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

Sunday, May 16, 2010

你我的人生, 都能有“破除魔咒、垒倒巨人”的机会!


中学时期的我还蛮喜欢看戴晨志老师的励志小品, 但人随着年岁的增长, 阅读的口味也改变了。
最近在朋友家看到戴老师其中一本励志小品--《机会, 就在行动里!》, 把书打开便被书中一些人生哲理所吸引。


戴老师真的很擅长用小故事分享的方式,以浅白的叙事方式带领读者了解人生当中哲理。

把书阅毕, 以下这段文字一直盘旋在我脑海里:

你我的人生, 都能有“破除魔咒、垒倒巨人”的机会。
所以, 千万别因眼前的障碍或挫折而感到气馁, 因为人人生而平等, 每个人的生命都可以来个“大逆转”, 而大逆转的掌控权就在你的手里!!!


戴老师说的对,漫长的人生路途中难免会出现高迭起伏的波折, 但重要的是我们必须要有坚定的信念, 要相信世上不会有任何事能难倒我们。要立刻行动, 因为美好的机会就在前方等待着我们。

我们要相信, 我们一定可以做的到!

祝福大家。

文: 佐文

Saturday, March 20, 2010

好書推介:《大江大海1949》


《大江大海1949》

那天我那身在馬來西亞的友族朋友問我:“ 請問華人最愛看什么內容的書?”

這問題實在不好答, 更何況我并不能代表所有華人答話呀。
但想起去年在9月購買的《大江大海1949》, 我對他笑了笑說:“若只是簡單地把暢銷書等同為人們所愛看的書的話, 那么報告文學式的非文學類, 大概就是咱們華人愛看的書種之一了吧。”
(根據亞洲周刊的報道, 此書在上市后的3星期內便刷下100,000本的銷售佳績)


我自己愛看龍應臺教授所撰寫的文章。在她的文字中, 你可以看到理性與感性兼具的特色。她細膩的敘述手法,總是能巧妙地把文章轉換成像電影般的生動,一幕接一幕緊湊地呈現在讀者眼前。
而《大江大海1949》 更是她17本書籍中, 我特別鐘愛的一本非文學書籍。這跟它是否是一本暢銷書無關。我喜歡看《大江大海1949》純粹是因為我喜歡從不同的角度去探索歷史面貌, 而不喜歡只參考來自官方所撰寫的歷史教科書。


我更因為喜歡這本書而上Youtube尋找很多有關此書的相關片段。其中一個片段是有關此書的推介禮。
龍應臺在推介禮上說了一句非常觸動人心的話, 她說:“其實我早在20年前便想寫這本書, 但一直都被很多事所耽擱著。 直到父親在去年去世了, 母親失憶了。 我才發現這扇歷史的門即將關閉。 我必須與時間賽跑。”

與時間賽跑......我怔住了。我實應加倍努力, 在有生之年完成必須擔當的任務。
文: 佐文