Decline Of Buddhism In Singapore

• likeyou

  23 Feb 11, 15:51

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  Glad to hear that.

  
  Thanks, I am not telling lies, it is true, even when I have no worry or trouble over work, I still chant in my heart.

• WeeShun

  23 Feb 11, 15:57

  likeyou, then its very very good. Keep mindfulness of the Buddha in your heart every moment and peace will be with you.
  
  Just wholeheartely alone on the Buddha is sufficient, no need other God, gods, deities.

   

  =)

• likeyou

  23 Feb 11, 16:01

  Thanks Wee.

  That is probably why I am able to work till past midnite alone in  alone in the office and not scare cos I nvr hurt or have any evil intention on my heart.

   

• WeeShun

  23 Feb 11, 16:04

  Yes! this is the Happiness and Peace you have found through the Buddha. If anyone should you come across, make sure you share with them this Peace you have found, you yourself is a living testimony to lead more people around you together to find Peace in oneself through Buddhism.
  

• likeyou

  23 Feb 11, 16:06

  My work place has a muslim where he told me buddha portrait looks scary. I just keep quiet. I hv another colleague, a free thinker, brushes aside all those religions and ghosts, saying all is faked.

• WeeShun

  23 Feb 11, 16:41

  《涅槃ç»�》云：“若归ä¾�三å®�，是谓正近事，终ä¸�应归ä¾�，诸馀天神等。”

  
  《善生�净三归�》云：
  　　（一）�三归已，造作痴业，�外�法自在天语，以是因缘，失于三归。
  　　（二）若有造作���业，为��故，修于善事，如市场法（好比市场作买�，以求利为先），其心�能怜悯众生，如是之人�得三归。
  　　（三）若人信其（神）能救一切怖�，礼拜外�，是人则失三归�法。

  
  《涅槃�》云：归�于僧伽，�共外��。

• WeeShun

  23 Feb 11, 16:47

  宗教和平≠å®—æ•™èž�å�ˆï¼�ï¼�評淨空法師■ 瞿宗樺
  
  　　「所有一切宗教徒，我們都是一家人。為什麼？�個��宗教的那個神，創始人，都是真神的化身，一個人的化身。真神�變�化，�應於�個��地�，建立�種��的教學方法，內容都是一致的，就是佛教我們怎樣�人。剛�阿訇講得�常清楚，他講的跟佛經講的沒有兩樣。所以統統許許多多神是一個神的化身，一家人，����誤會。．．．(中略)．．．所以今天我們首先�把事實真相了解清楚，知�所有��宗教的創始人，�在佛教釋迦牟尼，西方宗教的耶穌�摩西，伊斯蘭的穆罕默德，中國的孔�，都是一個真神的化身，變化在�個���群���的地�來教化眾生。。．．．(中略)．．．所有宗教裡�的神明都是釋迦牟尼的化身，我怎麼�以�拜�釋迦牟尼佛在佛教裡�釋迦牟尼佛，在基�教�耶穌，在伊斯蘭教�穆罕默德，他�了個�字，實際上是一個人。� 　　節錄自：釋淨空《宗教與生活》　講話於2003.3.1. 巴布亞新幾內亞文殊精�
  
  　　「諸佛世尊皆出人間，�在天上�佛也。�《增一阿�經》。
  
  　　佛陀乃是由人�證入「無我�而�就「覺者�(Buddha)，並�是神或真神，雖然佛陀並沒有�定天人(神)的存在，但是佛陀並���這世界有唯一的��創的「真神�，因此與天人之間是�能相�並論�比較誰高誰低的。淨空法師的這篇講話，開宗明義地就說明佛陀與真神無二，�背了佛陀的中心�想：緣起�無我。
  
  　　或許有人�出經典記載：「應以何身得度者，��何身而為說法。�《妙法蓮�經》
  
  　　��在佛傳故事中佛陀�梵天�是經常化生��樣的形象來渡化大眾嗎？因此以耶穌身得渡者，��耶穌身而為說法，淨空法師曾經說�，因為觀世音�薩應以何身得渡者，��何身而為說法。所以我們到教堂，�以把耶穌，上�視為觀世音�薩的「化身�，�然是觀世音�薩的化身，那入境隨俗�何嘗��呢？ 更何�宗教���大家和平共處�也是功德一件嗎？
  
  　　首先，「應以何身得度者，��何身而為說法。�是�以�教者的�等身分，來教導並引入佛陀的言教，而�是到了耶教新教徒的教堂，拜了耶穌�後，指稱耶穌是佛陀的化身，而�闡述佛教的八正�法以�四�諦。五教的教主皆為�一體的說法，這是一貫�還是天�的說法．��五教教主�一體的話，是�是也���別教的教義呢？
  
  　　在�度佛教的末期，佛教徒們把三�一體的濕婆(Shiva)�大梵天(Brahma)和毘濕奴(Vishnu)，當�佛祖(Primordial Buddha)下凡後的化身，而且在佛教徒的宇宙進化論中，這三�一體的神還佔了��的一席之地。�一方�，�度教徒�樣也把喬�摩佛陀(Gautama Buddha)當作昆濕奴的一個化身，也因此�度佛教走�滅亡的命�。
  
  　　如果「宗教���的定義是：佛教�是基�教�是�度教�是�教�是回教�是一切教，就�大便和味噌，雖然都是黃色的，看起來�摸起來也差�多，��通通攪和在一起，還是令人難以消�。
  
  　　佛陀教化善生，也沒有跟著善生一起拜六方，宗教和平相處是有必�之處，大�從相應之處著手；例如滅三毒（貪瞋痴）與耶教的�犯七宗罪（好慾�妒忌�貪婪�驕傲�饕餮�憤怒�怠惰）有點相應，大家何�在此點互相�促精進，讓塵歸塵�土歸土�上�歸上��佛陀歸佛陀�該誰的就歸誰的，大家平平�，一起�果果，彼此和平共處。

• realization

  23 Feb 11, 19:35

  Originally posted by WeeShun:

  宗教和平≠å®—æ•™èž�å�ˆï¼�ï¼�評淨空法師 â–  瞿宗樺
  
  「所有一切宗教徒，我們都是一家人。為什麼？�個��宗教的那個神，創始人，都是真神的化身，一個人的化身。真神�變�化，�應於�個��地�，建立�種��的教學方法，內容都是一致的，就是佛教我們怎樣�人。剛�阿訇講得�常清楚，他講的跟佛經講的沒有兩樣。所以統統許許多多神是一個神的化身，一家人，����誤會。．．．(中略)．．．所以今天我們首先�把事實真相了解清楚，知�所有��宗教的創始人，�在佛教釋迦牟尼，西方宗教的耶穌�摩西，伊斯蘭的穆罕默德，中國的孔�，都是一個真神的化身，變化在�個���群���的地�來教化眾生。。．．．(中略)．．．所有宗教裡�的神明都是釋迦牟尼的化身，我怎麼�以�拜�釋迦牟尼佛在佛教裡�釋迦牟尼佛，在基�教�耶穌，在伊斯蘭教�穆罕默德，他�了個�字，實際上是一個人。� 　　節錄自：釋淨空《宗教與生活》　講話於2003.3.1. 巴布亞新幾內亞文殊精�
  
  「諸佛世尊皆出人間，�在天上�佛也。�《增一阿�經》。
  
  佛陀乃是由人�證入「無我�而�就「覺者�(Buddha)，並�是神或真神，雖然佛陀並沒有�定天人(神)的存在，但是佛陀並���這世界有唯一的��創的「真神�，因此與天人之間是�能相�並論�比較誰高誰低的。淨空法師的這篇講話，開宗明義地就說明佛陀與真神無二，�背了佛陀的中心�想：緣起�無我。
  
  或許有人�出經典記載：「應以何身得度者，��何身而為說法。�《妙法蓮�經》
  
  ��在佛傳故事中佛陀�梵天�是經常化生��樣的形象來渡化大眾嗎？因此以耶穌身得渡者，��耶穌身而為說法，淨空法師曾經說�，因為觀世音�薩應以何身得渡者，��何身而為說法。所以我們到教堂，�以把耶穌，上�視為觀世音�薩的「化身�，�然是觀世音�薩的化身，那入境隨俗�何嘗��呢？ 更何�宗教���大家和平共處�也是功德一件嗎？
  
  首先，「應以何身得度者，��何身而為說法。�是�以�教者的�等身分，來教導並引入佛陀的言教，而�是到了耶教新教徒的教堂，拜了耶穌�後，指稱耶穌是佛陀的化身，而�闡述佛教的八正�法以�四�諦。五教的教主皆為�一體的說法，這是一貫�還是天�的說法．��五教教主�一體的話，是�是也���別教的教義呢？
  
  在�度佛教的末期，佛教徒們把三�一體的濕婆(Shiva)�大梵天(Brahma)和毘濕奴(Vishnu)，當�佛祖(Primordial Buddha)下凡後的化身，而且在佛教徒的宇宙進化論中，這三�一體的神還佔了��的一席之地。�一方�，�度教徒�樣也把喬�摩佛陀(Gautama Buddha)當作昆濕奴的一個化身，也因此�度佛教走�滅亡的命�。
  
  如果「宗教���的定義是：佛教�是基�教�是�度教�是�教�是回教�是一切教，就�大便和味噌，雖然都是黃色的，看起來�摸起來也差�多，��通通攪和在一起，還是令人難以消�。
  
  佛陀教化善生，也沒有跟著善生一起拜六方，宗教和平相處是有必�之處，大�從相應之處著手；例如滅三毒（貪瞋痴）與耶教的�犯七宗罪（好慾�妒忌�貪婪�驕傲�饕餮�憤怒�怠惰）有點相應，大家何�在此點互相�促精進，讓塵歸塵�土歸土�上�歸上��佛陀歸佛陀�該誰的就歸誰的，大家平平�，一起�果果，彼此和平共處。

   

  真神 = 佛性 ？ Not sure what to think of this video.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKZNrG9hE8

   

• realization

  23 Feb 11, 20:32

  Oh sorry, I missed out on the dialogue that transpired in the afternoon.  I've only just read those.

  I found this video earlier this morning and was pretty troubled by what I saw and heard in it.  Was planning to listen to it properly one more time before sharing it with others.  Didn't realize WeeShun already shared it earlier in the day to quite some detail.

• WeeShun

  24 Feb 11, 00:21

  this is why we need to create awareness to more buddhists not to be misguided by unbuddhistic teachings and beliefs before such beliefs become the mainstream buddhist belief.
  
  Namo Amituofo.

• Dawnfirstlight

  24 Feb 11, 08:44

  Originally posted by WeeShun:

  10.6 onwards  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYUCweZkhA 
  
  Incase you say u cannot hear it, I am typing it in chinese word for word from the video itself for you.
  
  我确确实实肯定：宇宙之间�有一个真神，那个真神��万化，万德万能。那么在佛教里��称为神，佛教称法性？
  
  真神�有一個，在佛教變�佛陀；在基�教變�耶穌；在伊斯蘭教變真主�我确确实实肯定宇宙之间�有一個真神。所有宗教的神圣都是这个真神的化身。所以耶稣是释迦牟尼的化身，释迦牟尼也是「耶稣的化身，上�的使者。
  
  I suggest you finish the whole clip to be fair to Ven Jing Kong n yourself.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  I will watch the clip on this weekend. I'm surprised that he said that. The sutra said the other way round, it should be Buddha manifest into gods inorder to preach to them. There must be a limit to inter-religious peace making. Cannot twist just to make peace with other religion. That is something which I will not agree with.

• WeeShun

  24 Feb 11, 10:32

  keep an open mind, don't just listen to one clip, read up, research more from a non-biased view only then you will see the truth.
  
  This is when "die hard" fans of Ven Jingkong will say ..... its skillful means.
  
  As I said, keep an open mind ~ you will see the truth, don't swallow anything I say or people say, you are not a puppet, you have the ability to think, investigate and conclude for yourself what is Buddhism and what is not.
  
  Namo Amituofo ~
  
  

   

   

   

• reborn76

  24 Feb 11, 10:56

  hi guys

  saw an interesting video on how two taiwanese Buddhist nuns converted to christianity. I think is a good video for buddhist to reflect on what individual and the community as a whole need to do.

  In the video, I notice there are some wrong views which they held to when they are a nun that result in their conversion.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Q8cEvW6Zk&feature=related

• WeeShun

  24 Feb 11, 11:02

  thanks for sharing but to for those Buddhists who consider Jesus as a manifestation of another Bodhisattva, i think they will not be bothered by it.
  
  

• Dawnfirstlight

  24 Feb 11, 19:18

  Originally posted by reborn76:

  hi guys

  saw an interesting video on how two taiwanese Buddhist nuns converted to christianity. I think is a good video for buddhist to reflect on what individual and the community as a whole need to do.

  In the video, I notice there are some wrong views which they held to when they are a nun that result in their conversion.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Q8cEvW6Zk&feature=related

  
  I watched this video before. See my comments on page 2 of this youtube but was flagged as spam but still able to read if you clicked onto it. This nun was out to mislead others.

  If you continue to watch other episode,she mentioned in Buddhism, there was a saying : If the hell is not empty, we will never become Buddha. Come on, true Buddhists know it is 地���'s vow and not referring to us. She was out to twist the fact. Watch the video clip below, fast forward to 7:00 :

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvN-8aRJS6M&feature=related

  Her motive of twisting the fact of Buddhism is very clear. How can a nun of over 20 years do not know that it is 地���'s vow .

   

• sinweiy

  24 Feb 11, 21:05

  this is what i mean when people nowaday are deter be cause and effect. they don't believe in cause and effect. hence i also like to follow the foot step of Master Yin Guang and promote 现代因果实录.

  http://www.chinese-sutra.url.tw/gbsdiksl.htm

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• WeeShun

  24 Feb 11, 21:50

  sinweiy, indeed your recommendation this time is not bad at all ! Its still very much inline with Buddhists and Buddhism.
  
  Amituofo for that too
  

• sinweiy

  24 Feb 11, 22:36

  all along in line.

• WeeShun

  24 Feb 11, 22:53

  Oh.. i mean your recommendation of 现代因果实录..and I am truly inspired by the model of buddhist stories inside. Good book and good recommendation.

• sinweiy

  24 Feb 11, 23:00

  thanks!

  Amituofo!

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• Rooney9

  24 Feb 11, 23:19

  decline of Buddhism was predicted by the Buddha isnt it. also it goes to show that the law of impermanence is true. no country or religion stay the same forever.