讀點好英文:Real Courage 真正的勇氣

Real Courage 真正的勇氣

A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy.

The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father，“You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months.However, you can't come to see him during this period.”

Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer.Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up；and each time a punch knocked him down, the boy stood up again.Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked，“What do you think of your child?”

“What a shame！”the boy's father said，“I never thought he would be so easily knocked down. I needn't have him left here any longer.”

“I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down；he stands up again instead of crying?That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.”

一位父親很為兒子擔心，雖然兒子已經(jīng)16歲了，卻一點兒勇氣都沒有。于是，父親決定去拜訪一位禪師，請他訓練自己的兒子。

禪師對男孩的父親說：“你應(yīng)該把你兒子單獨留在這里。不出三個月，我會讓他成為一個真正的男子漢。不過，在這段時間，你不能來看他。”

三個月后，男孩的父親又來見禪師。禪師安排這個男孩和一位經(jīng)驗豐富的拳師進行拳術(shù)比賽。拳師每次一出手，男孩都被擊倒在地上，但男孩又馬上站起來；每次被擊倒，他就又站起來。幾個回合后，禪師問道：“你認為你的孩子怎么樣？”

“真丟人！”男孩的父親說，“我根本沒想到他是這樣的不堪一擊。我不讓他再留在這里了?！?/p>

“很遺憾，你只看到了這一點。難道你沒看到他每次倒下后是重新站起來，而不是哭泣嗎？這才是你想要他擁有的那種勇氣。”