苹果与太阳 / The Apple and the Sun

写于 2014 年 · Kisa Li

当你正在努力做一件事，

或朝着某个目标前行的时候，

若你感到内心充满了光——

那种平静而温热的力量，

那说明你走在对的方向上。

当你做着正确的事，

你不会感到疲惫。

你不会觉得这是负担、痛苦、压力。

反而会在过程中

感受到喜悦与安宁。

那种快乐的工作与学习，

让心变得澄明，

让你看清自己正做着什么。

很多时候我们所谓的“累”、

所谓的“有压力”，

其实来自于——

你看待事情的方式错了。

事情本身并不带有痛苦。

比如一颗苹果，

有人觉得它酸涩，

有人觉得它香甜。

那么苹果究竟是好吃还是难吃？

——它本无意义。

意义存在于你如何看它。

你不需要催眠自己

去喜欢那颗苹果。

只要明白：

苹果本是纯净透彻的，

它的味道来自你的感受。

掌控权，一直在你心里。

那颗心，

就是知。

再想想太阳。

当乌云遮蔽了天空，

太阳就不存在了吗？

并不是。

它仍在，只是被蒙住了双眼。

乌云，是所发生的事；

太阳，是你的“知”。

情绪翻涌，

占据了整个天空，

让你看不见方向。

而驱散乌云、

让光重新照耀的过程，

就是——功夫。

先在心上下功夫，

你便能真正

理解身边的一切。

The Apple and the Sun

Written in 2014 by Kisa Li (Originally published on Douban)

When you’re working hard toward something—

a goal, a dream, a direction—

and you feel a quiet joy rising inside you,

a kind of energy that’s both calm and radiant,

that means you’re on the right path.

When what you do is right for your heart,

you don’t feel exhausted.

You don’t feel the weight of pressure or pain.

You feel alive.

You find peace in the work itself.

And from that peace

comes clarity.

Often when we say we’re tired or stressed,

it’s not the task that exhausts us—

it’s the way we see it.

A thing itself carries no pain.

Take an apple, for example.

Some people think it’s sour,

others find it sweet.

So is the apple good or bad?

Neither.

Its taste has no fixed meaning.

Meaning lives in the mind that perceives it.

The lesson isn’t to hypnotize yourself—

to say, “I love this apple, I must eat it.”

It’s to see that the apple is pure,

neutral,

without intent.

What it gives off

is only what you decide to feel.

The power is within your heart.

That heart is called Knowing.

Now imagine the sun.

When clouds hide it,

does the sun cease to exist?

Of course not.

It’s still there,

only your sight is covered.

The clouds are events,

the sun is your Knowing heart.

When storms come,

they fill your sky with emotion

until you can no longer see the light.

But clearing the clouds—

that is practice.

When you work upon your heart first,

you begin to see the world clearly.

(Written after reading a friend’s post —

wanting to express, simply, that truth is not in thinking,

but in living what you know.

How few truly practice

the unity of knowledge and action.)

🪶 Copyright © 2014 by Kisa Li