Melody Chang: Aspiration Village 渴望村

I appreciate my brother let me to live in his house at Aspiration Village at Longtan, Taiwan. Even I stayed up to a month now I barely went out until today, I went to community center to empty garbage, a mundane task we do everyday. As I walked (doing walking mediation to empty garbage) I suddenly realized how beautiful this community is.

謝謝哥哥讓我暫住渴望村他的房子我呆了一個月中很少出門直到今天去村子倒垃圾在我禪修 “走去倒垃圾“ 中只是一件再平凡不過的事忽然變的不同我 “見“ 到渴望村之美

Today, it is foggy and the air is filled with scent of Camellia blossom. Its mist with rain drop hanging on the tree leaf dancing with the tune of the Sprint breeze. Where is the spring? only in the air quietly remind me. As I walk down the back alley of our house first time, I was surprised to find out how magically it is as if I live in a mythical garden. The meandering path takes me to every surprised turn until I feel I am in a fairy land. A secret garden that only the residents keep with themselves~ I walk in the mist, I let the mist gently caresses my face while I carry these touches to leaves and flowers on the way. I feel I am deeply in tune with them, in the air, my soul~

今天淡淡的霧空氣中充滿茶花的香味小雨滴掛在樹葉花瓣上隨著慢慢腳步的春天帶來的微風遙逸生姿春天在哪兒只有在濃濃的茶花香中預告著要來了要來了第一次我走進了屋後的小徑我為它如同夢幻般的美麗所驚嘆！宛延的小徑帶來每個驚嘆如同是人間仙境原來是被住戶們共同藏起的密秘花園我走在霧中露水輕撫著我的臉我再把它傳給了花朵樹葉宛如我已成為它們的一份子在空氣中我的靈魂～