Life is inherently without pain.

archer

Life is inherently without pain.

Life is inherently without worries; it's only when the fire of desire is ignited that worries knock on your heart's door.

Life is inherently without pain; it's only when you start calculating gains and losses, and greedily seeking more, that pain comes to haunt you.

Once upon a time, there was a millionaire whose worries and anxieties were as numerous as his wealth. Therefore, he was always frowning, rarely showing a smile.

Next door to the millionaire lived a young couple who made tofu. There's a saying that life has three great hardships: blacksmithing, boat rowing, and tofu making. But this young couple who made tofu were happy, their songs, laughter, and playful banter constantly reaching the millionaire's house.

The millionaire's wife asked her husband, "We have so much money, how come we're not as happy as that young couple next door who make tofu?"

The millionaire said, "What's the big deal? I'll make sure they can't laugh tomorrow."

That evening, the millionaire threw a gold ingot over the wall. The next day, the young couple grinding tofu was indeed eerily silent. They were deep in thought! Having found a "fallen" gold ingot, they felt incredibly wealthy and knew they could no longer do the hard, arduous work of grinding tofu. But what if they lost money in business? If they didn't, they'd eventually run out of money. The husband even wondered if, if the business grew, he should take a concubine or divorce his current wife. The wife, meanwhile, lamented that if she'd known they'd become rich, she shouldn't have married this stinking tofu grinder. Lost in thought, the once cheerful couple had lost all interest in laughter; worry had begun to consume them. What tormented them even more was why more gold ingots couldn't fall from the sky, so they could buy whatever they wanted?

Life is inherently without worries; it's only when the fire of desire is ignited that worries knock on your door.

Life is inherently without suffering; suffering only arises when you begin to calculate gains and losses and crave more.

archer

生活原本沒有痛苦


人生原本沒有煩惱，當慾望之火被點燃後，煩惱就來敲你的心門了。


生活原本沒有痛苦，當你開始計較得失，貪求更多時，痛苦便來纏身了。


從前，有個百萬富翁，每天讓他勞神費心的事情跟他擁有的財富一樣多。所以，他每天都愁眉緊鎖，難得有個笑臉。


百萬富翁的隔壁，住著磨豆腐的小雙人口。曾有諺語說，人生三大苦，打鐵撐船磨豆腐。但磨豆腐的這小兩個口卻樂在其中，一天到晚歌聲笑聲逗樂聲不斷地傳到百萬富翁的家裡。


百萬富翁的夫人問老公：“我們有這麼多錢，怎麼還不如隔壁家磨豆腐的小倆口快樂呢？”


百萬富翁說：“這有什麼，我讓他們明天就笑不出來。”


到了晚上，百萬富翁隔著牆扔了一錠金元寶過去。第二天，磨豆腐的小兩人口果然鴉雀無聲。原來這小倆口正在合計呢！他們撿到了「天下掉下來的」金元寶後，覺得自己發財了，磨豆腐這種又苦又累的活兒以後是不能再做了。可是，做生意吧，賠了怎麼辦；不做生意吧，總有坐吃山空的一天。丈夫心裡還想，生意要是做大了，是該討房小的呢還是該休了現在這個黃臉婆；妻子則在琢磨，早知道能發財，當初就不該嫁給這臭磨豆腐的。尋思呀琢磨呀，之前快樂得很的小倆口現在誰也沒有心思說笑了，煩惱已經開始佔據他們的心。更令小倆口痛苦的是，為什麼天上不能多掉幾個金元寶呢，這樣就能想買什麼就買什麼了啊？


人生原本沒有煩惱，當慾望之火被點燃後，煩惱就來敲你的心門了。


生活原本沒有痛苦，當你開始計較得失，貪求更多時，痛苦便來纏身了。