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學佛心得
EXPERIENCE WITH BUDDHISM
寂靜的聲音
The sound of silence
作者：Sashar Zarif
翻譯：徐仁平
I feel a fresh breeze in the air, “Trust your experience more than your senses.”
It’s calling the part of me that cannot be defined. he says.
And later with an innocence of a little Buddha he smiles.
The energy flows down my body and up again, The smile reminds me to “trust the meaning not
flashing and tingling all over this abandoned internal the language”.
realm. These awakened sensations bring good news And as soon as my heart has surrendered to his nature,
for my reality, I know! he points to the dharma and says,
“Trust the path not the person.”
And at the gates of my ego palace,
amidst the limited vastness of an illusive maze, Five days out of life,
the unleashed mind is standing on guard, five rocks thrown in this river,
singing the tormented anthem of a polyphonic lost cause, baptized to emancipate,
clasping the torch of darkness, dousing the light, hesitantly surrender to the current,
holding my suffering skeleton and flesh hostage. embracing the uncertainty and the hardship
rejoicing every smash,
What a journey this crazy tiger mind of mine has and mortified through each fragmentation,
been taking me on! Not a second is lost without its hoping to arrive to the ocean,
insidious presence, but only as grains!
cursing every second out of my life.
Attempting for serenity,
And from that delusion I want to wake up! l close my eyes fearfully yet excited,
want to unite with my emptiness, hoping to have a chance to reclaim a drop of aware-
the voidness that is more real than my name, ness within,
and all that stand for, to others and to myself. and experience a flash of heaven as it comes,
Now I know the value of the silence between the seconds! remembering that “light is the function of the lamp,
and so is wisdom to meditation”.
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