Thursday, October 28, 2010

引人深思的书籍--《目送》


引人深思的书籍--《目送》

已经有好一段时间,没有这样静下来, 好好地阅读一本书。
在众多欲看但却未看的书籍中, 挑出龙应台老师动笔的《目送》, 想看看这枝犀利的铁笔下温柔感性的一面。

看着龙老师写自己对于父亲逝世的遗憾;看着龙老师写自己对于母亲苍老的惋惜;看着龙老师写自己对于时间流逝的无奈......虽然看的是龙老师的故事,感觉自己却好像已经提早去经历及体会人生的无常以及避免不了的老死问题。

觉得,阅读此书的过程,就好像是在观赏着一场未真正上演的彩排,我预见了老死的萧瑟与怅然。

从这书的文章中,我了解到有些路必须一个人走、有些事必须一个人去面对。
没有所谓永垂不朽的永恒, 一切都将稍纵即逝;稍纵,即逝。
朋友, 你准备好了吗?
我, 在努力准备中。

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

新书推荐:《366天与大师相会》


新书推荐:《366天与大师相会》

上周六刚从佛光山东禅寺购得此书, 以下是觉诚法师本身为此书所写下的出版缘起,
在此转摘:


出版缘起 觉诚法师 (马来西亚佛光山总住持)
...

家师自幼出家,一生勤于笔墨耕耘,至今八十余岁,仍然手不离笔。家师不仅将浩瀚艰涩的文言文经典,改写为白话佛法;并将其生命中的体验,一一用现代的语言,叙写出来,让现代人容易明白,又不失经典原意。家师出书速度惊人,至今至少千万字、数百册以上,几乎是日日文章,字字珠玑。

身为徒弟的我们,常闻师父教诲:「不读书,不明理;不自觉,没有用!」因此也不敢懈怠,耳濡目染之余,弟子们也日日阅读,更希望秉承师父的心愿,推动社会书香化,让阅读好书的习惯,如空气般传播开来,福利社会大众。

今逢马来西亚佛光文化编撰《366天与大师相会》(包括2月29日),每日配以一篇智慧法语。编辑同仁携手同圆,日夜辛勤耕耘,祈望能于佛历孝道月及大马国庆月出版,以供养读者。这份诚意用心,令人感动,鼓舞了学人自动请缨,希望写几句感恩之语。

「诸供养中,法供养第一。」祈望此书为您的生活带来一股清泉、一份良药、一份安定。祝福所有的读者:日日法喜,天天吉祥。

Sunday, August 15, 2010

《迷悟之间10--人情面面观》


好书推荐: 《迷悟之间10--人情面面观》
作者:星云大师


星云大师在《迷悟之间10--人情面面观》的自序中指出,虽然他云水行脚, 忙于弘法, 但基于“思风发于胸臆,言泉流于唇齿”, 再加上大师心中恒存对国家社会、宇宙人生、自然生命、生活现象等等的关怀,所以数十年来仍笔耕不辍。

此书中有一篇题为<不让一步>的文章,主张“让” 是一种难得的美德。倘若世人都深谙“让人先说, 让人先吃, 让人先走”的道理, 那么天下必定太平。

“手把青秧插满田, 低头便见水中天;身心清净方为道, 退步原来是向前。” 懂得让一步的人, 自然会知道:进步哪有退步高的道理喔!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

《做自己與別人生命中的天使》


好書不怕再推荐:《做自己與別人生命中的天使》

我大約在兩年前閱讀這本由亞都飯店總裁嚴長壽所撰寫的《做自己與別人生命中的天使》。作者嚴總裁在我看來, 是一位閱歷豐富(並愛苦口婆心)勸導年輕人的長者。

我本身更對他的奮鬥成功史感到讚歎。他是一個土生土長的台灣原住民,曾學到美髮的技藝,卻無法謀生。但十年後的他,卻在海外成為連鎖企業的老闆。

作者親身與其他真實的個案分享, 都在其感性理性兼具的筆端下逐一道出。

我最愛他書中的這句話:“每個人都有屬於自己的能力。 要讓自己活得更好更精采,
你需要的很簡單,就是擁有天使的一雙翅膀,一支翅膀幫自己、一支翅膀幫別人,這一對翅膀將帶你飛翔、突破未來的天空,讓你更有力量,掌握這個世界!”

Friday, July 2, 2010

好書不怕再推薦: 《達文西密碼》


最近在閱讀丹布朗中文版的《失落的符號》。 看著看著, 腦海竟不自主地回想起他以往的舊作--《達文西密碼》。

記得閱讀《達文西密碼》前, 我並沒有對此翻譯小說抱有太大的興趣。
豈知,一開卷不久, 其吸睛度遠遠超乎我的想像~~(簡直就是徹夜不眠,想把整本小說一口氣看完!我在這之前,已經很久沒有什麼書可讓我如此著迷了~~哈哈。)

在這閱讀小站裡, 可能還有一些書友未看過《達文西密碼》這本書。好書不怕再推薦,在此簡略地寫出此書的內容:

“哈佛大學的宗教符號學教授羅柏•蘭登到巴黎出差的深夜, 突然接到一通緊急電話,通知他羅浮宮年高德邵的館長遭人謀殺,就在博物館內,屍體旁邊留下了一個令人困惑的密碼。蘭登與法國美女密碼專家蘇菲•納佛在整理分析謎團的過程中,驚訝地發現在達文西的作品中藏有一連串的線索。這些線索人人可見,卻被畫家巧妙地偽裝,加以隱藏。

蘭登發現一連串令人震驚的關聯:已故的館長是鍚安會的一員。鍚安會是一個真實存在的祕密會社,其中的成員包括牛頓、波提且利、雨果,和達文西等人。蘭登意外地捲入一個追蹤一項石破天驚的歷史大秘密,一個已經埋藏了幾個世紀、既富啟發性又危險的祕密。

在這場追根究底的揭秘追逐中,蘭登和納佛發現他們是在跟一個始終不露面的幕後主使者鬥智,這個人似乎總是知道他們下一步要做什麼。除非他們可以解開這個錯綜複雜的謎團,否則錫安會的祕密,這個具爆炸力的古老真相,將永遠消失......”

怎樣? 上述內容簡介是否已成功吸引你主動去閱讀此書?
(By 佐文)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Bestseller: Diary of a Wimpy Kids



Diary of a Wimpy Kids is a title of "Laugh-out-loud funny school stories with lessons."

Parents need to know that main character Greg usually doesn't do the right thing the first time around. Greg Heffley gets a journal from his mom ("a JOURNAL, not a diary") and records a middle school year's worth of crazy kid schemes, brushes with bullies, bad units in gym class, bids for student government, school play humiliation, and more.

His cluelessness about what would keep him out of trouble and why parents, teachers, and friends are upset with him is part of the book's humor, which leads the reader to any lesson Greg should be learning.

Parents will appreciate that Rowley's dad researches video games on a parent Web site to see if they have too much violence. Also, it is clear that Greg's mom is working hard to raise respectful sons.

Read this book, and I am sure you are going to like it!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Ask+ Believe + Receive=The Secret?


Ask+ Believe + Receive= The Secret ?

By Ann Teoh

The law of attraction (as in The Secret) suggested that we should always feel good and wonderful. It said that it is important for us to feel good and happy because when we are feeling good, we are putting ourselves into the frequency of what we are wanting.


I am not sure "feeling good" is the ultimate in life, although generally speaking, I prefer to feel good than to feel bad.

However, if "feeling good" were the ultimate, people would not sacrifice their lives for a better good. A mother would not suffer to bring up children, or keep the family together. But, the great leaders focused on the GOOD, not feeling good. People who fought for justice, peace, focused on good.

Striving for a better good is better than feeling ...


If you feel good, does that mean you will get definitely good things? Maybe the book defines what "good things" are?

I am trying to follow the logic (and perhaps debunk it):

On the score that good things come to those who feel good, and bad things to those who feel bad, would that mean that people who have bad things in their life attracted them, i.e. it is their fault? Say, cancer? Poverty? Loss of a job? Death of a child?

In my opinion, one needs to be examine such logic properly. And the fact is no one can "feel good" all the time either. To expect it of yourself is also unrealistic. People feel disappointed, angry, frustrated: these are all human feelings given to us, to understand that things are not perhaps as one desires. The law of attraction is simplistic, and simple. Simple because it is man-made.

Truth is not so convenient.

Deep joy (as opposed to fleeting happiness or excitement) comes from peace in the heart, and peace comes from hope. And hope can only come from the One who can give it to us, despite our human failings and human condition, and where our own efforts fail. Hope is a gift from God. Not something that can be manufactured from "feel good".

Just sharing my understanding. :-) Ann Teoh