é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Don't let your problems become others' problems and don't let others' problems become your problems.
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Bodhisattvas are gentle with their speech and deeds. In another word, Bodhisattvas are not unrefined.
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First you must believe in Buddha's teachings, from there you will cultivate good, accumulate merits and blessings will follow.
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Extracted from Buddhist magazine : Luminous (Mahabodhi Monastery)
On the surface, water is soft. It continues to flow despite being slashed by a sword. While ice is hard, it breaks into pieces when hammered. Being hard does not mean strong. Instead there is bigger space for flexibility for being soft. Hence being soft can overcome hardness and drips can penetrate rock. This is the strength of softness.
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We are not God, unable to pleased everyone around us. As long as our conscience is clear, there's nothing to worry about.
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神通敌�过业力.
Supernatural power is unable to overcome the force of karma.
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All beings-human or beast—Love life and hate to die. They fear most the butcher’s knife which slices and chops them piece-by-piece. Instead of being cruel and mean, why not stop killing and cherish life? (Cherishing Life, I, 83)
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ä¸è‹±æ³•å�¥ç»�/Bilingual Dhammapada
佛陀�/Buddhavagga: The Buddha (Dhp 179-196)
得生人�难，人生长寿难，�闻佛法难，值佛出世难。
Hard is it to be born a man; hard is the life of mortals. Hard is it to gain the opportunity of hearing the Sublime Truth, and hard to encounter is the arising of the Buddhas.
Explanation: It is rare that one is born a human being, in this cycle of rebirth. It is difficult and rare to get the opportunity to hear the good teaching, It is, indeed, rare for the birth of a Buddha to occur.
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慧光师父 开示
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The fire of hatred burns you first before it burns others.
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When there is mindfulness and right understanding, then I can't find any suffering at all in this moment, now.
Ajahn Sumedho -
好的行为会打开幸�的门。
Good deeds will open the door of prosperity.
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山雪熔化就是水 , 人心淨化就是佛 .
Melted snow becomes water just as Buddha-nature is derived from a purified mind.
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生命本身沒有�义，
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Life itself does not have meaning;
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The Buddhist meditation masters know how flexible and workable the mind is. If we train it, anything is possible. In fact, we are already perfectly trained by and for samsara, trained to get jealous, trained to grasp, trained to be anxious and sad and desperate and greedy, trained to react angrily to whatever provokes us. In fact, we are trained to such an extent that these negative emotions rise spontaneously, without our even trying to generate them.
So everything is a question of training and the power of habit. Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we’re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity. -
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