幸福

幸福就是daddy买了一个card holder
给我
然后
给我系上blessing robe的结。
那天，沁芝也要
tie for me
我的手在那里
任他们添加祝福

生活里还有许多空间有待人拓展

重看自己写过的东西，还是禁不住被感动了。有些自己写的，我忘记了，重看一遍，感觉充满力量，深受鼓舞，深深被启发。我仿佛看到了瑞士山上的景物，我仿佛再次走入那山间。

“　　来到瑞士，深刻感觉生活有许多空间
可以发挥，只要你有热忱，你可以大幅度
为自己开拓，整个感觉很松弛，于是，更
讶异于放松的内涵、难度远比抓得紧紧牢
牢、步步为营高深得多。
来到瑞士的感觉是这样的。感觉生活
不需要太多对过去、未来的拴紧，就是现
在，也要学习在各个层面练习松弛。即便
发现自己一直背负这些，甚至已不知不觉
成为习惯，它们都是可以被包容、化解和
原谅。
因为，实在有太多美妙美好的在身
边。就像走在富丽那天，一处面向峡谷高
山时，最俊秀的把内心最深处最深邃的，
一下子化作眼泪。
释放了。
腾出来的广阔，让人装盛人生最美妙
的，突然轻松许多。拥抱自然，拥抱真
我，大概就是这个意思。
只是，夏天感冒了。它可以吃什么
药？
“我们抱抱它。好吗？””

 

Cervo

 

Guru Rinpoche

Going up, to meet your love

When I was around the age of thirteen, my father took me aside and told me something that would change my life. The two of us were alone in his beaten-up old car, in a side street of one of the poorer suburbs of London. He turned to me and said this: ‘Son, whatever you do in your life, know this. The door of my house will always be open to you.’

I was only a young teenager at the time. I didn’t really understand what he meant, but I knew it was something important, so I remembered it. My father would be dead three years later.

When I became a monk in northeast Thailand, I thought over those words of my Dad. Our home at that time was a small council flat in a poor part of London, not much of a house to open a door into. But then I realized this was not what my Dad really meant. What was lying within my father’s words, like a jewel wrapped in a cloth, was the most articulate expression of love that I know: ‘Son, whatever you do in your life, know this. The door of my heart will always be open to you.’

My father was offering unconditional love. No strings attached. I was his son and that was enough. It was beautiful. It was real. He meant it.

It takes courage and wisdom to say those words to another, to open the door of your heart to somebody else, with no ‘ifs’. Perhaps we might think they would take advantage of us, but that’s not how it works, not in my experience. When you are given that sort of love from another, it’s like receiving the most precious of gifts. You treasure it, keep it close to your heart, lest it be lost. Even though at the time I only partially understood my Dad’s meaning, even so I wouldn’t dare hurt such a man. If you give those words to someone close to you, if you really mean them, if they come from your heart, then that person will reach upwards, not downwards, to meet your love.

–Ajahn Brahm, from Opening the Door of Your Heart (Lothian Books)

接受就是超越

Maya Angelou’s take on Life

I’ve been very fortunate… I seem to have a kind of blinkers. I just do not allow too many negatives to soil me. I’m very blessed. I have looked quite strange in most of the places I have lived in my life, the stages, spaces I’ve moved through. I of course grew up with my grandmother: my grandmother’s people and my brother are very very black, very lovely. And my mother’s people were very very fair. I was always sort of in between. I was too tall. My voice was too heavy. My attitude was too arrogant – or tenderhearted. So if I had accepted what people told me I looked like as a negative yes, then I would be dead. But I accepted it and I thought, well, aren’t I the lucky one.

The kindnesses … I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage you to be as strong, as volatile as necessary to make a well world. Those people who gave me so much, and still give me so much, have a passion about them. And they encourage the passion in me. I’m very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences. They may not all be that pleasant, but nobody promised you a rose garden. But more than likely if you do dare, what you get are the marvelous returns. Courage is probably the most important of the virtues, because without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues, you can’t say against a murderous society, I oppose your murdering. You got to have courage to do so. I seem to have known that a long time and found great joy in it.

童年的宝贵