一揮而就的圓形，構成至高的心靈境界。

一行禪師（Thích Nhat Hanh）是國際知名的佛門龍象，除此之外，他更是一位詩人和書法家。禪師曾說，在他的書法中，有墨、有茶、有呼吸、有正念、有定心，書法就是禪修。書法對一般人而言是熏陶性情的活動，然而禪師卻視它為將心凝留在當下的修行法門。一筆一畫，那無絲毫紛雜妄念的禪定功夫，盡現世人眼前。

他的作品多數是小幅的，而且以英文為主，雖然偶爾會用中文寫下「無事」、「正心」，但那畢竟只是神秘的驚喜。寥寥數筆，禪師以墨靜觀天地，勾起我們對快樂和幸福的憧憬──”this is it”，短短三個詞，收攝十方真理，我們就在當下，當下就是此處，是生命的真諦。

禪師常要求我們微笑，所謂 “smile” 是也。人生太多苦楚，數不盡的煩惱，如熾火般炙燙我們，那有餘裕微笑？禪師於是又說，”breathe, smile”，先靜心呼吸，將一切不愉快的感覺拋開，專注於鼻息上，然後嘴角向兩邊掀動，你會發現，笑容一直與自己同在。

我們是一體的。襌師憶述他常收到來自各地難民營的信件，字裏行間充滿痛苦。正因為關心，我們很輕易便感到義憤填膺，渴望對施暴者報復，然而一旦你這樣做時，大家又有何分別呢？在生命最深處，你、我、他三者並無差別。襌師受這種感覺啟發，寫出以下這首詩:

Please Call Me by My True Names

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.

I am a mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am a frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin a bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay
his debt of blood to, my people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up
and the door of my heart
could be left open,
the door of compassion.

襌師的語言溫柔而強大，千錘百鍊成就出一滴又一滴的正念，喚醒我們周邊蟄伏著有待爆發的奇蹟種子，共同閃耀生命的光輝。

同頌 禪師永住！