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2 V9 C3 c0 R6 [7 t5 U' p在我从少年到成年的记忆里,最佩服的人就是依罗喇嘛。
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) o8 i2 G+ m6 ?% l& W: o# [In my memory from early youth to adulthood, the person I respected most is Lama Yulo.
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" w7 B3 ? N6 b1 Z他身材魁梧,永远手持念珠,口诵经咒。他的脸上有一疤痕,是因年轻时走路去拉萨,途
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中遭遇强盗所致。这不但没有影响他的形象,反而使他显得更加可爱。
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He was a man of strong build. His hand perpetually moved the mala beads and his mouth
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constantly recited mantras. On his face there was a scar left by robbers he encountered when as2 `, M6 ^0 ]8 ^% U E1 @
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读小学期间,我一直住在他家。每天天还没亮,他就开始起床,一边念咒,一边磕头。饭
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+ ]6 Z! I2 I8 Z# I8 {6 o后,就开始看书和念诵一天的功课,下午坐禅,晚上念经。十几年来,周而复始,从不间
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8 K5 f3 t2 v+ \- @6 VI took room and board at his house when I was attending elementary school. Every day before
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dawn, he would get up and start to do prostrations and at the same time recite prayers. After
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the afternoon and recited scriptures in the evening. For over 10 years he kept the same schedule
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! i6 Y* Q; x1 d' O% |, Bover and over again without interruption.
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当时我以为,作为修行人本来就应当这样,所以不足为奇。如今,当我意识到我和我周围
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5 S. y; Y, H1 M6 y的人大多是三天打鱼,两天晒网,心情好的时候就精进,心情不好的时候就散乱的情形,# P, H& p, ]% E' f1 ?8 O- |
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才知道他的毅力的确值得赞叹。1 }5 S$ t& p: T' O7 g
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distracted and lag behind in practice. The glaring contrast makes his perseverance all the more. O2 h V7 }$ T2 j/ l
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admirable.
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到1987年他去世,已念了五亿多心咒。真是不算不知道,一算吓一跳。和他的精进相比,1 o/ X6 y" J/ x, V+ z
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9 x, W" }' h* }& ?At the time of his passing at age 87, he had accumulated 500 million mantras, an astonishing, R& `3 U4 q/ V# X1 E
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! W0 L3 S$ l4 c, X《大乘阿毗达磨论》云:“诸资粮道修行人应精进闻思,诸根调柔,饮食适当,上、下半
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senses, eat appropriately, and avoid sleeping in the early or late part of the night (that is, to sleep, }# y/ A+ C9 z) Y/ l
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only in the middle section of the night).”
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“不积跬步,无以至千里;不积小流,无以成江海。”
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/ C4 q0 k! t+ z3 e$ AWithout adding up many little steps, a journey of a thousand miles cannot be accomplished.
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一时的勤奋不算什么,一生的勤奋才是最重要的。
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( d: ]9 J8 e I/ R9 B% bAn on-and- off diligence amounts to nothing; only the diligence over a lifetime is what counts.0 @3 p/ {8 _. _0 i% x* I' ]
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" y* @+ O* X [' e2 H书于春光明媚之清晨 / U2 I- n' D6 t# T U" g
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26th of March, Year of RenWu+ G3 i) f2 C6 G( V
4 @+ {( S8 v7 ~5 C7 X6 g3 [( nMay 8, 2002. }: {/ ]- J9 G$ G- d/ Q
4 \' E% c, S$ b+ ~2 XWritten on a lovely spring morning" I* }) Z$ l1 ~& s8 d) x7 W
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