后篇:追寻 | Part Ⅱ: Pursuing
后篇用一个故事在概念的层面讨论了生和死:追寻理想形态(ideal)之人在追寻的路上逐渐不再为常人所见,仿佛进入了另一个世界——这个过程就像脱离了存在生死概念的“常世”,进入了只有永生者的“理想乡”。在离开“常世”后,追寻者进入了另一种生命状态,获得了某种意义上的脱胎换骨和重生。“理想的形态”作为完美的概念,并不存在于常人生存的现实世界,那么假若抵达了“理想的形态”,是否也是一种在常人世界看来的“死亡”?
A story that discusses life and death on a conceptual level: the one who sought after the ideal—an immaculate concept, gradually lose sight of ordinary people, as if they have entered another world.
As a perfect concept, “ideal” does not exist in the real world where ordinary people live. So if the seeker reach the “ideal form”, it is also a kind of “death” in the eyes of ordinary people.