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Mind Like Bright Moon 心如明月
Feb. 28 | 吾心似秋月,碧潭清皎洁。无物堪比伦,教我如何说？ 寒山(文殊菩萨化身) My mind is like the autumn moon,in the green pool pure and shining clean.Without an object worthy as an equal, tell me...
Brightness & Darkness
Feb. 14 | 当明中有暗，勿以暗相遇。当暗中有明，勿以明相睹。明暗各相对，比如前后步。 石头希迁禅师 《参同契》 When in brightness within, there is darkness,but do not with darkness meet it.When in darkness...
Verse With Three Truths 三谛偈
Feb. 7 | 诸行无常，是生灭法。 生灭灭已，寂灭为乐。 释迦牟尼佛《涅槃经》 All phenomena* is impermanent,being rising and falling dharmas.*With rising and falling eradicated already,it...
How To Have More Peace
Jan. 31 | If you have the misconception that your life will be perfect, you will always be shocked by its up and down nature. If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful. Lama Yeshe (Make Your Mind An...
Eradicate Bad Minds
Jan. 24 | 境缘无好坏，好坏起于心。愚人除境不除心，至人除心不除境。既除矣，境岂实有？ 达境本空，便能素位而行。 不愿乎外，以所历位，无非无外之法界也。知皆即法界，自无入而不自得。 —...
One Same Buddha-Nature 同一佛性
Jan. 17 | 我肉众生肉，名殊体不殊，原同一种性，只是別形躯。 — 宋黄庭坚 My flesh and other sentient beings’ flesh,have names different but essence not different,originally with the same one kind of nature,only with other...
Verse For Wearing Precepts’ Robe 搭缦衣偈
Jan. 10 | 善哉解脱服，钵吒礼忏衣， 我今顶戴受， 世世常得披。 This excellent liberation garment,the patta* prostration and repentance robe,I now with my crown support and receive it,** in life after life, may I always attain draping...
Supreme Offering 最上供养
Jan. 3 | 是真精进，是名真法供养如来。 若以华、香、璎珞、烧香、末香、塗香、天缯、幡盖及海此岸栴檀之香，如是等种种诸物供养，所不能及； 假使国城、妻子布施，亦所不及。… 是名第一之施，于诸施中最尊最上，以法供养诸如来故。 —...
Bird Of A Feather
Dec. 27 | 世间人民不念修善，转相教令共为众恶。两舌、恶口、妄言、绮语、谗贼、斗乱，憎嫉善人、败坏贤明，于傍快喜。— 释迦牟尼佛《无量寿经》The world’s people not mindful of cultivating good,...
Self-Deceit Before Other-Deceit 先自欺后欺他
Dec. 20 | 妄语之人，先自诳身，然后诳人； 以实为虛，以虛为实，虛实颠倒，不受善法。 譬如覆瓶，水不得入。妄语之人，心无惭愧，闭塞天道、涅槃之门。 观知此罪，是故不作。 —...
Truth & Goodness
Dec. 13 | If you appreciate truth,defend and share it,lest it distorts.If you appreciate good,praise and emulate it,lest it vanishes.– Bodhistoica
Where Evil Starts
Dec. 6 | 一切恶事，虛妄为本。 – 释迦牟尼佛 《涅槃经》 All evil matters,are with falsehood as the root. – Śākyamuni Buddha (Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra)
Ego
Nov. 29 | The bigger the ego,the greater the weakness. The smaller the ego,the lesser the weakness. The ending of ego,is the absence of weakness. – Shilashanti
Natural Joy
Nov. 15 | For a person free from remorse, there is no need for an act of will, ‘May joy arise in me.’ It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse. – The Buddha(Cetana Sutta)
