Tag: practice
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行者 practitioner
修行，是行者的人生。是一種真人的生活狀態。它不是知識，不是時間所能衡量。因為行者的生命是永恆的。沒有起點，也沒有終點。所以，他沒有時間的緊迫性。人生，不過是一眨眼的功夫而已！！！– 華嚴上師 Cultivation, permeates the entire life of a practitioner. It is the state of life of a real person. It is not knowledge, nor is something that can be measured in time. Life of a practitioner is eternal, without beginning and end. Therefore, there is no rush. Entire life, is merely a blink of…
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修行 Cultivation
家人囉嗦煩惱生，靜觀承擔任運消，解使結，便前行；同事爭功氣又生，折騰半天覺醒來，無一物，誰來爭；生活，就是修行。 Close ones complaint emotion rises, contemplate own surrender dissipate, knots untied, move forward; Colleagues fight credit qi arises, half day inflated but after rest, nothing there, who to fight; Life itself, is the cultivation ground.
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Zen Reality and Practice – 不著不舍
實際理地不著一塵，萬行門中不捨一法。 – 禪宗祖師 Ultimate reality is not bounded by any manifestation, yet actual practice embraces all of them. – Zen Master實際理地不著一塵，萬行門中不捨一法。 – 禪宗祖師
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Online Class – foundation course completed – 网上课程 – 基础课程完成
Dear readers, After 26 months of discussion and exploration, we have finally completed our online discussion on the core teachings of the three great classics in Chinese Civilization. With the focus on personal and spiritual cultivation, we first learnt about the transcendental reality and the way towards it from Laozi’s Daodejing. After understanding our…
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Diamond Sutra – understanding can be sudden, which sweeps away all mental blockages, practice is not sudden, which get perfected in stages – 金刚经 – 理即顿悟,乘悟并消；事非顿除,因次第尽
After expounding that real Buddha is beyond image and sound, the all compassionate Buddha reminds us that real Buddha does not mean no image and no sound either, and that we should not satisfy with just the proper understanding of truth and should diligently practice it in our life. Why did the Buddha say so?…
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Confucius Analects – practice in all situations – 孔子论语 – 全方位修行
2.4 Conduct when alone, in different environment 子曰、吾與回言終日、不違、如愚。退兒省其私、亦足以發、回也不愚。 The Master said, ‘I have talked with Hui [Hui] for a whole day, and he has not made any objection to anything I said;–as if he were stupid. He has retired, and I have examined his conduct when away from me, and found him able to illustrate…
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Autobiography of Confucius – Confucius Analects – 孔子论语 – 孔子一生
This is an autobiography of Confucius. There were three stages in Confucius life, first stage begins on learning (age 15) and establishing oneself (age 30) in the world. Second stages consolidates and refine one’s life until there is no internal doubt (age 40) and one knows one’s role in the world (age 50). The results…
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Dao De Jing 41 – Different man hear the Dao, descriptions of the Dao
Upper men hear the Dao, act on it diligently; -> what happen upon Dao realization? One becomes a vehicle of it and serve diligently. (see last post how Dao runs in those humble) Middle men hear the Dao, half believe in it; -> one needs more observation, evidence, experiment, experience, or realization. Lower men hear…