那些給我智慧和勇氣的寓言故事15：真正的勇氣

A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy.

一位父親很為兒子擔(dān)心，雖然兒子已經(jīng)16歲了，卻一點(diǎn)兒勇氣都沒有。于是，父親決定去拜訪一位禪師，請他訓(xùn)練自己的兒子。

The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father,“You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months. However, you can't come to see him during this period.”

禪師對男孩的父親說：“你應(yīng)該把你兒子單獨(dú)留在這里。不出三個(gè)月，我會讓他成為一個(gè)真正的男子漢。不過，在這段時(shí)間，你不能來看他。”

Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer.

三個(gè)月后，男孩的父親又來見禪師。禪師安排這個(gè)男孩和一位經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的拳師進(jìn)行拳術(shù)比賽。

Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a punch knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked,“What do you think of your child?”

拳師每次一出手，男孩都被擊倒在地上，但男孩又馬上站起來;每次被擊倒，他就又站起來。幾個(gè)回合后，禪師問道：“你認(rèn)為你的孩子怎么樣?”

“What a shame!”the boy's father said,“I never thought he would be so easily knocked down. I needn't have him left here any longer.”

“真丟人!”男孩的父親說，“我根本沒想到他是這樣的不堪一擊。我不讓他再留在這里了。”

“I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down; he stands up again instead of crying? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.”

“很遺憾，你只看到了這一點(diǎn)。難道你沒看到他每次倒下后是重新站起來，而不是哭泣嗎?這才是你想要他擁有的那種勇氣。”