你对未来有焦虑吗？

摘自：successtory.org.uk

华中科技大学 侯冬意 编译

你对未来有焦虑吗？

Anxious About Your Future?

摘自：successtory.org.uk

华中科技大学 侯冬意 编译

Once two villagers were sitting under a tree and watching the sunset.

They were very close friends.After sitting quietly for some time,one asked the other,“What are you thinking?I am planning to buy five acres1of land,a garden.”The other friend immediately said,“Don’t buy the garden! ”

The first one was surprised.He asked,“Why?”The second one replied,“I am planning to buy a buffalo2.Then,my buffalo willenteryourgarden and we willfight,have misunderstandings and lose our friendship.I do not want to lose our friendship.”

The first one said,“Then,you cancel your plan of buying a buffalo.I am going to buy my garden.”The second one said,“No,no,no.I have already decided to buy a buffalo.”The first one said,“How will your buffalo enter my garden?I will fence3it thoroughly4.”

The second one said,“No,you see,it can just enter;a buffalo is a buffalo.Who can stop it?It can do anything.”

Then the fight went to such an extent that both of them were badly beaten!

Neither has bought buffalo nor any land.Nothing has happened.Just the mind’s race and both of them were badly beaten!Our fears are also like that.The future has not yet come.But you just sit there and think,“Oh!What will happen?”So much anxiety about the future!In this run,the mind gets into such a mess.It is unable to see the present moment as it unfolds!

When people are newly married they say,“We will be husband and wife for many life times to come!This one birth is not enough.We will be man and wife for the next seven births!”In reality,they may be fed up of5each other in this birth itself,but they talk of the next seven births!

You are afraid of opening your fists.What is there with you that you have to hold your fists?You have actually nothing in it.Open your fists.The whole sky will be in your hands.

Be natural.Be with love.Celebrate life.

从前有两个村民坐在树下看日落。

他们是非常要好的朋友。安静地坐了一会儿，一个人问对方：“我打算买五亩地，（建）一个花园。你觉得怎么样？”另一个人马上说，“别买花园！”

第一个人很惊讶。他问：“为什么？”第二个人回答说：“我打算买一只水牛。然后，我的水牛会闯进你的花园，我们将因此打架，产生误解，然后失去我们的友谊。我不想失去我们的友谊。”

第一个人说：“那么，你取消购买水牛的计划。我要买我的花园。”第二个人说：“不，不，不。我已经决定了买一只水牛。”第一个人说：“你的水牛怎么会进我的花园？我要把花园彻底地围起来。”

第二个人说：“不，你看，它进得去；水牛就是水牛。谁能阻止它？它什么都能干得出来。”

他们就这样打了起来，打得头破血流。

他们既没有买水牛也没有买地。什么也没有发生。只是头脑在发挥想象，就让他们打得头破血流！我们的恐惧也是如此。未来还没有到来。但你只是坐在那里想：“哦！会发生什么？”对未来太过焦虑了！在这种情况下，头脑陷入了大混乱。当思绪延伸太远，就无法看到当下这一刻！

当人们刚结婚时，他们会说：“我们将生生世世永远都是夫妻！这一世是不够的。我们接下来七辈子都要做夫妻！”事实上，他们可能这辈子就受够对方了，但他们却谈到了接下来七辈子！

你害怕打开你的拳头。有什么东西在里面需要你握紧你的拳头？事实上，你的手中一无所有。打开你的拳头。整个天空都将在你手中。

你要顺其自然，与爱同行，为生命喝彩。

Notes：

5.be fed up of极厌倦；吃得过饱