But joke aside. Don't you find it an irony? When you were young, you want to look more mature...be it "lady-like" or "manly". You may be tempted to dye your hair to the trend of the times, or perhaps trim to an 'outrageous-your mum will scream in horror' kind of style? But it really puzzles me that why would any one want to dye their hair white!
What's more ironic is when you get old (older), you would dye it to a more youthful color like black (for Asians) to cover those o-so-ugly whites/greys. But this is understandable. I mean, who wants to look old? (not me?)
This thought reminds me of the "yin-yang" symbol.
It looked like 2 fishes if you may, 'chasing' each other's tail, with each having a little quality of each other (the white dot and the black dot).. It seems too that it is a cycle of birth and death cycle, constantly renewing itself. Much like a parent ages while her child matures from a baby to adulthood.. and the cycle renews again; with the child getting married and having child(ren) of her own.
In life, we do not noticed the passing of time as we are engrossed in our fanatic routine, more "zombie-like" as we are always in automatic mode. We pinned our eyes on our handphone more than on people and things around us; in addition we are conditioned to think of what it means to be "happy". We were conditioned to this frame of mind through many ages (rebirths) of upbringing and the 'norm' that the society sets itself (car, big house, beautiful wife/capable husband, money, power, status...). We do not take time to reflect/meditate/think or rethink about our life (Or are we afraid to take charge of our life and live life as we really want it to be?)
We are chasing the elusive thing called 'happiness' outside of us. But once we got what we want, the 'happiness' is gone again like a fluttering butterfly and once again we are chasing again the next 'new' desire.
"Buddha" when loosely translated means "The Great Enlightened One". He is able to 'see' and understand what is permanent or impermanent, what is eternal and what is transient. The only difference between a Buddha and a layman is that one has awakened to the Truth; while the other is still "dreaming in a dream"... what do you think?
头发，没什么特别啊？可是我们往往在少年时期，都希望看起来成熟一点；把头发染成七彩或修剪成让人“惊艳”的发型。但是当我们一天天老化时，就只想把灰白的头发染黑，看起来年轻一点。这也没什么，谁会想看起来老老的？
黑与白，让我想起“阴阳”。看起来好像是两条黑、白小鱼互相追逐。黑中有白，白中有黑。有如父生子，子生子。。代代相传。子长，父老。有长有消，有生有灭。。这就是人生。
人最要追求的，莫过“幸福、快乐”。这个让每个人穷一生追求的“快乐”，似乎是一只想咬住自己尾巴的狗一样，到头来一场空。如梦似蝶!为何人类不能如愿以偿呢？只因“人心不足”，追求外在的快乐是短暂的。得到之后，又有新目标，永无止息！
佛陀为“大觉者”，因他历经千万已对人间世态冷暖，人情百态，如人饮水了如指掌。惟众生视假为真，颠倒错乱，如行尸走肉，麻醉与五花八门，全无意愿自拔。佛与众生差别，只谓“一悟、一迷”之间。待三寸气断，尤不知“谁是我，我是谁”，空来人间走一回。人生最可悲之事，莫过“空渡光阴”，不知回头和以短暂生命，成己成人。。叹！数多人仍做着他的梦中梦！劝！人人能速觅明路，调心正己。“快乐人生”由内而外，转识为智，处处便是净土，人人都是菩萨；您说呢？
Side thought: We should start looking at our life and make a change. Doing the same thing everyday, will only yield the SAME results. A change in yourself will bring about a new perspective towards life, people, environment and events.
