_**RESIGNATION**_ I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes,mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my RRSP statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause........ ......"Tag! You're it." Remember the Simple things in Life. ((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

March 15, 2006

合什

自覺對宗教沒有偏見,只是不喜歡某些言論偏激、誘導信徒攻擊其它宗教,反而不以宣揚愛心與和平為首要重任的教派。

雖然我不是天主教教徒,也不認識西藏密宗,但對宗教領袖或是宗教的代表人物,最有好感的是去年故世的教宗、德蘭修女和照片中的達賴喇嘛。他們的共通點是溫和謙厚,以身作則用愛心帶領信仰,不攻擊,不含恨,展示莫大的包容和寬恕。

老人家生於三五年,五九年開始流亡,已四十多年沒有見過老家。他近年仍努力的在中共氣焰下為西藏文化和政治地位做事。有關他的報道、故事和記錄片很多,印像最深刻的是「西藏七年」的作者所描述的少年達賴和五零年代他帶領西藏人掙扎的事蹟。他面容祥和,笑臉仍有純樸樂天的童真。他在西藏獨立問題上和中共爭持,處身印度流亡政府不斷為身在西藏受壓迫人民的人權倡議,精神上領導著流亡在世界各地的西藏人以和平方式爭取獨立,態度溫和但立場堅定,八九年獲諾貝爾和平獎。

年過七十了,老人家最近對中共提出更大的讓步,表示希望八十歲時能身在西藏,見一見闊別幾十年的老家。西藏宗教篤信達賴喇嘛世世相傳是同一位高僧轉世為人,他最近發表講話時流露了一點疲憊消極的心態,說他如果身故,不會在西藏境內轉世。如果你知道他和西藏的故事,他一向樂天積極的性格,你會明白這句話傷感失望得令人心酸。

合什,希望他能如願回家。

Comments on "合什"

 

post a comment