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Posts tagged with "impermanence"
Jul. 10 |
佛问沙门:「人命在几间?」… 对曰:「呼吸间。」 佛言:「善哉,子知道矣!」
—《四十二章经》第三十八章
The Buddha asked a Śramaṇa,‘Human life has what duration in between?’…In...
Apr. 9 |
吾视王侯之位,如过隙尘。视金玉之宝,如瓦砾。视纨素之服,如敝帛。视大千界,如一诃子。视阿耨池水,如涂足油。视方便门,如化宝聚。视无上乘,如梦金帛。视佛道,如眼前华。视禅定,如须弥柱。视涅槃,如晝夕寤。视倒正,如六龙舞。视平等,如一真地。视与化,如四时木。
—...
Feb. 15 |
Be productive,or you might be destructiveor just stagnate.
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...
Jan. 2 |
生死事大, 光阴可惜。 无常迅速,时不待人。— 寺院钟板文Birth and death is a matter big,and time available is regrettably little.With impermanence swift,time does not wait for one.— Text On Temple Sounding Board
Some...
Dec. 28 |
Wellness is ever shorter respitebefore ever longer sickness,before ending in (re)death.(Swiftly live life well now then.)
Aug. 23 |
若人活百岁,
不解生灭法,
不如生一日,
而得解了之。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《法句经》第 113 偈
If a person lives for one hundred years,
not understanding rising and cessation of phenomena,
this is not equal to living for one...
Aug. 14 | There are those who do not realize
that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this
settle their quarrels.
– The Buddha
(Dhammapada Verse 6)
Let’s get rid of anger’s evil; let’s purge the mind, tear out by the roots that...
Jul. 15 |
This is the ironic era, when more comedians are speaking heartfelt truths than some politicians, whose words make a mockery of truth and themselves, often in ways not even funny… Ansari starts his latest comedy special with a confession on his...
Jul. 10 | With my diligence, carefully
I examined the body
And saw this as it really is —
Both within and without.
– Nanda
(Thig 84)
Because Nanda was so taken up with her physical beauty, the Buddha used his psychic powers to conjure up the vision of an even...
Jul. 1 | With technological advances, there is an ever-thinning fine line between reality and virtuality; real-life versus ‘fun and games’. What if the day comes, when the fantastically and sensually simulated is maximised so much, that it is preferred...
Apr. 18 | You act like mortals in all that you fear,
and like immortals in all that you desire.
– Seneca
Like Buddhists, Stoics advise us to contemplate the world’s impermanence. “All things human,” Seneca reminds us, “are short-lived...
Apr. 10 |
愚人不明了,
人生终归死。
彼等若明了,
诤论自息灭。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《法句经》第六偈
Foolish persons [do] not understand clearly,
[that] human lives [in the] end return [to] death.
Those others if understanding clearly,
[their]...
Apr. 10 | Where another man prays
‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’
let your own prayer be,
‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’
Where he prays,
‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’
you pray,
‘Take from me my desire to be rid of...
Mar. 27 |
Giving what others need now
will create merits,
which can manifest
as what we really need later.
– Shilashanti
In the Avadāna Sūtra《阿婆陀那经》, Velāma Bodhisattva (韦罗摩菩萨) had the following reflection – ‘People speak...