雙語閱讀:Courage 勇氣(MP3)

讀書 MP3 Panda每日分享 2019-07-09

雙語閱讀:Courage 勇氣(MP3)

Courage

勇氣

A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy.

一位父親為兒子擔心。兒子16歲了,卻沒有一點勇氣。於是,父親決定去拜訪一位禪師,請他訓練兒子。

The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father, "You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months. However, you can’t come to see him during this period. "

禪師對男孩的父親說:“你應該讓他單獨留在這裡。不出3個月,我要讓他成為一個真正的男子漢。不過,在這段時間,你不能來見他。”

Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a punch knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, "What do you think of your child?"

3個月後,男孩的父親又來見禪師。禪師安排這個男孩和一位經驗豐富的拳師進行拳擊比賽。拳師每次一出手,男孩就倒在地上,但男孩又馬上站起來;每次將他擊倒,他就又站起來。幾個回合後,禪師問道:“你認為自己的孩子怎麼樣?”

"What a shame!" the boy's father said. "I never thought he would be so easily knocked down. I needn't have him left here any longer."

“真丟人!”男孩的父親說,“我絕沒想到他這樣不堪一擊。我不需要他再留在這裡了。”

"I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down; he stands up again instead of crying? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have."

“很遺憾,你只看到了這一點。難道你沒看到他每次倒下後並沒有哭泣,而是重新站起來了嗎?這才是你想要他擁有的那種勇氣。”

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