无价的玉柄镰刀美文
新上任的知府到寺庙求见大师,大师看出知府有心事,便笑着问知府为何愁容满面。
知府长叹一声,说出了心中的苦闷:“大师不知,我打小家境贫寒,父亲靠编草鞋供我求学,博取功名。如今,我将老父接来府上,想让他享享清福。饮食起居、外出行走皆有人照料,生怕老父有个磕磕碰碰,可老父过来后,不知得了什么病,整日无精打采,躺在床上昏睡,让我很担心。”
大师听后,微微一笑,吩咐沙弥拿来一把精致的镰刀,对知府说:“大人,这是本寺的镇寺之宝──玉柄镰刀,至今已有一百多年的历史,大人请猜老衲是如何保管它的?”
知府拿起玉柄镰刀端详许久,猜测说:“这无价之宝,想必大师一定会把它里外三层包好,束之高阁,然后存放于秘密的地方。”
大师笑了,对知府说:“我只把它挂在我的禅房里,我还要徒儿每天拿着它上山砍柴。”“这么珍贵的东西,为何这样疏于保管?”知府忙问。大师一笑,对知府说:“大人请看这刀头,锃亮发光,历经百年不生锈,请问如何才能做到呢?”
“不沾水,涂上油花,蜡封……”知府一口气说出了很多办法。
大师笑着摇了摇头,对知府说:“每天把它使用一下,是对它最好的养护。因为,每天砍柴,就会把锈迹磨掉,这把镰刀才历经百年而完好。”知府眼前一亮,继续请大师明示。
“大人请记住,镰刀遇上了干柴,才会焕发青春,令尊恰似这把镰刀。”知府顿悟……
从此,他不再阻止老父的行动,老父亲每天种菜浇园,闲暇编草鞋,快乐无比。
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1、所有的好都是无声的优美散文
曾经看过一本书,讲的一位丈夫花去毕生时间探索妻子出轨的原因。最终,妻子回到他身边。他终于明白,那些吸引人的东西,都是嘈杂的。而所有的好,都是无声的。
比如大自然赐予我们的阳光、空气、绿色植物,我们离开它们就不能活,但它们都是无声的。比如我们的精神产品,书籍、字画、艺术品,它们给予我们精神享受,它们也都是无声的。
当我们静下心细细品尝,才会发现平常生活中的美。嘈杂是不能久远的。当一个人真正的宁静,她是不会害怕孤独的。她只会享受孤独,而不会去打破这种和谐的宁静。
静下心,我们能做很多事。不再去侃侃而谈,不再让嘈杂的音乐占据我们的耳朵和大脑的空间。宁静而致远。
做一个安静的女子。不争不吵,不烦不扰。这世界就是太嘈杂,让人无法听见自己的心跳,才会迷失。静下来以后,会有无限等着你去开发。万物都在静静生长,你又何必闹出声响。
我的笔名叫叶无声。起名的本意是,叶子无声地落下,就像眼泪无声地落下。如今,又却发现了这“无声”的另一层涵义。无声地落下,一切就这么无声地进行着。万物静默如初。
以前不喜黑夜。因为夜晚太静,太孤独。那个时候,还不懂这个道理。嘈杂是万恶之源。就这样静静地看着你来,静静地看一朵花开。所有的美好,都静静地为我而来。
2、美文欣赏:智慧无处不在能否发现就看你了
Once there was a great Sufi saint. In his last days, someone asked him about his master. Saint said, “Since you asked I will certainly tell you about three masters.”
曾经有一位伟大的苏菲派(伊斯兰神秘主义派别的总称)圣人。在他生命快结束时,有人让他说说他的老师。圣人说:“既然你问了,我就给你讲讲我的三位老师。”
# Among three of them one master was a thief.
这三个人中有一个是小偷。
Once while wandering around in a desert I got lost and till I found a way and reached the village it was too late. Everything was closed and there was no one outside. At last I found a man who was trying to make hole in a wall. I asked him if I could find a place to stay. He replied that it will be difficult to find a place to stay at this time of night but you can stay with me, if it’s ok with you to stay with a thief. I stayed with him for a month.
曾经有一次我在沙漠中迷路了,后来我找到一条路,走到村子时已经很晚了。所有店门都关了,外面一个人都没有。最后我发现有一个人正在墙上挖洞,我问他我能否找到一个歇脚的地方,他说这么晚了很难找到待的地方,但如果我愿意和小偷待在一起的话我可以和他一起。然后我和他一起待了一个月。
Each night he would say to me that, “I am going to work. You can rest and pray.” When he came back I would ask him, “Did you get anything today?” He would reply, “No not tonight but tomorrow I will try again. God Willing.” Even after daily disappointment he never lost hope and he was always happy.
每天晚上他都跟我说:“我要去工作了,你可以休息祈祷。”他回来时我会问他:“你今天有收获吗?”他回答说:“今晚没有收获,但明天我会再试试,上天保佑。”甚至在每天都很失望的时候,他也从未失去希望,总是很开心。
When I was meditating for years and still nothing changed, many moments came when I would get so desperate and hopeless that I thought of leaving all this and then suddenly I would remember words of that thief that, “God willing, Tomorrow it is going to happen. ”
我冥想好多年仍没进展时,有好多次我都很绝望,看不到一丝希望,我想过要放弃所有,但我会突然想起那个小偷的'话:“上天保佑,明天梦想就能实现。”
# Second master was a dog
第二位老师是一只狗
Once I was going along side of a river, there I saw a dog who was very thirsty. I saw that as dog looked into river to drink water, it saw his own image and got afraid. Seeing his own reflection dog barked and ran away. But because dog was too thirsty he would come back. This happened many time but finally despite his fear, dog jumped into water.
有一次我沿着河边走,看见一只狗很渴。每次这只狗看向水里想要喝水时,它都会看见自己的倒影,很害怕。看着自己的倒影狗就叫着跑开。但它实在太渴了,还得回来。这样重复了好多次,但最终虽然仍然恐惧,但它跳进了河里。
Seeing this I knew that it was a message from God. It means that one has to go forward despite all of his fears.
看到这些,我知道了这是*的暗示,意思是一个人要战胜所有恐惧勇往直前。
# Third master was a little boy
第三位老师是一个小男孩
As I entered a town I saw a little kid carrying a lit candle in his hands. I asked him, “Have you lit this candle yourself? ” He replied, “Yes sir.” I said, “There was time when candle was not lit and when it was lit but can you show me the source from which light came?” Boy laughed and blew out the candle and said ,”You have seen light go? Can you tell me where it had gone?? ”
我走进一个小镇时看到一个小孩儿手里拿着一支点燃的蜡烛。我问他:“这支蜡烛是你自己点的吗?”他说:“是的,先生。”我说:“有时蜡烛不亮,有时却亮,你能告诉我光亮是从哪里来的吗?”小男孩笑着把蜡烛吹灭了,说:“你看见光亮消失了吧?你能告诉我它去哪儿了吗?”
Boy continued, “Ok, I will tell you it had returned to the source.” This shattered my ego and at that moment I felt how stupid I was. And since then I just dropped all my Knowledge-ability.
小男孩继续说道:“好吧,我告诉你它回到了来的地方。”我的自负荡然无存,那时我想自己多愚蠢啊。从那时起,我放下了自己所有的小聪明。
I had no master but this doesn’t means that I was not a disciple. I accepted this whole universe, whole existence as my master.
我没有老师,但这不代表我没有在学习。我把整个宇宙、所有存在都视为自己的老师。
Moral: In this world there are millions of source and you can Learn from Every Possible Source. With a Master you start Learning to learn.
道理:在这个世界上,有很多东西值得学习,你可以从很多事情上学到东西。你要找到自己的老师,学会如何去学习。
3、诚信无价议论文范文800字
有人说:“诚信像雨,洗净人们心灵上的尘埃。”也有人说:“诚信像雷,震撼人的灵魂。”我觉得诚信像根,深深扎在成功这一片土地上。
教育家孔子曾经说过:“言必诚信,行必忠正。”如果一个人没有诚信,他将会失去别人对你的信任。每一个人都有自己的生活方式,我觉得不管你走到哪里,不管你是大人还是小孩,不管你在什么样的情况下,不管你做什么事情都应该诚实守信!不能背叛诚信!我看过这样几则关于诚信的故事:
春秋战国时,秦国的商鞅在秦孝公的支持下主持变法。当时处于战争频繁、人心惶惶之际,为了树立威信,推进*,商鞅下令在都城南门外立一根三丈长的木头,并当众许下诺言:谁能把这根木头搬到北门,赏金十两。围观的人不相信如此轻而易举的事能得到如此高的赏赐,结果没人肯出手一试。于是,商鞅将赏金提高到50金。重赏之下必有勇夫,终于有人站起将木头扛到了北门。商鞅立即赏了他五十金。商鞅这一举动,在百姓心中树立起了威信,而商鞅接下来的变法就很快在秦国推广开了。
新法使秦国渐渐强盛,最终统一了中国。而同样在商鞅“立木为信”的地方,在早它400年以前,却曾发生过一场令人啼笑皆非的“烽火戏诸侯”的闹剧。周幽王有个宠妃叫褒姒,为博取她的一笑,周幽王下令在都城附近20多座烽火台上点起烽火——烽火是边关报警的信号,只有在外敌入侵需召诸侯来救援的时候才能点燃。结果诸侯们见到烽火,率领兵将们匆匆赶到,弄明白这是君王为博妻一笑的花招后又愤然离去。褒姒看到平日威仪赫赫的诸侯们手足无措的样子,终于开心一笑。五年后,酉夷太戎大举攻周,幽王烽火再燃而诸侯未到——谁也不愿再上第二次当了。结果幽王被逼自刎而褒姒也被俘虏。一个“立木取信”,一诺千金;一个帝王无信,戏玩“狼来了”的游戏。结果前者变法成功,国强势壮;后者自取其辱,身死国亡。可见,“信”对一个国家的兴衰存亡都起着非常重要的作用。
诚信是一朵兰花,它开在人们荒芜的心田;诚信,是一杯浓茶,它让生活更加浓郁芳醇;诚信是一道劲歌,它奏响了时代的最强音;诚信是中华民族的传统美德,为人处事的最基本准则。
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