【大纪元4月17日讯】这个夜晚平静祥和，月亮照亮了天空，无数的星星在夜空中眨着眼睛。爱丽莎突然从睡梦中惊醒，她听到卧室门外有些响声。她吓得一动不动，浑身哆嗦，大声喊着妈妈。父母都被她的喊声惊醒了，妈妈一下从床上坐起来，跑到爱丽莎的房里。
一进门，她就看到爱丽莎把脸藏在被子里，她问道：“孩子，发生什么事了？”
听到妈妈的声音，爱丽莎从被子里露出头来说：“妈妈！妈妈！门口有个怪物！长着可怕的牙齿和爪子！” 说着说着，她的眼睛里盈满了泪水。
妈妈转过身去，面对着门口，只见一只白色的小东西飞快的闪过门口。
“一只老鼠。只是一只老鼠啊，爱丽莎。”
妈妈轻声叹了口气。听到妈妈平静的声音，爱丽莎不再躲在被子里，但她还是脸色苍白，心有余悸。她哭着说：“妈妈！刚才就像有只巨兽想冲进门来。”
妈妈对她说：“爱丽莎，屋里肯定没有你说的怪兽。孩子，人们都相信，心里想什么，就会有那样的事情出现。”
爱丽莎仔细的听着妈妈的话。
妈妈接着说：“孩子，不管白天梦想有多么美，到了夜晚，看起来美好的事物，都有可能违背你的心愿，变成可怕的东西。睡梦会把我们害怕的东西变得很大，能把老鼠变成怪兽。我们很多人都把恐惧藏在心里，不愿让别人知道。但是它们会经常活跃起来，进入我们的生活中。”
妈妈又说：“孩子，你能告诉我，藏在你笑容背后让你感到恐惧的东西吗？我希望你能明白，恐惧是很难去掉的。如果不把它说出来，不跟别人分享，它就会变得越来越大，可能都会伴随你一生。我不想让你感到震惊，只想和你分享我的想法。”
妈妈说：“我有个想法，你想知道吗？”爱丽莎把眼睛睁得大大的，不再感到惊恐了。她好奇的问：“妈妈，是什么呀？”
妈妈对她说：“从明天开始，我们说出自己生活中不开心的事，让我们耐心的听，真诚的去讲，用理智来判断。那样，我们就可以消除它们对我们的控制，最后完全去掉它们。当我们逐渐去除了这些东西以后，我们的心胸就变得宽广了，也更能容忍他人。我觉得，发现善是生活中最重要的事。”
“当善的种子散播到各地时，无论时空的间隔有多大，我们永不会分开。真的是这样，正因为有了善，我们和他人才生在这个世上。正因为有善，我们才能怀着最美好的心回归天国。”
爱丽莎静静的听着妈妈说的每句话，观察着自己的内心，似乎领悟到了什么。妈妈把她揽在温暖柔和的臂弯里，接着说：“当我们真正培养自己的善的时候，我们的心就变得坚强起来，恐惧和其他我们内心放不下的东西就不会存在。让我们的心成为美丽的花园，我们精心培育美德的种子，在真理的光辉里一起成长。”
看着妈妈柔和的笑容，爱丽莎心里想她每天都会像妈妈那样，精心培育自己内心深处那个特殊的地方。
母亲把女儿的被子轻轻盖好，心里在想，生命中能有爱丽莎这个上天赐予的礼物，自己是多么幸福啊。
同一个夜晚，爱丽莎很快就进入了甜美的梦乡，她在一个无比美丽而又多少有些似曾相识的花园里畅游。花园各处都开满了颜色鲜艳、芳香四溢的花朵，花园的喷泉流淌的都是最纯净的泉水。很多小孩子围着她玩耍。他们都非常开心，像天使一样，沐浴在最纯净明亮的光晕里。
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)
