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虽然无力举手抬脚‧换心妈妈坚持煮给夫女吃

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长女符瀠井和三女儿瀠丹,每天下午2时从学校回家,都要与妈妈陈颐袀嬉闹一番。(图:光明日报)

(吉隆坡讯)家庭主妇陈颐袀两年前祸不单行,她在诞下第四胎后,被诊断患上围產期心肌病,数个月后左半身又中风,一度令她活在绝望之中。原本以為等心无望,更遑论换心,但上天待她不薄,在她耐心等候近一年后,就安排有缘人“送心”给她,让她得以继续当个称职的妈妈和妻子。

从今年2月踏出国家心臟中心后,陈颐袀一直小心翼翼呵护著这颗得来不易的心臟,虽然换心手术使她的肢体欠灵活且动作缓慢,加上举手抬脚不易,但她在过去半年来可是閒不下来。她不但忙著研究食谱、烹煮佳餚满足家人口腹之欲,同时也忙著照顾和教导孩子、忙著进行復健治疗,以及“忙著”适应善心者捐出的心臟。时间对她而言,严重不够用。儘管忙碌的生活将她压得喘不过气来,但她却乐此不疲,只因活著就是一种福气。

陈颐袀是继郑慧仪之后,国内第二名成功换心的病患。这颗心臟,相信是遇车祸脑死的17岁少年吴凯旋捐给她的。

寻求更多关于吴凯旋资料的,请阅‘大马‧吴凯旋遗爱人间‧1心2肾救3人’ http://www.mediachinese.com/node/1247
 
谈起重生的过程,陈颐袀接受《光明日报》访问时形容,从一个正常生活40年的人,到经歷生死边缘,必须依赖机器心臟维持生命,至成功换心,有机会恢復正常人的生活,短短两年的光景,可是她人生的一个大转折。

“打了一个转回来,生活似乎好像回到原点,可是当中确是出现巨大改变。在我的体内,掛著的是好心人赠予的心臟,我必须适应、好好珍惜和呵护它,不让它受到伤害。至於我的躯体,我必须接受它暂时难以恢復以前敏捷的现实,学习放慢步伐去生活。”

她说, 她每天都在学习如何重新再生活。

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All existence would be perfect 完美的存在

By Drawing and artwork, Wisdom
All existence would be perfect - by CJ

All existence would be perfect - by CJ

I remember reading this story from a book:

Once was an Indian guru giving a talk. He said, “Life is perfect, everything is wonderful.”

Speaking of that, a hunchback man in the audience stood up and opposed, “Look at me, guru. I am the evidence of imperfection. I overthrew your statement that life’s perfect. Look at me again, I am a hunchback, I am so ugly, and I am so useless.”

The guru looked at him, said solemnly, “Dear friend, you are the most beautiful hump I’ve ever seen.”

We often feel that we are imperfect and unsatisfy with our current life. In fact, it is based from our own judgment. Open the hearts and all existence would be perfect.

中文版:

有位印度大师正在讲道:他说生命是完美的,每样东西都是完美的。

当他讲述到此,突然有一位驼背的听众站起来抗议:“看看我,我就是那个生命不完美的证明.看看我,我的存在推翻了你那生命完美的概念。看看我,我是多么的丑陋,多么的不方便,我是一个驼背的人。”

大师目视着他,然后郑重地说:“你是我看过最完美的驼背人。”

其实我们常常觉得自己不完美,那是来自于自己的判断,来自于自己的想法。敞开心胸,所有的存在都将是完美的。

Why animal rights?

By Compassion, Wisdom
Newborn (by Yannis Charatsidis)

Newborn (by Yannis Charatsidis)

“The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?'”
– Jeremy Bentham

Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. Many of us bought our beloved “pets” at pet shops. We had guinea pigs and kept beautiful birds in cages. We wore wool and silk, ate McDonald’s burgers, and even fished. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question “Why should animals have rights?”

In his book Animal Liberation, Peter Singer states that the basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration. This is an important distinction when talking about animal rights. People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is “Yes!” Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation. Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being’s rights, “The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?'” In that passage, Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration. The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic, like the capacity for language or higher mathematics. All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take those needs into account.

Supporters of animal rights believe that all animals have an inherent worth—a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans. We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering. Animal rights is not just a philosophy—it is a social movement that challenges society’s traditional view that all nonhuman animals exist solely for human use. As PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.”

Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves. Whether it’s based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable. If you wouldn’t eat a dog, why eat a pig? Dogs and pigs have the same capacity to feel pain, but it is prejudice based on species that allows us to think of one animal as a companion and the other as dinner.

[source: http://www.petaasiapacific.com/issues-animalrights.asp]

I’m poor but happy, says lotto girl who blew £2million on flash cars, breast implants and drugs

By Compassion, Wisdom
cheque-out: Shopworker Callie Rogers's big win in year 2003 (photo from www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/)

cheque-out: Shopworker Callie Rogers's big win in year 2003 (photo from www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/)

When Callie Rogers won almost £2million on the lottery aged 16, she hoped it would help her put her troubles behind her.

The teenager came from a broken home, had dropped out of school and was living in local authority care.

But instead she became addicted to drugs and attempted suicide three times as her life unravelled.

She says the money brought her only misery – and now she is down to her last £100,000, she has never been happier.

Now 22, she said: ‘Just a few months ago I was taking too many drugs and hated myself.

‘I simply did not want to live any more.

‘But now I have a new man and am finally becoming the woman I want to be.

‘And it’s only after I’ve spent most of my fortune that this has finally happened.’

Miss Rogers, from Cockermouth, Cumbria, won £1.9million on the National Lottery in 2003.

She went on a massive spending spree, splashing out on four homes for her family, flash cars, designer clothes, partying and breast implants.

A fortnight after her win she met unemployed Nicky Lawson, 29.

They have a five-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter.

But during their relationship she spent £250,000 on cocaine.

She suffered depression and tried to take her life, the final time earlier this year after losing custody of her children because of her mental state.

She told Closer magazine, in which she poses nude with only banknotes to preserve her modesty, that she was determined to win them back.

‘I’ve made an appointment to see a doctor as I need help to deal with my depression,’ she said.

‘I need to get my act together and make my kids proud, and for the first time I really do think that’s possible.’

She credits her new boyfriend with giving her the stable home life she has always craved, and she now hopes to go to college and eventually become a counsellor.

‘After all I’ve endured, I think I have a lot of advice to offer,’ she said.

[source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1303665/Lotto-girl-Callie-Rogers-blew-2m-flash-cars-breast-implants-drugs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml]