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~慧侓法师
如果�到别人的赞美时我们就开心，�到别人的批评时我们就烦�， 那我们所有的生命都属于别人的了。
~ 慧侓法师
人所以痛苦， 是在于一直追求错误的东西。
~慧侓法师
Instead of spending all one's spare time in spiritual practice, the ego finds almost endless ways to spend one's spare time, and this is one of the ego's primary preservation strategies. Some examples are television, entertainment, reading, discussing, and thinking. The ego can find thousands of ways to avoid spiritual practice.
If you drop all your unnecessary activities, you will have much more time for spiritual practice.
~ Michael Langford
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~ 慧侓法师
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~慧侓法师
' Pride and self-importance cause us to look down on others and even to disregard or mistreat them. This is a hindrance to our spiritual development. '
' It is pride that makes us mentally compare ourselves to other people we know or meet. When we find that we are in some way better, this fuels our feelings of self-importance: "I'm more intelligent than him...I'm more educated...I'm more talented." When we feel superior to others, we tend to be more critical and judgmental of them. Quietly, in our mind, we make lists of other people's faults and mistakes, and look down on them - as if we had no faults of our own! '
~ Ven. Sangye Khadro, Awakening a Kind Heart
若�是以分别心，妒忌心，傲慢心去批评出家人[或善知识] 的缺点，自己就没办法修行了。
~ 慧侓法师
Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.
~ Dogen Zenji
Self-reliance
By ourselves is evil done
By ourselves we pain endure
By ourselves we cease from wrong
By ourselves we become pure
No one saves us but ourselves
No one can & no one may
We ourselves must walk the path
Buddhas merely show the way.
What truly matters
Remember
What really matters in life is
not wealth, success & power,
fame or glory.
What matters most are qualities of the heart,
such as love, kindness & wisdom.
If you love, even now, with your own heart.
If you are kind to all fellow beings
& if, with each passing day,
you are learning & becoming wiser
then rest assured that your life
is meaningful & worthwhile
& when you die,
as we all must one day
You will be happy knowing that you have not lived in vain
that yours is a life well-lived
a life that is noble & true.
When we talk about truth,
where does truth manifest?
Truth is something that
the mind perceives,
understands.
So, there must be a mind to
understand the truth,
without the mind
there is no truth.
When we talk about
truth or falseness it implies
that somebody understands it.
Truth implies understanding;
understanding
implies the mind,
wisdom.
Actually it is wisdom that understands,
not a person, but wisdom.
Real wisdom understands.
Sayadaw U Jotika
- 清净自己的身��，就是护法。
- 让æ£æ³•çš„僧团和å�ˆï¼Œå°±æ˜¯æœ€å¤§æœ€å¤§çš„护法。
~ 心�法师
å¦ä½›å°±æ˜¯å¦ä¹ é�™è§‚自己，é�™è§‚自己便是忘记自己，忘记自己便是视自己为万物之一。
~ �元禅师
You must learn to guard your mind by maintaining a proper perspective so that any external happenings cannot affect your equilibrium.
~ Ven. Dr. K Sri Dhammananda
When a heart is at peace, all problems go away.
When a mind is still, the myriad things are in harmony.
~ Master Husan Hua
一个时时观察他人过失的人，容易动怒。 �但�能消除他人的污秽，�而会增添自己的污秽。
~ 佛陀
愤怒的人，å�ªå¼ 开嘴巴å�´é—上眼ç�›ã€‚
~ 达摩难陀法师
Intelligence is aided by hidden virtue.
Hidden virtue leads one along the path of intelligence.
Failing to do good deeds in secret, thinking yourself smart,
You end up outsmarting yourselves.
~ Master Hsuan Hua
"è§�性"， 师父刚æ‰�æ‰€ä¼ çš„"å‰�é�¢ä¸€ä¸ªå¿µå¤´è¿‡åŽ»ï¼Œ å�Žé�¢ä¸€ä¸ªå¿µå¤´ä¸�生， 这个ä¸é—´æŠŠå®ƒå»¶
展开æ�¥ï¼Œ æ— é‡�æ— è¾¹"， 这就是è§�性， è§�到自己的佛性， è§�é�“自己的法性。
~ 圣开导师开示录 (第一集)
In an experience of 'no thought' and 'no sense impressions', the Presence will be felt as all-pervading. It is not vast, but all pervading. There is a difference here. Vast denotes great distance. All-pervading denotes infinity... no border... no center.
Further insight of this infinity may allow you to understanding why space, location and distance are merely impressions.
~ Our moderator Longchen
Dzogchen teacher Tenzin Wangyal (1997, 29) points out:
The gap between two thoughts is essence. But if in that gap there is a lack of presence, it becomes ignorance and we experience only a lack of awareness, almost an unconsciousness. If there is presence in the gap, then we experience the dharmakaya [the ultimate].
Guru Padmasambhava, in Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness:
7.Now, when you are introduced (to your own intrinsic awareness), the method for entering into it involves three considerations:
Thoughts in the past are clear and empty and leave no traces behind.
Thoughts in the future are fresh and unconditioned by anything.
And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything, awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary.
And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly (without any discursive thoughts),
Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer;
only a naked manifest awareness is present.
(This awareness) is empty and immaculately pure, not being created by anything whatsoever.
It is authentic and unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness.
It is not permanent and yet it is not created by anything.
However, it is not a mere nothingness or something annihilated because it is lucid and present.
It does not exist as a single entity because it is present and clear in terms of being many.
(On the other hand) it is not created as a multiplicity of things because it is inseparable and of a single flavor.
This inherent self-awareness does not derive from anything outside itself.
This is the real introduction to the actual condition of things.
�以�慈克�愤怒，以贤德克�邪�，慈善克��心，真实克�虚�。
~ 佛陀
æ‰¹è¯„æ˜¯æ— ç›Šçš„ï¼Œå› ä¸ºå®ƒä½¿ 人处于防备状æ€�，令人拼命想ä¿�护自己。批评亦是å�±é™©çš„ï¼Œå› ä¸ºå®ƒä¼¤å®³äººçš„å°Šä¸¥ä¸Žéª„å‚²ï¼Œé€ æˆ�对他人的怨æ�¨ã€‚
但批评也有建设性的一é�¢ï¼Œæˆ‘ä»¬å› è¯¥å€¾å�¬ä»–人对自己的批论，尤其是具 建设性的，并接å�—è‡ªæˆ‘æ”¹å–„çš„æœºä¼šï¼Œæˆ‘ä»¬å› è¯¥æŠ‘åˆ¶è‡ªæ»¡ï¼Œè€Œä¸�对他人批评心怀æ�¨æ„�。
~达摩难陀法师
If you subject your own experiences to a deep investigation, you will discover that it allows itself often to be seen as pure (not coupled to anything) Consciousness, for example in the short moments between two states, between two thoughts, feelings or sensory observations.
You have to admit that there is a pause between two thoughts. If not, there would be a thought that is continuous without interruption. A thought has to come to an end before another can begin. Therefore it can not be denied that even though you may call it a miniscule fragment of a second, the pause between two thoughts exists. What were you then during this pause? Were you in the waking state? No. Were you in the dream state? No. Did you sleep? No. What were you actually then (during this miniscule interruption)? In that moment you were in your real nature.
~ Shri Krishna Menon
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Pay attention to the gap
- the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words
in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap
between the in-breath and the out-breath.
When you pay attention
to those gaps, awareness of ‘'something' becomes - just awareness. The
formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and
replaces identification with form.
~ Eckhart Tolle