作者:楊絳
Author: Yang Jiang
我今年一百歲,已經走到了人生的邊緣,
I am one hundred years old, has come to the edge of life, I am not sure how much further T can go. Life span is not
within my control, but I know I'm close to "home".
我得洗淨這一百年沾染的汙穢回家。我沒有“登泰山而小天下”
一天,準備回家。
I have to wash off the filth accumulated over the century contaminated before I go home. I do not have the feeling of
getting on top of the Tai Mountain and looking down up smalls hills. I have just lived a quiet life in my own little
world. Thinking closely to this point, I feel as calm as undisturbed water. I should greet every day with calm and peace,
getting ready to go home.
在這物欲橫流的人世間,人生一世實在是夠苦。
你大度退讓,人家就侵犯你損害你。你要不與人爭,就得與世無求,
時吃虧。
In this materialistic earth, our lives are really not easy.
You try to be an honest and harmly person, peop, competing with no bodyle will take advantage of you and bully you.
You have talent or are good looking, people will envy you and try to crush you.
You generously step back, people will push forward and try to damage you.
If you do not want to compete with others, you must have no demand for the world, and at the same time you must maintain
strength to fight for your share.
You want to live peacefully with others, you must know how to deal with them, and get prepared to sacrifice.
少年貪玩,青年迷戀愛情,壯年汲汲於成名成家,
In your teenage, you are fond of a loy of funs; in your youth, you are obsessed with love; in your middle age, you
work so hard to gain fame; in your old age, you are good at fooling yourself that you are fine.
人壽幾何,頑鐵能煉成的精金,能有多少?但不同程度的鍛煉,
Life is short, how much quality steel can be made out of coarse iron? But with different levels of life experiences,
you will have different levels of achievements; with different degrees of unbridled lust, you will accumulate different
degrees of unruliness.
上蒼不會讓所有幸福集中到某個人身上,得到愛情未必擁有金錢;
。
God will not let all happiness fall upon a person. One who gained love may not have money; one who has money may not
have joy; one who has joy may not have health, and one who has health may not have everything to his satisfaction.
保持知足常樂的心態才是淬煉心智,淨化心靈的最佳途徑。
是人生哲學。
The best way to improve your rationality and purify your soul is to keep a mindset of resting satisfied with what you
have now. All the joys belong to the spiritual world, which turns suffering into enjoyment. It is the victory of mind over
body. That is the philosophy of life.
一個人經過不同程度的鍛煉,就獲得不同程度的修養、
後才發現:人生最曼妙的風景,竟是內心的淡定與從容……
A person went through different life experiences wil gain different degrees of cultivition and benefits.
It is like making spices, the finer it is ground, the more intense its fragarance is. We have wished so much to have up
and downs in our life, and only to find that the most beautiful part of life is the calm and peace of the inner world.
We have expected so much to gain the recognition of the outside world, and only to find that our world is our own, and it
has nothing to do others!