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Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! ^_^
An amazing Buddhist nun, Venerable Tri Thuan, who left Vietnam for the US in 1971, and in 1985 left the United States and went to France to study Buddhism under her Vietnamese master, the late Most Venerable Thich Huyen VI.
In 1989, under the advice of her late master, headed for India and has been there ever since and made India the base of her humanitarian work.
前些日子，我和一位好友永喜一起吃午餐。他问我: “是否只要目的正当，我们就可以不择手段?” 我想了一会儿，再回答: “那么如果现在我们最终的目标是世界和平，但是得杀死每一个人…（因为没有了人，也就不会有争执，最终达到和平）这样还对吗？
我们在日常生活中所做的决定往往并非生死大事，但常常处在灰色地带，难以分辨对错。我个人觉得做事方法既然是为了达到目标所采取的行动，那么我们不应该把目标和方法分开来看，而应该一体对待。
另外，我们有些时候会发现，当我们想做某件事或采取某些行动之前，会不断地三思，甚至觉得难以决定。在这种状况下，很明显的－做事方法与结果的对错可能已经失去平衡。
汉译：燏
原稿：http://buddhavacana.net/2006/07/20/what-price-peace/
What if all religious leaders were to regularly remind them to kick the habit of smoking? How about drinking for that matter?
Watch the clip below on the interesting approach that the Indias take. What do you think?
Majjhima Nikaya 21 The Middle Length Discourses
Kakacupama Sutta: The Simile of the Saw
“Monks, bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: ‘Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good
will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.’ That’s how you should train yourselves.“
May I live mindfully with love and compassion for all sentient beings.
It is easy to love and care for a person who is loving and nice to us, not easy to love and care for a person who is not.
Let me train myself to love and care for all sentient beings, for their welfare and benefit, whether they are loving or nice to us or not.
It is easy to love and care for a person who is agreeable and cooperative, not easy to love and care for a person who is not.
Let me train myself to love and care for all sentient beings, those who are agreeable and cooperative and those who are not.
It is easy to love and care for those who are MY family, MY love ones, MY friends, not easy to love and care for those who are not.
Let me train myself to love and care for all sentient beings, for when we truly stop identifying with this or that as mine, me or myself, there is no longer the clinging onto of conventional MY or Not MY. Then indeed can we love and care for all sentient beings equanimously.
The multitude of forms, words, actions, personalities and phenomena are dependent arising, are transient, temporal. This differentiation between them all is such, dependent arising, transient, temporal.
Let me train myself in mindfulness, proper contemplation and attention, so that I may see the true nature of all phenomena, that they are all transient , temporal facade and realise that even as I try to cling unto it, there is truly nothing that I can hold onto except perhaps our own memories and attachments. Seeing thus, may craving and clinging cease.
Being dependent arising, they are no inherent, permanent, persisting, substantial nor independently existing. They are empty of any intrinsic qualities.
Let me train myself in mindfulness, proper contemplation and attention so that I may see the true nature of all phenomena, that they are all such. Seeing the emptiness of all phenomena, one is free from identification, delight, want or greed. Being freed from that, there is no fear, jealousy, anger, hatred or ill-will that arise due to it.
One thus severe the root of delusion, and the twin branches of greed and hatred has no means to arise.
With wisdom, seeing how sentient beings are still mired in suffering, Great Love and Compassion arises.
With wisdom, seeing how sentient beings pursue that happiness that grows from gain and suffer from the loss of it, Great Love and Compassion arises.
May all sentient beings not tread the Path of Hate.
May all sentient beings walk the Path of Wisdom and Compassion.
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