é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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当�慧具足時，生命会更圆满。
When one accomplished the cultivation
of merits and wisdom life will be perfected.
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好好念佛!
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
光消除黑暗，智慧消ç�烦æ�¼ã€‚　
Light dispels darkness ; Likewise wisdom dispels vexation.
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慈颜常笑，笑世上�笑之人 ；大肚能容，容天下难容之事
When somebody does or says something negative towards you, wait a few minutes to react. Take time to accept and let it go. Your only reaction should be to smile, for you have power over your emotions
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Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brains Gray Matter In 8 Weeks.
Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
Sue McGreevey of MGH writes: “Previous studies from Lazar’s group and others found structural differences between the brains of experienced meditation practitioners and individuals with no history of meditation, observing thickening of the cerebral cortex in areas associated with attention and emotional integration. But those investigations could not document that those differences were actually produced by meditation.” Until now, that is. The participants spent an average of 27 minutes per day practicing mindfulness exercises, and this is all it took to stimulate a major increase in gray matter density in the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection. McGreevey adds: “Participant-reported reductions in stress also were correlated with decreased gray-matter density in the amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress. None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time.”
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta Hölzel, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany. You can read more about the remarkable study by visiting Harvard.edu. If this is up your alley then you need to read this: “Listen As Sam Harris Explains How To Tame Your Mind (No Religion Required)” -
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"Mindfulness suffocates anger by taking away the fuel it needs to keep burning".
- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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"Relationships are like a barter system.
If you don't like what you are getting, please check what you are giving. Whatever is sent out into the cosmos will manifest outcomes in the physical world"...
The Law Of Reciprocity is the Universal Law that states that whatever is sent out into the cosmos, (what modern day science refers to as "The Unified Field", and what I personally choose to refer to as "The Infinite Field Of Potentiality", in the way of energy or vibration through the resonance of Your Thoughts, Emotions and Actions), will manifest outcomes in the physical world... physical outcomes that unfold in your life based on whatever is given or broadcast out through those "THOUGHTS", "EMOTIONS" and "ACTIONS" (KARMA / KAMMA). -
If we don't have wisdom
everything round us will be a source of suffering.
If we are wise these things will lead us out of suffering.
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One of the reason why we suffer is that we pursue the wrong things in life.
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