, what is the
essence of the matter? To integrate entire bridge world with my soul and to
put my thinking and thought into the universe of bridge which will move at
same tempo, now bridge would become vivid and brilliant.
General players tend to over-estimate skills insteadof enhance the inner
power, the psychological matter and the spirit of themselves. Bridge is a
sort of heavy thinking sport that doesn’t take place by physical
displacement. Instead, it takes place by the idea creation in the brain,
resulting in a sort of mental form and presenting the integration of
vitality, performance, ideation and willpower.
Bridge can be accompanied with wisdom and beincorporated with poem. It
helps people to keep a peaceful mind in their poor and painful life and to
remain a mild life style in their rich and splendid years. The most
tasteful life is not just splendid house, luxurious furniture and delicious
food on dinning table, it should be a life with poem, bridge, wine and
friends.
文章带来了朋友，这篇是一位旅居加拿大的资深桥牌手乐兵翻译的，感谢他，回味下友谊的感觉，感觉甜甜的。文章10年，友谊也10年了，感谢直到如今还留在我身边的朋友。
