mindfulness in action…
Delusion is the mind’s tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience. Delusion would have me believe that I was my anxiety and that I was forever isolated as a result. Motivated by fear and…
能者，馭氣； 上者，馭境； 下者，馭心； 庸者，馭身。
唯識學所依據的大乘經典有六部，分別為《解深密經》、《大方廣佛華嚴經》、《如來出現功德經》、《大乘阿毗達磨經》、《楞嚴經》和《厚嚴經》。其中最根本及最重要的可說是《解深密經》，是唯識學的思想的源流。 它在整個瑜伽行派思想形成的過程中，扮演著抉擇歸納以至理論奠基的工作。因此，要全面地了解唯識學的發展，《解深密經》是其中一個必須跨過的門檻。誠如趙國森所言：
「由龍樹提出的「假名」，經《瑜珈師地論》所立的假性自說，到《解深密經》所談「遍計所執相」，再到《攝大乘論》所講的「遍計所執相」等幾個相關觀念的轉變，若缺乏了《解深密經》等早期的文獻資料，將難以會通「假名」與後來「遍計所執性」二者在思想上的關係。」
One of the daughters of Daksha, named Sati, was a great devotee of Shiva. She was beautiful and virtuous. Most of the time Sati immersed in the thoughts of Shiva and dreamed of being his wife. Sati, through her sincere and devotional prayers, acquired the blessings of all gods and goddesses. Shiva finally yielded and…
One of the most feared criminals of the Buddha’s time, Angulimala distinguished himself by his habit of garlanding himself with the served fingers of his murdered victims. When word got out that he and his band were in certain area of the countryside, all who could possibly avoid travelling in that area would do so.…
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They…
While he was still speaking, someone came from the leader’s house to say, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.” When Jesus heard this, he replied, “Do not fear. Only believe, and she will be saved.”
A young woman named Kisagotami lost her only child to illness around the time of his first birthday. Bereft, she was from house to house in her village, clasping the dead child to her breast and pleading for medicine to revive him. Her neighbors, thinking her mad, were frightened and did their best to avoid…
「…意識本身並不會捻著對象，意識及意識對象同時剎那生滅…」(comment of 「正念」，一行禪師修行法門的核心) ─ 若這是真實，那麼自由的種子就已埋在這裡！我們將可從眼、耳…意對境而起的識，及由此而來的愛、惡、苦、樂等感受中釋放出來。
太虛在闡明「人生佛教」一語的意義時，曾經指出人們必須認識佛學的兩大基本原則﹕一是「契真理」，一是「協時機」，因為「非契真理則失佛學之體，非協時機則失佛學之用。」 – 明報(14.06.09)