é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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How differs Death and Ceasing of Perception and Feeling?
Venerable Mahakotthita once asked Venerable Sariputta:
Friend, what is the difference between a dead body and a Bhikkhu, who has attained the state of cessation of perception and feeling?
Venerable Sariputta then answered:
Friend, in a dead body any bodily activity is stilled and has all ceased.
The verbal activity is stilled and has all ceased.
The mental activity is stilled and has all ceased.
The metabolic life activity is exhausted. The heat has dissipated, and the mental abilities have all broken up, and been destroyed.
In the bhikkhu, who has attained to the cessation of perception and feeling,
All bodily activity and breathing is stilled and has all ceased;
All verbal activity and all thinking is stilled and has all ceased;
All mental activity and all sensing is stilled and has completely ceased;
But the metabolic life activity is not exhausted. The heat has not dissipated.
Furthermost: The mental abilities have then become exceptionally clear!
Friend, this is the difference between a dead body and a Bhikkhu, who has attained to the meditative state of cessation of perception and feeling. -
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This month's Reader Digest on Reincarnation. There are few cases quoted by Reader Digest and one of the case is about a grandfather reborn as the son of his son. Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okdejyTBcpE
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Do not self pity and do not rejoice over material gains. That's peace!
物我两忘真境界
佛说，活在当下。物我两忘的至高境界是物我两�，�是天人�一，追求美好，全身心的投入。�以物喜��以己悲�万物与我为一，心�自然会超脱，心�自然会忘我。
常念å�—æ— é˜¿å¼¥é™€å¦‚æ�¥~~~阿弥陀佛。。。
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Don't be trap in your own mind.
万象由心生�喜怒由心定。
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世间万物皆是由心而起ã€�由心而ç�。
心若淡雅，万物皆明 !。
常念å�—æ— é˜¿å¼¥é™€å¦‚æ�¥~~~阿弥陀佛。。。 -
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