Saturday, December 29, 2018
Karmapa Chenno💖🙏
Karmapa Chenno 💖🙏
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Sunday, December 16, 2018
Rejoice 😊💖🙏
Rare occasion that S who usually displayed dislike in engagement in Buddhism visited kmspks with us for early Dongzhi who saw and initiated and bought above for me and A. 😀😁
Blessings from Triple Gems 😊💖🙏
Rejoice 😊💖🙏
Blessings from Triple Gems 😊💖🙏
Rejoice 😊💖🙏
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Ven. Chodron in Singapore 2018
So close!
To the screen...😙
The hall is full when I reach time before the teaching starts and have to sit at the kitchen area where temporary seats and a TV screen are being set up. That's the charm of Ven. Chodron. 😁
Feeling of I want to change and when one meets the Buddha's teaching ~ Oh here is the way to change!
Buddha lay out a path wishing all sentient beings be happy.
When one Practice and one can see the improvement on one's mental state.
How to see yourself as a person you want to become.
We imagine and make it easier to have those thoughts and feelings.
Dress up as a doctor, etc. and we imagine what it is to be like a Bodhisattva, think and act like one
Try to be like a Bodhisattva.
Venerable uses the 10 great vows of Vasubandhu as material for the night's teaching.
She recites and explains the vows.
Some pointers:
What creates problems in society and families lies with self grasping ,ignorance, inherent existence of I. Focusing on our own happiness and harming them when interfering with our happiness.
Great compassion is
Opening our heart to all beings not being jealous but rejoice at their well being.
Forgive then when they do wrong and teach them.
Different way of looking at beings.
They want happiness just like me.
We feel connected if where one goes ones cares n other beings respond in friendly ways so one sees friends...
Roots of virtue / goodness - merits may be dedicated to awakenings of beings.
May Bodhicitta be embedded in our mindstream.
Understanding law of karma n phenomenon, may we have awareness of them.
Knowing truth.
Practice all things non inherent entities, not seeing as truly existence but empty.
No independent practice me bodhicitta
Recognise ultimate truth.
Beings strangers friends enemies are interdependence on concepts. ..
There is no inherent existence as conditions change
Great compassion drives you to help .
QnA pointers:
Meditation on body as parts : eyes, skin, hair , organs will aid in seeing the real truth and reduce attraction to sensual pleasures.
Practice ourselves individually and not rely on others to change.
Change of internal world change opinion of external world. 💖🙏
Thank you Venerable for another evening of good reminders and revision.
Yes we learnt the term on Great compassion Bodhicitta from you this evening.
So when people ask what we learnt from you, we do not only remember the good stories you shared or what food you liked but Yes Yes! the topic on Great Compassion...😄
To the screen...😙
The hall is full when I reach time before the teaching starts and have to sit at the kitchen area where temporary seats and a TV screen are being set up. That's the charm of Ven. Chodron. 😁
Feeling of I want to change and when one meets the Buddha's teaching ~ Oh here is the way to change!
Buddha lay out a path wishing all sentient beings be happy.
When one Practice and one can see the improvement on one's mental state.
How to see yourself as a person you want to become.
We imagine and make it easier to have those thoughts and feelings.
Dress up as a doctor, etc. and we imagine what it is to be like a Bodhisattva, think and act like one
Try to be like a Bodhisattva.
Venerable uses the 10 great vows of Vasubandhu as material for the night's teaching.
She recites and explains the vows.
Some pointers:
What creates problems in society and families lies with self grasping ,ignorance, inherent existence of I. Focusing on our own happiness and harming them when interfering with our happiness.
Great compassion is
Opening our heart to all beings not being jealous but rejoice at their well being.
Forgive then when they do wrong and teach them.
Different way of looking at beings.
They want happiness just like me.
We feel connected if where one goes ones cares n other beings respond in friendly ways so one sees friends...
Roots of virtue / goodness - merits may be dedicated to awakenings of beings.
May Bodhicitta be embedded in our mindstream.
Understanding law of karma n phenomenon, may we have awareness of them.
Knowing truth.
Practice all things non inherent entities, not seeing as truly existence but empty.
No independent practice me bodhicitta
Recognise ultimate truth.
Beings strangers friends enemies are interdependence on concepts. ..
There is no inherent existence as conditions change
Great compassion drives you to help .
QnA pointers:
Meditation on body as parts : eyes, skin, hair , organs will aid in seeing the real truth and reduce attraction to sensual pleasures.
Practice ourselves individually and not rely on others to change.
Change of internal world change opinion of external world. 💖🙏
Thank you Venerable for another evening of good reminders and revision.
Yes we learnt the term on Great compassion Bodhicitta from you this evening.
So when people ask what we learnt from you, we do not only remember the good stories you shared or what food you liked but Yes Yes! the topic on Great Compassion...😄
Sunday, December 9, 2018
May the small casualty suffered avoided a big one...
Happily finishing spring-cleaning and last item was to clear the glass lamp cover filled with many dead small insects over the months with the golden light sand. However little did I expect that a small knock of the cover with the door and it broke into tiny pieces all over the floor . 😲 blood started to splash from the glass pieces in my hand. Never did I expect casualties like this will happen ...🙈🙊
And cool did not know that I have such active blood cells til then. Things happen so unexpected and fast. Luckily I recall my wonderful healing water ~ Silver dew at that time and immediately sprayed some on the wound. Thankfully, it stopped the blood flow and minutes later I saw new skin formed over the cut. 😉
And while cleaning up the mess, discovered an artistic piece of work on the wall...😀
Oh yes I did remember to pour some golden light sand on the glass burial ground of the insects before they are disposed. May they have a good rebirth amidst the glass, blood and sand...Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Please practise. ..
Sometimes I feel like....
I am an agent of Dharma... introducing folks to various teachers and rejoice 😉 to see them focus and excel...
But I am still who I am 😑
Sometimes I feel myself like 😇Ananda (oh yes 😅I am much lesser than him to quote as example) who have been in touch with the precious teachings😀 but had not practise enough...😠
So I am still who I am right now ...😂
Please please please practise 🙏 what the teachers and gurus have taught...🙇 and rise above the afflictions...😈😃
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Sunday, November 25, 2018
More Gems of Mingyur Rinpoche....
More gems of Mingyur Rinpoche as his teaching tours continues...💖🙏
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The Essence of Meditation is Awareness
What is awareness? Awareness is knowing. You know what you are seeing, hearing, smelling. You know what you are feeling or thinking. Even if you are not thinking, you know you are not thinking.
Awareness is the basic consciousness. In this basic consciousness, thoughts, emotions and perceptions come and go. When you have emotions, the emotions come from awareness, stay in awareness, and dissolve into awareness.… More...
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The Essence of Meditation is Awareness
What is awareness? Awareness is knowing. You know what you are seeing, hearing, smelling. You know what you are feeling or thinking. Even if you are not thinking, you know you are not thinking.
Awareness is the basic consciousness. In this basic consciousness, thoughts, emotions and perceptions come and go. When you have emotions, the emotions come from awareness, stay in awareness, and dissolve into awareness.… More...
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修行沒有進步也不要灰心
修習和聽聞佛法有巨大的利益。如果你的修行沒有進步也不要灰心,這是因為有很多層面障礙的緣故,就像是厚厚的雪需要長時間才能融化,障礙深厚的弟子慢慢會看到進步的,所以不要灰心喪氣。
佛陀的教法是「心性中含藏證悟的種子」。就這點而言,一切有情眾生,即使是最小的蟲子都是平等的。但由於蟲子的惡業果報,它們必須忍受更多的痛苦。拯救小蟲一類的眾生具有特別的意義,通過咒語和甘露丸可以幫助它們從痛苦中解脫。
即使心性具有證悟的種子,我們仍有著許許多多的苦;而覺悟的有情,比如釋迦牟尼佛已經從痛苦中解脫。佛的功德浩瀚無邊,如同虛空或是海洋;我們則被遮蔽,如同烏云密布的天空。覺有情沒有任何障蔽,如虛空一般。覺有情極其稀有,凡夫則多不勝數。覺有情已了悟輪涅平等,顯空不二;凡夫對此則尚未了悟。一旦凡夫了達無常,並了知心其實無法找到,就不會對萬法現像有所執著;一旦沒有了執著,就能從輪迴中解脫。
佛陀的教法是「心性中含藏證悟的種子」。就這點而言,一
即使心性具有證悟的種子,我們仍有著許許多多的苦;而覺
實際上,凡夫心和佛心的基礎是等同的。這就像染上各種不
凡夫迷亂的心將虛妄當成是真實。這就像是黃疸病人把白色
人的層次不同,有些人前世修習過佛法,因為他們的蔽障很
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給自己時間去做自己
我們或許認為自己是好人,
但這可能不是事實。
外表上我們可能像是一個在澆花的人,
看似在做一件好事,但實際上卻是將熱水澆灌在花上。
對自己和他人來說,像這樣的假好人,
可能比某個我們知道的壞人或自身的缺失還危險。
因此,謹慎地檢驗自己非常重要。
——大寶法王噶瑪巴《密勒日巴的精髓》
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【#找回自己的心 #做自己!】
我們每個人的生活都很繁忙,有許多的事情要做,因此,我
#禪修,就僅是給自己時間去「做自己」,除此之外﹐別無
你所要做的 ,只是單純地放鬆,然後安住於自身的本然狀態,讓自己有
當你給自己這樣的機會時,你會發現,當下所經驗的狀態,
也就是說,當你在做其他活動時,即使每天的生活都很忙碌
有時,我們日常生活是如此地忙碌,以至於一整天都在忙不
原因在於當我們一頭栽進忙碌之中時,我們的心只是在追逐
心失去了對自身的正念與覺知,而只專注於追逐外在的事物
因此,我認爲給自己時間「#做自己」,它真的很基本、也
< ·第十七世大寶法王噶瑪巴· >
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我們在生活中的確會遇到很多困難,工作、伴侶、孩子等等很多瑣事會讓我們覺得人生沒有意義,但其實是我們自己把生活變得無意義、充滿煩惱。
快樂並不是外在的東西,也無法從外在得到,我們常說「最殊勝的財富就是知足的心」,像這種知足快樂的心就是我們本具的善功德。
生活簡單時,無論外在環境如何紛亂,能夠寬坦自在的這念心,就是快樂。
第十七世大寶法王 噶瑪巴 鄔金欽列多傑
輯錄自2011年3月法王教授春季課程
輯錄自2011年3月法王教授春季課程
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噶瑪巴尊者
只要有虛空的地方就有眾生,有眾生的地方就有煩惱,有煩惱就有惡業,有惡業就有痛苦,而這些受苦的眾生皆曾是我的生身父母,於我恩重義深,他們現在都沉淪在無底的大海中,歷受無邊的痛苦,無依無怙,十分辛苦,十分苦惱。如果他們能夠脫離一切苦痛,獲得安樂,那是多麼好呢?這樣去思惟,很快的就能夠生起慈悲心來的。
《解脫莊嚴寶論》
時間:2017年3月6日上午
地點:印度菩提迦耶德噶寺大殿
時間:2017年3月6日上午
地點:印度菩提迦耶德噶寺大殿
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有時想想,改變真的不容易。當你試著要改變一個頑強眾生的心,由於無明太過深厚,要改變真的很不容易。例如在同一個辦公室里共事的人,有的人就是很難溝通,腦筋很死,怎麼講都講不聽,跟誰也都合不來,這會讓大家都很辛苦,最後誰只要看到他的影子,就想趕快逃走。很多人的確是這樣,很難改變他:他知道是毒還是要吃,知道是火還是要往里跳,知道是惡行還是要造惡的人,是很多的。
Sunday, October 28, 2018
2018年明就仁波切台灣弘法・彌陀淨土修持精要開示摘要
【2018年明就仁波切台灣弘法・彌陀淨土修持精要第一日開示摘要】
■當你的好位子被人占走了,空性在哪裡?
有多少人聽過空性教法的?那麼有多少人相信空性呢?如果你很早來,占了一個很好的位子,然後你走出課堂,回來發現你的好位子被人占走了,這時候你感覺如何呢?你的空性還在嗎?還是忘了空性了?好的座位不是空性的,那個占我位的人也不是空性的了。所以這是智識層面的理解,還沒進入經驗層面。我們所相信的和所經驗的不一樣,這就是智識和經驗的層次不同。
當我們運用覺知繼續修持空性,慢慢就會進入經驗層面。這時候,有人占你座位,你還是會不高興,但這時不高興就像夢一樣,座位如夢,占位的人如夢,生氣也如夢。你的憤怒不再像一般的憤怒了,像夢一樣,不會失控,空性進入你的經驗,這就是我們所謂經驗的層次。
就像你先在書中瞭解月亮是什麼,然後走出去,在水中看到了月亮,這比書中的月亮更鮮活,與真正的月亮更接近了,具有更多真正月亮的特質,但它仍不是真正的月亮,而是月亮的倒影。因此在空性的經驗階段,我們仍然有這樣的身體、這樣的感知。你還沒修持心性時,所有的一切,一直都真實的、痛苦的,情緒也都很真實。當你進入經驗層面時,關於空性的想法、概念減少了,痛苦、情緒慢慢變得不真實了,但這都還在經驗層面。然後你繼續修持,最後會失去你對空性覺受的玩味。
當你在經驗層面,會有空性的體會,如夢、清晰、無念等覺受,但當你直接證悟時,關於空性的想法、概念沒有了,關於空性的這些覺受也沒有了,禪修與禪修者合而為一,這一刻你就直接證悟了。這是解脫的第一步。對你來說,輪迴就是涅槃,空性對你來說不是理解層面,也不是覺受,而是已經進入你的感知,所有的痛苦也都解脫融入空性,即使你沒在禪修,看到一切也都如水中月,那就是解脫的第一步。這時候你看這世界就是彌陀淨土,而真正的阿彌陀佛就是你的自性。這時候你還沒有成佛,到成佛還有九個次第,但你已經脫離輪迴了。
■中陰修持的A計畫和B計畫
如果你又忙又懶,頗瓦法又修不好,可以修持中陰法門。如果你接受過心性指引,有一點修持經驗,接受中陰修持教導會很有用。
我們死亡時,會經歷三個中陰:臨終中陰、法性中陰、投生中陰。
臨終中陰是我們在臨終時經驗到的,佛性、心性會清晰展現。如果你在生時修持心性,臨終時會清晰的看到心性展現。這是臨終禪修,例如我的外公和父親圓寂時都進入臨終禪修,維持了三天,第十六世法王也是,維持了二十四小時,仁波切寺院裡有個老人在往生時維持了七天。如果這時候你認識出心性,你就完全解脫了。這是中陰修持中的A計畫。
中陰修持的B計畫是什麼呢?就是法性中陰。如果你臨終時沒能認識到清晰展現的心性,就會進入無意識狀態,大約三天半,之後醒來過來時,沒什麼概念。因為死亡時一切都消融了,身體的四大、概念心、能所二元、習氣都消融了,這時你在無意識中醒過來,就進入法性中陰。就像我們入睡時,也會有一兩秒鐘很清晰的心性狀態,但通常我們沒能認出來,就進入深層睡眠,經過十分鐘到二十分鐘後,從深層睡眠出來,就開始做夢,夢中我們有身體、有感官。同樣的,死後進入法性中陰時,也會有身體,但這時中陰身的身體狀態,比夢裡要清楚很多,時間也長得多。一開始你會看到很多光,如果這時候你認識出來,你可以修持空性或心性,幾秒之內就可以解脫了。就如同在夢中知道自己作夢,你就不會困擾,夢對你就沒有掌控力量,業力也沒辦法控制你。如果你在中陰狀態認識出來,所有這些力量還沒能控制你,因為這些力量在你死亡時都消融了,還沒形成粗重的業力。如果再過幾天,心的展現、頭腦的展現就一步步出來了。心的展現,像是五毒、五智、五大元素這些寂靜的展現,頭腦的展現則是忿怒的展現。如果這時候你能認識出來,幾秒之間你也可以解脫。到了頭腦的展現結束時,你的法性中陰也結束了,你的身體就變得更粗重,這時候真正成佛的機會就沒有了。這業力就變得更堅實,概念心也變強了,這時候投生中陰就開始了。
這時候大部分人就知道自己死了,去找朋友、家人,但朋友、家人都不理會他。他會看到人們在講:「很遺憾啊,希望他去淨土啊!」於是他會開始想:「可能我死了,這怎麼辦?我需要身體!」就到處找身體。所以這時候,我們需要彌陀法門。
■念佛也可以具備淨土四因
問:我平常習慣念誦佛號,修持天法彌陀儀軌,念到彌陀心咒時,可以用念佛號來代替嗎?
答:修持儀軌時,要按儀軌來修持,也就是念心咒。如果只是念佛號,則不需要法本。你可以從皈依發菩提心開始,觀想著阿彌陀佛就在前方,然後念佛,同時憶念著自己現在就在淨土。念佛時也可以做止的禪修,觀想阿彌陀佛在前面就是色相禪修,念佛號時也可以做聲音禪修,或者你也可以做默念禪修,舌頭不動,在心中念著。
有時候你也可以問自己問題:是誰在念佛呢?憶念著我是空性的、阿彌陀佛是空性的、淨土也是空性的。
這樣修持,既有止,也有空性的觀修。止和觀的禪修都能累積資糧,再加上念佛,就完成了祈請阿彌陀佛和累積資糧的要件,然後念完佛之後迴向。這樣做,淨土四因都具備了,不一定要用法本來練習。
(明就仁波切台灣弘法「彌陀淨土修持精要」第一日開示摘要2018.10.26 ~ 主辦單位: 台灣德噶
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【2018年明就仁波切台灣弘法・彌陀淨土修持精要第二日開示摘要】
■不只是好的,連不好的也供養出去
問:以前灌頂時聽仁波切說過,我們做供養時可以把負面的東西也供養出去,是灌頂時才能這樣做嗎?還是平常也可以這麼做?
答:有外、內、密三種不同的供養。
外供養是外在的,所有悅意的東西都可以供養。
內供養是把自己的執著供養出去,例如你的財富、身體、善德,你的德行;不只是好的,也包括不好的,也就是你反感、厭惡的東西,也供養出去。因為不論是貪著或厭惡,兩種都是執著。你貪著的就是好的德行、特質,厭惡的就是不好的、恐慌、生氣這些不想要的。可以把這些通通供養給阿彌陀佛。
至於密的供養,是誰在供養誰呢?我是空性的、阿彌陀佛是空性的,供養也是空性的,沒有一個真實的人在供養。但這不是說什麼都沒有,不是真實的不代表什麼都沒有。我們的概念心總是非黑即白,會想:「如果沒有阿彌陀佛,也沒有極樂淨土,那為什麼我要辛苦修持淨土法門?」極樂淨土不是沒有。不是真實存在,不表示沒有,就如同我們所處的世界,也不是真實存在的,但不表示沒有。
■開心禪這麼修,也可以具足往生淨土四因
問:我自己沒有念佛,只喜歡禪修,但家中長輩希望在他往生時,我可以幫忙助念八小時,如果我只是禪修,如何幫助到他們?
答:先前有講過如何將開心禪的修持轉為淨土修持,道理是一樣的,如果你只學習了開心禪一階,而人家希望你去幫助臨終者,要怎麼做?
首先是皈依發心,想著阿彌陀佛就在前方,皈依阿彌陀佛,祈請阿彌陀佛加持這個臨終者,並且發起菩提心,想著自己要幫助一切眾生解脫輪迴達到究竟的證悟,而來修持。不只是要幫助這個人而已,這樣的利益很有限。你可以為了亡者和一切眾生都從痛苦解脫出來究竟成佛,而來修持。
先發起這樣的菩提心,然後你禪修,聽聲音、開放的覺知、看著疼痛、看念頭,所有這些都是禪定的修持。我們說六度波羅密中,持戒比布施的利益更大,安忍的利益又大過持戒,精進又比安忍更有利益,然後是禪定,開心禪一階的修持就是禪定,更比前面四個具有更大利益,可以累積大量的福德資糧。
做完修持後迴向。你可以迴向給一切眾生,迴向給亡者、迴向給家人、迴向給自己,都能往生淨土。
這樣修持,就包含了往生淨土的四因。
■在投生中陰,如何知道自己死了,如何投生淨土
在投生中陰,你有選擇,可以選擇回到人間投生到一個良好的家庭,繼續修持,但這有很大的風險,因為現在這個世界,有很多讓人分心散亂的事物,你可能會交錯朋友、走錯路,忘了修行,所以最好還是去淨土。
大部分時候,在中陰階段,你可能不知道自己死了,所以可以做些測驗。你可以去海灘,在中陰時,你一想到去海灘,馬上就到達海灘了,走在沙灘上,看看是否留下脚印,如果沒有脚印,就確定你已經死了。第二個方法是找個大鏡子,看看鏡中有無你的影像,沒有的話,就是死了。或者去找光源,看看自己有沒有影子,沒有影子就是死了。或者去找朋友:「哈囉!」但朋友不理你,自己在玩手機,這也代表你死了。也可以試著穿牆而過,如果你能穿牆,這也表示你死了。
如果確定自己死了,就不要再想回來這個世界做人。你要想的是:「我在輪迴中如此輪轉了這麼多生、這麼多劫,我現在自由了,我有選擇,我要去淨土!」你不需要地圖,也不需知道淨土的方位,只要想去淨土,一眨眼間你就會去到淨土,就會看到阿彌陀佛。你會看到那裡有個湖泊,湖中有一朵特別的蓮花,你感覺這蓮花是我的,一眨眼間,就會在蓮花中化生為阿彌陀佛的身相。這時的重點是不要懷疑,你沒有懷疑,花就開了,花開見佛;如果你有懷疑,花就不開。
如果你無有懷疑,花一開,你就見到阿彌陀佛,你可以放光供養阿彌陀佛,阿彌陀佛會歡迎你,並且給你授記,告訴你未來成佛時,你的佛號是什麼,這時你就完全有保障了,在淨土就很放心了。你可以從阿彌陀領受教法,也可以去其他淨土領受教法,但不是聽法而已,還是要修持。你也可以回到這個世間,這都是經文中敘述的。好的,講完了,快樂的結局,是吧!
(明就仁波切台灣弘法「彌陀淨土修持精要」第二日開示摘要2018.10.~主辦單位:台灣德噶
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Monday, September 24, 2018
HAPPY MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Festive greetings from the teachers...
及那份人與人之間慈悲喜捨的緣份。
因此,即使我們無法相聚在一起,
但在抬頭看到天空中的月亮時,
無論我們是否共處一地,
無論我們多久沒有見面,
透過月亮的這個媒介,
我們還是能夠感覺到
他人對自己的愛,
以及彼此之間的愛。
~大寶法王噶瑪巴
我常自忖月亮是愛的守護者;
月亮代表著愛所具有的持久特質,及那份人與人之間慈悲喜捨的緣份。
因此,即使我們無法相聚在一起,
但在抬頭看到天空中的月亮時,
無論我們是否共處一地,
無論我們多久沒有見面,
透過月亮的這個媒介,
我們還是能夠感覺到
他人對自己的愛,
以及彼此之間的愛。
~大寶法王噶瑪巴
我覺得我的愛,不必然要被我的生命或身體所局限。我會想象如果我不再存在於這個世界上時,我的愛依然能存在。我想把我的愛放在月亮上,讓月亮保存著我的愛。讓月亮做我的愛的保管人,就像月亮傳送它的光芒擁抱整個地球一樣,將我的愛獻給每一個人。
第十七世大寶法王 噶瑪巴 鄔金欽列多傑
《崇高的心》
《崇高的心》
(above from Internet various sources)
月圓之夜 , 一切圓满 ...
中秋佳節, 不要偷懶 ...
祝願大家中秋快樂, 節日吉祥
Happy Mid Autumn Festival!
中秋佳節, 不要偷懶 ...
祝願大家中秋快樂, 節日吉祥
Happy Mid Autumn Festival!
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月圆之夜,祝大家吉祥如意幸福
(Greetings from 宽净法师)
Tergar Asia 8 Days Retreat in Thailand (2018) - 8D
2018「泰國八日禪」明就仁波切9月16日圓滿日開示
■ app是護法神,幫你養成禪修好習慣
在禪修的過程中,會有氣動、能量轉化的情形發生,這有四種情況:
一,身體感受:覺得頭頂有什麼在動,感覺脊椎刺刺的,或者覺得胸口氣卡住,有時覺得熱,有時身體會晃動,有些會哭,有時會打手印。這些都只是氣動,都是正常的。
二,感知層面:覺得聽到什麼、看到什麼,或佛菩薩或鬼魔來告訴你什麼。
三,情緒起伏:有時很喜悅,有時很沮喪,有時很生氣,有時覺得痛,讓心不清楚,但幾天後痛不見了,覺得好清楚,會覺得這下我可能開悟了吧。
四,能量感受:覺得這個人有正能量,那個地方有負能量,我可以知道這個人的情緒是什麼等等。
這四種裡有兩種是真的、兩種是假的,身體感受和情緒起伏是真的,但感知和能量是假的,不要相信。
總的來說要知道這些都是氣動而已,原來不淨的氣脈明點轉化為清淨的氣脈明點,清淨的氣脈明點再轉化為智慧的氣脈明點。從不淨的轉為清淨常會發生氣動,但從清淨的轉化為智慧則不大會有什麼特別的狀況發生。
有時「不淨轉化為清淨」和「清淨轉化為智慧」這兩種情況會一起發生,有時會次第發生。
但「清淨轉化為智慧」這種轉化,唯有修持心性才會發生,因為心性超越時間、超越物質、超越大小、超越遠近,一旦見到心性,那時你對身體的感知,也會超越時間、超越物質,就像月亮映照在平靜的湖面上,身體在一切處又不在一切處。
現在說了你們也不會懂,但只要持續練習,這些以後自然會發生,你們會自然經歷到。
在這過程中,覺受大浪會時不時撲過來,不要執取,不要中斷,繼續修下去,這樣心性就會越來越清楚。
重點是持續練習下去,但不要一下設定太大目標,要知道自己能力範圍在哪裡,不要聽到人家一天坐六小時,你也要跟他拚了,也許先從每天一小時、半小時開始,堅持一個月。
在閉關之後,尤其是八日禪之後,第一個禮拜,你會覺得每天禪修一小時半小時還算容易。但第二個禮拜,才坐上禪修墊不久就會開始找手機。
「八日禪我拍了一些美照,有沒有人來點讚?」開始覺得全身在癢,還是忍不住滑手機,「我就看五分鐘」,結果十五分鐘甚至一小時過了,「那明天修一小時好了」,結果第二天才念皈依發菩提心,就開始打哈欠。沒錯,第二個禮拜就變難了,小心別碰手機,也許你可以跑到另一個空間禪修,比如頂樓或山上,禪修完要滑手機再滑。
第三個禮拜開始習慣了,會覺得好一點。
第四個禮拜,覺得還不錯,習慣就建立起來了。
能這樣堅持三個月,你的習慣就會很穩固。
第四個禮拜,覺得還不錯,習慣就建立起來了。
能這樣堅持三個月,你的習慣就會很穩固。
回家之後,如果有時因為生病、旅遊而無法持續禪修,這是沒關係的,但要把禪修這件事放在心上。
除了正式的座上修,還有非正式的生活禪修,這時你就可以在看手機時禪修了,比如每看到一個讚你就禪修一次,或每一次訊息鈴響起或震動了,你就看一下心性。
現在德噶開發了一種app,你們可以到app store下載,是免費的,你可以自己制定內容和傳送提醒的時間及頻率,然後定時寄給自己,提醒自己作禪修。以前有時做禪修做到忘了時間,會想要不要重做,現在那個App會提醒你時間。
你們回家之後都有功課要做,有一個完成功課的捷徑,就是到app設定一個時間,每天時間一到就會提醒你做功課,比如解脫道一二階功課,你可以設定禪修時間或主題。下座禪修時也要建立習慣,可以借助計數器,想到心性就按一下。或者開心禪課程中也說過,可以在家裡或辦公室貼些符號或標語,看到就會提醒自己去做禪修。
但提醒自己作禪修的「最佳app」,其實是遇到麻煩和困難。比如我小時候有恐慌症,漸漸的恐慌症好了,只剩禪修。但我還是很感謝恐慌症,它幫我做禪修。沒有恐慌症反而有時會忘了禪修,所以是恐慌症幫助了我禪修。
有關德噶app 詳情及下載:https://app.tergar.org
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■ Like a dharma protector, an app can help you to build up a meditation habit
When you meditate, sometimes you may feel some energy movement. There are four types of energy movement.
1 Physical sensations. You may feel some movement at the top of the head, or some tingling at the back, or something is blocked in the chest area. Occasionally, there may be heat in your body, or your body moves and shakes. Some may cry or even make mudras with the hands. These are all energy movements and they are normal.
2 Sensory perceptions. You may hear sounds or see images. You may see buddhas and bodhisattvas coming to you and giving you special messages.
3 Emotional ups and downs. From time to time you may feel joyful and blissful, but after a while, you start feeling depressed or angry. You may even have physical pain in the body and your mind becomes unclear. Yet after a few days, the pain is gone and your mind becomes clear again. You may wonder "Wow! Maybe this time I have finally become enlightened!”
4 Perception of positive and negative energy. You start to feel "Oh! This person has good energy!" "That place has bad energy!" "I know what the other people are thinking..."
Among these four, two are real and two are not real. The physical sensations and the emotional ups and downs are real. However, the sensory and energy perceptions are not real, so don't believe in that. Generally speaking, you just have to understand that these are all energy movements, which may happen when prana, nadi and bindu are being transformed.
Actually, there are two kinds of such transformation. The first one is the transformation from the impure prana, nadi and bindu to the pure prana, nadi and bindu. The second one is the transformation from the pure prana, nadi and bindu to the wisdom of prana, nadi and bindu.
For the first one, energy movement often happens when the "impure" is being transformed to the "pure". However, during the transformation from the "pure" to the "wisdom", there will not be any energy movement. Sometimes, it is possible for both transformations to happen at the same time, but it is also possible that there is a sequence where the transformation from the "pure" to the "wisdom" comes after the transformation from the "impure" to the "pure".
However, an important point you must remember is the transformation from the "pure" to the "wisdom" is only possible through the nature of mind practice, because the nature of mind is beyond time, particle, big and small, near and far. Once you see the nature of mind, the perception of your own body will also be beyond time and particle, just like the moon reflection in the lake. The body is everywhere and nowhere. But, even though I tell you these now, you will not be able to understand. However, if you keep on practicing, these will happen naturally in the future and you will be able to experience them. During such a process, sometimes there may be "huge waves". So, don't grasp onto your experience, don't stop, and keep on practicing. Eventually, your nature of mind will become clearer and clearer.
The most important thing is to keep on practicing, but at the same time, don't set a goal too high and you must understand your capability. Don't try to compete with the others when you hear someone says he practices for six hours a day. Perhaps you can start from an hour, or even thirty minutes a day, and then practice diligently for a month.
After a retreat, in particular an 8-day retreat like this, you will find that meditating for an hour or half an hour a day is quite easy for the first week. Yet when the second week comes, you may start looking for your smartphone soon after you sit on the meditation cushion. "Oh! I took so many beautiful photos during the 8-day retreat, how many "likes" did I get?" You may feel restless, as if your hand is "itching", and finally, you grab your phone and start scrolling... "Alright, I will just browse for five minutes..." Soon, fifteen minutes, or even an hour passed by and you tell yourself "Okay, I will meditate for an hour tomorrow." When tomorrow comes, you start to yawn soon after reciting the bodhicitta aspiration prayer... Indeed, the practice of meditation becomes difficult soon after the first week. So be careful and don't touch your smartphone! Perhaps you can go to another spot to meditate, for example, go to the rooftop or the mountain. Play with your smartphone only after the meditation practice.
When the third week comes, you are getting used to the new habit, and when it is the fourth week, you may even feel good about your meditation practice. You have built up your daily meditation habit step by step, and it will become even more stable if you continue to do so with diligence for three months.
After you have returned home, sometimes you cannot continue your practice because you are sick or when you are travelling. Don't worry, but you must also continue to keep your practice close to your heart.
Apart from the formal practice, there is also the informal practice which you can do during your everyday life. This time, you can meditate while looking at your smartphone! For example, you can meditate whenever you see a "like", or you can look at the nature of mind whenever you hear the ringtone or sense the vibration each time you get a new message on the phone.
Recently, Tergar has developed an app which is free of charge and which you can download through the App Store. You can type in your own message to remind you of practice, set the time and frequency of practice, and the app will automatically send you the reminder. In the past, sometimes you might forget to write down the time you started to practice and after a while, you forgot how much time you have practiced and wondered whether you have to do it all over again. But now, this app can help remind you about the time and your practice.
After you have returned home, you all have homework to do. Actually, there is a "short cut" to finishing your homework and that is, set your schedule in the app! It will remind you to practice when it is the right time. For example, if you are in the Path of Liberation 1 and 2, you can set your reminder according to your topic and the length of time you would like to practice. It is also important for you to build up the informal practice habit. For example, you can use a small counter and press it once each time you think of the nature of mind. In the Joy of Living, we have also talked about using some images or words, and stick them somewhere in your home or in your office so that you will remember to practice everytime you see them.
Actually, the “best app” to remind ourselves to practice is when we are facing a problem. When I was young, I had panic disorder. As my panic gradually disappeared, what has remained is my meditation practice. I am very grateful to my panic because it helped me to practice. If I didn't have this panic disorder, perhaps I might have forgotten to meditate. Therefore, my panic disorder has really helped me in my meditation practice.
(Excerpt from Mingyur Rinpoche's teaching on 16 Sep 2018, on the final day of the Tergar Asia 8-Day Retreat)
For more details of the app : https://app.tergar.org
Tergar Asia 8 Days Retreat in Thailand (2018) - 8C
「泰国八日禅」— 皈依的因、皈依的对象
堪布贡噶教授部分
翻译:妙融法师
皈依的教导有很多种方式,这里有最重要的四种皈依:
皈依的因;皈依的对象;皈依的方式;皈依的学处。
皈依的因:对于轮回的一种惧怕。如果我们不害怕轮回的各种痛苦,我们就不会去寻求各种解脱之道 ,因为惧怕轮回,就会成为我们皈依的因。第二个因素是因为害怕轮回,想要寻求依靠 ,所以寻求三宝成为我们解脱的依靠。从达成的角度来说,不仅自己害怕轮回,想到怎么能让所有的大众都不受轮回之苦,于是就生起了慈悲心 ,有这样的因素的话,就能够产生一个正确的皈依。
皈依的对象:分为外在的对象和内在的对象 。外在的皈依对象是三宝,内在的皈依对象就是自心本心。这就是经典中说的,外在和内在的皈依。
我们第一个要皈依的对象是外在的对象,也就是佛法僧三宝。
为什么外在的对象有三个呢?
比如一个病人要治好病的话,需要三个人来帮助,大致需要三种辅助:医生、药、护士。
只要具备这三个条件的话,有什么病都比较容易痊愈。
如果没有医生我们不会知道自己生了什么病,也不会知道怎么样去治病 。
如果有一个医生,但是没有药的话,也不知道要怎么治。所以我们不仅需要有医生,还要有药。
但是有时候我们也不知道该怎么吃药,怎么照顾自己等这些问题,这时候就需要有医护人员来帮助。
通过这样的比喻,来说明我们在轮回中所受的各种痛苦,那么要怎样才能治我们烦恼的病?
我们就需要医生也就是佛陀,那么药就是法 ,护士就是僧。
至于找到的这个皈依对象,不一定说他们自己就远离了痛苦,所谓的三宝,他们本来就是无苦的。
就好像是佛陀他有完全断除烦恼的证悟功德,他的断除都是圆满的。至于僧,按照佛陀的法去修持,也基本上断除了烦恼,基本上达到初地的菩萨。
刚刚讲的是我们真正要皈依的对象。一般来说有一些代表,比如佛像就表示佛陀、经典就表示法,出家人就代表僧,这些都是象征性的代表。但我们真正要皈依的是实意上的三宝。
这次闭关有6次讲课的机会,6次机会主要有6个主题:
转 心四思维、四无量心、皈依、 菩提心、上师相应、心性。
每一天都有一次协助种子发芽的机会。为了要生起菩提心,让你们生起四无量心,四无量心在开心禅中有详细的解说,所以四无量心会简单的介绍。在开心禅中没有包含皈依的部分,而皈依又是很重要的。所以要在皈依这个部分做多一些解说。
堪布认为虽然所有佛法的修持都是那么的重要,但是比这一切的修持更重要的就是 皈依。
这个原因就在于,你是否是一 个佛弟子,取决于你是否皈依;
是否处于解脱的道路上,也取决于你是否皈依。因此当我们进入佛教之后,这个皈依是一切修持的基础,一切法的入门。
就因为皈依这么重要,所以对皈依的解说是非常多的 。 但是将这些广泛的解说归纳起来。
有四个要点:1、皈依的因;2皈依的对象 ;3皈依的方法;4、皈依的教导。
这样的分类法是源自于阿底峡尊者的教导和口诀。当时他到了西藏,在藏地的说法中90%的教导都是围绕着“皈依”这个主题。所以当时在藏地的很多僧人就给他取了昵称,“皈依大师”和“皈依班智达”就像你们叫堪布贡噶“包子堪布”一样。所以他在这里的教学方式是依据阿底峡尊者对于皈依的教导来给予的。
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堪布贡噶教授部分
翻译:妙融法师
皈依的教导有很多种方式,这里有最重要的四种皈依:
皈依
皈依的因:对于轮回的一种惧怕。如果我们不害怕轮回的各
皈依的对象:分为外在的对象和内在的对象 。外在的皈依对象是三宝,内在的皈依对象就是自心本心。
我们第一个要皈依的对象是外在的对象,也就是佛法僧三宝
为什么外在的对象有三个呢?
比如一个病人要治好病的话
只要具备这三个条件的话,有什么病都比较容易痊愈。
如果没有医生我们不会知道自己生了什么病,也不会知道怎
如果有一个医生,但是没有药的话,也不知道要怎么治。
但是有时候我们也不
通过这样的比喻,来说明我们在轮回中所受的各种痛苦,那
我们就需要医生也就是佛陀
至于找到的这个皈依对象,不一定说他们自己就远离了痛苦
就好像是佛陀他有完
刚刚讲的是我们真正要皈依的对象。一般来说有一些代表,
这次闭关有6次讲课的机会,6次机会主要有6个主题:
转
每一天都有一次协助种子发芽的
堪布认为虽然所有佛法的修持都是那么的重要,但是比这一
这个原因就在于,你是否是一
是否处于解脱的道路上,也
就因为皈依这么重要,所以对皈依的解说是非常多的 。
有四个要点:1、皈依
这样的分类法是源自于阿底峡尊者的教导和口诀。当时他到
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1852539724826096&set=a.817931468286932&type=3&theater
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