
我经常去圣莫尼卡的图书馆写作。
前几天我去那里办点事,看到一个男人站在那里看书。是新出版的非虚构类书籍。他胸前挂着一块牌子,上面写着“成为爱”。
我问他能不能拍张照片,他欣然同意了。我转身去钱包里拿钱。(他是个无家可归的人——这一点显而易见。圣莫尼卡图书馆附近有很多流浪汉。)我转过身,发现他已经把牌子取下来了。
“拍照免费,”他说,“但你得穿着这身衣服两个小时。我叫大卫,你叫什么名字?”
我请他把牌子系在我的脖子上。他说,如果有人问我牌子上写的是什么,就告诉他:“这是一项要求。”
我给了他一个拥抱和两块钱,然后上楼去写作。当我走到窗边的小桌子旁时,我看到了人们的微笑。爱,爱,爱。我的书中有一部分讲述了我们生命中的信使。大卫的确就是这样一位信使。
他之前也从没用iPhone拍过照片,下面这张我的照片是他拍的第一张。拍得真不错。
当晚晚些时候……
我戴着“Be Love”(成为爱)的牌子去上瑜伽课。我走进教室,问道:“有人能猜到今晚的主题是什么吗?”
大家都觉得这事儿太明显了,都笑了。但是,正如有人课后所说,当她眼里含着泪水走到我面前时,房间里的气氛“柔和了下来”。她原话是这么说的,说她从未见过这样的事。
我一整天都戴着那块牌子,说到做到。那个眼含泪水的女孩说,这堂课就像一首诗,这或许是对我最高的赞美了。
是我干的吗?不,是我胸前的牌子干的。
你看,谁都抵挡不住它的魅力。就连后面那些总觉得我话太多、老爱说“我们能不能就做个下犬式?”的家伙,看到那块牌子也忍不住笑了。它让房间里的气氛都柔和了下来,因为,嗯,爱就是有这种魔力。
无论从哪个角度来看,我们都应该佩戴写着“成为爱”的标志。即使它们是隐形的。即使只有我们自己能看到。
开车去上课的路上,我前面有个家伙,车速远低于限速,转弯也没打转向灯——我当时心里暗骂他“混蛋”。就在车里,我大声骂了出来。这让我自己都笑了。我胸前挂着一块巨大的“BE LOVE”(做个有爱的人)的纸板牌子,居然还在骂一个陌生人是混蛋?
我嘲笑自己,并很快感谢纸板让我保持理智。
珍,要言行一致。
你就是爱。成为爱。或者,就像《绝命毒师》里的杰西会说的那样,“成为爱,哟。”(如果我用了《绝命毒师》的梗,请见谅。我对这部剧太着迷了。)
愿我胸前永远铭刻着爱的印记,无论我是否能看到它。愿我们都能铭记,我们胸前都铭刻着爱的印记。
谢谢你,大卫,我在图书馆遇到的那位无家可归的老人,是他把这份爱传递给了我。亲爱的先生,我希望你知道你做了什么。我亲爱的、善良的先生。我只希望无论你是谁,无论你在哪里,你都能略微意识到这一点。


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LOVE this. I am inspired to try it out myself.
Heh heh, loved the bit in the car, calling someone a jerk and so on. I identify.
I sat a mindfulness retreat again recently and this time, coming back into London life, I have been amazed to learn how often I get very, very grumpy with strangers on the Underground for minor teeny meaningless 'slights'.
Since it happens so frequently, I've decided it could be a wonderful 'be love' training, to just notice myself getting all hot and self righteous over and over again.
A sign around my neck might speed up the work though... very brave of you both to wear it! Thank you for creating the awareness, both of you.
You can't *be* what you haven't *realized* as the result of your *learning, growing and healing* process. The biggest obstacle is, that one holds on an image and make it as part of ones self image, then trying to live it. Believing strongly in it and then trying to find confirmation in ones life by searching for it in ones surrounding. In this way surviving with ones established self image, supported by every thing and every body around, who are stuck in the same illusion... Can someone dare to open ones eyes and see the misery and the endless suffering every where? Isn't this finally a reason to *wake up*?
I absolutely "love" this.
Lovely experience. Thanks for sharing it with us.
..."Be Love", or "Be Lust"...??..I don't know..,I'm getting mixed messages from this...., ( I think there's alot of that goin' around..). Thx anyway.
how do you show your love to chickens? cows? pigs? and other animals