日子真易过

自有高龄会日子真易过
朋来友往生活不再感寂寞

自有高龄会日子真易过
谈天说笑无聊空虚远离

纵然岁月催人老
尽管青春去不返
只要生活不留白
此生也就不空过

走入高龄所日子真易过
我的心开朗我的情也有所托

纵然世事多変幻
尽管人生无常
只要珍惜当下
此生也就不遣憾

走入高龄所日子真易过
一起来经营一同享受乐龄乐

2000 年2月填词, 迎接千禧龙年
献给高龄的朋友们

调取自 - 如果没有你 (作詞：陸麗 作曲：莊宏)

乐龄良辰曲

乐龄日在时光隧道辗转又悄悄莅临
我们热忱地祝良辰日不让它轻易逝
高歌迎接十月一日举杯道贺诉衷情啊
友谊蓓蕾良辰绽开啊

今日良辰别具寓意乐龄的晚景怎样?
烛光随风在眼前摇晃触动无限忆想
引吭庆祝乐龄日载歌载舞情难禁啊
拥抱良辰愁绪不再啊乐龄

2000 年8月填词

调取自 - 月光小亱曲 (周蓝萍)

乐龄日之歌

(十月一日为国际乐龄日)

乐龄日欣然来到了
缘聚乐陶陶今日的心境分外好
样样都顺瞧

乐龄日欢叙喜洋洋
祈个好愿望互祝福寿愿拥安康
乐龄情谊长

Chorus:
但愿乐龄者生活得美好
但愿乐龄日启递着孝道
盼今后吹起敬老潮乐龄幸福绕
享天伦自在喜安老年年贺今朝

Repeat Chorus

2000 年9月填词

调取自田园之歌 (姚敏)

See original lyrics here

高/乐龄组织好棒

高/乐龄组织是多么的好
高/乐龄组织是多么的棒
为我们带来許多的活动
让我们陶醉在欢愉中

高/乐龄组织是多么的好
高/乐龄组织是多么的棒
晨运气功使精神饱满
唱歌舞蹈令身心舒畅

Chorus:
高/乐龄所求是安康
高/乐龄所盼是无恙
高/乐龄组织的硧好棒
带动着我们开创康乐的天地 (嘿)

高/乐龄组织是多么的好
高/乐龄组织是多么的棒
为我们带来无限的欢乐
让我们的心态不会老

Repeat Chorus and Verse 3

1998 年7月填词

调取自 - 少年的我 (李七牛)

Find out about the original song and lyrics here

Lightly Exploring Gratitude (Translation)

(See entry below for the original article)

My topic of inquiry for the fellow students of 8^th graduation class of Yuk Choy High School, in its 50^th anniversary newsletter, is gratitude – to cherish is gratitude and is somewhat emotional.

It emotional because, in half a century of life, filled with love, anger, sadness and happiness, how many names can we still remember? How many faces can we still recall? In the ephemeral and changing impermanent world, 50 years in the context of a short lifespan, can be seen as a long river.

At the anniversary celebration hall, meeting friends and classmates who I have not seen for 50 years, is a happy event. It invoked “we thought we would never see one another again” happiness in us (indeed, some of our classmates have already passed away). We are very grateful to the organizing committee who brought us this historic event, creating for us this opportunity to meet.

Recently in the 2^nd edition of the alumni newsletter, I read about the thankgiving story of schoolmate Kwang Yen. The noble bare-foot monk helped her sickness and yet never asked anything for himself, is deeply touching.

Gratitude, expressing from the bottom of our hearts what we most sincerely cherish and respect as well as our blessings; Gratitude, makes our spirit graceful; Gratitude, is friendship and brotherhood.

I encourage everyone to live with the attitude of gratitude. Deal with your family, life partner, siblings, relatives and friends with heartfelt gratitude. It is a privilege to have them in your life. Buddhists said ten years of cultivation brings shared journeys; hundreds years, shared lives as spouse; and thousands years, blood relationships. Therefore we should cherish the relationships that fate brought us. Live with each other with the attitude that start from tolerance, temperance, forgiveness… … to letting go, acceptance and contentment, (see notes below) otherwise know as the attitude of gratitude.

Due to the lack of gratitude, families strife leads to the loss of harmony and tenderness; couples became estranged or divorced; siblings cannot get along and became strangers to each other; relatives and friends turned into bitter enemies and hurt one another…

Gratitude – nurture and inform our lives. In expressing gratitude with our daily words and actions, we elevate our inner spirit.

When you awake in the morning, and find that you can move, walk, take care of yourself… be happy. That attitude is nurturing, it is also of gratitude.

Let us cultivate that attitude!

Klang, 2 September 2009

Notes (Only a short description for mutual exploration)

Tolerance: Tolerate even in difficult situations, learn to accept defeat, accept being number two, and you will be rewarded well. As the saying goes – holding back momentary leads to long term peacefulness.

Temperance: In any matters which you are not happy with, do not anger, blame or betray.

Forgiveness: Don’t be harsh and petty. Go easy on others when they made mistakes. Some said, forgiving others is an act of self-love.

Letting go: Once it is settled, let it be. A heart without lingering resentments is the freest.

Acceptance: For events that have happened and things that you can’t change, accept them.

Contentment: Cherish the moment. In all matters, step back to reconsider, happiness will follow.

淺谈感恩 (Gratitude)

我对育才高中第八届毕业同学，庆祝５０周年通讯录主题：恩－怀念就是恩，有所感触。

感触半个世纪的岁月里， 在喜怒哀乐交替的生活中，还能记得多少同窗的姓名? 多少同窗的面孔? 瞬间可变的无常，５０年对短暂的人生，可是一条长河。

５０周年金禧庆典里，跟某些隔别了５０年的师长或同窗重逢，虽不至说 “宛如隔世” ，卻多多少少兴起了 “以为此生不能再见” 的情怀。(不是吗? 有好多同窗已不在世了) 不禁对筹办这历史性聚会的諸多学长，给我们造就的机会，感恩有加。

近日收到通讯简报第二期，拜读光燕同学那篇感恩的故事，敘述她对赤脚和尚救渡病患的博大神通，施惠不受报的高风亮节，感恩不已。

感恩，表达了内心衷誠的怀念，敬意和祝福; 感恩，美化了心靈; 感恩，有情有義。

我祝愿人们把感恩心融入生活。用感恩心来和家人, 配偶, 兄弟姊妹, 亲戚朋友… … 相处。感恩今生具有如此关系, 如此因缘, 是前生修来的缘份。佛家有说: 十年修得同船渡，百年修得共枕眠，千年修得血脉缘。可见缘份殊胜应珍惜。相处由忍让, 包容, 宽恕 … … 到放下, 接受, 知足 … [P.S. 註:] 即是感恩的生活态度。

由于不感恩, 许多家庭纷争失了和谐，失了亲情; 许多夫妻成了怨偶或离异; 许多兄弟姊妹水火不相容，情同陌路 ; 亲友反目成仇，互相攻击…。

感恩，是生活的涵养，生活的智慧。表现在日常对人对事的言行上，提升了生活的素质。

每早醒来，能动，能走，能自理… … 便很开心满足了。如此心境，是养生，也是感恩。

大家一起来修吧!

2009年9月2日于吧生寒舍

P.S. 註: 只简释，大家可以发表见解。

忍让: 艰忍要忍。学吃亏，认第二，总有好收获。谁不知 “忍一时风平浪静” 的道理?
包容: 对不满意的事情，不要动辄指责或变脸。
宽恕: 不苛求。别人犯错时也自省。有说: 原谅别人，就是等于善待自己。
放下: 看开就是了。心无挂碍最自在。
接受: 对已发生的事，不可能改变的事… … 要接受。
知足: 珍惜当下。凡事退一步想，幸福感随即涌现。