那些給我智慧和勇氣的寓言故事15：真正的勇氣
每天讀一點英文之那些給我智慧和勇氣的寓言故事（寓言篇）
15 Real Courage 真正的勇氣
A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy.
一位父親很為兒子擔心，雖然兒子已經16歲了，卻一點兒勇氣都沒有。于是，父親決定去拜訪一位禪師，請他訓練自己的兒子。
The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father,“You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months. However, you can't come to see him during this period.”
禪師對男孩的父親說：“你應該把你兒子單獨留在這里。不出三個月，我會讓他成為一個真正的男子漢。不過，在這段時間，你不能來看他。”
Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer.
三個月后，男孩的父親又來見禪師。禪師安排這個男孩和一位經驗豐富的拳師進行拳術比賽。
Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a punch knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked,“What do you think of your child？”
拳師每次一出手，男孩都被擊倒在地上，但男孩又馬上站起來；每次被擊倒，他就又站起來。幾個回合后，禪師問道：“你認為你的孩子怎么樣？”
“What a shame！”the boy's father said,“I never thought he would be so easily knocked down. I needn't have him left here any longer.”
“真丟人！”男孩的父親說，“我根本沒想到他是這樣的不堪一擊。我不讓他再留在這里了。”
“I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down; he stands up again instead of crying？ That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.”
“很遺憾，你只看到了這一點。難道你沒看到他每次倒下后是重新站起來，而不是哭泣嗎？這才是你想要他擁有的那種勇氣。”
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