老實念佛 求生淨土

印光大師開示—敦倫盡分 閑邪存誠 老實念佛 求生淨土

 

無論在家出家。必須上敬下和。忍人所不能忍。行人所不能行。
代人之勞。成人之美。靜坐常思己過。閑談不論人非。
行住坐臥。穿衣吃飯。從朝至暮。從暮至朝。一句佛號。不令間斷。
或小聲念。或默念。除念佛外。不起別念。
若或妄念一起。當下就要教他消滅。常生慚愧之心及懺悔心。
縱有修持。總覺我工夫很淺。不自矜夸。
只管自家。不管人家。只看好樣子。不看壞樣子。看一切人都是菩薩。
唯我一人實是凡夫。果能依我所說修行。決定可生西方極樂世界。
諸惡莫作 眾善奉行 自淨其意 是諸佛教
南無阿彌陀佛

extract from post from facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sila.vinaya

Cooking food with Care

Email on safe cooking:
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Xuanwu Hospital Professor Qi articles:
"When steaming your food, make sure you open the lid to boil the water first .
If water is used straight from the tap, your food will be contaminated by absorbing all the cancer causing chlorine upon heating which is a serious health hazard."

No wonder more and more people with cancer. With pot cooking something, be sure to use water, or filtered water. Because if the direct use of tap water, tap water has chlorine, then after heating, because the lid is covered, the chlorine is all over food, so be sure to use boiled water or filtered out chlorine water to steam things.
Because chlorine is carcinogenic hazard.
This is really important! Even if only steaming buns, should have this knowledge. When steaming your food, make sure you open the lid to boil the water first.
If water is used straight from the tap, your food will be contaminated by absorbing all the cancer causing chlorine upon heating which is a serious health hazard.
Please forward to create awareness:
Article by: Professor Qi from Xuanwu Hospital
转发就是善行：
宣武医院齐教授的文章：蒸食物请一定要是先开着盖子把水烧开，再放入要蒸的食物，盖上盖子！
难怪有癌症的人愈来愈多。用锅蒸煮东西时，一定要用开水,或是过滤过的水。因为如果直接用自来水，自来水有氯，再经过加热后，由于锅盖是盖着的，氯被全部包覆在食物上，所以
一定要用煮沸过的开水或用已过滤掉氯的水来蒸东西。因为氯有致癌的
危险。这真的很重要！即使只是蒸馒头，都要有此常识。

多多转发，让更多的人看到。
Please forward to create awareness:
Article by : Professor Qi from Xuanwu Hospital

Gratitude to All My Teachers

An Extract of Lam Rim text on Gratitude to Teachers

The Ten Teaching Sutra says:

"Develop the following ideas with respect to your teachers.

I have wandered for a long time through cyclic existence, and they search for me;

I have been asleep, having been obscured by delusion for a long time, and they wake me; they pull me out of the depths of the ocean of existence; I have entered a bad path, and they reveal the good path to me; they release me from being bound in the prison of existence; I have been worn out by illness for a long time, and they are my doctors; they are the rain clouds that put out my blazing fire of attachment and the like."

Although I have not met my samsara Guru yet, I have met many good teachers along the path. I am grateful for their teachings.

The paragraphs are indeed very meaningful!

May All be able to meet good teachers and their guru soon...

Amituofo!

Venerable Hai Tao In Spore-December 2013!

Venerable Thubten Chodron in Singapore 2013

REJOICE!

Venerable will be in Singapore for a series of Dharma activities from 2 Dec to 11 Dec!

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some snapshots... 

Ven. Chodron at Poh Ming Tse on "Good Teacher, Good Student"~ 6 Dec 2013

Ven. Chodron at BF East on "The Power of Forgiveness"~ 5 Dec 2013

Ven. Chodron at Buddhist Library on "Living Up To Our Own Expectations"~ 4 Dec 2013.

Pumpkin to clean the blood.......

A health improvement email received
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A secret revealed ...

Some years ago, a former professor of mine showed me a blood test.
The five key blood parameters, ie urea, cholesterol, blood glucose, lipids and triglycerides had values which far exceeded permitted levels. I commented that the person with those indices should already be dead, or in very bad health and near death. The teacher then showed the name of the patient which until then had been hidden by his hand. The patient was himself!

I was dumbfounded! "But how? And what did you do?"

With a smile he introduced me to another sheet analysis, saying: "Now, look at this, compare the values of the parameters and see the dates."

That's what I did. The parameter values were clearly within the recommended range, the blood was perfect, flawless, but the surprise increased when I looked at the dates, the difference was only a month (between the two analyses of the same person)!

I asked: "How could it? This is literally a miracle!"

He replied that the miracle was due to her doctor, who suggested treatment obtained from another doctor friend. This treatment has since been used by myself, several times, with impressive results.

Here's the SECRET: once a year, daily for 4 weeks, buy at the fair or supermarket, pumpkin pieces. Daily, peel 100 grams of pumpkin, place the pieces in a blender (raw), along with water (WATER ONLY!), And mix well.

Take this vitamin fasting, 15-20 minutes before breakfast. Do this for a month, every time your blood needs to be corrected. According to the doctor, there is no contradication, because it is just a natural vegetable and water (do not use sugar!).

The teacher, excellent chemical engineer, studied the pumpkin to know which of the active ingredients it contains and concluded, at least partially, that it is present in a solvent of low molecular weight cholesterol: cholesterol more harmful and dangerous - LDL. During the first week, urine has a large amount of LDL (low molecular weight), which results in cleaning of arteries, including the brain, thereby increasing the person's memory ..

PUMPKIN ... Do not make it a secret ... SPREAD!

Simply This Moment

Simply This Moment ~ A Wonderful book that one will initially be put off by its extra fine print.
But for some affinity, I bought it at Awareness Place.
It is a collection of Talks on Buddhist Practice by Ajahn Brahm, printed by Singapore's Brahm Education centre.
Reading the 1st few chapters on meditation topics, one is like being led by Ajahn Brahm on his meditation instructions while reading and may have a good experience he touched on.
And motivated by his words, one may develop a spur of detachment to current life. What is one doing? Wasting the precious human life now and feel like joining his organisation...
A great book, Strongly recommend to get...