Suffering is due to attachments and expectations, to grasping and clinging. I was told many years ago to let go of my hair for the cancer patients who are desperate for real hair to make wigs. This sounded indifferent to me until I met a cancer patient student and witnessed how she had suffered and what would have real hair meant to her. Nothing last forever, not even my beautiful hair. Why is it difficult for me to just to let it go ? I have been contemplating on four truths of buddhism, one practice of cessation of suffering is simply to let go. Namaste.
很多年前，有學生跟我說:老師，妳頭髮很漂亮，可以捐出去給癌友當假髮。 當時我心想: 我連自己都照顧無暇了，那裡還有精神把頭髮留那麼長送給別人。 更何況頭髮剪短每天翹，不是給自己添麻煩?
多年前，又有學生跟我說:老師妳頭髮很漂亮，有很多癌友會羨慕妳有這樣的頭髮，可以捐出去。當時說這些話的學生正準備化療。 我目睹了她把頭髮剪成男生頭做準備，之後還戴了一陣子假髮。 頭髮倒不是最令人心生憐憫的，而是化療患者的臉色真的很難看，體力真的很差。
一顆種子在我心中萌芽:自己與生俱來有的常以為是理所當然，在別人眼中卻是奢侈的美好。
終於，機緣和時間都到了。 這次落髮是一項練習 斷、捨、離的課題。 完成了一項功課。 心很安。
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