類型：英語閱讀
時間：2020-05-24
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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.
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. ”
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?”
“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.”
“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.”
一位父親為兒子擔心。兒子16歲了，卻沒有一點勇氣。于是，父親決定去拜訪一位禪師，請他訓練兒子。
禪師對男孩的父親說：“你應該讓他單獨留在這里。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。”
3個月后，男孩的父親又來見禪師。禪師安排這個男孩和一位經(jīng)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。幾個回合后，禪師問道：“你認為自己的孩子怎么樣?”
“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里了。”
“很遺憾，你只看到了這一點。難道你沒看到他每次倒下后并沒有哭泣，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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