Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Healthy living 3



多說好話
家人病時,你會關心慰問。好友不如意時,你會好言相勸,甚至心儀的寵物受驚時,你也會抱抱或摸摸它。

但當我們體內的器官受到壓迫時,你可曾好好地和它說過話?如果說一切生命皆有佛性,那器官內的每個細胞亦復如是。

大陸著名作家賈平凹害了多年的肺病,尋遍名醫都治不好。他把心一橫,索性隱居起來。幾年后重出文壇,肺病卻離奇地痊愈了。

記者追問他來龍去脈,只見他輕描淡寫道:我什麽藥都沒吃,這幾年就只是每天和我的肺說好話。

關懷的一句好話,勝過華佗的仙丹靈藥。

日本科學家已經證實,一杯水的分子結構能因一句好話而徹底改善。更何況是我們體內一個個生氣勃勃的細胞呢?

除非似木頭,一切生命皆有佛性

Healthy living 2



戒口

爬了幾百級的楷梯,終于登上了蘇瓦莆迪那大佛塔。

迎面撞上了一位喝得酩酊大醉的年輕藏人。他追着問我的名字, 我告訴了他。他窮追不捨,又問我吃肉或不吃肉。

我先是一征,然后回答:吃。

你吃肉?他口齒不清的咆哮着,用他的手指頭在我的手背上捻了一團肉,又大言不恥地說:你吃肉!你吃肉!

我被他這突如其來的舉動給震懾住了。回返曼谷后,我真的把肉給戒了。先從豬牛羊開始,接着是雞鵝鴨。

我和那位年輕藏人平生素未謀面,有緣相遇,多半為業力牽引。他那天雖喝醉了,心卻還是清醒着的。

時時提醒自己少吃眾生肉。

Life observer 1



凌晨兩點的飛機聲

凌晨兩點十分,躺在床上倘若還未墜入夢鄉,可以很清楚的諦聽到飛機劃過公寓上空的隆隆聲。

離我頭頂上方三萬五千尺,有一架載着各地乘客的747緩緩而行,我不知道它要飛往地球上的那一端。但每逢此刻,方察覺自己失眠了。

地上的人為了瑣碎塵事而睡不着。天上的人呢?

在寺廟旁偷睡懶覺的老人

Healthy living 1



有洞的菜才好吃

鄉下長大的人應該有聽說過,農夫自己種的瓜果蔬菜,自己也不敢食用,主因是農藥打得太多了。

你可能會反問,農藥成本貴又對人體有百害,打這麽多幹什麽?

若我們捫心自問,尤其是家庭主婦們,上超市買菜時,會否買有蟲洞的包菜?會否買帶疱的番茄?會否買表皮粗糙的黃瓜?

答案是非常明顯的,大家只要買漂亮的果菜,農夫們為了漂亮的收成而拼命打農藥把蟲蟻趕走。這些外表美觀的果菜,都沾滿了一層層毒性極濃的農藥,好看不好吃呀!

自己種的瓜果蔬菜不打農藥

Monday, 9 February 2009

Well beings 2


Tagore's house
Sufferings, in Rabindranath Tagore’s eyes, had become a good medicine for his questioning mind. From the close encounters he had with the people living off the dusty street, he penned what would become the world’s best literary works as judged by Nobel committees.

He was also under great influence from the Japanese masters at that time. He traveled extensively to the land of the rising sun, and immersed himself in the art of tea ceremony, meditations, paintings and Buddhist teachings.

One glance at his poems you would not wonder why. There was almost a zen touch in one of his Bengali poems that goes like this…

"Where movement is not all movement
and stillness is not all stillness;
where the idea and form,
the within and the without are united;
where infinite becomes finite,
yet not losing its infinity."

On 7 August 1941, Tagore breathed his last in the
comfort of his house,
ending a life so beautifully lived.