枝與根 Twigs and Root

〖枝與根〗

我們出生的那一刻就已是死亡。我們的生與死是一體的。好像一棵樹，有枝就一定有根，有根也必然會有枝，不可能有此而無彼。

可笑的是，面對死亡，人們是那麼的傷心悲痛，對于出生卻是那麼歡欣快樂。我想，如果你真的要哭，最好為出生而哭吧！事實上，生就是死，死就是生；根就是枝，枝就是根。如果你要哭，就為根而哭，為生而哭吧！仔細想想，看清楚：如果沒有生，就不會有死。

Twigs and Root

As soon as we’re born we’re dead. Our birth and our death are just on thing. It like a tree. When there are twigs, there must be a root. When there’s a root, there must be twigs. You can’t have one without the other. It’s a little funny to see how at a death people are so grief-stricken, and at a birth so delighted. I think if you really want to cry, then it would be better to do so when someone’s born, for actually firth is death, death is birth; the root is the twig, the twig is the root. If you’ve got to cry, cry at the root, cry at the birth. Look closely and see that if there were no birth, there would be no death.