少欲无为

身心自在

得失从缘

心无增减

心若轻浮时需安心向下

须知心静则佛土静

息心即是息灾!

 

这句话出自《佛说八大人觉经》

欲望少，不要作无谓的事，自己的身体和精神自然会清静自在，把成败得失皆归结于缘分，心思就不会起伏不定。思想浮躁的时候就要安下心来静想，要知道心思清净了身体也就平静安泰了，修心就是修身.

“无为”和“无所作为”距离还远这呢，以我的观点，无为，无为而治世，这是在顺从大化事例的基础上以事物本末的发展相适应的一种创造形式和创造动作，也就是说，无为不是让你没有对生活的创建，而是先摸清宇宙的轮回模式，借助于世事正常发展是可以顺应的姿态纳入自己的生活里，无所作为是怂包啊，无为则是心胸。

这四句，前后两句基本内涵对称。无为本来就是一切随缘的表现，而身心自在则是你可以为如此作法享受到的人生境界和状态。

四桥赋

——长跑传奇

［送奥运篇　出场人物：西瓜李、光军兄、若水（陈婷婷，字若水）、羊琴、亦鸣、晶晶］

 

共和五十九年，岁在戊子。是夜也，月遁星消，层云积卷，山雨欲来。众人齐聚于郊外路旁灯下，共商当夜行跑战略之大计。或有西瓜李与光军兄聊以憨豆舞助兴，搔首摆臀，摇曳生姿，辅以羊琴啁啾之音，足以极视听之娱。至山岚氤氲，霞光渐潋，若水妮遂侠步而至。

及群贤毕至，少长咸集，众人乃于戌时整装而发，恍若离弦箭，又似快鞭马，移步换景，风驰电掣。过六和、穿一桥，浩浩汤汤。钱江两岸或有垂钓士、消夏者，皆如过眼云烟，蜚置身后。

少顷，亦鸣晶晶忽见队中，一行人佳人娉婷，壮士奕奕。众人遂以气吞山河之势、旌旗十万之勇、力拔千钧之气、去留肝胆之志，使天公为之所撼，乃闭月羞星，平风收雨。一时间，潮平两岸阔，风正一帆悬。

　　　路途过半，光军兄若水妮皆身轻如燕，飞马流星，比翼领衔。西瓜李复不忘以假招伪势欺童叟诈妇孺，引无数幼孩竞折腰。亦鸣略行其中，不急不躁，忽迸呐喊之声，虽声嘶力竭终不悔。羊琴紧随其后，力竭精殚，虽气喘如牛，仍锲而不舍。晶晶以车骑断后，佯以车轮撵轧，造摧枯拉朽之势，力保众人无从心生怠慢，不敢告劳。

一行人百舸争流，九转功成，乃至四桥之下。放眼望去，众人皆叹——呜呼！只见长桥卧波，影影绰绰，镶钻捧柱，栏栅璀璨，蔚然生秀。众人忘乎所以，遂屏气凝神，穷尽余力，对开阔江面，放声高呼“XXX,我爱你！”。所谓“顺风而呼，声非加疾也，而闻者彰”。

众人一路风尘苦旅，人疲车乏，遂择江岸席地而坐。惟见浩淼江面时而清风徐来，水波不兴；时而朔风突起，惊涛拍岸。然，光军兄结草衔环，西瓜李妙语连珠，若水妮音断失声，晶晶环左顾右，亦鸣望江沉思，予则拥风抱夜，众人各得其所，皆惬而忘返。

盖胜地常驻，盛筵恒再，唯予之友人志之。

有一句话叫“相由心生”，性格跟外貌是不无关系的，林黛玉固然小性，爱发脾气，说话刻薄，但是她所有的指向只有一个，那就是贾宝玉。她害怕这份爱情归于虚无，她以刻薄和眼泪为武器不断地进行试探，在一无外援协助，二无友军支持的大观园里，她的武器只有她的卓越的才思，相貌，和不屈服、不媚俗的性格，贾宝玉将北静王所赐的鹡鸰香念珠珍重送给黛玉，黛玉连理都不理，说：“什么臭男人拿过的！我不要他！”在林黛玉的心里，她只爱贾宝玉一个人，其余人都是可有可无，什么皇族国戚，她统统不放在眼里。薛宝钗跟林黛玉比起来，就截然不同了，她是为待选才人代善才搬来京城贾家，后来虽然这件事情不了了之，然而还是可以看出来，薛宝钗第一选择的，是当今皇上老大，贾宝玉实在是待选失败后退而求其次的无奈之举。宝钗固然“随分从时”，但读者千万莫要被这个假象所迷惑，一个自动、自愿加入到封建礼教的行列中，并修炼得相当完美的女孩子，因为违背了人的天性，所以她要年年吃“冷香丸”，以化解胸中郁结的淤塞热毒。而林黛玉，她活得一派坦荡，自然，诗情画意，要哭就哭，要笑就笑，她的眉头“似蹙非蹙”，只是因为怀疑宝玉的爱情，她的眼泪，也只是她最后的捍卫爱情的武器，她是真贵族，而非假道学，这样的一个纯真如白纸的女子，虽然在生活的技术技巧上远远差于宝钗，但是总能给人以爱情的感觉，黛玉有如此的心，必然就有如此的貌，现在你终于知道林黛玉有多美丽了吧！

徘徊过多少橱窗住过多少旅馆
才会觉得分离也并不冤枉
感情是用来浏览还是用来珍藏
好让日子天天都过得难忘

熬过了多久患难湿了多长眼眶
才能知道伤感是爱的遗产
流浪几张双人床换过几次信仰
才让戒指义无返顾的交换

把一个人的温暖转移到另一个的胸膛
让上次犯的错反省出梦想
每个人都是这样享受过提心吊胆
才拒绝做爱情待罪的羔羊

回忆是捉不到的月光握紧就变黑暗
让虚假的背影消失于晴朗
阳光在身上流转等所有业障被原谅
爱情不停站想开往地老天荒需要多勇敢

烛光照亮了晚餐照不出个答案
恋爱不是温馨的请客吃饭
床单上扑满花瓣拥抱让它成长
太拥挤就开到了别的土壤

感情需要人接班接近换来期望
期望带来失望的恶性循环
短暂的总是浪漫漫长总会不满
烧完美好青春换一个老伴
把一个人的温暖转移到另一个的胸膛
让上次犯的错反省出梦想
每个人都是这样享受过提心吊胆
才拒绝做爱情待罪的羔羊

回忆是捉不到的月光握紧就变黑暗

让虚假的背影消失于晴朗

阳光在身上流转等所有业障被原谅

爱情不停站想开往地老天荒需要多勇敢

把一个人的温暖转移到另一个的胸膛

让上次犯的错反省出梦想
每个人都是这样享受过提心吊胆
才拒绝做爱情待罪的羔羊

回忆是捉不到的月光握紧就变黑暗
让虚假的背影消失于晴朗
阳光在身上流转等所有业障被原谅
爱情不停站想开往地老天荒需要多勇敢
你不要失望荡气回肠是为了最美的平凡.......

 

       I do hope that will be an English term being the counterpart of "freezing cold" to express the hot summer in Hangzhou - maybe somewhere it is "frying hot" or so. But I do awear the notorious "dog days". Despite the overwhelming heating waves, it is a nice experience that I can indulge myself in the beatiful sunset on the Qiantang River while riding back from work. It seems that people feel the same. All walks of people, along the riverbank, are dring in and taken away by the beauty of the river view.

       I've always been believing that the very beauty of nature comes in dawn and twilight when big transition is taking place. While the first sun rays give people hope and aspiration, the last sun rays reminds people how to treasure the good thing that is ticking away.

     A whole period passed without any trace of written history here. Why? History may serve as the source for feelings of missing. I am like a helpless ostrich burying his sensitive head in sand. I can't even believe that so many years of growing up and maturing has not enabled me to outgrow of this action. Maybe it is deeply rooted in my personality and character. Who knows.

     Finally, I said farewell to my friends at the EC, who gathered for a special night for my departure. Also, this is the farewell to my twenty-year campus life and the identity of a student. I postponed my graduation. But I even have a mischievously hilarious satisfaction of my delay, constrasting to my classmates' depression and pressure. I believe this is because this twist somehow enables me to see my friends longer. Then I began traveling for long distance between university and my company every day. How many times that I trudged wearily back from office and struggled to open my sleepy eyes to come to EC to meet my friends. But once I was talking with my friends at EC, I could be readily refreshed and animated. The tiresomeness and the heavy heart from days' demanding work could disperse in a sencond. I believe this is the magic of English corner.

      My friends at English corner are changing all the time. However, there are some who remains in my life. Every one of them is the dearest and nearest. All the small talks, all the jokes and humors, all the personal sharing of secrets and distress are really the  cohesion of our friendship.

      My friends at EC: you are the reason why I am so happy that I am delayed in my graduation (which should be a shame and burdon for normal students), you are the reason why I wanted to linger on campus as long as I could, you are the reason why I still perceive the world from a non-sophisticated and non-cynical perspective, you are the reason why the EC is full of magic, fantacy and animation for me, you are the reason that my compus life ended with magnificent enrichment and wonderful sunset. I do not want to say farewell to you 'cause you will always be in my life.

       Two months passed without any trace of feeling. I avoid keeping any blog here. Just because I wanted to slow down. But time passes anyway. Like two years ago, I wonder and even laugh at myself, why is it so hard for me to depart every time. At this point though, I seemed that I'd never grown up.

       If a place endears to you, it probably is not because of the place per se, but the people there and the stories involving them. Every familiar voice that still rings in your ears, every brillant eye that still sparkles in your mind, every typical aura that still embraces your body... By writing this, my heart becomes so vulnerable that it aches from within.

       Graduation activities here and there on the campus remind me of the inevitability of departure every minute. However scornful and despising to the sensations that thousands of undergraduates display I might seem, the fear, yearning of the pain of growing up creep up on my vunerable heart agains all of my defense mechanism.

        I can never know when I would be ready to say goodbye. 

    What I've determined and promised to do yesterday at English corner, is to let our adventure of the thunderstorm at EC go down in history, as I've said to Mars and Jefferson. Well. what the problem, now, is whether I can use my pale words to represent the scene vividly here, which trenched my heart with such unforgettable yet heartening grains of sparkling recollections.
    In my childhood, I've always cherished such experiences as going through sort of adventures--like getting lost in the rainforest and contriving to find our way out or being threatened by a snake and managing to kill it in the end--what I've found most fascinated and touched my heart is not so much  the experiences themselves as the common feeling of sharing the kind of interdependence and mutual support during the fear, despair, frustration even exultation and joy together. The adventure may be ordinary. But as long as you've gone through it with your friends, it turns extraordinary. So sometimes I just feel like taking risks together with my friends. I've written several articles to commemorize such experiences since junior high.
    For my past undergraduate years, most of the sweet memories have something to do with English corner. This may explains why I have such a fixation with English corner. At the very first beginning of the EC on this new and young campus, though all the talking and chatting were truely enjoyable, I still felt there was something missing, albeit no very sure about what this something was. Not until yesterday, when I've received a phone call from Huge to make sure whether I was O.K. at EC with such weather and when Jefferson showed up with soaked clothes at the corner where we were standing and when I was chatting with Mars and brother Wei with the thunder as background sound, I've finally realized what the something really is, which makes me so enchanted and immersed in English corner. All of a sudden, I felt like a fool when I had supposed at the very first stage that what I missed at the EC of Xixi Campus was hard to come by at the new EC here. Yet this conclusion is ungrounded and too hasty. In fact, I shall never be afraid that I can't find it back.
     Deeply moved at the thunderstorm experience yesterday, I'd like to dedicate this passage to Jefferson, Huge, Mars and brother Wei.

Hi,friend! I've seen your common when I am just hanging here for a little while before I go to English corner tonight.

Of course, you are among "nice friends". I've cherished all those interesting talks with you, and they are nice ones. You strike me as very congenial and agreeable with your ability to communicate and understand all sorts of people and make the communication smooth. And on top of everything, you've blessed with a good heart (as it happens, in our New College English textbooks, the first edition, "A Good Heart to Lean On" is the very first article I studied in college English class. As the author puts it, a good heart is a proper standard by which to judge people. I find the kind of resonance so strong in what the author says.), which is not so easy to find in everyone, especially considering youths today who are amateurs in constructing rapport with people around them. Believe me, this is the kind of quality leading to your success under all sorts of circumstances. And yes, your breathtaking diligence and willpower are really what shine inside you. 

I'm so grateful that I've met you before I graduate from college.

See you at EC. 

I've recently watched two engaging films--Narnia, with Jack at the cinema; and the Pride and Prejudice, by myself. As it happens, I'd think, the former one should be shared with friends, which is about the sensation between family members (As the professor in the movie said, "You're a family. You must try acting like one."); and the latter one should be savored by oneself, which contains delicate and enriching dialogues and conversations. I even watched the Pride and Prejudice twice against my tight schedule.

The interesting thing is, while watching Narnia, I persuasively debated with Jack about my career choice. Isn't it? The five-thousand/month offer is perfectly like Turkish delights the witch used to seduce Ed. And Ed's unearned desire to become the king leaves him trapped in the witch's intrigues. It's not that Ed's desire is to be cursed but the desire's immaturity. After all, Ed became one of the kings in Narnia.

I believe this is the same case with one's career. A blind pursuit of salary rather than other important factors is undue.

I'm saying this for my own divertion or not? Lord only knows.

    It's going to be over now. I'm afraid even to look back twice on it. What a mess! It's the most cruel ordeal I've experienced by now. Being splitted by every direction! Being complain by every party! Being worrying about how to dodge every minute! Enough! I'm fed up. I shall never foget what I've experienced these days. Never.

      I have to forfeit my SIA interpretation for the date the committee had arranged is just the date when I am going to have an important exam. I was furious at the notice. How unlucky I was! One would think that once you are slipped into the vicious circle, you would very probably be choked by your own breath. I just very much want to curse at the moment, which is the signal to stop writing more stuff here.