Don’t Let Anything Beyond This Moment Disturb You

Don’t Let Anything Beyond This Moment Disturb You

Living in the moment, neither entangling to the past nor the future. Don’t let anything beyond this moment disturb you. Don’t be dazzled by the splendid world, or take the frustration from work or life out on your family. Don’t do that, because a few years later, at an uncertain time, the family today will be barely a bundle of bones. By then, you’ll have no more chance to express love.

The topic I have talked about the most is death, because I know that living and dying is the most important thing in one’s life. In each of my novels, I write a lot about it. And I also have a piece of human skull specimens at home. I understand that I could turn into a skull at any time. The Wenchuan Earthquake destroyed the attachments of hundred thousands of people in just a few seconds. The people who died in the earthquake left the world along with their regrets. Some of them might have planned to travel around the beautiful motherland or to see the cherry blooms in Japan. But when he was alive, he was too busy after the desires, until the death came and took away all of his opportunities.

Maybe he could have wanted to say “I love you, dad”, but not having a chance to say so before death. Yes, it is too late, as he could also have wanted to go for an outing with his daughter during the spring. It is too late, as he could have wanted to write an article and share his sentiment about the life and the world. It is too late; he could have planned to apologize to one of his friends: “sorry, please forgive me and I didn’t mean to hurt you.” But nature won’t grand him another chance. He could have wanted to read a book and think it will be a lifelong regret if he couldn’t do it. But he missed all the opportunities for he was busy with stocks or something else. After a big bang, not only hundred thousands of lives were buried, but also were hundred thousands of dreams.  

I think, in this way, if I would face an accident like WenChuan Earthquake in the next moment, what I want to do the most at present? To write the articles that I want to write the most and, to read the books that I couldn’t miss in my lifetime, be nice to every friend and family, to cherish every moment and fulfill it with coolness and joy, live in the moment. Not everyone has the future, but everyone has this moment.

Mahamudra cherishes the presence, living in the moment, neither entangling to the past nor the future. Don’t let anything beyond this moment disturb you. Don’t be dazzled by the splendid world, or take the frustration from work or life out on your family. Don’t do that, because a few years later, at an uncertain time, the family today will be barely a bundle of bones. By then, you’ll have no more chance to express love.

I shared some of my experiences during a conversation. I said: ”my father’s laughter is the best reward ever in my life. Though, I have won many prizes and attended many award ceremonies, most of them have faded in my memory. But, my father’s laughter, ingenuous and encouraging, still remains. Recently, my father passed away and I can’t see his smile again. Every time I think of him, I become tearful. Whenever I see an old man, begging in a cold street, I couldn’t help muttering: I don’t have father any more. And strong sadness will shadow my heart. I will give them some money. I always put coins into their bowls carefully, in case the sound of the coins may annoy them. In my mind, they are old men that are just like my father. I can find my father in those suffering old men. Therefore I appreciate those begging men, who gave me the feeling of expressing love to my father. When you fully understand this, you will be kind to your family in every moment and you won’t hesitate to express love.

In my novel,” Xixia’s Wolf”, I wrote about a girl, who used to treasure her flesh body very much when she was alive. When she’s dead, her soul wasn’t even able to say ”I love you” to her lover, because she has no tongue to speak the love out, and no eyes to see the beautiful world, no ears to listen to family, including their pains and losses. Most of us don’t like to listen to parents’ nagging and complaining. But think about it, how wonderful this is that your patience can alleviate their pains?  But, we are just too busy and we are seduced by the outside world. We are so far away from our own hearts, our family and the life in the moment. Our hearts were so occupied by various discriminations in the world. How can we detach from it and be happy as an innocent baby? This is called as the heart of newborn, which is like the baby’s smile to his or her mother. The smile is not given because the mother is rich, or because the father will leave him a big fortune. The smile is not given, because he is granted some title. He smiles when he is happy. Everybody has the innocent heart, but our desire complicates our hearts, messes it up with more and more dirt, and it shadows that pure heart in the end. Is there anything in this world less than perfect when you clean up the dirt and return to innocence and simplicity as a baby?  

A young man once asked me: Mr. XueMo, the world is totally messed up, it is far from perfect. What can we do?” Actually, we do not live for the world, because this world doesn’t care about any person, even he is such great man as Stalin, Marx, Mao Zedong. The earth turns very well, when their flesh vanished. Even as a western philosopher, Nietsche, said: the God is dead; everything still carries on perfectly well. The world works, with or without anybody. When you decide to just live for yourself, you must understand that what you can leave to this world after your physical body departs. For instance, once you were a base person, are you becoming more and more gracious day by day and expire as a sage in the end? If yes, you win. That means you hasn’t lived your life in vain. Think about it, you could have left no trace in the world, flied by like a fly in the void; but now, you have left the trace of yours, did you win a huge fortune?

Although LeiFeng lived only twenty years, we still remember him, because what he did makes his name resounding and stands for a noble value. He didn’t lived in vain. 

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别叫当下之外的世界干扰你

活在当下，不执著于过去，不执著于未来。不要叫当下之外的世界干扰你，不要因为这个世界的花花绿绿而眼花心乱，别把外部世界带给你的情绪发泄到你的亲人身上。因为，许多年后说不定什么时候，所谓的亲人就是一堆骨头。那时，你想表达爱，都没有机会了。

死亡是我谈得最多的问题之一，因为我知道，生与死，是人生中最重要的两件事。我在每一部作品中都大量地谈及死亡，我的家里也放了一个死人头骨做的标本。我明白，自己随时都可能变成这个头骨标本。那年汶川大地震，几秒钟的时间，就把近十万人心中的诸多执著给破除了。那些在地震中身亡的人们，带着遗憾离开了这个世界。他们中的一些人，可能还想看看祖国的大好河山，想去日本看看樱花，在他的有生之年，可能因为追逐某个欲望而没有去成，结果死亡顷刻间降临了，他也就失去了所有的机会。

可能他还想对爸爸说一声“爸爸我爱你”，但来不及说，就死了；他可能很想带女儿去看一下郊外的春天，但来不及去了；他可能很想写一篇文章，写给这个世界，留下这辈子对人生、对世界的一些感悟，但来不及写了；他更可能想善待一个他伤害过的朋友，想对那朋友说声“对不起，我伤害过你，原谅我吧”，但是大自然不会再给他任何机会了；他可能很想读一本书，觉得不读的话就会留下一辈子的遗憾，但是因为炒股或者干别的事情，错过了读这本书的所有机会……那“轰隆”的一声巨响，不但埋葬了好多生命，也埋葬了好多追求、好多梦想。

那么，我就想，要是我在下一刻遇到汶川大地震这样的事件时，此刻最想做的是什么？写出我最想写的文章，读我这辈子不读就会遗憾的书，善待每一个朋友包括亲人，珍惜每一个生命瞬间，让它充满清凉、快乐，活在当下。不一定每一个人都有将来，但每个人都有当下。

大手印文化追求当下，活在当下，不执著于过去，不执著于未来。不要叫当下之外的世界干扰你，不要因为这个世界的花花绿绿而眼花心乱，别把外部世界带给你的情绪发泄到你的亲人身上。因为，许多年后说不定什么时候，所谓的亲人就是一堆骨头。那时，你想表达爱，都没有机会了。

在某次对话中，我谈了自己的一些经验，我说：“父亲的笑，是我最好的人生奖励。后来，我获了许多奖，参加了好多颁奖典礼，那场面我大多淡忘了，但我忘不了父亲那憨憨的鼓励的笑。前不久，父亲死了，我再也看不到他的笑了。每一想起，我就想落泪。有时，一看到街头寒风中行乞的老人，我在心里就会不自觉地念叨：我再也没有爹爹了！心中就会涌起一种浓浓的悲哀。我就会给那些老人一点钱。要是我给的是硬币的话，我总是很小心地放进他们的碗中，我怕那响声，会令他们不快。那时，我眼中的他们，都是跟我父亲一样的老人。我总是在那些仍在经受苦难的老人身上，发现我死去父亲的影子。所以，我很感激那些向我行乞的老人，是他们给了我一种孝敬父亲的感觉。”当你真正明白这一点的时候，就会在每个当下善待你的亲人，你不会再吝于表达自己的爱。

小说《西夏的苍狼》中，我写了一个女孩子，她生前非常珍惜自己的肉体，后来她死了，她的灵魂想对爱人说一声“我爱你”的时候，都没有办法表达。没有舌头让她再去表达那份爱，没有眼睛让她再去欣赏这个世界的美，没有耳朵去听亲人们的许多倾诉，包括他们的痛苦。好多人都不愿意听家人的牢骚和唠叨，但是你想一想，当你倾听家人的痛苦，给他们带来一种轻松和快乐时，该是多么美好的事情啊！但是我们总是太忙了，大家都被外面的世界所诱惑，再也找不到自己的心，不知道善待亲人，不知道活在当下。我们被这个世界的许多“分别”占据了心灵。我们应该怎样消除这个东西，像天真的孩子一样快乐？一个没有受到人间污染的婴儿，对母亲那种灿烂的笑，被称为“赤子之心”。他不是因为妈妈有钱才笑的，不是因为爸爸要给他遗产才笑的，也不是因为这个世界要给他职称才笑的，他快乐就笑。每个人都有这样一个本来的心，因为我们的贪婪、欲望让我们的心变得越来越复杂，越来越肮脏，越来越多污垢，才会渐渐蒙昧了那颗赤子之心。当你擦干净那些污垢，恢复一种婴儿般的质朴、简单的时候，这个世界上还有啥不完美的呢？

之前，就有一个孩子问我：“雪漠老师，这个世界那么不完美，那么乌七八糟，怎么办？”其实，每个人不是活给世界的，这个世界不在乎任何人。无论他是斯大林、马克思、毛泽东，还是其他伟人，即使他们肉体消失了，这个地球依然在转动。甚至在西方哲学家尼采说了“上帝死了”以后，一切仍然运作得非常好。所以说，这个世界离开谁都可以。当你活给自己的时候，

你就必须明白，当你的肉体离开这个世界时，你留下了哪些东西？比如，如果你是一个小人，那么你是不是在离开世界之前，一天比一天高尚了一点，最终变成了君子？做到这一点的时候，你就赚了。赚了的意思，就是没有白活。你想想看，你本来该像那飞过虚空的苍蝇一样，在这个世界上留不下任何痕迹的，但现在却留下了自己的痕迹，你难道不是大赚特赚了吗？

雷锋虽然才活到二十多岁，但现在我们仍然记得他，他用他的行为在这个世界的时空中，留下了一个响亮的名字和一种伟大的精神，他就没有白活。

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