Wise Bodhi

Author: Ma De
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: We live in a life filled with dust and noise, and our hearts carry too many burdens. We long for the bright light of the night to shine on these warm pages, allowing us to immerse ourselves in the little by little emotions of each story. A loving marriage is like eating noodles—no matter how many ways there are to eat them, the taste of love remains unchanged. An unloving marriage is also like eating noodles, but it's like eating cold noodles. When a bowl of noodles is placed in front of you, you have no appetite to eat them. You keep pouring cold water into the bowl again and again. Eventually, the noodles become mushy in the bowl, and it gets harder and harder to clean up. The greatest pleasure in life is the way we live, like waking up in bed on a winter morning and enjoying a lazy nap. A "cozy" position is one of attachment; a "warm bed" is a place of warmth; and a "lazy nap" is exactly what we desire. Whether you're asleep or not, lounging there lazily is good even if you're just lying there. In this world, there is no lasting happiness—only fleeting moments of comfort and ease.