Spiritual Thought for the Week 2009/7/5

DATE: 2009/7/5
本周默想分享
有人曾經提出在好撒馬利亞人的比喻中，我們可以看到四種人生觀。（1）那個強盜相信，“你的就是我的。”（2）那個祭司奉行的哲學是，“我的就是我的，你的就是你的。”（3）那個客店主人期待的報酬是，“我的可以就是你的，只要你給我一個公道的價錢。”（4）好撒馬利亞人的看法是，“我的就是你的，並且我們可以有更多的分享。”
當我向我四周看時，我發覺有一樣東西可以令生命更深刻，更得著回響，更令我有大喜樂的。那就是把自己放在自己之外，而進入別人的自己和別人的品格之中。
我需要吃飯，對我自己來講，只是一個物質的問題。但我的鄰舍需要吃飯，這個問題，對我來講，就是一個靈性和宗教的問題了。
Spiritual Thought for the Week
Someone has suggested that in the story of the good Samaritan there are four ways to look at life. (1) The robber believed, “What is yours is mine.”(2) The priest acted on the philosophy, “What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours.”(3) The innkeeper held the prospect that “What is mine is yours for a price.”(4) The Samaritan acted on the viewpoint that “What is mine is yours and more in sharing.”
As I look around me, I seem to find that one thing which deepens life, which gives it resonance, which brings it great joy, is the putting of one’s self outside one’s self into another self or personality.
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual and religious question.