静思语 Readings For Silent Reflection

• Fcukpap

  8 Nov 12, 22:22

  yeah....with your beautiful photos and inspiring posts....

• Fcukpap

  10 Nov 12, 08:47

  

• Fcukpap

  10 Nov 12, 08:53

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  11 Nov 12, 22:05

  压力通常來自对身外事物过于在�，�時也过于在�他人的评断。
  
  Pressure usually stems from caring too much about externals and other people’s opinion.

   

  

  Nanmo Amituofo

• Dawnfirstlight

  14 Nov 12, 20:28

   

  1. 山�转路转，路�转人转，人�转心转。- 圣严法师
     
     If the mountain won’t move, build a road around it. If the road won’t turn, change your path. If you are unable to even change your path, just transform your mind. - Ven. Master Sheng Yan

     
     

     

     
     

     Amituofo

     
     

     
     

   

• Dawnfirstlight

  16 Nov 12, 18:41

  1. ��有��典的�言：知足者富

  

   

• Fcukpap

  19 Nov 12, 01:26

  

  then the tears folded over her

  lover's short predicament

  while long leaves the boughs embrace

  her dissolving joys of this ruined summer palace

   

  the blue skies clouded once upon her bluish gaze

  while mourners found 

  they were afoot in the air although

  life is sinking through

   

  the long notes the trees began their songs

  while branches tense like shadow dancers 

  rooted down and forever lost their ancient power

  under and between the buried stones

   

  fcukpap

• Dawnfirstlight

  22 Nov 12, 11:11

  财富如�水，佈施如挖井。井越深，水越多；佈施的越多，财富则越大。
  
  Wealth is like running water, and giving like digging a well. Just as the deeper the well, the more water it holds, the more you give, the more wealth you have.

  (Bear in mind, give to true charity organisations, true monks, true temples and people who really in need to survive or your money will just go down the drain or worse, you will be a sinner for helping sinners to commit sins. So be careful when you give).

   

  

  Nanmo Amituofo

• Fcukpap

  22 Nov 12, 17:59

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  财富如�水，佈施如挖井。井越深，水越多；佈施的越多，财富则越大。
  
  Wealth is like running water, and giving like digging a well. Just as the deeper the well, the more water it holds, the more you give, the more wealth you have.

  (Bear in mind, give to true charity organisations, true monks, true temples and people who really in need to survive or your money will just go down the drain or worse, you will be a sinner for helping sinners to commit sins. So be careful when you give).

  

  totally agree...

  there was a christian fable about a young prince who renounced kingship to go in search for Christ when he was told about the birth of Christ by a fortune teller ...so he prepared 3 wealthy gifts ready to present to the baby and thus began his long search for the Christ .....which took him over 30 years....but in his journey....he gave each of the wealthy gifts to those in critical need to save them from death...and each time he was close to find Christ....he had already moved to another area to preach....finally after 30 years when he reach the place where Christ was...he was informed about his crucification...he rushed to the spot but was too late...as Jesus was dead on the cross....

  the old and sickly prince was deeply dissapointed and felt guilty as he was not able to present his gifts to the Christ after his search for 30 years...on his way back...Jesus then appeared before him and said:"I know you have been searching for me....and I have already received the three gifts which you have given to my people...today you shall sit next to me in Heaven.."

• Dawnfirstlight

  25 Nov 12, 16:37

  1. 心�平安是真正的苦，身体的病痛�一定是苦。
     
     Bodily ailments do not necessarily constitute suffering. An unsettled mind does.

     
     

     

• Dawnfirstlight

  25 Nov 12, 16:38

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  totally agree...

  there was a christian fable about a young prince who renounced kingship to go in search for Christ when he was told about the birth of Christ by a fortune teller ...so he prepared 3 wealthy gifts ready to present to the baby and thus began his long search for the Christ .....which took him over 30 years....but in his journey....he gave each of the wealthy gifts to those in critical need to save them from death...and each time he was close to find Christ....he had already moved to another area to preach....finally after 30 years when he reach the place where Christ was...he was informed about his crucification...he rushed to the spot but was too late...as Jesus was dead on the cross....

  the old and sickly prince was deeply dissapointed and felt guilty as he was not able to present his gifts to the Christ after his search for 30 years...on his way back...Jesus then appeared before him and said:"I know you have been searching for me....and I have already received the three gifts which you have given to my people...today you shall sit next to me in Heaven.."

  Thanks for sharing.

• Fcukpap

  25 Nov 12, 23:59

  

• zulkifli mahmood

  30 Nov 12, 14:20

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  A wise man will be the master of his mind. 智者，�心�的主人。愚者，�心�的仆人。

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  Hi Dawnfirstlight, that is a very true quotation. Thanks for sharing.
• zulkifli mahmood

  30 Nov 12, 14:21

  ~ TIME ~ What if we didn't mark time? How old would I be? Would I count the sunsets, Or add lifetime to lifetime? Would there be days or years? Or just life? As I see it, Things would be different. No more schedules to keep. Things would get done Without the distress. Feed the body when needed, Not when the bell tolls... Connect with the earth To grow and enjoy. Feel the sunshine and moonshine Without stressing about things I could not complete today. And when Death whispers It's time to go... I can smile and know it's time to begin yet again. Poem by Destinded to Fly
• Dawnfirstlight

  30 Nov 12, 22:34

  �得起放得下，年年�祥如�；用智慧��田，日日都是好日。
  
  For those who can take things on and let them go in peace, every year is an auspicious year. For those who can sow with wisdom the seeds of blessings, every day is a good day.

  

• Fcukpap

  1 Dec 12, 00:42

  Originally posted by zulkifli mahmood:

  ~ TIME ~

  What if we didn’t mark time?
  How old would I be?
  Would I count the sunsets,
  Or add lifetime to lifetime?
  Would there be days or years?
  Or just life?

  As I see it,
  Things would be different.
  No more schedules to keep.
  Things would get done
  Without the distress.
  Feed the body when needed,
  Not when the bell tolls…

  Connect with the earth
  To grow and enjoy.
  Feel the sunshine and moonshine
  Without stressing about things
  I could not complete today.

  And when Death whispers
  It’s time to go…
  I can smile and know
  it’s time to begin yet again.

  Poem by Destinded to Fly

  
  well written!

• zulkifli mahmood

  3 Dec 12, 12:42

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  
  well written!

  
  I was clearing my emails and I came across the message that I had received afew years back. Thought I share it within this topic before I deleted it. Yes, I agree it was very well written. Wish I can write that well too.
• zulkifli mahmood

  3 Dec 12, 13:11

  I'm still clearing my past emails in my inbox. Thought I share this within this topic. YOU ARE COMPLETE "Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else." -- Wayne Dyer Close your eyes and imagine that everything you have and everything you are is enough. You don't need to be better or different -- you're great just as you are. Can you experience the peace and contentment that owning that perspective brings? Moving into such total acceptance does not mean that we stop growing. When we can accept who we are now, we open the doors to our own inspiration to do and be even more! "Who you really are is enough." -- Oriah Mountain Dreamer "Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are." -- Julia Cameron
• zulkifli mahmood

  4 Dec 12, 18:14

  LABELS LIMIT US "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -- Lao Tzu How do you define yourself, to yourself and others? Are you first and foremost a husband/wife? A mother/father? A bus driver, dentist, musician ... ? A Christian, Moslem, Jew ...? A nag, joker, dreamer ...? Be aware that any label puts limits on you. Today, experience how it feels to let go of the labels to rest in `I am.' Feel the freedom, the spaciousness, the infinite potential of simply being. "With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises." -- Wayne Muller "As long as I am this or that, I am not all things." -- Meister Eckhart
• Dawnfirstlight

  4 Dec 12, 19:36

  四它：�对它�接�它�处�它�放下它。
  
  When faced with any difficulty of life, resolve it by following these four steps: face it, accept it, deal with it, and then let it go.

  

• zulkifli mahmood

  7 Dec 12, 15:13

  "The longest journey is the journey inward". - DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, 1905 to 1961.
• Dawnfirstlight

  11 Dec 12, 19:18

   

  1. 这是个一�一�的世界。天一�，地一�；男一�，女一�；善一�，�一�；清净一�；浊秽一�。如果你�求完美，�能接�完美的一�，�能接�残缺的一�，你拥有的是个�完整的世界，毫无圆满�言。学会包容�完美的世界，你就拥有一个完整的世界了�
     
     人生忧喜一�一�，�利得失一�一�，财富�散一�一�。修行佛魔一�一�。在这一�一�的世界，应该用好的一�，去影��的一� - 星云大师

     
     

     This is an imperfect world. Everything has its opposites. It is a 50/50 world. Heaven vs Earth, Male Vs Female, Good Vs Evil, Peace Vs Chaotic. If you are a perfectionist and can only accept the perfect and reject the other half which is imperfect, you are only accepting half of the world. If you able to face the fact that this world is imperfect and accept the other half which is imperfect, you have the whole world at your feet. Use the perfect half to influence the other half which is imperfect.

     
     

     Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. Buddhism is realistic.

     
     

     

   Amituofo

• Fcukpap

  12 Dec 12, 23:16

  

• Fcukpap

  12 Dec 12, 23:25

  �大郎

  

  

• Fcukpap

  12 Dec 12, 23:31

  �二郎