静思语 Readings For Silent Reflection

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:46

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:49

  

  ���年�悟，
  ��一日错路。
  
  Rather to, in one thousand years, not awaken,
  never to, in one day, take the wrong path.*
  
  – Buddhist Saying
  
  * This is so as following a wrong teaching
  can lead one astray for a much longer time,
  making it very hard to find the right path.
  
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  However industrious you may be,
  there is no end to worldly activities;
  but if you practice the Dharma
  you will swiftly conclude everything.
  
  However nice they may seem,
  samsaric affairs always end in disaster [i.e. death];
  but the fruits of practicing the Dharma
  will never deteriorate.
  
  Since beginningless time you have collected and encouraged
  karma, negative emotions, and habitual tendencies,
  which force you to wander in Samsara.
  If you continue like that, when will liberation arrive?
  
  If you only see all this at the moment of death, it’s rather too late -
  when the head’s already been severed, what use is any medicine?
  Recognizing the suffering of Samsara,
  turn toward the peace of Nirvana.
  
  – Guru Padmasambhava

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:51

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:53

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=firEYkxetXg

  �念佛功德较�】
  1�《增一阿��》：四事供养阎浮�一切众生，若有称佛��，如构牛乳倾，功德过上，���议。注：四事是指衣��饮食��具�医�。
  
  2�《大智度论》：譬如有人，�生堕地，�能一日行�里，足一�年，满中七�，奉施于佛；�如有人，于��世，一声称念，阿弥陀佛，其�胜彼。
  
  3�《涅盘�》：佛告大王：�令开大库�，一月之中，布施一切众生，所得功德，�如有人称佛一�，功德过�，��较�。
  
  4�《大般涅槃�》：大王��使一月，常以衣食，供养�敬一切众生，�如有人，一念念佛，所得功德�六分一。
  
  5�《陀罗尼集�》：若转轮王，�万�中满四天下七�，布施�方诸佛，�如比丘�比丘尼�优婆塞�优婆夷等，一弹指顷座禅，以平等心怜悯一切众生，念阿弥陀佛功德。
  
  6�《谟诃般若波罗�》：若有善男��善女人，但以敬心念佛，是善根因缘，乃至毕苦，其��尽。须���置是敬心念佛。若有善男��善女人，但以一�散虚空中念佛，乃至毕苦，其��尽。须���置是敬心念佛，散�念佛。若有一人称�无佛，乃至毕苦，其��尽。
  
  7�《莲宗�鉴��》：若人以四天下七�，供养佛����缘觉�声闻，得�甚多；�如�人，念佛一声，其�胜彼。
  
  
  若闻佛�能��　　若以河沙金�施
  较���佛�人　　�蕴百分��一

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:54

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:56

  

  生死轮回/ The cycle of Birth and Death
  
  佛陀告诉我们，�论是轮回到人�，畜生�或是天�里的众生，寿命虽然�有��，但是没有一�生命的存在是永���的。当业报完结以�，他们�会因新的业力所产生的作用而�轮回。
  
  佛陀也告诉我们，生命的轮回是永无休止的，�有修行八正�，�能�入涅槃，�能从无尽的生命轮回中解脱出�，获得无上的快�。
  
  
  The cycle of Birth and Death/生死轮回
  
  The Buddha pointed out the wherever one is reborn, whether as a human being, as an anumal or as a god, none of these states of existence is permanent. The average life span of the living beings in the six realms of existence differs but non of them last forever. Eventually, rebirth will take place. The realm into which is one is reborn and one's conditions of birth are determined by one's past and present actions. The is the law of karma at work.
  
  The Buddha declared that there is no permanent rest in this cycle of birth and death. It is only when one follows the Noble Eightfold Path taught by the Buddha and eventually attains Nirvana that one finally becomes free from this ceaseless cycle and gains supreme and permanent happiness.

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:57

  

  The Buddha said:
  
  "Three months from now, I will pass away. Be earnest, be mindful and be of pure virtue. With determination, guard your own mind. Whoever untiringly follows the Teaching shall end rebirth and suffering."
  
  佛陀说：
  
  
  “三个月å�Žï¼Œæˆ‘便è¦�离开这个人世。你们è¦�å’Œç�¦ç›¸å¤„，彼此尊é‡�，é�¿å…�争执。你们更è¦�努力修行，æ„�å¿—å�šå®šåœ°è¿‡çº¯å‡€çš„生活。如果你们能够勤修佛法，便能从轮回中脱离出æ�¥ã€‚”

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 10:58

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:00

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:01

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:02

  

  It is easy to have compassion for someone we like or who has done us many good deeds, but we need to train to extend our compassion far beyond that.

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:04

  

  It is said that when Buddha attained enlightenment, all he wanted to do was to show the rest of us the nature of mind and share completely what he had realized. But he also saw, with the great sorrow of infinite compassion, how difficult it would be for us to understand.

   

   For even though we have the same inner nature as Buddha, we have not recognized it because it is so enclosed and wrapped up in our individual ordinary minds.

   

   Imagine an empty vase. The space inside is exactly the same as the space outside. Only the fragile walls of the vase separate one from the other. Our buddha mind is enclosed within the walls of our ordinary mind. But when we become enlightened, it is as if the vase shatters into pieces. The space “inside” merges instantly into the space “outside.” They become one: There and then we realize that they were never separate or different; they were always the same.

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:05

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:06

  Let go of all the good and bad affinities.
  
  善缘， �缘 统统放下。
  
  

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:07

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:09

  

  �断就慢慢便无苦，善行就慢慢得�。
  
  Avoiding negative deeds gradually dispel sufferings。
  Cultivation wholesome deeds gradually attain happiness.

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:10

  Good and evil people are all our teachers. The good ones teach us to be good. The evil ones are like mirrors, show us where are the wrongs and adjust ourselves accordingly, not to be like them.

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:11

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:12

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:13

  Always recite "Nanmo Amituofo" can lighten heavy negative karma.

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:14

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:16

  

  中英法��/Bilingual Dhammapada
  
  世间�/Lokavagga: The World (Dhp 167-178)
  
  观世如水泡，观世如幻相，如是观世者，死魔（Maccuraja）�得�。
  
  
  One who looks upon the world as a bubble and a mirage, him the King of Death sees not.
  
  Explanation: Look at a bubble. How impermanent is it? Look at a mirage. What an illusion! If you look at the world in this way, even the king of death will not see you.

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:17

  

  "Greed is so well organized that we call it economic prosperity.
  Ill will is so organized that we call it defense and we make weapons and war.
  Ignorance is so well organized that we study about everything except ourselves."

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:18

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Dec 14, 11:20