这个世界上，有太多美好的东西，

而我却不曾有机会仔细欣赏它们。

这是因为，

我的世界太小了，

我，

需要出去勇闯一番。

There are so many beautiful things in the world,

but I have never had the opportunity to appreciate them.

It is because,

my world is too small,

I need to go out and open my mind.

image from:

佚名 1980—1990年代作 四季仙鹤图

We must accept finite disappointment , but we must never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

我們必須接受失望，因為它是有限的，但千萬不可失去希望，因為它是無窮的。

馬丁.路德.金

‘这个世界上有两件事情是不能等的，第一件事情是尽孝，第二是行善 ‘

‘There are two things in the world that can’t be waited: be filial to our parents and respectful to our elders; be charitable to others’

image/ baidu.com     word/ xfrs.org

不知道认识我的人是否有留意，我的左手长期戴着一串木制佛珠。

其实这串佛珠是几年前本焕长老送给我的。然后我就一直戴着了。

本焕长老在前两天圆寂了。

祈愿本焕长老乘愿再来

南无阿弥陀佛

Namo Amita Buddha

Don’t know if people who know me have ever noticed that there is always a bunch of wooden prayer beads on my left hand.

Actually it is given by Buddhist master Ben Huan few years ago. I have been wearing it since then.

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news from china.org.cn

Chinese renowned Buddhist master Ben Huan passed away early Monday morning on 2nd April, 2012, a Shenzhen-based temple announced on its official website.

Hongfa Temple, where the 105-year-old master Ben Huan practiced Buddhism announced that master Ben Huan passed away at 12:36 a.m.

Ben Huan was born in 1907 and became the first abbot of Hongfa Temple in 1992. He was elected honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China in 2010.

“As in the fashion industry, one day you are in, and the next day you are out”

Heidi Klum

image/ chichi luo

Hey  friend, let me tell you a secret,
I think this summer I will leave this city… and going to start a new life in a new city, where is closer to my hometown…
Life is all about ‘dream’, there are many dreams we need to treasure, to seize, to pay, to gain, to give up…
So… I can’t waste time on waiting for dreams to come true, I am going to fight for them! 

‘whether next destination is paradise or not, even if I am disappointed I will never be hopeless’
– mayday

‘倔强’    ’Stubborn’  by  五月天/ mayday

我和我最后的倔强 握紧双手绝对不放
下一站是不是天堂 就算失望不能绝望
我和我骄傲的倔强 我在风中大声的唱
这一次为自己疯狂 就这一次 我和我的倔强

me and my last bit of stubbornness, I grasp tightly in my hands and never let it go

whether next destination is paradise or not, even if I am disappointed I will never lose hope

me and my stubbornness that I am proud of, I sing loudly in the wind

This time I am crazy for myself, just this time, me and my stubbornness

image from: mayday london concert on 27th March 2012

‘Some say the dark age, age of vice, Kaliyuga, is here now, or at least coming soon. Some even fear that at the end of 2012 the world as we know it will end. What determines if an age is dark or golden? What are the symptoms or omens? Earthquakes, violet skies, meteoric activity, these are not the omens of doomsday as we are made to believe. Likewise, cherub’s flying, a sound economy, freedom of information, peaceful times are also not necessarily signs of a golden age. The age of light is said to be when people value empathy and forgiveness, when they have a willingness to see other people’s view, and are contented with what they have. When such values are systematically sabotaged, then you can say that the dawn of the doomsday has begun. When we look at a harmless beggar as a pest and envy billionaires who routinely destroy the earth,we are inviting doomsday to come. ’

‘有人說,黑暗時代、惡世或說爭鬥時期(Kaliyuga)已然到來,或至少是即 將到來。有些人甚至害怕,在2012年底,我們所知的世界即將終結。黑暗時代或 黃金時代是由什麽決定?徵兆或預兆爲何?地震、紫色天空、流星活動,這些並 非我們信以爲真的世界末日預兆。同樣地,小天使飛翔、經濟穩健、信息自由、 天下太平,也未必就是黃金時代的徵兆。據說,當人們珍視同理心與寬恕的價值、 願意瞭解他人的觀點,並且對所擁有的事物知足時,就是光明時代。當這些價值受到系統性破壞,你可以說,世界末日已開始漸露端倪。當我們將無害的乞丐視作害蟲,並且艶羨那些慣於破壞地球的億萬富翁時,我們就是在邀請世界末日的到來。‘

____ from: ’Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche’s comment on 2012′  on 28 January 2012

‘宗薩欽哲仁波切對「2012 末日論」的開示’ 于 2012年1月28日

english ver.   chinese ver.

蓮師金剛七句祈禱文

藏文  吽                   汉文  吽

喔堅由吉努江燦  烏金剎土西北隅

貝瑪給薩東波拉  蓮莖花胚之座上

雅燦秋格甕竹涅  獲證稀有勝成就

貝瑪炯內謝素札  世稱名號蓮花生

括度卡卓芒布果  無量空行眷圍繞

切記傑素達竹記  我隨汝尊而修持

進吉洛企謝速所  為賜加持祈降臨

咕汝貝瑪斯地吽  咕汝貝瑪斯地吽

* Padmasambhava, 蓮花生大士, Means The Lotus-Born, was a sage guru from Oddiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighboring countries in the 8th century. In those lands he is better known as Guru Rinpoche (“Precious Guru”) or Lopon Rinpoche, or, simply, Padum in Tibet, where followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha. He said: “My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I consume concepts of duality as my diet. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

more info: wikipedia- 

*第三世佐钦老珠巴活佛土登尼玛仁波切（金刚上师）

The Third Dzogchen Old Drupa Tulku: Thupten Nyima Rinpoche (Vajra Guru)

珠巴老上师的珍贵教言/ precious teachings by Old Drupa Rinpoche

修行贵在坚持，日常生活中要少听闲话，少说话多念经，多观无常，明白了无常，才能有信心坚持修法。时间很宝贵。不抓紧时间念经、修行，死时怎么办？不修行，面对死亡就会恐惧害怕，不能把掌自己的神识。只有平时好好地修行念经，到死亡时才会不怕，才能解脱。不再受轮回之苦。千万不要浪费如金子般珍贵的时间。

Perseverance is the most important merit for buddhist practice. In daily life please try to gossip less, talk less, chant scriptures more, understand impermanence more, in order to have  more confidence to persevere in your practice. Time is very precious to us.  If you do not grasp your time to practice, when you face to death, you will feel fear, therefore you cannot in charge of your own soul. Only when you practice well you will not be afraid to death, so that you can relief, no longer subject to the cycle of suffering. Do not waste your precious time.

常常记住五要五不要 always remember:

1.不要太厉害，要多柔软 don’t be too severe, be more flexible

2.不要太管事，要多清净 don’t be too officious, be more quiet

3.不要太随便，要多随缘 don’t be too casual, but let things go naturally, do not force things to happen

4.不要太说话，要多念经 don’t talk too much, spend more time on chanting scriptures

5.不要太亲近，要保持距离   don’t get too close, keep some distance

凡对任何事情，不要太执着，特别在感情上，希望得到热情，失望痛苦越深，无欲无望，无苦无痛。

Anything you face to, please do not be too inflexible, especially in relationship. The more enthusiasm and attraction you expect to get ,  the more disappointment and pain you get. No desire, no expectation. No bitterness, no pain.

祈请仁波切法体安康，长久住世，常转法轮！

- sorry about my bad translation! -

more info: 白玛珠玛新浪博客  The Main Institute of Dzogchen Monastery University Center

‘Human beings have already possessed many things! So please give other beings a chance to live!’

‘人類已經擁有很多了！就放其他生命一條生路吧! ‘

by 小s/ taiwanese celebrity

* March 15th marked the day of the international protest against the Canadian seal hunt. Many organizations cooperated to oppose this cruel hunt. Harp Seals.org, the Sea Shepherd Society, and Animal Liberation Front were some of the groups that protested. Protests were on a global Scale. / canadiansealhunt.com

(images from: google.com)

‘You have the ability to take charge of your life. I am not talking about just to attracting to yourself in material things that you would like to have, or the things that you would like to experience. I am talking about reaching your very highest potential, about remembering who you are, and your purposes, and reasons for being honours during this auspicious time.’

From: ‘Take charge of your life’

by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

cofounder and president of the nonprofit, educational organization New Age Study of Humanity’s Purpose

more info: Era of Peace

Do we really need all these material things to be happy ?

（image from: fireflyforest）

多半时候，我们无法控制自己，我们的心总是受到一些事物的吸引或干扰——我们的敌人、我们的爱人、我们的朋友，所有这一切，还有希望、恐惧、嫉妒、骄傲、执着、嗔恨。所有这些事物、这些现象，控制了我们的心，而我们无法控制自己。或许我们可以在刹那间控制自己，但我们若是处于极端的情绪当中，我们就会失去控制力。—  宗萨钦哲仁波切

Most of the time we are not under the control of ourselves. Our mind is always attracted or distracted with something – our enemies, our lovers, our friends, just everything, hope, fear, jealousy, pride, attachment, aggression, all of this. So, in other words, It’s the objects, the phenomena, the world, which control our mind; we have no control over it. Maybe we can control it a little bit, for a split second; but if you are in an extreme emotional state, you’ll lose it.   — Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

来自: ‘人間是劇場:我們認知因緣-奢摩他禪修’ - 宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切 (1999)

From: ‘THE WEALTH OF BEING NATURAL’  by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (1999)

* In March 1999 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche gave a weekend teaching at Vajradhara Gonpa about calm abiding or shamatha meditation. 

image from: desktopia

人生中唯一不变的，就是什么都在变。位高权重的，突然会一落千丈；生死相许的，竟然会势同水火；合家欢聚的，终究会曲终人散；寿比南山的，迟早会撒手人寰。所以，一切的美好都难逃变化，变化就会带来痛苦，这即是佛陀给我们揭示的“无常皆苦”。 —- 索达吉堪布

The only constant in life is the fact of everything is changing. For example, some one who had high position of power suddenly become plummeted; couples which used to give promise to each other of love till death but actually become opposite; families which used to gather together, after happy hours they left each other in the end; people who have long life, but they have to face to death sooner or later. As a result, all the good things cannot escape changes. However, changes can bring more pains,  which represents what Buddha revealed to us: ‘All impermanence is painful’.    —- Suo Daji Khenpo

*sorry about the bad translation:(

 

‘我在全世界旅行，用中国护照肯定会不方便。但我总是告诉女儿，我们有两个选择，一个是换护照，使我们方便起来；还有一个就是每次碰壁以后，我们就把它当成一个机会，提醒我们应该更加努力，为这本护照获得尊重作一点贡献。’ — 蔡国强《芭莎艺术》创刊特辑

‘As I am traveling around the world, it is certain that using a chinese passport is inconvenient. But I always tell my daughter, we have two options, one is to change passport to make us more convenient; the other is every time after we struggled with adversity, we took it as an opportunity to remind us to work even harder, to make a little contribution to this passport for being respected.’  — Cai Guo-Qiang, Chinese Artist, from his interview in Harper’s Bazaar Art (initial issue)

—-复旦情商课魅力女教师 陈果

复旦情商课魅力女教师上课实录：http://p.pomoho.com/play/dF90aWFuY2FpLzYwMTY1NDk$

I should keep telling myself and treat them as my life guideline.

一、不杀生，二、不偷盗，三、不邪淫，四、不恶口，五、不两舌，六、不妄语，七、不绮语，八、不贪，九、不嗔，十、不痴。或称十善业道。

no killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no lying, no divisive talk, no harsh talk, no idle talk, no craving/coveting, no ill will, no wrong view

More information: The Ten Non-Virtuous Actions and Their Results

> What is Karma?

‘Everybody should walk through an Emergency Room at least once in their life because it makes you realise what your priorities are. It’s not the ‘rush rush rush’ and the ‘money money money’, it’s the people you love and the fact that one minute they might be there and one minute they might be gone”

- Liz Hobbs, King’s A&E Consultant

24 Hours in A&E – Channel 4 & More 4

Wednesdays, from 11 May to 10 Aug, 2011 – Channel 4

Thursdays, 9pm from 11 Aug, 2011                - More 4

Series Summary

We’re all just one wrong step, one sudden illness or one unlucky break away from A&E. It’s a place where dramatic stories of love, life and death unfold every day.

With 70 cameras filming round the clock for 28 days, this series offers unprecedented access to one of Britain’s busiest A&E departments, at King’s College Hospital in London. Each programme focuses on patients who were treated within the same 24-hour period.

The series captures the joy and heartache faced by patients and their families, as well as the hard work and professionalism of the A&E staff. From life-threatening traumas to embarrassing mishaps, 24 Hours in A&E is an intimate, powerful and sometimes comic insight into life – and death – on the frontline of the NHS.

*images and summary from: Channel 4

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I am always the last person to know everything. This TV series has been broadcasting for such a long time but I just realised it recently.. so sad..                      This  TV series is definitely recommendable and worth watching, which gave me further thought of ‘Love’ – to Love is not only to taste the feeling of romance, intension and possession, but also to bear the responsibility to guard, to look after, to cherish your dearest. Even if he or she is paralysed, or seriously injured with full of blood, you still want to be with him/her, without hesitating.