é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Always recite "Nanmo Amituofo" _/|\_
It's more difficult to be reborn as human in your next life than being reborn in Western Pureland.
It's easier to be reborn in Western Pureland than hoping to be reborn as human being in your next life.
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Compassion is a far greater and nobler thing than pity. Pity has its roots in fear and carries a sense of arrogance and condescension, sometimes even a smug feeling of “I’m glad it’s not me.” As Stephen Levine says: “When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” To train in compassion is to know that all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know that you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.
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Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.
- Dalai Lama -
Ignorance makes us feel nothing pleasing to our eyes and ears, and that everyone works against us. Only by removing ignorance can we eliminate vexation and succeed in everything.