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  2014/6/6大紀元時報文學世界

你終於回身投入艱難的光輝裡了！

你曾說：「做工好苦呀！」
而不專心嚴肅以對
總是東張西望，企圖改轅易轍
而今，你終於回身自問：
「做工苦，難道不做工就不苦嗎？」

身入艱難的光輝裡
興趣在你的心中響了
苦中的快樂便圍在你的四周歡聲呼叫
歡聲呼叫你的夜的漸次離去
你的意志的漸次肥壯，歡聲呼叫
光明的漸次向你展開胸懷

毅力執燈在你的前方領路
恆心以千鈞之力推撞你的背脊
你遂「發憤忘食，樂以忘憂，
不知老之將至」矣！(註一)

在陽光之下，你不再猶豫
而繼續不斷地默默工作，默默思想
牢握「用志不紛，乃凝於神」的至則（註二）
確擁百丈禪師和地藏菩薩的肺腑（註三）

猝然騰起，然後回身
你是在拆腐敗的舊屋重建新廈了
（新廈會是堅固、美麗而溫暖的）
你終於回身投入艱難的光輝裡了

註一：「發憤忘食，樂以忘憂，不知老之將至。」語出《論語》。
註二：「用志不紛，乃凝於神。」語出《莊子》。
註三：百丈禪師誓曰：「一日不做事，一日不喫飯。」地藏菩薩誓曰：「地獄未空，誓不成佛。眾生渡盡，方證菩提。」

Awakening　　Hsu ChiCheng

You have finally awakened and thrown yourself into the radiance of hardships

You once said: “How hard it is to be a worker!”
You didn’t work hard and always wished
To change work the moment you saw something difficult
Today you have awakened and asked yourself:
“It is hard to be a worker, but it isn’t hard not to be a worker?”

Inside the radiance of hardships
The latent happiness in hardships
Begins to cheer and laugh round you
In the cheers and laughter, the night is fading away
You are getting strong-minded
Light is gradually opening her chest for you

The lamp of will is leading the way ahead for you
Perseverance is pushing you forward
So you “Work so hard as to forget to eat, feel so happy
As to forget sadness and never mind getting old.”（*1）

You don’t hesitate any more under the sun
But work and think quietly
You keep in mind a golden saying: “Single-mindedness means fascination”(*2)
And have a great heart as Baizhang Master and Badhisattva have(*3)

Suddenly, rising, then awakening
You begin to tear the old house of corruption
And rebuild a new mansion(solid, beautiful and warm)
You have at last awakened and thrown yourself into the radiance of hardships

*1. “Work so hard as forget to eat, feel so happy as to forget sadness, and never mind getting old.”-quoted from The Analects.
*2. “Single-mindedness means fascination.”-quoted from Chuand-tzu
*3. Baizhang Master once took an oath: “I will neither work nor eat. “Budhisattva once took an oath: “I will never wish to be a Baddha unless there is no one left in the hell; and I will, with the heart of a Buddha, liberate all living beings from this moral world.”