生命的真义 at 3:14 AM
生命的真义 海涛 辑
The True Meaning of Life
Compiled by Ven. Hai Tao
1.学习去思维生死——开始的时候这会令你不安，但当你克服了对它的恐惧时，思维生死只会使你的生命越来越灿烂丰盛。
1. Learn to meditate upon life and death—you might feel anxious and fearful at the beginning, but once you overcome your fear, this practice will only make your life brighter and richer.
2.提醒自己死亡随时会来临，就是策励自己不要枉过每一天。
2. Remind yourself that death shall come at any moment, a good way to spur yourself not to let every day of your life slip by emptily.
3.你认为日落是一种人生美景，我只觉得它是一个提醒我，又向死亡踏前了一步的时计，叫我好好的善用剩下来的生命。
3. While you see the sunset as a beautiful scene, I only view it as a time signal that reminds me I’m moving another step closer to death, reminding me to make good use of the remaining lifetime.
4.死亡并不可怕。有生就必然有死；自出娘胎，我们每一分钟都在朝死亡步近。真正可怕与可悲的是：在生与死之间没有做过什么。
4. Death is not horrible. In fact, birth is always accompanied by death—at the moment we were born, we are inching toward death every minute. Between birth and death, if we are just fooling around and doing nothing – that’s most pitiful and fearful scandal in life!
5.死亡本身并不是一件好的或者坏的事情，只是自然变幻的一个程序。对一个没枉过一生的人而言，死亡的确没什么可惧的地方。
5. Death itself is neither good nor bad—it’s only a natural process of change. To a person who doesn’t waste his life, death is nothing to be afraid of.
6.死亡之可怕，只源于你对生命的执恋。
6. The horror of death originates from your obsession with life.
7.对一个可以随时面对死亡而无惧无悔的人来说，生
命中再也没有什么可以伤害到他。
7. Nothing could have hurt a person any more in his lifetime who is able to face death at any time without fear and regret.
8.与其抱怨不能令自己长生不死，倒不如好好令生命之旅程不枉一走。
8. Instead of complaining about the unreachable goal of immortality, you may as well live at your best and enjoy the ride!
9.万事万物无不在变幻当中。把生命与快乐寄望于事物的常久不变上，无疑只会令生命中的每一天都面对失望。
9. All things are ever-changing. If you have your life and happiness count on the immortality and permanence of things, you are sure to meet with despair in every day’s life.
10.万事万物均依因缘而自然发展：先是产生，然后维持状况一回儿，最终就改变消失。尽管你大哭大闹，它们还是一样会变幻消失，这只是自然的规序，并非好的或坏的一件事。在你明白并接受了这个自然法则后，你的生命就会好过得多了。
10. All things go with the law of interdependent arising—they emerge, stay and then vanish finally. Cry and yell as you may, they go on changing and vanishing as usual, which is but a natural order and has nothing to do with good or bad. Once you understand it and accept it, you will then live a happier life.
11.快乐之道其实很简单——生活顺景时，要知道福乐并非永恒；生活不遂意时，视困境为过眼云烟。不要把这些体验看得太认真，要知道苦与乐来来去去，变幻不定。在看透这一点时，你就可以自在地旁观，世事翻腾反覆而不扬一条眉毛。
11. To be happy is in fact easy. When things are going smooth, keep in mind that fortune and happiness won’t last forever; when things go against our wish, view the adversity as the flowing clouds. Don’t take these experiences seriously because suffering and happiness just are impermanent, they go and come unexpectedly. With such realization, you can be a carefree bystander, undisturbed by the churning and capricious worldly affairs.
