最近一段时间,我读着蔡礼旭老师的"小故事,大智慧",真可谓如同明镜照了自己,里面用了诸多现实生活,历史和佛教故事中的例子深入浅出地说明了不少为人处事的道理,让我明白了"百善孝为先","立身行道,扬名于后世,以显父母","少之时,血气未定,戒之在色;及之壮也,血气方刚,戒之在门;及之老也,血气既衰,戒之在得.", "散财聚人"等等.

我顿悟到每日每日母亲对我的谆谆教诲是稀世珍宝,平日的年轻气盛,总算有母亲这面镜子不断地警戒我怎样妥善解决发生在生活中,社会上的事情,怎样知恩图报,怎样小忍不乱大谋,怎样散财聚人,怎样出去年轻人出涉世的那股傲气和好高务远,怎样学会批评与自我批评.我想任何人都需要唐太宗李世民在他的忠臣魏征去世时候说的话"我有三面镜子:以铜为鑑,可正容颜,正衣冠;以史为鑑,可知兴替;以人为鑑,可明得失."用铜镜来观照自己,可以看到自己有什么不正之处;一历史来鉴定照察自己的作为,可以知道我这个做法是兴盛,还是衰败;旁边有这些大臣给我劝戒,我才知道所作所为是好,还是不好."我想这世界上最最难得到的是可以对我们自己毫无保留,直言不讳的父亲母亲,亲朋好友,所以当唐太宗失去了魏征的时候,会那么伤心.

这些日子,在我的生活中,我真正体会到了这一点,因为我看到了一个好朋友的过失和没人能及时劝戒,而造成了生活与工作中的不顺.我昨天终于斗胆说出了憋在心中很久的话,也正是由于蔡老师书中所提到的要学会"救人危急"在别人最无助困难的时候,拯救其心和意志.希望这个好朋友可以领悟到一种为人处世的中庸之道,并重新认识与接受父母,至"知道,悟到,做到".希望也因此,我们彼此之间的感情能更巩固,彼此做到可以鉴定照察彼此,摆脱成人之后的面具,对彼此的错失直言不讳,相信这是真正的良友知音吧.

做人比博学要难的多,许多人博学多才,但由于不懂人情世故,做人出世,不悟圣贤之道,而终究得了个失败的人生!
明师难得,所以我从心底感谢蔡礼旭老师,更感谢我的母亲!望有更多的朋友能读""小故事,大智慧".

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Love the vibrant red, yellow, azure, green ... colours of Georgina Hart, love the simple lines and figures of her paintings,if life can be just simple and passionate as these paintings, then I guess all of us will be so much happier...I can simply keep on smiling by looking at her paintings about sisterhoods, friendships, family, love and little sadness....people are naively depicted with such a simplicity and essence of the deepest truth about honesty, trust, caress, sincere affections...I think whenever you are lost at some point in life, maybe it's better for you to gaze at Georgina Hart's world, and meditate and revive...then things become much brighter and lively...

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