静思语 Readings For Silent Reflection

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:23

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:26

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:26

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:27

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:28

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:29

  If my mind doesn’t go out to disturb the noise,
  the noise won’t disturb me.
  
  ~Ajahn Chah~

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:29

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:30

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:31

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:32

  Whenever you have the means and abilities to help others, try your best to help.
  
  Whenever you do not have the means and abilities to help others, try your best to have good thoughts.

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:33

  Being angry is punishing yourself because of others' fault.

   

  To take care of my anger, 
  I bring attention to my breathing 
  and look deeply inside myself. 
  
  Right away I notice an energy there called anger. 
  ... 
  Then I recognize that 
  I need another kind of energy 
  to take care of this anger, 
  and I invite that energy 
  to come up to do that job. 
  
  This second energy is called mindfulness. 
  
  Every one of us has the seed of mindfulness within us. 
  
  If we know how to touch that seed, 
  we can begin to generate the energy of mindfulness, 
  and with that energy, 
  we can take good care of the energy of anger.
  
  ~~Thich Nhat Hanh

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Aug 16, 09:35

  

   

  《地��》字字都有护法神
  
  佛说身根清净的人，通过色身就�以看到地狱，�围山;也�以看到�方国土，�方诸佛，辟支佛，罗汉等。通过色身清净�就�以观察，佛陀六根清净�，通过六根，就�以观察到整个宇宙，整个法界，佛�用神通观察，就用六根，用眼耳鼻舌身�这六根。
  
  这个色身，对人类�讲是个谜语。中国研究的就是《黄�内�》，用它�说明人的规律，男的以八为基数，女的以七为基数。《黄�内�》�以说是一本天书，现代的医学永远无法超过《黄�内�》的范畴。
  
  以�有个人�信佛�，亲人就把《�德�》放在他的枕头底下，�让他知�，就这样�到一个月，就改�了他的看法，原��信�排斥，��到慢慢有了兴趣。你看，中国文字，以�中国圣贤书，尤其是让人开悟�佛的佛�的加�力，���议。
  
  �过一个故事，有个人很排斥佛�，一个字也�写。因为他的字写的很好看，那别人就�他写《地��》。他就写了《地��》的一个字，就���写了。因为他诽谤佛�的因缘堕入地狱，在地狱中，�到有个人过�救他，是护法神。跟他说，我就是你写的《地��》上的那个字的护法神，因为写了《地��》中一个字的功德，特地�救他。
  
  你看《地��》中的�个字都有护法神，���议�。�人讲造字的是仓颉，有四个眼�，字造出��，天地鬼神都哭。你相信�?这就是文字的�力。�人都很�惜文字，所以有惜字炉，有字的纸�能乱丢。如果石头上刻�佛�，汉字的佛�，就代表佛。所以说，佛�文字的功德大�大。
  
  文字的加�力，���议。在《法��》中，有一头牛，就闻了闻《法��》�部，�投胎就能背诵《法��》�部。这是什么?圣人语言的加�力。现在人都喜欢眼�为实，�知�人类�报越�越�，导致六根越�越粗糙，能感知的范围越�越�了。你说，眼�能�到多少东西呢?而且��心乱，邪�，导致无法入�。佛�说，这是末法。
  
  佛�的加�力���议。现在讲，有一本佛�在，就有一个修�的场，这个�场。凡是圣人呆过的地方，都有加�力。这个加�力���议，��以为，他�是文字，�是�刷的一本书，那是人类自己无明，看�到文字加�力而已。
  
  所以啊，大家��敬佛�，�敬文字，下辈��能有智慧，�能认识字。中国这么大，�识字的人也有，�识字就无法看佛�，是很苦的。

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:31

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:32

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:34

  

  A Sense That Your Arm is Short
  
  ... The Buddha's teachings are direct, straightforward, and simple, but hard for someone who's starting to practice them because his knowledge can't reach them. 
  It's like a hole: People by the hundreds and thousands complain that the hole is deep because they can't reach to its bottom. There's hardly anybody who will say that the problem is that his arm is short.
  The Buddha taught us to abandon evil of every kind. We skip over this part and go straight to making merit without abandoning evil. It's the same as saying the hole is deep. Those who say their arms are short are rare.
  
  - Ajahn Chah

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:35

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:38

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:39

  

  Kindness makes you
  The most beautiful
  Person in the world
  No matter what you
  Look like.

• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:40

  

• Dawnfirstlight

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• Dawnfirstlight

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• Dawnfirstlight

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• Dawnfirstlight

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• Dawnfirstlight

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• Dawnfirstlight

  23 Aug 16, 10:48