Monday, August 24, 2009

随想:七情六欲

人本有七情六欲,而生快乐痛苦。摒弃情、欲后,会有绝对的快乐吗?(佛家用的是什么词?)不可知。若对这尘世不满意,可以试图寻找另外一条路。对我而言, 这个世界是精彩的,生老病死是其一部分。先不论是否能够超越,我觉得没有必要超越。就像一个游戏,重要的是过程,体验的过程,而不是跳到完美大结局。所以,人的一生,是体会这个世界,认识自己的人心、人性的过程。世界源于混沌,生阴阳,衍百种。人心是一样的,若不去经历,体会,和思考,也是一片混沌,为自发的七情六欲所困。一个 人心一个世界,看你怎么去开混沌,悟万物之理。眼前是一个物质的世界,生息演化,似乎观不尽,看不透。内心是一个唯心的世界,若不去创造它,则只是外世界一角一层的影像。

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Old Cossack Songs

1.
Not by the plough is our glorious earth furrowed ...
Our earth is furrowed by horses' hoofs,
And sown is our earth with the heads of Cossacks.
Fair is our quiet Don with young windows,
Our father, the quiet Don, blossoms with orphans,
And the waves of the quiet Don are filled
with fathers' and mothers' tears.

Oh thou, our father, the quiet Don!
Oh why dost thou, our quiet Don, so sludgy flows?
How should I, the quet Don, but sludgy flow!
From my depths the cold springs beat,
Amid me, the quiet Don, the white fish leap

2.
A Cossack went to a distant land,
Riding his horse o'er the plain;
His native village he left for aye;
He'll n'er come back again.

In vain did his youthful Cossack bride
Gaze northwards every morn and eve;
Waiting in hope that her Cossack dear
Would return from the land he ne'er will leave.

But beyond the hills where the snow lies deep,
The ice-fields crack and the tempests blow,
Where grimly bow the pines and firs
The Cossack's bones lie beneath the snow.

As the Cossack lay dying he pleaded and begged
That above him a mound be piled on his grave,
Where a guelder-tree from his native land
Its blossoms bright should for ever wave.

(From And Quiet Flows the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov, translated by Robert Daglish and Stephen Garry.)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

灯火·家

进入Bora Bora Way。Marina边上的路灯亮了,乳白色,长长的一排,向远处延伸着。挺漂亮。想起的是华灯初上的街道,却不是家里的灯火。没有等待,没有回家的心情。

的确,这不是我的家。从来没有布置过它,记着的是12个月后可能的搬走。只是用来度过这一年的地方。但是明年不还是一样吗?和明年的明年。

自己的家在合肥,度过二十个春秋的地方。妈妈,爸爸,哥哥,姐姐。夏夜里,楼过道上的那盏灯泡。黑色绝缘胶布粘着的灯头,坠在电线下,摇晃着昏黄的灯火。夜是黑的,裹着一团温暖的灯光。无边的夜延伸着,连到了天上的星星,一颗一颗,一闪一闪,说着他们的故事。

那里也不是我的家了,小学时就搬走了。一次次的梦中,穿进厂宿舍区的大门,却总是在那幢楼的下面停下。知道家里人已经不住在那了,但是仍然看着,就这么看着。有几次看见了房间里的灯光和闪过的人影。心里一下暖暖地。更多次的,是转身飘到四十套前,那里是我现在的家。纵身飞上阳台。家里没人,爸妈出去买菜 了。我在家里等着他们回来。有风从阳台穿进。夏日的风。

那里也不是我的家了。二十年离开的岁月。我不再像以前那样指手画脚。

一个个周末,在网上寻找着一个故事。乡村,一对不识字的庄稼人,和一个宝贝的孩子。一亩田,一条河,和村外连绵的山。山里古老的传说。

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