é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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WE SHOULD CHERISH THE OPPORTUNITY IN THIS LIFE TIME WHEN WE ENCOUNTER THE TRIPLE JEWEL OF BUDDHISM.
THE DHARMA DOOR OF RECITING THE BUDDHA'S NAME IS VERY DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND.
When Lord Shakyamuni was expounding the Medicine Master Sutra in Vaisali, the Buddha told Venerable Ananda that it is difficult to obtain a human body. It is also difficult to have faith in and to revere the Triple Jewel. It is even more difficult to encounter the name of the World Honored Ones, such as Medicine Master Buddha..(this also includes the name of Amitabha Buddha and the infinite Buddhas of the 10 directions).
Lord Shakyamuni further told Ananda that the profound practice of all Buddha is very difficult to believe and understand. The ability to accept this kind of Dharma comes from the awesome power of the Buddha.
All Hearers, Solitarily Enlightened Ones, and the Bodhisattvas who have not yet ascended to the Grounds are incapable of believing and understanding this Dharma as it really is. Only the Bodhisattvas who are destined in one life to attain Buddhahood, are capable of understanding.
The message from here: Do not give rise to slander, even you find it hard to believe and understand the profound teaching of Buddha's Mahayana, especially on the Pure Land Dharma Door of upholding Amitabha Buddha's name. Or you obstruct fellow cultivators from reciting Namo Amituofo, or other's Buddha's name.
May all living beings continue to be endowed with the bliss and joy of the Dharma.
sutra link: http://www.cttbusa.org/medicine_master/sutra.htm
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ZEN TIP: "You have the power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength."
~Marcus Aurelius
(Note : This Zen tip is useful when you have no power over outside events.)
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ZEN TIP: "I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Blessing and wisdom do not come from praying only, one must also practice according to Buddha's teachings in person.
�慧�是求�的，是身体力行��的。
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There are many zen approach towards enlightenment, a direct and simpler method is thru Hsin Hsin Ming.
How to cut thru all the zen stuff :
HSIN HSIN MING
Verses on the Faith Mind by The 3rd Zen Patriarch, Sengstau
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The Way is perfect like vast space when nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will never know Oneness.
Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial.
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the source.
At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.
The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call real only because of our ignorance.
Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.
Do not remain in the dualistic state -- avoid such pursuits carefully.
If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion.
Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached even to this One.
When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when such a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
When thought objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes, as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.
Things are objects because of the subject (mind); the mind (subject) is such because of things (object).
Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.
In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world.
If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute; the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging (attachment) cannot be limited; even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.
Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going.
Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.
What benefits can be derived from distinctions and separations?
If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.
Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.
The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself.
There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant.
To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind is the greatest of all mistakes.
Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment there is no liking and disliking.
All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like dreams or flowers in air: foolish to try to grasp them.
Gain and loss, right and wrong: such thoughts must finally be abolished at once.
If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease.
If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this One-essence is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally the timeless Self-essence is reached.
No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state.
Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion, both movement and rest disappear.
When such dualities cease to exist Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality no law or description applies.
For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases.
Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible.
With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.
All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.
Here thought, feeling, knowledge, and imagination are of no value.
In this world of suchness there is neither self nor other-than-self.
To come directly into harmony with this reality just simply say when doubt arises, 'Not two.'
In this 'not two' nothing is separate, nothing is excluded.
No matter when or where, enlightenment means entering this truth.
And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space; in it a single thought is ten thousand years.
Emptiness here, Emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.
Infinitely large and infinitely small; no difference, for definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen.
So too with Being and Non-Being.
Don't waste time with doubts and arguments that have nothing to do with this.
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction.
To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.
To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with trusting mind.
Words!
The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today. -
Dana without a second thought is a real Dana,
real Dana is when one does not ask for any returns.
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One who loves his own true welfare, who is concerned with his own good, should pay homage to the Dhamma and always remember the Buddha's words.
如果�惜自己的�利，如果是为了自己好，就该礼敬佛法，谨记佛陀之言.
Anguttara Nikaya II ; 增支部 II
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Are there eternal living beings..?
There are humans, there are animals, there are other living beings..
There are no..Permanent Humans,Permanent Animals, Permanent other living beings..
All their form is in continuous change…! This applies to heavenly beings.
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The temporary happiness in this world is just like a fishing bait, actually it is just like a beautiful lie in disguise.
~ Gyalwang Karmapa
世间暂時的快ä¹�，就åƒ�æ˜¯é±¼é¥µä¸€æ ·ï¼Œ
这�是看上去很完美的一个谎言。
——大寶法王噶瑪巴
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Do you see your life to be like this??
My life is a life of “simple abundance”,
It is a life full with the greatest riches.
My family blossoms.
Every chapter in my book of life
Mixes magnificence with mystery and sometimes misery.
But then I still see the joy and loving kindness that you have for me
And the blessings that you always bestow unto us
Be Grateful for you are alive !! -
Goodness exists only where it is, as words or thoughts in your minds.
Your life stems from your feelings. Thoughts are the root of everything. Your lives proceed mainly according to how you feel and how you think.
When a good mind has good thoughts it will feel wiser and know what to do. You will feel encouraged, enthusiastic, and do thing with joy. You will grow in self-confidence in doing good until you don’t need confirmation or praise from others. -
When you plant crops on a land, there won't be any room for the weeds to grow, when your heart is filled with good, there won't be any room for the bad.
Master Cheng Yan
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知“é�“”与ä¸�知“é�“” ~ 圣严法师
