mindfulness in action…
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。
自我中心(self centred)不是失去連繫(lose of relatedness)的結果，反之亦然。而是來自自我保護及保存的一種嘗試。否則，一種冒然的開放，將會使個體超載(overloading)而面臨困擾，甚或解離。因此，人在自我保存與邁出之間，選擇了前者。
停！ 你聽到嗎？我在呼喚你。
Once you are ready to lose everything, that means you are capable to embrace everything!
涅槃不是任何東西的結果 認為涅槃是絕滅貪愛的自然結果，那是錯誤的。涅槃不是任何東西的結果。如果它是一個結果，它就是由某種因緣所得的效應。那它就是緣生的而為有條件的存在。但是涅槃既非因亦非果，它是超越因果的。真理不是一個結果，也不是一種效應。它不是一種神秘的心靈或思想的狀態，猶如禪定一般。真理就是真理。涅槃就是涅槃。你惟一想知道它的方法是親見親證。有路可通涅槃，但是涅槃並不是這條路的結果。你可以沿一條小徑到達一座山，但那山卻不是那條路的結果或效應。你可以看見一道光明，但是光明並不是你目力的結果。
對人而言，存在是一種偶然，而非某某的命定。 這種偶然的存在以一種「被拋擲於此」的方式出現。人是被拋擲的，那麼拋擲者是誰？ 「被拋擲於此」的偶然存在，是沒有被設定的本質1，人生因而是虛無的。且呈現為一種無以明狀的焦慮感(anxiety)。要爭脫或超克這種的狀態，人得為自己的存在賦於內容與本質，否則我們將被文化與環境所主宰，失去了個人的能動性 ─ 這過程稱之為「選擇」。
When you say you are learning Buddhism, it is equal to say that you are ready to know yourself – metaphysically, to know about the essence of self; psychologically, to know about the operation of self; socially, to know about the construction process of self. When you say you are practising Buddhism, it is equal…
I see violence exists everywhere…it exists within a person, within a relationship, between human and its environment. Sometimes it exercises brutally, but sometimes it dresses up itself in a very attractive outlook, we call it ‘love’ and/or ‘justice’. What does violence come from? I would say it comes from fear! Fear breeds violence.