Wednesday, February 18, 2015

2015 年 新年快乐!

2015年,这篇文章依然烙印在我的脑海中。
新年要比旧年好,加油!

新年要比舊年好
--佛使比丘,山人譯
新的心,比新的年好,
也就是:比以前明白更多,智慧更宽广,
让自己能够
超越痛苦、站起来。

新的一年比旧年好,
只要新没有好,也不好。
口说得好,但心不好,有何用?
被鬼笑,值得吗?

更清净、更光明、更安详,
才叫做“新”,向前进,别惺忪愚昧。
更靠近涅盘,别迷失。
若这样:我们才算有真正的“新年”。




Sunday, January 11, 2015

Meditate...It's good!

Since year 2009, I was exposed to Buddhist meditation. I wasn't a diligent meditator, and I still remember in the very first sitting meditation session, my knees started aching within...just five minutes. Ouch..!

However over these years I have been practising meditations infrequently, joining meditation classes every once in a while and recently one-week retreat every year.

I was just back from a Theravada meditation retreat in December 2014. I met great meditators there, one of which makes me determined to practise meditation every day.

Although not a diligent meditator (now trying to be), the benefits of meditation is numerous. This is why I never give up on meditation and even though i just practise once in a while, I could experience the huge benefits each meditation session gave me.

Honestly, my meditation experience was not a smooth sailing one. A seemingly simple technique - just to stay focus on the breaths and count the breath as we go on, I seldom can bring myself down to just - count the breathes - because most of the times i will be having too many things in my mind flashing through, or i was counteracting uncomfortable feeling of the physical body, or, i fell into a sleeping state. The breathing technique is easy for a simple mind. For a complicated mind like me, it is hard and after years I still feel that I am like a beginner.

However, only by the time we sit down closing our eyes and distance our heart from all the external stimulations, only we started to see into ourselves within. The figures started to pop up, or flashing through. It can be a sound, a thought, a picture.. Meditation isn't all about closing eyes and peace automatically appears. For beginners like me, it is more to realising how distracted I am and how i collect my mind back from different things. It is very hard to realise how distracted one can be, without meditation. Just like I always thought I am fully focus in daily life, but my belief was shaken when I meditate. I am NOT that focus as I thought.

And through meditation, day by day, we know ourselves a little more. This is a journey inwards, to understand more what thoughts or feelings that I have been thinking or having most of the time. For example, I found out that when I am worried about something, the thought of this unfinished / uncompleted task can come up in my mind for up to 5 to 10 times in a day! After realising this, I decided to finish that certain task quickly instead of hanging it in my mind, or write it down on a paper so that my mind don't keep thinking about it. I remembered one day my colleague wanted to find her supervisor for assessment but the supervisor was not certain if she was free. In the whole morning, my colleague mentioned about the supervisor for almost 6 times when she was working with me.

禅修,能够帮我们摆脱内心的轮回。

Out there there are a lot of meditation techniques. However in Buddhism the purpose of meditation is just one - to train our mind to be concentrated and focus enough to see the truth of life. We practise meditations not because we want to get some supernatural power or to dwell in some meditative state for sustained happiness.

EHIPASSIKO - This in Buddhism means come and see yourself. You have to come and experience yourself.

Meditation is good!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

生命的旅程

来到这个地球
就像搭上一辆公车
公车里的乘客好多
仔细一看
同车的大家  搭车的原因不尽相同
出发点不一样 最终朝向的目的也不同
有的人要早下车
有的人要转车
有的人开心地乘搭 到最后

我们都只是 暂时性地相聚在一起
看似相同的原因而一起
其实,在时间的洪流里,只是共同经历了一小段过程
但是这小小的一段,赋予了错觉
错认为大家的旅程是一致的

所以何必在乎
自己与别人不一样呢?
何必要求自己达到别人的水准呢?
反正生命的旅程 都是独特的
各有各自的精彩
不可能一模一样

好的 坏的 别人认为的 都是别人的
快乐的 悲伤的 自己经历的 却是真实又飘拂的
他想要的 未必是你需要的
他讨厌的 也许是你喜欢的
所以 应该探索
自己的人生意义是什么
然后看清,和接受,自己那独特的生命之旅
享受过程 享受挑战 享受成长

Monday, November 3, 2014

Feeling inspired by this little video!

Getting grown up, we are more and more conformed to the culture of the society and the society has certainly shaped our values towards beauty.

Just feel amazed by what the children can answer. Their creativity knows no limit. :)

Friday, September 26, 2014

星期五感悟

嗯,有一段时间没写了。

有时候回来看看,想构思些什么,记录些什么,却由于时间的关系,最终还是轻轻一个click离开了部落格。

工作了以后,感觉时间过得好快好快,一个接一个的星期就仿佛在指尖下划过了。星期一的开始,真的像搭上长途的火车,呼噜呼噜地一路走到“星期五"站才下车歇息。所以呀,一到星期五,感觉就特别轻松和快乐,因为至少有两天的时间,让自己好好地休息。而且一些需要高度思维的报告和学习,也只有在周末的时候比较能把它整理出来,平日回家后晚上的时间较短,而且精力也耗尽了,实在不容易赶出好的报告来。

虽然这段期间除了工作外,还有需要大量的私人时间去学习,做很多的报告和功课,但是却很感恩,自己是忙在有意义的事情上。至少逝去的光阴,是为了累积更多资粮,以便去更好地帮助别人,这也是我的专业的份内事。如果说,十之八九的行业都是忙碌的,那么我该庆幸,自己是忙在对的事情,有意义的事情,以及自己想要做的事情上。

而且,总是会过去的。实习年就是要挑战自己,累积资粮,以后的路才会更好走啊!

学生的时候,总是有愧于自己只是在为自己的前途而努力,贪婪地享受着社会源源不绝的恩惠;现在,走出象牙塔了,能够以一技之长去为国家尽一份绵力,也算是无愧于心,无愧于父母多年的栽培吧!

啊,又到星期五了!哈哈!

星期五,可以是开心和轻松的;星期一,却未必是蓝色低沉的。
希望我们都能够开开心心地过周末,也能够轻轻松松地踏上星期一的列车!

能够在忙碌的生活中,训练一颗放松集中的心,一颗临危不乱的心,是我要继续学习的目标!加油!

Saturday, August 9, 2014

懒洋洋的周末



好喜欢周六周日!
因为这两天我难得可以比太阳公公更迟起床。
望出家门,进入眼帘的尽是美景美色。
葱绿的树,蓝蓝的天,
偶尔在清澈的蓝中漂浮着看似酥绵的白云;
还有黄金铺地,整个生机勃勃的画面,
让人感觉就是要卸下心中的琐事,
只身投入于这片大自然的美景中!

工作了,让我懂得欣赏周末的美丽。

#懒洋洋的周末

Monday, August 4, 2014

#等一个人茶

每个人,都在等一杯合适自己的茶。
在等着的当儿,口渴了,也许就会随手拿了一杯茶来解渴。

虽然他,不是你心中的那杯茶,但是在对的时候出现了,好比你空等待一杯未知的饮料好。

然而,当你心里清楚知道,你要的不是他,喝了这一口,非但不合自己的口味,而且糟蹋了它- 它也许就是别人的朝思暮想的茶呀!

但是,话说回头,不去品茶,又怎么能知道哪一个是好茶,哪一个是自己喜欢的茶呢?

#等一个人茶