Daily Buddhist Verses

• cycle

  9 Jan 09, 21:48

  烦�生起时，我�识入�迷惑之中。

  烦�消�，我�识入�觉悟之中。

  所谓：

  烦����，��於烦�中显现。

  请记�：

  ���是烦�，而是烦�的�破�

   

  ~ 白云禅师

   

• cycle

  12 Jan 09, 12:45

  我们的压力大多是因为没有接�事实，我们总是希望�生的事情，自己或别人都与实际的情况��。然而眼�所�生的事就是事实。与其抗拒它而让自己产生焦虑，�如接�并应付它。接�事实并�顺应天命，而是采�实际的�度。接�了现状之�，我们还�以在将��试去改�它，并对其改�的�能性��实际的�度。

  通过修习数�观能使心平�下�，也�以�轻压力，修习安�与悲心也有�样的效果，�悔业障也有帮助，因此，�天进行修�能够防止并对治压力。

   

   ~ 士丹å�´å‡†æ³•å¸ˆ

• An Eternal Now

  17 Jan 09, 13:47

  How hard it can be to turn our attention within! How easily we allow our old habits and set patterns to dominate us! Even though they bring us suffering, we accept them with almost fatalistic resignation, for we are so used to giving in to them. We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
  
  Still, reflection can slowly bring us wisdom. We may, of course, fall back into fixed repetitive patterns again and again, but slowly we can emerge from them and change.
  
  Sogyal Rinpoche

• Isis

  19 Jan 09, 16:10

  心五四�动�的�点：
   
  四安���人�的主张─
   
  安心：在生活中少慾知足。
  安身：在生活勤劳简朴。
  安家：在家庭中相爱相助。
  安业：在身����的清净精进。
   
  「四��安定人心的主张─
   

  需�的─��
  想�的─���
  能��该�的─��
  �能���该�的─�对��
   
  「四它�解决困境主张─

  �对它：正视困难存在，�自欺欺人。
  接�它：接�困难事实，�怨天尤人。
  处�它：用智能处�事情，用慈悲对待他人。
  放下它：尽心尽力就好，�计�败得失。
   
  「四感�与人相处的主张─感��感谢�感化�感动

  感�：使我们�长的一切顺逆因缘。
  感谢：给我们奉献��务的机会。
  感化：用佛法感化自己。知惭愧�常�悔，以慈悲智能�感化自己。
  感动：用行为感动他人。从自己�起，以自己学佛的悲智�感动人。

   
  「四��增进�祉的主张─知��惜��培����
   

  知�；知��能知足�知足�能常�。
  惜�：�惜拥有�感�图报。
  培�：享����培�有�。
   
  ��：�长自己�广��田�人人有�。

• Isis

  19 Jan 09, 16:33

  Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
  Aitken Roshi

  The greatest achievement is selflessness.
  The greatest worth is self-mastery.
  The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
  The greatest precept is continual awareness.
  The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
  The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
  The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
  The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
  The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
  The greatest patience is humility.
  The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
  The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
  The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
  Atisha

  In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
  Bankei

  The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
  Bassui

• An Eternal Now

  24 Jan 09, 14:10

  The Buddha's true Dharmakaya,
  Is like unto empty space,
  Manifesting shape in accordance with objects,
  Just as the [reflection of the] moon in water.

  ~ Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra (Golden Light)

  and

  Dogen Zenji's Shobo Genzo

• An Eternal Now

  24 Jan 09, 16:27

  When you open your eyes, that’s the world seeing itself. When you listen, that’s the world hearing itself. When you touch, that’s the world touching itself. When you taste, that’s the world tasting itself. The world is conscious through you.

  ~ Adyashanti

• An Eternal Now

  26 Jan 09, 16:33

  Zen Master Chinul:
  
  The self-nature is just your own mind. What other expedients do you need? If you ask for expedients to seek understanding you are like a person who, because he does not see his own eyes, assumes that he has no eyes and decides to find some way to see. Since he does have eyes how else is he supposed to see? If he realizes that he has never lost his eyes, this is the same as seeing his eyes, and no longer would he waste his time trying to find a way to see....Your own numinous awareness is exactly the same. Since this awareness is your own mind, how else are you going to understand? If you seek some other way to understand, you will never understand.

• cycle

  29 Jan 09, 12:37

  烦�，是使身心�安，形�烦忧�乱的现象。

  烦�，�起於贪欲，或瞋�，或愚行，或傲慢，或猜疑，或�执。

  烦�，因无明而迷惑。

  众生，在生命的旅程中有两大障�：

  第一，是烦�障。

  第二，是所知障。

  佛陀�示了解决的��和方法，�我们�对障�，他说：

  认识清楚。

  彻底了解。

  从中�破。

   

  ~ 白云禅师

• cycle

  29 Jan 09, 12:44

  [ 转烦�而���。�所知而圆大智。]

  �对烦�，从中获得觉悟，是转�。

  综�所知，�以圆满智慧。是增上。

   

  ~ 白云禅师

• cycle

  2 Feb 09, 12:34

  A practitioner held a bunch of flowers in his hand and with great sincerity offered it to the Buddha.

  Buddha then requested him to place it down. After placing the flowers in front of the Buddha, Buddha again requested him to put the flowers down. This time the practioner was puzzled and asked the Buddha, "Honorable Buddha, I have already placed the flowers in front of you, what else is there for me to put down?"

  The Buddha replied immediately, "This also you have to put it down!"

  Upon hearing this, the practitioner attained enlightenment immediately.

   

   

  ~ Buddhism story

   

   

• cycle

  5 Feb 09, 13:35

  无事忙中�，空里有哭笑，本�没有我，生死皆�抛。

   

  ~ 圣严法师

• cycle

  6 Feb 09, 13:22

  Rather than run away from what you don't know, just be willing to stay with not knowing. Then love and compassion appears. People run away from 'don't know' to ideology, to religion. They would rather watch television than not know. If you hang in there with 'don't know', then you will see something that you didn't see before.

   

  ~ Zen master Dae-bong Sumin

• An Eternal Now

  12 Feb 09, 20:08

  
  Saṃyutta NikÄ�ya, 20. Opammasaṃyutta – 7 Āṇi ~ The Drum Peg

  
  At SÄ�vatthÄ«. “Bhikkhus, once in the past the DasÄ�rahas had a kettle drum drum called the Summoner. When the Summoner became cracked, the DasÄ�rahas inserted another peg. Eventually the time came when the Summoner’s original drumhead had disappeared and only a collection of pegs remained.

  
  “So too, bhikkhus, the same thing will happen with the bhikkhus in the future. When those discourses spoken by the TathÄ�gata that are deep, deep in meaning, supramundane, dealing with emptiness, are being recited, they will not be eager to listen to them, nor lend an ear to them, nor apply their minds to understand them; and they will not think those teachings should be studied and mastered. But when those discourses that are mere poetry composed by poets, beautiful in words and phrases, created by outsiders, spoken by [their] disciples, are being recited, they will be eager to listen to them, will lend an ear to them, will apply their minds to understand them; and they will think those teachings should be studied and mastered. In this way, bhikkhus, those discourses spoken by the TathÄ�gata that are deep, deep in meaning, supramundane, dealing with emptiness, will disappear.

  
  “Therefore, bhikkhus, you should train yourselves thus: ‘When those discourses spoken by the TathÄ�gata that are deep, deep in meaning, supramundane, dealing with emptiness, are being recited, we will be eager to listen to them, will lend an ear to them, will apply our minds to understand them; and we will think those teachings should be studied and mastered.’ Thus should you train yourselves.”
  ~ (SN ii 266-7; Bodhi 708-9)
  

• cycle

  16 Feb 09, 14:08

  See the illusory nature of life. Let go, allow life to unfold in its natural course and you will achieve freedom.

   

  ~ Ven. Fazhao

• cycle

  25 Feb 09, 21:51

  在我们�一天的生活当中，�时�能在顷刻间�入地狱。

  �一个念头生起，��起了烦�执�，觉得忧伤�惧痛�欲生，就等于已在地狱中�折磨。

   

  ~ 圣严法师

   

• Bangulzai

  27 Feb 09, 03:14

  山�转路转，路�转人转，
  人�能转的时候，你的心�会转。
  ��心一转�，就海阔天空，
  也就没有解决�了的事了。

  ~ 圣严法师

• Bangulzai

  28 Feb 09, 23:54

  将焦点从自身转移到其他人，把对自己的关心转化�对别人的关怀，
  培养关心他人幸�快�的想法，你的生命将会立�开展。

  ~ 达赖喇嘛

• Bangulzai

  1 Mar 09, 17:42

   

  常念���悲之法, �项必须之法

  一个人如果想寻求解脱和��一切智佛�，首先他应该常常�念此���悲之法和�项必须之法：

   

  �项�悲之法:

   

  （一）此�分难得之清净人身，如果用他�作罪业和�行之工具，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （二）此难得之暇满人身，�用它�学佛，而让它白白的空过死去，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （三）在这个�浊短暂的世界上，把自己的生命全部消耗在无�义的事情上，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （四）自心之本体实�离�之法身，让他沈陷于迷茫之生死泥沼里，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （五）引导自己趋入佛�的至好上师，在未���之�就离开他，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （六）戒律乃解脱之桥�，如果�波�浪为烦�所使，以致破戒，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （七）由上师的助缘而获得的觉�与�悟，如果虚掷在滚滚的红尘里，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （八）诸�就者的深奥�诀，把他当作商�一样的出�给那些没有根基的�人，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （�）一切众生皆是于自己有�的父�，以怨�心弃之�顾，实在是�分�悲的事。

  （�）�年时期的身，�，�（乃锻炼�器的黄金时代），如果白白空过掉，实在是�分�悲的事。

  以上是�项�悲的事。

   

   

  �项必须之法：

  （一）有了勇气和毅力，还需�一个好的计划�规范自己的根本行为。

  （二）在奉行上师的教言时，必须具有信心和精进。

  （三）必须知��诀之利弊，�能在上师的��教敕中，选择（于自己�适）之�诀。

  （四）必须具有智慧和信心，�能与善妙上师的心�相�。

  （五）必须常�正念和警策自己，�能使身���被罪业所污染。

  （六）必须具有毅力和�挠的甲胄，�能使自己的�志�定，堪���逆境。

  （七）自己的鼻��被别人牵�走�能谈到无贪，无著的行素。

  （八）长期地在积��慧二�资粮上努力，必须知��中�的次�。

  （�）此心时常浸润在慈悲里，�能生起利生的情怀。

  （�）必须具有智慧和了解，�能�著一切法相和实体。

  以上是��必须之法。

  
  

  ~ 冈波巴大师

• An Eternal Now

  2 Mar 09, 23:14

  Each form, each particle, is a Buddha. One form is all Buddhas. All forms, all particles, are all Buddhas. All forms, sounds, scents, feelings, and phenomena are also like this, each filling all fields.
  
  -Pai-chang

• An Eternal Now

  2 Mar 09, 23:16

  Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower;
  but is already present, in open relaxation and letting go.
  Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do or undo.
  Whatever arises in the body mind has no real importance at all.
  Why identify with it and become attached to it?
  Why pass judgment upon it and ourselves?
  
  Far better to simply let the entire game happen on it’s own,
  springing up and falling back like waves,
  without changing or manipulating anything,
  and notice how everything vanishes and reappears,
  magically again and again, time without end.
  
  Don’t believe in the reality of good and bad experiences;
  they are like the weather, like rainbows in the sky.
  Wanting to grasp the ungraspable, you exhaust yourself in vain.
  As soon as you open and relax, ( this tight fist of grasping)
  infinite space is there - open and inviting.
  Make use of this spaciousness, this freedom and natural ease.
  Don’t search any further. Don’t go into the tangled jungle,
  looking for the the great awakened elephant,
  who is already resting at home, in front of your own hearth.
  
  Nothing to do or undo.
  Nothing to force,
  nothing to want,
  and nothing missing.
  Marvelous!
  
  Everything happens by itself—- Free and easy!

  ~ Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche

• Bangulzai

  3 Mar 09, 02:15

  心怀善念，日日是好日，里邻和�，处处是净土。
  水入污泥，虽清亦浊；人入邪�，虽正亦奸。

  ~ 弘一大师

• Bangulzai

  4 Mar 09, 01:14

  修学的基础

  上师说：在修�佛法时，你必须圆满地修学�项基础。

  佛�问�：是哪�项修学的基础？

  上师说：

  你必须��而决断，通达一切法教，�大�金翅鸟翱翔于天际般。

  你必须�行而笃定，无论如何��怯任何事物，�大象入水般。

  你必须�定而修�，净除无明的幽暗，�在暗室里点�般。

  你必须��诀而�就，在本性中解脱万法，�觅得如��般。

  你必须��顶而�进，�除�入轮回的�惧，�王�登上�座般。

  你必须�三昧耶而固基，�浪费任何的行为，�沃士般。

  你必须�学而解脱，精进所有的法相，�俊马脱缰般。

  你必须穷究所有根�，了知所有的佛法宗派，�蜜蜂寻巢般。

  你必须撮�为一，了知所有法教都是一味，�商人点收获利般。

  你必须在智慧上登峰造�，了知所有法教的明确�义，�抵达须弥山顶般。

  想��学��修习这些�点的西�人，�知根本�义，�是�为有太多门户之�的行者。这是因�熟稔这�项修学基础所造�的过患。

  ~ 莲花生大士  (莲花生大师亲授空行æ¯�伊喜<空行法教> - <<措嘉之教言å�ˆé›†>>)

• Bangulzai

  4 Mar 09, 21:09

  知足并�等於放弃生存的�利，
  也�等於放弃工作的责任，
  更�等於放弃努力进步的机会，
  而是顺应自然�适应社会，
  因应所处的环境。

  ~ 圣严法师

• Bangulzai

  5 Mar 09, 01:07

  或许有些人会认为爱是一�获得，
  但它基本上是一�付出的过程。

  ~ 达摩难陀法师