鄧小蠻幸福人生

Change

Life repeats itself mindlessly - unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death, the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth; love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love; success is followed by failure, failure is followed by success.

Just see! If you can watch just for a few days, you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern. One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy, and another day you are so dull, so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide. And just the other day you were so full of life, so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God, that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness, and today there is great complaint and you don't see the point why one should go on living.... And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.

Osho   Take it Easy, Volume 1   Chapter 7

Commentary:

The symbol in this card is an enormous wheel representing time, fate, karma. Galaxies spin around this constantly moving circle, and the twelve signs of the zodiac appear on its circumference. Just inside the circumference are the eight trigrams of the I Ching, and even closer to the center are the four directions, each illuminated by the energy of lightning. The spinning triangle is at this moment pointed upward, toward the divine, and the Chinese symbol of yin and yang, male and female, creative and receptive, lies at the center.

It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continuously changing, evolving, dying and being reborn. All opposites play a part in this vast circular pattern. If you cling to the edge of the wheel you can get dizzy! Move toward the center of the cyclone and relax, knowing that this too will pass.


生命在不知不覺當中重複著它自己，除非你有覺知，否則它將會好像輪子一樣地繼續重複，那就是為什麼佛教徒稱生和死的輪子（生死輪迴）為時間之輪。它就好像輪子一樣在轉動：生跟隨著死，死跟隨著生；愛跟隨著恨，恨跟隨著愛；成功跟隨著失敗，失敗跟隨著成功。

仔細看一看！如果你能夠仔細看幾天，你將能夠看到有一個模式浮現，一個輪子的模式。某一天，一個美麗的早晨，你覺得心情很好、很快樂；然後另外一天，你覺得非常無趣、死氣沈沈，你甚至開始想要自殺。就在前幾天，你覺得充滿生命，非常喜樂，你覺得很感謝神，你處於一種深深感激的心情；而今天你卻變得百般抱怨，你不了解一個人為什麼要繼續活下去……這種事一再一再地繼續，但是你並沒有看清楚那個模式。一旦你看清楚那個模式，你就可以脫離它。