见与不见

见与不见  仓央嘉措
你见,或者不见我
我就在那里
不悲不喜

你念,或者不念我
情就在那里
不来不去

你爱,或者不爱我
爱就在那里
不增不减

你跟,或者不跟我
我的手就在你手里
不舍不弃

来我的怀里
或者
让我住进你的心里

默然 相爱
寂静 欢喜

不悲不喜,就在那里,好像与己无关,这是六世达赖喇嘛(Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho)仓央嘉措的一首情诗。第一次看这首诗时,我把它抄在了本子上,第二次见这首诗时,我把它存在文档里,第三次读这首诗时,我把它记在了心中。

如今是一个泛情的年代,但人们心中还有期盼纯真而炽热的爱。

2.仓央嘉措的情诗:
那一刻 我升起风马 不为乞福 只为守候你的到来
那一天 闭目在经殿香雾中 蓦然听见 你颂经中的真言
那一日 垒起玛尼堆 不为修德 只为投下心湖的石子
那一夜 我听了一宿梵唱 不为参悟 只为寻你的一丝气息
那一月 我摇动所有的经筒 不为超度 只为触摸你的指尖
那一年 磕长头匍匐在山路 不为觐见 只为贴着你的温暖
那一世 转山转水转佛塔啊 不为修来生 只为途中与你相见
那一瞬,我飞升成仙,不为长生,只为佑你平安喜乐

住进布达拉宫,我是雪域最大的王。
流浪在拉萨街头,我是世间最美的情郎。

自恐多情损梵行,入山又怕误倾城。
世间安得双全法,不负如来不负卿。

3.网上评价的世界上最美、最纯、最生动的四首爱情诗,
第一个境界:
《世界上最远的距离》泰戈尔
第二个境界:
《致橡树》舒婷
第三个境界:
《见与不见》仓央嘉措
第四个境界:
《当你老了》叶芝

人类一思考,上帝就发笑

犹太人有句谚语"人类一思考,上帝就发笑". 一九八五年五月获耶路撒冷文学奖时在典礼中的演讲词,米兰·昆德拉使用了它。此文系米兰·昆德拉《小说的艺术》中的一篇, 在他的《生命不能承受之轻》的序里中也有。

正面的看法是,上帝喜欢人思考。其实,说上帝喜欢就是犹太人喜欢思考。
这句谚语带给我灵感,我常想象拉伯雷(Francois Rabelais)有一天突然听到上帝的笑声,欧洲第一部伟大的小说就呱呱坠地了。小说艺术就是上帝笑声的回响。

消极的看法是,上帝觉得人类很蠢,人思考的时候,上帝感觉他们更蠢,所以上帝就笑了。
为什么人们一思索,上帝就发笑呢?因为人们愈思索,真理离他愈远。人们愈思索,人与人之间的思想距离就愈远。因为人从来就跟他想象中的自己不一样。当人们从中世纪迈入现代社会的门槛,他终于看到自己的真面目:堂.吉诃德左思右想,他的仆役桑丘也左思右想。他们不但末曾看透世界,连自身都无法看清。欧洲最早期的小说家却看到了人类的新处境,从而建立起一种新的艺术,那就是小说艺术。

难道上帝不喜欢人类思考吗? 我们都是上帝咬过的苹果,他知道我们的心。上帝不会笑他不爱的人, 上帝喜欢人类, 或许你我可以思考一下, 以求博得上帝一笑.

爱是恒久忍耐


13:4  爱是恆久忍耐、又有恩慈.爱是不嫉妒.爱是不自夸.不张狂.

13:5  不作害羞的事.不求自己的益处.不轻易发怒.不计算人的恶.

13:6  不喜欢不义.只喜欢真理.

13:7  凡事包容.凡事相信.凡事盼望.凡事忍耐。

13:8  爱是永不止息.
                                   节 选 自--  哥 林 多 前 書 1 Corinthians


一粒尘埃的启示: 每个人再怎么渺小,也有着独一无二的个性,因有这而可爱,更显弥足珍贵,不因微小而失色,不以谦卑而无光,因为个性而满怀希望,满怀爱.

pale blue dot

On February 14, 1990, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets of the Solar System. One image Voyager returned was of Earth, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo.

1990年2月14日,美国"旅行者1号"(voyager 1)飞船,飞到了太阳系的边缘。控制中心让它回过头,最后看一眼它出发的地球。下面就是当时拍下的照片,"黯淡的蓝点"。NASA网站描述"超过40亿公里远" (距离地球大约64亿公里)。

Pale Blue Dot    

对一粒微尘的深思?

In a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996, Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph:

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, ?every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

在1996年5月11日的一个学位颁授典礼上,卡尔·萨根(Carl Sagan)博士透露了从这张照片得到的深层启示:

再看一下这个点吧。它在那里。那就是我们的家,我们的一切。在它上面,有你爱的每个人、你认识的每个人、你听说过的每个人。历史上的每一个人,都在它上面度过了自己的一生。所有我们的欢乐和痛苦,所有言之凿凿的宗教、意识形态和经济思想,所有猎人和强盗,所有英雄和懦夫,所有文明的创造者和毁灭者,所有的皇帝和农夫,所有热恋中的青年情侣,所有的父母、满怀希望的孩子、发明者和探索者,所有精神导师,所有腐败的政治家,所有"超级明星",所有"最高领导人",所有圣徒和罪人,从人类这个种族存在的第一天起——都发生在这颗悬浮在太阳光中的尘埃上。

地球是宇宙竞技场中的一个小舞台。那些将军和帝王,那些成败和荣辱,那些血流成河,那些霸业和辉煌,不过只发生在这个点上的一部分地区,转瞬即逝。想想这个小点上,一个角落的居民对另一个角落的居民,往往会表现出无限的残忍,无所不在的误解,互相残杀的热切,以及难以化解的仇恨。

我们故作姿态,我们自以为很重要,我们自欺欺人地认定人类在宇宙中的特权地位,这一切都被这个白光中的小点推翻了。我们的星球是宇宙无边的黑暗中一颗孤独的尘埃。茫茫黑暗中,无尽的未知,我们一点都不知道,哪里可以找到帮助。

地球是迄今为止,唯一的已知存在生命的地方。至少在可预见的将来,人类也不会找到其他可以移民的地方。访问其他星球,可以做到。定居在那里,没有可能。不管是否接受,目前地球是我们仅有的立足之地。

据说天文学是一种令人产生自卑、塑造人格的科学。也许这张表现我们的世界是如何渺小的照片,是人类愚蠢自负的最好证明。对我来说,它更表明,我们人类之间必须友善相处,珍惜和保护这个黯淡的蓝点。它是我们唯一的家。

过去,现在,未来

过去,现在,未来三者中,
我最喜欢过去,
即使过去痛苦过,
但是它已不再让我痛苦。

过去,现在,未来三者中,
我最讨厌现在,
即使现在快乐着,
但是它不会让我总快乐。

过去,现在,未来三者中,
我对明天已经麻木了,
即使明天会很美好,
但是它一直只能在可能中;
即使明天会很痛苦,
但是它一直只能在想象中。

Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,the ocean does not become dirty. 
绝对不能对人性失去信念。人性就像是大海;如果大海中有几滴水脏了,大海也不会变脏。
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. 
我们做什么和我们有能力做什么已能满足解决这个世界多数的问题的需要。
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. 
如果失去幽默,我早就自杀了。


Mohandas Gandhi 甘地在印度被誉为"圣雄"和"国父",领导了印度"非暴力不合作运动"。他带领国家迈向独立,在1947年脱离英国的殖民统治。

甘地的改变世界的十句箴言

1. Change yourself.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." 
欲变世界,先变其身。(越狱中引用的甘地名言)
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves." 
作为一个人,我们的伟大不在于有多大的能力去改造这个世界(那是原子时代的神话),而是去改变自己。
2. You are in control.
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." 
没有人能不经我的允许伤害我。
3. Forgive and let it go.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." 
弱者从来不会仁慈,仁慈是强者的品性。
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." 
以牙还牙只会让世界更盲目
4. Without action you aren't going anywhere.
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." 
少量操练比大量说教更有价值。
5. Take care of this moment.
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following." 
我不想预见未来。我关心的是对此刻的负责。上帝没有赋予我我控制下一刻的能力。
6. Everyone is human.
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." 
我作为一个普通人也和其他人一样会犯错。可是我有足够的谦卑去为我的错误忏悔 ,为我的行为悔过。
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." 
太肯定一个人的智慧是不明智的。坚强的人也有弱的时候,聪明的人也有犯错的时候。
7. Persist.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." 
有人忽略你,嘲笑你,最后打了你,不过你是胜利者。
8. See the good in people and help them.
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others." 
我只把眼光投入到人们的优点上。我自己也不是完美无缺的,我不能冒昧地指责别人的过错。
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men." 
一个人有多伟大是看他给别人做出多少贡献。
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." 
我曾经以为领导者要有操纵他人的力量,但今天我明白作为领导者要与人民站在一起。
9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." 
快乐是就是怎么想,就怎么说,就怎么做。
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." 
始终着眼于全面和谐的思想和言行。始终着眼于净化您的想法,一切会变好。
10. Continue to grow and evolve.
"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position." 
不断发展是生命的真谛,一个人总是守着他的教条只会带他走入歧途。