So as post 1960s clich 9 left my comfortable job and life to live for a year in a temple on the backstreets of 10)Kyoto. My 11)high minded year lasted all of a week, by which time Id noticed that the depthless contemplation of the moon and composition of 12)haiku Id imagined from afar was really more a matter of cleaning, sweeping and then cleaning some more. But today, more than 21 years later, I still live 13)in the vicinity of Kyoto, in a two room apartment that makes my old 14)monastic 15)cell look almost luxurious by comparison. I have no bicycle, no car, no television I can understand, no mediand the da ys seem to stretch into eternities, and I cant think of a single thing I lack.
所以 就像20世纪60年代后的那股风潮那样 我放弃了舒适的工作及生活,在日本京都后街的一个庙宇生活了一年。我那修心之旅进行了一个星期后,我发现自己遥想中对月沉思苦想俳句的生活实际上更多只是清洁、打扫,然后继续清洁。但今天,21年多以后,我仍然居住在京都附近的一套两居室公寓里,相比之下,以前我住的那个僧房看起来几乎算奢华了。我没有自行车,没有汽车,没有能够看得懂的电视,没有媒体 这样的日子似乎绵绵无尽,而我想不到有什么东西是我缺少的。
Im no Buddhist monk, and I cant say Im in love with 16)renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article Ive written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didnt want or need, not all I did. And it seemed quite useful to take a clear, hard look at what really led to peace of mind or absorption (the closest Ive come to understanding happiness). Not having a car gives me 17)volumes not to think or worry about and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. Lacking a cell phone and high speed Internet, I have time to play ping pong every evening, to write long letters to old friends and to go shopping for my sweetheart (or to track down old 18)baubles for two kids who are now out in the world).
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