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作者: wlxg20130220    時間: 2018-2-22 12:13
標題: [ACollectionofBuddhistStories]JustaFlyinMyTea
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[A Collection of Buddhist Stories]Just a Fly in My Tea


Just a Fly in My Tea
"On this particular afternoon a fly fell into my tea.  This was, of course, a minor occurrence.  After a year in India I considered myself to be unperturbed by insects -- by ants in the sugar bin, spiders in the cupboard, and even scorpions in my shoes in the morning.  Still, as I lifted my cup, I must have registered, by my facial expression, or a small grunt, the presence of the fly.  Choegyal Rinpoche, the eighteen-year-old tulku leaned forward in sympathy and consternation.
"What is the matter?"
"Oh, nothing," I said.  "It's nothing -- just a fly in my tea."  I laughed lightly to convey my acceptance and composure.  I did not want him to suppose that mere insects were a problem for me; after all, I was a seaseoned India-wallah, relatively free of Western phobias and attachments to modern sanitation.
Choegyal crooned softly, in apparent commiseration with my plight, "Oh, oh, a fly in the tea."
"It's no problem," I reiterated, smiling at him reassuringly.  But he continued to focus great concern on my cup.  Rising from his chair, he leaned over and inserted his finger into my tea.  With great care he lifted out the offending fly -- and then exited from the room.  The conversation at the table resumed.  I was eager to secure Khamtul Rinpoche's agreement on plans to secure the high-altitude wool he desired for the carpet production.
When Choegyal Rinpoche reentered the cottage he was beaming.  "He is going to be all right," he told me quietly. He explained how he had placed the fly on the leaf of a branch of a bush by the door, where his wings could dry.  And the fly was still alive, because he began fanning his wings, and we cold confidently expect him to take flight soon...
That is what I remember of that afternoon -- not the agreements we reached or plans we devised, but Choegyal's report that the fly would live.  And I recall, too, the laughter in my heart.  I could not, truth to tell, share Choegyal's dimensions of compassion, but the pleasure in his face revealed how much I was missing by not extending my self-concern to all beings, even to flies.  Yet the very notion that it was possible gave me boundless delight."
-- Joanna Macy



愿以此功德,庄严佛净土。
上报四重恩,下济三涂苦。
若有见闻者,悉发菩提心。
尽此一报身,同生极乐国。

佛弟子妙音代父母师长、历劫冤亲、法界众生礼佛三拜,求生净土。

祈愿:
天下和顺。日月清明。风雨以时。灾厉不起。国丰民安。兵戈无用。崇德兴仁。务修礼让。国无盗贼。无有怨枉。强不凌弱。各得其所。
并愿以印行功德,回向法界一切有情,所有六道四生,宿世冤亲,现世业债,咸凭法力,悉得解脱,现在者增福延寿,已故者往生净土,同出苦轮,共登觉岸。






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