Brewing a fragrant land
Brewing a fragrant land
Author: Vu Thuong
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Brewing a Fragrant Land
A Fragrant Land is a "quiet book" about the life experiences of a man who has passed the threshold of forty, a man who claims to have "started his own journey" for a few years. He gave up the life of a veteran freelance reporter and writer (he started writing for newspapers in 1994), to live a much simpler life, which he calls a life of awareness. He began to meditate and study the Book of Changes. He is Vu Thuong .
These are gentle, sweet and cool narrative lines filled with the sounds of life and nature, like the confession of a forty-year-old man who has gone through the storms of life and begun his journey back to himself, like his nostalgia:
"Water flows away. Time flows forward. The age of forty means many memories. Most often, memories of childhood as green as the road to school. And occasionally, memories of first love. Closing my eyes, I lull myself to the melody of time. The wind of memories gently blows in my chest."
The nostalgia for the "fragrant land" of the past, the thoughts on the "wounds of life" that have healed, the contemplations and reflections on six near-death experiences - the moments near death, the conclusions about the relationship of each person with themselves, from which Cultivating a Fragrant Land for one's life to be pure, gentle, less painful, less suffering, that is truly "a moment of silence" for those who hold the book in their hands.
* Those are also profound contemplations about the borrowing and repaying of life:
Life is a loan and a repayment. If you borrow joy, you will repay it with sadness. If you borrow greed, you will repay it with destruction. Everything that exists is a guest in this sky. The tree lends a place to perch on the bird. The bird repays the loan by carrying the seeds away. People who pour impurities into the river will have to drink from the same river.
If anyone reads these lines, it must be fate."
* Throughout the book, it is easy to see a message about his gentle life:
This is an over-sea flight. In case of an accident, the oxygen masks will automatically drop. If you are traveling with a baby or someone else, please put on your mask first, then put on the baby's mask." This reminder is familiar on flights. But even after you have left the plane, every day, this reminder is still calm: I am not okay, I will not take care of anyone. Every normal day is a flight.
* That is also the conclusion of life that he received:
In life, when you are fortunate, you will meet two profound teachers. The first is called Pain, the second is called Awakening. The teacher will show you how to take three steps every day. The first step is to choose a new path, not to be greedy. The second step is to correct yourself, to live lightly. The third step is to keep that, not to lose it. Taking those three steps every day, you will find joy. Helping others reduce suffering, you will be at peace. And so, life always has only one day, which is today. Because yesterday is far away, and tomorrow has not yet come.
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