文╱劉墉

英譯╱劉軒、劉倚帆

深秋了，小沙彌每天忙著掃落葉，一邊掃一邊落，常常早晨才掃乾淨，下午又落滿了庭院，還得再掃一次。

It was late autumn, and Little Monk was busy sweeping leaves every day. While he swept, the leaves kept falling. It often took him all morning to sweep the courtyard clean, and by the afternoon, he had to do it all over again.

「哪裡是落葉？根本是煩惱嘛！」小沙彌邊掃邊怨，正巧被師父聽到了。

“You aren’t just leaves; you’re trouble!” Little Monk complained as he swept, and Master overheard him.

「你說落葉是煩惱？」師父笑問：「說得好！說得好！煩惱來了，掃掉！煩惱再來，再掃掉！」

“You say the leaves are trouble?” Master asked with a smile. “Well said, well said! When trouble comes, we sweep it away! When trouble comes again, we sweep it away again!”

「可是風大，還會把別處的落葉吹過來。」小沙彌指著禪院的圍牆說：「咱們的牆太矮，門又總是開著，外面的落葉會偷偷溜進來。」

“The wind is too strong. It keeps blowing in leaves from other places,” Little Monk said and pointed at the monastery walls. “Our walls are too low, and our gates are always open. Fallen leaves finds a way to sneak in.”

師父拍拍小沙彌：「有新綠，就有枯葉；有得意，就有煩惱。今天落，今天掃；明天落，明天掃。不必因為掃了還會落，就不掃。我們心裡也有這樣的庭院，有花開就有花落，有葉生就有葉落。不怕落葉多，只要勤打掃，不疾不徐、一帚一帚，慢慢掃，掃也是一種修行。」

Master patted Little Monk gently. “Where leaves grow, leaves will fall. Where there is happiness, there is also sorrow. If the leaves fall today, then we sweep today; if the leaves fall tomorrow, then we sweep tomorrow. Although we know more leaves will fall later, we don’t stop sweeping now. We have such a garden in our hearts too. Flowers bloom and wilt; leaves grow and are cast away. We do not see them as troubles, as long as we keep sweeping. Diligently, steadily, sweep by sweep, let the sweeping become your meditation.”

（摘自《小沙彌遇見劉墉》，木馬文化出版）

作者簡介

劉墉

聞名兩岸的畫家、作家、教育家。出版文學藝術作品一百餘種，被譯為英韓泰越等國文字，在世界各地個展30餘次。

劉軒

作家、講師、DJ、製作人，也是台北「軒言文創」的發行人和北京「學問在線」的教育總監。

劉倚帆

美國哥倫比亞大學及賓州大學華頓商學院研究所畢業。「美國水雲齋文化事業有限公司」總經理，致力推廣中華教育、藝術及文學。