发信人: oceann (dany), 信区: English
标 题: ENJOY THE SILENCE
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Aug 17 09:58:47 2003)
The day before yesterday, I accompanied my mom to Ling Yin Temple. To tell the
truth, I don’t like that place very much, because there are always so many p
eople, and so much smoke, which frequently causes tears in my eyes. In the mea
ntime, I don’t believe in Buddha- I am totally an infidel. So far, only Chris
tianism has interested me, but not very much. I went to Ling Yin Temple not on
ly for accompanying my mom, but for another 2 people as well. One is my grandm
a who’s in heaven now. My mom has set up a place in the memorial of the templ
e for grandma, so that every year we go there to visit her. And another person
is Mr. Gulner who’s in the United States now, teaching and writing. He once
told me that whether I go to the temple, please think of him. I do. I made wis
hes for him, hoping he and his family are all happy and healthy, living a peac
eful life.
Then my mom and I went to the memorial. I prostrated myself to my grandma’
s photos, and made some wishes. After that I walked towards the backyard of th
e memorial. Yes, that’s the place I like the best in the Ling Yin Temple, whi
ch I will never forget to visit once I come to the temple. Here, no more crowd
s, noises and smokes. It’s a place without worldliness. There is a little pon
d, with dark green water in it, and several tortoises swimming or enjoying the
sunshine on the only rock outstanding from the water. They seemed scared to s
ee me, and all hid themselves under the water. I smiled and stood there quietl
y, waiting them to come up again. Last time I came here was in winter, maybe a
t that time they were all having winter sleep. After half a year, they have gr
own so much that their size even has been thrice as big as last time I had see
n. There is a rockery beside the pond, with some sapless vines on it, in the c
olor of gamboges. This kind of scene would always give people a sorrowful feeling, but it’s different here. Only silence. Only stillness. I
consider it as a represent under the edification of the long history and the
Buddhist doctrine. I have had the same feeling at another place some weeks ago
, that’s the Xi Ling Yin She. The decadent and the desolation make me feel co
mfortable and fall into deep thoughts. Here is a place without any wars, blood
, inequality, scorn, jealousness, deceive, and so on. Only sunshine, only some
thing that has gone through all those frightfulness but left love and goodwill
. Here I’d like to make wishes, just like every time I do. I wish the world h
as less wars but more peace; wish all the people in the world have less tear b
ut more happiness, more sunshine and more love. Will the god understand? Hope
so.
No more fret, and no more gloomy. I just stood there, and enjoyed the sile
nce. Everything became peaceful and lovely in my eyes.
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好想振作一点点，真的好想
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