冒过于简单化的危险,无条件的大爱是以无我(不以物喜,不以己悲),没有判断地接受一切存在,欣赏一切存在的奇妙为前提的。不因为那个人对我不公平就憎恨他,只将他当作造化的一部分来欣赏。我们每一个人,无论“美丑”“善恶”“聪愚”,都是上天的一部分(a face of god),奇妙的体现(manifestation of the wonder), 如同造化那颗璀璨钻石的一面 (a facet of the diamond)。“慈”是与人以乐,“悲”乃拔人于苦,在那大爱中,有您说的顺从,服务,欣赏,感恩。Loving is to be of service to the larger force of life.
难是因为有我(ego)。难也在我们以自己喜增为中心判断。人生的本质是苦啊,因为万事万物都在变化中,而有变化就会有小我(ego)所不喜的东西--生老病死,怨憎会,爱别离,求不得,无一不是苦。英文中有个区别,说起来会比较清楚,pain is inevitable, yet we do not have to suffer.苦是生活的一个事实,而“苦”中,do we have the courage, strength and wisdom to reach for Love--大爱,是我们每一时刻的选择。
泰戈尔和纪伯伦在我眼里,是一回事。抄泰戈尔的两个prayers,献给你 (from "The Heart of God--Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore")
1. A Question to God
Age after age, O God, You have sent Your messengers into this pitiless world, who have left their word: "Forgive all. Love all. Cleanse your hearts from the blood-red stains of hatred."
Adorable are they, ever to be remembered; yet from the outer door, I have turned them away today--this evil day--with unmeaning salutation.
Have I not seen secret malignance strike down the helpless under the cover of hypocratical might?
Have I not haerd the silenced voice of justice weeping in solitude at might's defiant outrages?
Have I not seen in what agny reckless youth, running mad, has vainly shattered its life against insensitive rocks?
Choked is my voice, mute are my song today, and darkly my world lies imprisoned in a dismal dream; and I ask You, O God, in tears, "Have You Yourself forgiven, have even You loved those who are poisoning Your air and blotting out Your light?"
2. This is My Prayer
Give me the supreme courage of love, this is my prayer--the courage to speak, to do, to suffer at Your will, to leave all things or be left alone. Strengthen me on errands of danger, honor me with pain and help me climb to that difficult mood that sacrifices daily to you.
Give me the supreme confidence of love, this is my prayer--the confidence that belongs to life in dead, to victory in defeat, to the power hidden in the frailest beauty, to that dignity in pain which accepts hurt but disdains to return it.作者: 风筝蓝 时间: 2006-2-23 09:42
选择大爱,其实也是修行的目标,或者说是修行提倡的层面。