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本者是正念 is a phrase or chant used by Reiki practitioners.

There are several ways to translate this, but mine would be “Original Nature is Mindfulness.”

This is a common Mandarin Chinese transliteration for the male Portuguese/Latin name Zé or Ze.

This is a common Mandarin Chinese transliteration for the female Arabic name Zeiya.

澤塔 is the name Zeta in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤德里克 is the name Zed in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤克 is the name Zeke in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤娜 is the name Zena in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤布 is the name Zeb in Chinese (Mandarin).

喬澤 is the name Jozee in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤克 is the name Zek in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤因 is the name Zein in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤納 is the name Zehna in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤山 is the name Zeeshan in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤亞 is the name Zea in Chinese (Mandarin).

西澤 is the name Sieze in Chinese (Mandarin).

佈雷澤 is the name Blazer in Chinese (Mandarin).

丹澤爾 is the name Denzel in Chinese (Mandarin).

哈澤兒 is the name Hazel in Chinese (Mandarin).

利澤特 is the name Lizette in Chinese (Mandarin).

敘澤特 is the name Suzette in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤飛爾 is the name Zephyr in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤比迪 is the name Zebidee in Chinese (Mandarin).

埃利澤 is the name Eliezer in Chinese (Mandarin).

胡澤法 is the name Huzefa in Chinese (Mandarin).

加澤爾 is the name Gazelle in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤納布 is the name Zeinab in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤赫拉 is the name Zehra in Chinese (Mandarin).

阿澤爾 is the name Azel in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤安娜 is the name Zeanna in Chinese (Mandarin).

弗洛澤 is the name Flozer in Chinese (Mandarin).

伊澤亞 is the name Izeyah in Chinese (Mandarin).

莉澤斯 is the name Lizeth in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤內布 is the name Zeyneb in Chinese (Mandarin).

利澤爾 is the name Liezel in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤內普 is the name Zeynep in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤波爾 is the name Zepol in Chinese (Mandarin).

卡澤烏 is the name Kazeou in Chinese (Mandarin).

哈澤爾 is the name Hazzel in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤德里克 is the name Zedrick in Chinese (Mandarin).

伊澤基爾 is the name Izekiel in Chinese (Mandarin).

This is a common 2-character transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for name Cesar.

達澤 is the name Dazzle in Chinese (Mandarin).

職責 is a Chinese and Korean word that means duty or responsibility.

If you have a sense of duty or sense of responsibility, this might be the wall scroll that you want to hang above your desk. It is a great way to quietly remind yourself to take pride in your duties at all times.

In a different context, this can mean “official duties” or “position.”

責任 is the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean word for “responsibility.”

責任 can also refer to someone who is willing to take the blame when things go wrong (instead of making excuses or passing the blame to someone else). While this is a noble idea, I think it is getting rare these days in both eastern and western cultures.

Also associated with the idea of "duty."

太澤 is the name Tazzle in Chinese (Mandarin).

This is a common Mandarin Chinese transliteration for the male French name Nazaire.

This is another way that Xavier can be transliterated into Chinese. Neither way is right or wrong. This is just a tough name because there is no sound in Chinese like an initial X in a word.

If you are wondering, when you see a Romanized Chinese word with an X, it is actually pronounced more like SH but with your tongue at the bottom of your mouth. It's kind of a weird convention of Romanizing Chinese.

澤尼亞 is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Xenia.

阿麗澤 is the name Alizay in Chinese (Mandarin).

弗雷澤 is the name Fraser in Chinese (Mandarin).

選擇生活 can mean to choose life instead of death (or suicide) or to choose to live life to the fullest.

I think of it as the key phrase used by Renton (Ewan McGregor) in the movie Trainspotting. While Chinese people will not think of Trainspotting when they see this phrase, for me, it will always be what comes near the end of this colorful rant:

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on-hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.

In 632 BC, Duke Wen of the Kingdom of Jin was about to lead an army against the forces of the Kingdom of Chu.
The Duke asked one of his advisers, Jiu Fan, how they could win the impending battle, as they were drastically outnumbered.
Jiu Fan said, “All is fair in war,” and suggested a plan of dishonorable tactics (cheating).
The Duke was unsure of this advice, so he asked another adviser, Yong Ji, who replied, “If you catch fish by draining the pond, you can certainly get all the fish. But there will be no fish the following year. You can cheat this one time in battle, but such tactics can only be used once, as the enemy will be wise in future encounters.”

The Duke heard the words of his wiser adviser but cheated to gain victory in the battle. However, he rewarded Yong Ji more than Jiu Fan at the victory celebration, stating that while Jiu Fan's advice gained one victory, the wise words of Yong Ji would last forever.

This Chinese idiom/proverb is still used, over 2600 years later to remind people not to burn bridges, cheat, or dishonor themselves in exchange for a short-term gain while sacrificing the future.

竭澤而漁 is very similar to the meaning of the English phrase, “Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”

伊澤貝爾 is the name Isobel in Chinese (Mandarin).

澤奇特爾 is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Spanish name Xochitl.

Please note that this is supposed to sound like Xochitl in Mandarin but is not a match for the meaning.

守土有責 is a Chinese proverb that expresses one's duty to defend the country.

守 means to guard, defend, keep watch, abide by the law, and/or observe (rules or ritual).
土 means land, earth, or soil.
有 is a possessive modifier in effect meaning “is a.”
責 means duty or responsibility.

So you get a literal translation of “Protecting [the] land is [a] duty/responsibility.”

巴爾薩澤 is the name Balthazar in Chinese (Mandarin).

格麗澤爾達 is the name Griselda in Chinese (Mandarin).

榮譽勇氣責任 is a word list that reads, “榮譽 勇氣 責任” or “honor courage commitment.”

If you are looking for this, it is likely that you are in the military (probably Navy or Marines).

We worked on this for a long time to find the right combination of words in Chinese. However, it should still be noted that word lists are not very natural in Chinese. Most of the time, there would be a subject, verb, and object for a phrase with this many words.

選擇自己的命運 means “Choose your destiny” or “pick your own fate” in Chinese.

Let's break down the words in this phrase here...
選擇 means to choose, pick, or select.
自己 means oneself or one's own.
的 is a possessive modifier.
命運 means fate or destiny.

失敗並非一種選擇 is probably the best way to say, “Failure is not an option,” in Chinese.

Just don't forget that some ancient Chinese proverbs suggest that failure is a learning opportunity that leads to success or innovation. So don't plan to fail but failure is only a waste if nothing is learned from the failure.

See Also:  Failure is a Stepping Stone to Success | Failure is the Mother of Success

兼聽則明偏聽則暗 is an ancient Chinese proverb about getting all the information from all sides so that you truly understand a situation.

Wei Zheng

A man named Wei Zheng lived between 580-643 AD. He was a noble and wise historian and minister in the court of the early Tang Dynasty. The emperor once asked him, “What should an emperor do to understand the real-world situation, and what makes an emperor out-of-touch with reality?”

Wei Zheng replied, “Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; listen to only one side and you will be left in the dark.”

Then Wei Zheng went on to cite examples of leaders in history that were victorious after heeding both sides of the story, and other leaders that met their doom because they believed one-sided stories which often came from flattering lips.

Please note that there is an unwritten rule when the same character appears twice in the same phrase, the calligrapher will alter the appearance so that no two characters are exactly alike in the same piece. This calligraphy has two repeating characters that will be written differently than they appear here.

国家忠诚父母孝道朋友有信杀生有择临战无退 are the five codes of Tang Soo Do.

I suggest you have this arranged in five columns when you get to the options page for your custom calligraphy wall scroll.

Here are my translations of each of the five codes:
國家忠誠 Be loyal to your country.
父母孝道 In regards to parents, behave in a filial way.
朋友有信 Be faithful in friendship.
殺生有擇 When fighting for life and death, make noble choices.
臨戰無退 No retreat in battle.

Note: “Tang Soo Do” is a romanization of 唐手道. It's 당수도 in Korean Hangul. It can also be romanized as “Tangsudo” or “Dangsudo.”

爾昌友延嗣捷開文裔光宗傳世澤遠晉本立道隆積善家國重學業廣成芳 is the Tom Clan Generational Poem.

If you are interested in this poem, you probably already know the meaning, so for now we'll forgo including a translation.