01.
一个月前，我醒来时看到了一条非常意外的 Facebook 消息。
“谢谢你发给我姐姐的留言……我是雅子的妹妹，我叫聪子。我的姐姐于7月5日在(日本名古屋的)医院里去世了，是因病去世的。我不懂英语，就用网络翻译软件来写。你是我姐姐的朋友吗?”
02.
在这个星球的历史上，我们就像微不足道的火花闪现过。
我们的地球母亲早在我们人类出现之前就已经存在了。我们走后，她还会在这里。
大海每天都会涨潮。潮起潮落。
太阳每天都会升起。哪怕有些日子我们看不到它，它总在那里。
中国有句古话:你赤裸裸地来到这个世界，你也将赤条条地离开。
你在这两个一无所有的时刻之间，拥有的一切，就是你的生活。
而你如何生活，完全是你的选择。
如果我们明白我们无论如何都会死，而这完全不在我们的控制之中，我们倒不如享受它，对吧？
当我准备好离开这个世界时，最重要的是留下的回忆。就像雅子留给我和这个世界的回忆一样。
从陌生人到姐妹，雅子和我一起旅行了整整一年：非洲、斐济、加拿大、夏威夷。作为白金合伙人，我们向安东尼·罗宾学习。
那是我觉醒之旅的开始，愿意敞开心扉，让别人进入我的内心。
03.
尽管在我们白金会员的旅行之后，远隔重洋，但我深切地知道这样的灵魂存在对我而言是莫大的安慰。
八年前，雅子居住在东京，是当时唯一的一位来自日本的白金合伙人。那次旅行一共有105位白金合伙人。
她不愿让语言成为她的障碍，总是全力以赴。
雅子是一名牙医，但她真正热爱的是疗愈。当我闭上眼睛时，我仍能感觉到纯净的天使能量通过她的双手注入我的顶轮。
当时没有人知道她被诊断患有乳腺癌，她保持沉默。人们被她甜美的微笑、柔和美丽能量所吸引。
有一次雅子告诉我，家乡的人有时不理解她；而同频相吸，她在安东尼·罗宾的白金家族中找到了归宿。和我一样，她也被吸引，因为生活的秘诀在于给予。
她的一生就是这样的例子。
04.
想起她，就回忆起我们一起去斐济的美好旅行。安东尼·罗宾教导我们商业大师2级，要求我们组建团队，用我们正在学习的原理为斐济人筹集资金。
在我们团队组建的第一天，有七个人。令人惊讶的是，第二天早上，当选的团队负责人和其他三人没有出席清晨的会议。
没有等待，雅子、我和另一个兄弟 Praveen 决定全心全意地玩游戏，从创建我们的口号“Loloma，我们给予爱！”开始。
在采访了一些当地人后，发现村里的孩子经常冒着倾盆大雨去上学，这在该地区很常见。
最初的目标是筹款500美元，为全村的孩子们买雨衣。四天之后，我们筹集了超过8000美元!!
通常你可以通过如何玩游戏来判断他/她的情况。
“你投入的越多，得到的就越多。”
雅子全力以赴。她自愿担任会计，记录我们收集到的所有捐款。她不知疲倦地把所有的现金——美元、加元、澳元、英镑、欧元、法郎——整理得井井有条，这让我很感动。这次旅行中，我们有来自世界各地的兄弟姐妹。
我们请求酒店的工作人员带我们去最近的小镇购物，大约一小时车程。只有两家小商店出售学习用品。我们花了不到2,000美元买下了所有的雨衣、书包和学习用品。
至于剩下的 6,000 多美元，我们设立了一个基金会，计划用于每年参加安东尼·罗宾在美国举行的全球青年领导力项目。一年后，我收到了第一个被选中的男孩的暖心报告。就像他的父亲和他父亲的父亲一样，这个 16 岁的孩子从未离开过他住的岛上的小村庄。但现在世界正在变化。凭借他学到的技能和结交的朋友，他以一个更强大的领导者的身份回来带领他的人民。
八个月前，我建立了雅典娜姐妹会在Facebook上的群组“成为光BE THE LIGHT”，并邀请雅子加入，她立刻热情地回复了我。
我们一起回忆了斐济人民如何触动了我们的心。斐济人的物质财富很少，但我们遇到的每个人脸上都洋溢着灿烂的笑容。“Bula Bula”是他们打招呼的方式。他们会停下手头的工作，向路过的汽车挥手致意，满心欢喜和自豪地大喊“Bula Bula”。
回到2020年11月，我们仍处于疫情大流行之中。我知道，世界永远不会再回到疫情前的“正常状态”。我们从未生活在如此与世隔绝的环境中。尽管大流行之前，许多人生活在精神隔离之中。
如果我们愿意，每个人可以非常紧密地联系在一起。就像雅子、我和斐济人一样，尽管从未谋面，但我们是志趣相投的灵魂。
05.
记忆是如何产生的呢？
当我们充满真实的情绪活在当下时，就会形成记忆。
只有那些时刻才是真正活过的，不是吗?
这些记忆将组成我真正生活的历程:痛苦的时刻、感激的时刻、有趣的时刻、心跳加速的时刻、害羞的时刻、浪漫的时刻、激情的时刻、淘气的时刻、挑战极限的时刻、恐惧的时刻、冒险的时刻……这个清单可以一直列下去。
爱你，美丽的姐姐。无论你现在在哪里，雅子，“Bula Bula”献给你！
传递给大家满满的爱，
伟丽
A month ago, I woke up to a Facebook message that was so unexpected.
“Thank you for your message to my sister … I am Masako's sister. My name is Satoko. My sister died on July 5th. My sister died in the hospital (in Nagoya Japan). She died of illness. I do not speak English. I use Web Translate to write. Are you a friend of my sister?”
...
We are just a tiny insignificant spark of existence in the history of this planet.
Our mother earth has been here way before we have arrived as a human species. And she will still be here, way after we are gone.
The ocean rises every day. The tide goes up and down.
The sun always comes out. Even if we can’t see it on some days. It is always there.
There is an old Chinese saying: You came naked to this world and you will leave naked.
Whatever you have in between these two naked moments, is your life.
And how you live it, is entirely your CHOICE.
If we understand that we are going to die anyway and that is completely out of our control, we might as well enjoy it, right?
When I'm ready to leave this earth, what really matters are the memories that I leave behind. Just like the memories that Masoko left to me and the world.
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From strangers to sisters, Masako and I spent a whole year traveling together: Africa, Fiji, Canada, Hawaii. We learned from Tony Robbins as platinum partners. That was at the beginning of my awakening journey when I started to open up and let others enter my heart.
After our platinum year, despite being oceans apart, the deep knowing of such a soul's existence has been a great comfort to me.
Masako lived in Tokyo, the only platinum partner from Japan back then, eight years ago. There were 105 platinum partners on the trip.
Never allowing language barriers to stop her, she was always playing full out.
Masako worked as a dentist, but her true passion was healing. When I close my eyes, I can still feel the pure angelic energy that poured through her hands onto my crown chakra.
No one knew that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer back then. She kept it very quiet. People were attracted to her for her sweet smile and soft beautiful energy.
Once Masako told me that people back home sometimes didn’t understand her. Energy seeks its own kind and she found a home in the Tony Robbins’ platinum family. Like myself, she was drawn to it; the secret of living is giving.
And she lived to be an example of that.
Thinking about her brought back beautiful memories of our Fiji trip together. Tony was teaching us Business Mastery Level 2 and we were asked to form teams to raise funds for the Fijian locals using the principles that we were learning.
On the first day of our team formation, there were seven people in our team. Surprisingly, the next morning, the elected team leader and three others didn’t show up to the early morning meeting.
Not waiting around, Masako, myself, and another plat brother, Praveen, decided to play the game with full commitment, starting with creating our slogan “Loloma, we give love!”
After interviewing some locals, we discovered that village kids often go to school in the pouring rain, which is very common in the region.
The initial goal was to raise $500 to buy raincoats for the children in the entire village. Four days later, we raised over $8,000!!!
Often you can tell how a person is by how he/she plays the game. The more you put in, the more you get out of it.
Masako played full out. She volunteered to be the accountant to keep track of all the donations we collected. I was touched by how she worked tirelessly to keep all the cash organized -- US dollars, Canadian dollars, Australia dollars, English pounds, euros, francs, etc. We had brothers and sisters from around the world on this trip.
We petitioned for our hotel staff to take us shopping in the closest town about an hour away. There were only two small stores that carried school supplies. We bought all the raincoats, school backpacks, supplies for less than $2,000.
As for the remaining $6,000+, a fund was set up for an annual attendance to Tony Robbins’s Global Youth Leadership program in the USA. A year later, I received a heartwarming report of the first boy who was elected to go. Just like his father and his father’s father, this 16-year-old had never left his tiny village on the island. But now the world is changing. With the skills that he learned and friends that he made, he came back as a stronger leader to lead his people.
Eight months ago, I set up Athena Sisterhood’s Facebook group “BE THE LIGHT” and invited Masako to join and she responded warmly right away.
Together, we recalled how people in Fiji had touched our hearts. Fijians had very little material possessions, but everyone we encountered had a big smile on their face. “Bula Bula” is how they say hello. They would stop what they were doing in the field and wave to cars passing by and shouting “Bula Bula” with so much joy and pride.
Fast-forward to November 2020, we are still in the shadow of a pandemic. I understand that our world will never go back to the pre-pandemic “normal” again. Never before have we lived in such physical separation. But even before the pandemic, many people were living in separation spiritually.
Yet every one of us can be so connected if we choose to. Just like Masako, me, and the Fijians, even though we never met before, it felt as though we were kindred souls.
How is a memory created?
Memories are formed when we are living in the present moment with intense emotions.
Only those moments are truly lived, are they not?
These memories would be the moments where I have truly lived: painful moments, grateful moments, funny moments, fast heart-beating moments, shy moments, romantic moments, passionate moments, naughty moments, boundary-testing moments, scary moments, risky moments… the list can go on and on.
On my last breath, I wish to smile and recall many of these moments that made this earthly trip worthwhile, like what I'm doing now while celebrating Masako’s beautiful Fijian moments.
Love you, beautiful sister. No matter where you are now Masako, Bula Bula to you.
Love,
WeiLi
