Corey国外传统班的帅哥,来武当学习武当功夫5年了,喜爱阅读和写作的Corey平时喜欢随身带着电子书KINDLE电纸书6寸阅读器,并记录下在武当每生活里点点滴滴的经历和感想。国内一家出版社正在和Corey合作打算出版Corey的武当日记。摘录几篇给大家欣赏。
It’s almost summertime weather here. Blessedly, we’re not there yet. In July and August it can get pretty unbearable – intense, humid heat that doesn’t even abate at night when you lie sweating under your mosquito net, the warm sluggish air from your fan the only thing moving, and moving more like flowing honey than wind at that. We adjust our training schedule so that we rest more in the middle of the day and train early in the morning and late after the sun goes down, but the weather is a real trial to the spirit nonetheless.
But summer has its perks. The mountains behind the school become almost jungle-like, lush and tropical where they were dry and brown all autumn and winter. And the little river valley (in places a canyon, really) becomes a breathtakingly beautiful place to go for a walk or, when its too hot to stand it any more, a swim. On either side of the river pool where Wudang residents most often go to swim, the hills on either side rise in rocky cliffs patched with tufts of brilliant green. For the adventurer, one can climb up rocks and rapids and find several smaller pools further up the valley, and one really wonderful place where the river flows narrow and deep and dark and cold between overarching rocks and trees high overhead. It’s beautiful in a way that makes one stop and appreciate it, even if your mind was on other things.
I am always writing about my thoughts regarding my training, but today I offer this little picture of the natural setting of my master’s school. Shifu has made it plain that as we study Daoism and try to follow nature, we are meant to be learning about and following our own natures and not to confuse the idea with a bunch of trees and rocks. But who does not feel somehow calmer and purer when surrounded by natural beauty?
武当天然游泳池-Corey日记的中文版
武当山差不多到了夏季。幸福的是我们没有在那里。在七月到八月天
气会变得十分强烈的让人不能忍受,甚至夜晚当你一身汗得躺在蚊帐
里,天气的湿热也没有减少,电风扇吹出来空气让人燥热和使人人懒。
散,缓缓流动的空气让人觉得像是流动的蜂蜜那样粘稠和粘连。为了
让我们在炎热的中午多些休息,短暂清凉的早上多些训练,日落后晚
些训练,我们调整了训练计划和日程表,经管如此武当山的夏天对我
们的精神和体力还是一个考验。
但是在炎热的武当山夏季也有额外的收获,秋天和冬天光秃秃黄
色的武馆后面的小山,现在在炎热的夏季变得郁郁葱葱地像热带丛林
似的,小河谷是个惊人地美丽的地方,日落后人们三五成群的散步到
小河谷纳凉,当天起热得让人不能忍受时它便成了人们天然的游泳池,附
近的居民经常去天然游泳池游泳。游泳池的两边的小山悬崖峭壁,上面阳光下的绿色植物丛生。喜欢探险的人,爬上巨大的岩石在小河谷的前方望去很快能看到数个小池子,这是个美丽精彩的地方,这里河流湍急,水清澈凉爽,水又深又黑。这里是个美丽的地方,使人能驻足和欣赏它的美丽,甚至当你有烦心事的时候。
我总是写下我的训练的感受,今天我发了这张我们武馆附近的自然环境的小照片,袁师傅教导我们道教崇尚道法自然,我们跟随我们自己的本性,不被那些郁郁葱葱的树丛和耸立的岩石迷惑。但是当你置身于这天然的美丽的小河谷,能不感到心灵的更加地平静、更加的净化吗?