耐Patience
耐、心无旁骛，是我在看《大家》栏目国学大师饶宗颐听到的。
他是国学领域真正的大师, 学贯中西, 博古通今。他与钱钟书先生并称为“南饶北钱”, 又与季羡林先生并称为“南饶北季”。
意外的，昨晚没有失眠。我一直说，我想过的是那种平和的、淡定的、从容的生活。可是事实上并不是，我一直左右摇摆，我某段时间可以很单纯的过我想过的生活，可是很快我又会陷入某种情结或者情绪中。
习惯性失眠已经很久了，可是昨晚我睡的很好很好。因为在这位年逾九十的老人的脸上，在他的谈话中我看到了我一直向往的平和与安宁。
我该做点什么了，是不是？
Patience, and a mind undistracted: that is what I heard while watching Rao Zongyi, the master of Chinese classical studies, on the program Dajia.
He is a true master in the field of classical Chinese learning, versed in both Chinese and Western scholarship, at home in past and present alike. He and Mr. Qian Zhongshu are named together as “Rao in the South, Qian in the North,” and he and Mr. Ji Xianlin as “Rao in the South, Ji in the North.”
Unexpectedly, I didn’t lie awake last night. I have always said the life I want is a peaceful, unruffled, unhurried one. But in fact it isn’t so; I keep swinging from side to side. For a stretch I can live, quite simply, the life I want to live, but soon enough I sink back into some knot of feeling or some mood.
The habitual insomnia has been with me a long time, yet last night I slept well, so very well. Because on the face of this old man past ninety, and in the way he spoke, I saw the peace and calm I have always longed for.
It’s time I did something, isn’t it?
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