Living and Human Life

中文原著：隆門圓通法師
英文翻譯：張惠平
Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong
Translated by Huei Ping Chang
 
人的生命不在長短，重在把握當下，做有意義的事。假如要求生命久長，是否曾細細思量…一生到底要的是什麼？
工作和生活的壓力，讓我們日復一日的趕路、追逐。很少停下來思考一下，總是被周遭的事情不斷的推著走！追逐眼前所需，生活就被外在的事、物（務）所控制。

今日的我們，是否要改變生活態度，將物質與慾望調降，盡量接觸大自然，享受純樸心靈的放鬆，與迎接慈悲的陽光，讓光明如雨露融入身心。
大眾：人身極難得、信心亦難生，財富難可足、福田復難遇。福田用心耕，人生的道路才能走得更美好、更穩健。 共勉之。

釋圓通 合十
104、 11、 24日吉祥
資料來源：心靈甘露(一)，隆門圓通法師著。

What counts in human life is not how long it is, but how we can seize the day to do significant things. If we ask for a long lifespan, have we ever thought about what we really want in life?

Work and pressure in life make us hurrying on and pursuing day after day. We seldom stop to contemplate but are always pushed by trivia. We pursue what we need at present and then our life is controlled by external affairs.

Now, shall we change our living attitudes and reduce our materialistic desires? Shall we stay close to the great Nature, relax our pure soul, greet the compassionate sunshine, and let the brightness melt into our body and mind like rain and dew?

Everybody, it’s rare to be born human, and it’s difficult to give rise to confidence. Also, it’s hard for one to be contented with his own fortune, and the blessing ground is hard to encounter. Cultivate the blessing ground wholeheartedly so that the road in life will be more beautiful and stable.

Let’s encourage each other with this.

Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. I), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong.