Painting Spring

Breathe! You Are Alive

Breathe and you know that you are alive.
Breathe and you know that all is helping you.
Breathe and you know that you are the world.

Breathe and you know that the flower is breathing too.
Breathe for yourself and you breathe for the world.
Breathe in compassion and breathe out joy.

Breathe and be one with the air that you breathe.
Breathe and be one with the river that flows.
Breathe and be one with the earth you earth that you tread.
Breathe and be one with the fire that glows.
Breathe and you break the thought of birth and death.
Breathe and you see that impermanence is life.

Breathe for your joy to be steady and calm.
Breathe for your sorrow to flow away.
Breathe to renew every cell in your blood.
Breathe to renew the depths of consciousness.
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.
Breathe and all you touch is new and real.
~Sister Annabel

呼吸，你知道你還活著。
呼吸，你知道一切都在幫助你。
呼吸，你知道你就是這個世界。
呼吸，你知道花朵也在呼吸。
為你自己呼吸，為世界呼吸。
吸進慈悲，呼出喜悅。

呼吸，和你吸進的空氣合而為一。
呼吸，和流動的溪流合而為一。
呼吸，和你踩踏的土地合而為一。
呼吸，和發光的火合而為一。
呼吸，打破生死的概念。
呼吸，你看到無常即是生命。

為你的喜悅呼吸，使之安穩平靜。
為你的悲傷呼吸，使之流走。
呼吸，讓你的血液中每個細胞更新。
呼吸，讓你的意識深處復活。
呼吸，你安住當下此時此刻。
呼吸，你所觸及皆是新奇與真實的。

Sister Annabel 是我們梅的長老，現為我們德國應用學院校長