佚名/Anonymous
My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone.
“You may create lots of splashes in your life, but the waves that come from those splashes will disturb the peace of all your fellow creatures,”he said.
“Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and that circle will also touch many other circles.”
“You will need to live in a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the peace of that goodness to others. The splash that comes from anger or jealousy will send those feelings to other circles. You are responsible for both.”
That was the first time I realized that each person created the inner peace or discord that flowed out into the world. We cannot create world peace if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt or anger.
We radiate the feelings and thoughts that we hold inside, whether we speak them or not. Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out into the world, creating beauty or discord with all other circles of life.
七歲時，祖父帶我到農場的魚塘玩。他讓我往水中扔一粒石子，並叫我細心觀察激起的波紋。而後，他就要求我把自己也看成那粒石子。
“生活中，你可能會激起很多波紋，這些波紋會打破周圍的平靜。”他說。
“你要記住，一定要對自己激起的波紋負責，因為它們會觸及他人的波紋，並對其產生影響。”
“那些憤怒和嫉妒的波紋會向外傳遞你的消極情緒，所以，你應該對它們負責，你應該將自己平和靜謐的波紋傳遞給別人。”
那時，我第一次意識到，每個人平和或躁動的心情都會傳遞給整個世界。如果我們的內心充斥著矛盾、仇恨、懷疑和憤慨，就不可能創造一個和平的世界。