【大紀元4月17日訊】這個夜晚平靜祥和，月亮照亮了天空，無數的星星在夜空中眨著眼睛。愛麗莎突然從睡夢中驚醒，她聽到臥室門外有些響聲。她嚇得一動不動，渾身哆嗦，大聲喊著媽媽。父母都被她的喊聲驚醒了，媽媽一下從床上坐起來，跑到愛麗莎的房裡。
一進門，她就看到愛麗莎把臉藏在被子裡，她問道：「孩子，發生甚麼事了？」
聽到媽媽的聲音，愛麗莎從被子裡露出頭來說：「媽媽！媽媽！門口有個怪物！長著可怕的牙齒和爪子！」 說著說著，她的眼睛裡盈滿了淚水。
媽媽轉過身去，面對著門口，只見一只白色的小東西飛快的閃過門口。
「一只老鼠。只是一只老鼠啊，愛麗莎。」
媽媽輕聲歎了口氣。聽到媽媽平靜的聲音，愛麗莎不再躲在被子裡，但她還是臉色蒼白，心有餘悸。她哭著說：「媽媽！剛才就像有只巨獸想衝進門來。」
媽媽對她說：「愛麗莎，屋裡肯定沒有你說的怪獸。孩子，人們都相信，心裏想甚麼，就會有那樣的事情出現。」
愛麗莎仔細的聽著媽媽的話。
媽媽接著說：「孩子，不管白天夢想有多麼美，到了夜晚，看起來美好的事物，都有可能違背你的心願，變成可怕的東西。睡夢會把我們害怕的東西變得很大，能把老鼠變成怪獸。我們很多人都把恐懼藏在心裏，不願讓別人知道。但是它們會經常活躍起來，進入我們的生活中。」
媽媽又說：「孩子，你能告訴我，藏在你笑容背後讓你感到恐懼的東西嗎？我希望你能明白，恐懼是很難去掉的。如果不把它說出來，不跟別人分享，它就會變得越來越大，可能都會伴隨你一生。我不想讓你感到震驚，只想和你分享我的想法。」
媽媽說：「我有個想法，你想知道嗎？」愛麗莎把眼睛睜得大大的，不再感到驚恐了。她好奇的問：「媽媽，是甚麼呀？」
媽媽對她說：「從明天開始，我們說出自己生活中不開心的事，讓我們耐心的聽，真誠的去講，用理智來判斷。那樣，我們就可以消除它們對我們的控制，最後完全去掉它們。當我們逐漸去除了這些東西以後，我們的心胸就變得寬廣了，也更能容忍他人。我覺得，發現善是生活中最重要的事。」
「當善的種子散播到各地時，無論時空的間隔有多大，我們永不會分開。真的是這樣，正因為有了善，我們和他人才生在這個世上。正因為有善，我們才能懷著最美好的心回歸天國。」
愛麗莎靜靜的聽著媽媽說的每句話，觀察著自己的內心，似乎領悟到了甚麼。媽媽把她攬在溫暖柔和的臂彎裡，接著說：「當我們真正培養自己的善的時候，我們的心就變得堅強起來，恐懼和其他我們內心放不下的東西就不會存在。讓我們的心成為美麗的花園，我們精心培育美德的種子，在真理的光輝裡一起成長。」
看著媽媽柔和的笑容，愛麗莎心裏想她每天都會像媽媽那樣，精心培育自己內心深處那個特殊的地方。
母親把女兒的被子輕輕蓋好，心裏在想，生命中能有愛麗莎這個上天賜予的禮物，自己是多麼幸福啊。
同一個夜晚，愛麗莎很快就進入了甜美的夢鄉，她在一個無比美麗而又多少有些似曾相識的花園裡暢遊。花園各處都開滿了顏色鮮艷、芳香四溢的花朵，花園的噴泉流淌的都是最純淨的泉水。很多小孩子圍著她玩耍。他們都非常開心，像天使一樣，沐浴在最純淨明亮的光暈裡。
The night was calm and countless stars glistened in the moonlit sky. Suddenly, Alicia woke to the sound of something outside her bedroom door. She cried out as she lay very still, huddled and trembling with fear. Her mother and father were startled. Mother rose from her pillow and hurried to her daughter’s room. As she entered, Alicia was hidden between the sheets.
“What is the matter my child?” said mother.
Alicia, hearing her mother’s soothing voice, slowly emerged from hiding, pale from her ordeal only moments before.
“Mummy, it sounded like a huge monster was trying to enter my room!” Alicia cried.
“Alicia, there is certainly no such creature here my child,” said mother.
Tears began to fill Alicia’s eyes. As mother turned to the entrance of the room, she noticed a small, white creature dashing across the floor.
“A mouse, it is only a mouse, Alicia,” mother sighed.
“Dear child, your imagination which is ever so beautiful by day, can by night, turn against your innocence, changing into something that appears frightening to you. Our thoughts can magnify fears into something much larger, such as a mouse into a monster! It is common for many of us to hide our fears away, keeping them to ourselves. In time, however, they can rise again, finding a life of their own.”
Alicia listened carefully to her mother’s words.
“My child, may I ask you to speak of any fears that might be quietly hiding behind your delightful smile. Please understand that fears are difficult to let go of, and if not shared or discussed, can grow even larger and be carried into our later life. I don’t wish to alarm you, only to share my thoughts with you. I have an idea,” said mother.
“What is it mummy?” Alicia’s eyes widened and further softened.
“From today, let us share these fears that come to cloud us, and if we can be patient and honest with each other and discuss them rationally, then we have the chance to lessen their hold and remove them completely. When fears are fewer, our hearts can have greater room for other people. It is finding compassion that is more important than anything else in life. Indeed, it is because of compassion that we and all beings are born. When its seeds are many, we can never be apart, no matter the time or distance. It is because of compassion that we can return to the heavens with the greatest heart of all!” said mother.
Alicia, now attempting to look inside her own heart, understood something of her mother’s words. Mother then folded her daughter into her warm and tender embrace.
“Let us strengthen ourselves in the knowing that fears cannot grow where compassion is cultivated and truly nurtured. May our hearts be like a beautiful garden where we can tend to the seeds of virtue and continue to grow together in the light of truth!”
Alicia’s eyes now met her mother’s gentle smile, thinking to herself that every day she would tend to her special place deep within her own heart. Mother tucked her daughter into bed and thought how fortunate she was to have such a precious gift as Alicia in her life.
Alicia drifted into a delightful dream that same night, where she strolled through a most beautiful, and somehow, familiar garden. Its surrounds were filled with the most colourful and perfumed flowers, and fountains from which the purest of sparkling water flowed. Many small children gathered around her to play, joyful and all shining like the moon with the brightest of white light.@(http://www.dajiyuan.com)
