é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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We can choose to depart peacefully when we practise the Dharma well, and it is a misconception that dying in one’s sleep will surely be ‘peaceful’ unconsciously, as death is when one’s consciousness consciously leaves the body. Suicide often leads to unfortunate rebirths too, as it is killing done with strong aversion.
Assumption with worldly intelligence
is often far apart from
realisation with spiritual wisdom.
- Stonepeace -
When face with adversity, one should not blame heaven, earth, anyone or question why me? Instead, one should repent 生å¿�悔心，æƒæ„§å¿ƒ and your sufferings will soon pass.
7 minutes humorous Dharma talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_p9as3AHs
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Begin your day with this:
Guard the Senses.. Be Content.. Keep the 5 Precepts..
Cultivate only friends of pure livelihood, of lovely moral and who are rightly striving.
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What is hard for robbers to steal?
Merit well done is impossible for robbers to steal! -
Fire of emptiness burn our illusion bag of bones and flesh when our affinity with this world ends and appear in Western Pureland with full body.
一炬性空�， 焚�梦幻身，娑婆业缘尽，净土现全身。 -
Always recite "Nanmo Amituofo" _/|\_
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If we are to break free from suffering completely, simply doing good is not sufficient.
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The most urgent attitude
to have in life
is the sense of urgency.
– Stonepeace
The full moon’s perfect roundness lasts barely a moment, and in no time is lost. Those with no eye for such things, it seems, fail to see how it changes in the course of a night. An illness will grow graver as each moment passes, and death is already close at hand, yet while the sickness is still mild and you are not yet confronting death, you are lulled by your accustomed assumptions of a normal life in an unchanging world, and choose to wait until you have accomplished all you want in life before turning your thoughts to salvation and a Buddhist practice, with the result that when you fall ill and confront death, none of your dreams has been fulfilled.
Now, too late, you repent of your long years of negligence, and swear that if only you were to recover you would dedicate yourself unstintingly day and night to this thing and that – but for all your prayers your illness grows graver, until you lose your senses and die a raving death. It happens to so many of us. We must fully grasp this, here and now.
If you plan to turn your thoughts to the Buddhist Way after you have fulfilled all your [worldly] desires, you will find that those desires are endless. What could be achieved, in this illusory life of ours? All desire is delusion. If desires arise within you, realize that the spring from your lost and deluded mind, and ignore them all. Relinquish all today and turn to the Buddhist path, and you will be freed of all obstruction, released from the need for action, and lasting peace will be yours body and mind.