空寂而了无一物，不受一法，无可修证；灵明而具足万德，妙用恒沙，不假修证。

by 虚云法师

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

by Ajahn Chah

五停心观

五停心观指不净观、慈悲观、缘起观、念佛观、数息观等五种停止、息灭心中烦恼魔障所修的观想方法。

就声闻法而言，五停心观是进入圣贤位前所必须修行的初阶法门；就大乘佛教而言，五停心观是修习禅波罗蜜前所不可缺少的方便法门。所以，五停心观在修行上的次第而言，处于基础门槛的地位，学佛者不可不知。这五停心观，主要是为对治五种烦恼，如：

1)不净观──对治贪欲

2)慈悲观──对治瞋恚

3)缘起观──对治愚痴

4)念佛观──对治业障

5)数息观──对治散乱

I encourage you also to observe the thoughts and emotions you're having.

You may want to write some of them down. Don't judge them, just acknowledge them. Just observe what's happening inside of you. Accept the feelings. Let them be, but don't indulge in them or get locked into the stories behind them--the stories your conceptual mind is making up about how things should be.

After you've done that, begin to examine which thoughts and feelings are supported by ignorance, which by attachment, which by anger, which by loving-kindness, which by compassion, etc.

Check which are realistic and which are seeking something that cannot come to be.

Then ask, "What are other ways to look at these situations? How would Chenresig, the Buddha of Compassion, look at them? If Chenresig were in my shoes, how would he describe what is going on? What thoughts and feelings would he cultivate to deal with the situation?"

by Thubten Chodron

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

by Dalai Lama

缘起法性，是宇宙人生的最高法则，那末我们的身心修养，自它共处，一切的一切，都不能违反这缘起法性。

by 印顺法师

看别人不顺眼，是自己修养不够。

by 证严法师

揭谛揭谛,波罗揭谛,波罗僧揭谛,菩提萨婆诃 

揭谛(度)揭谛(度),波罗(彼岸)揭谛(度)波罗(彼岸)僧(竟)揭谛(度)菩提(正觉)萨婆诃(成就)

萨婆诃是一切义成就,一切成就,一切速疾成就的意思。

合起来的意思是：度度！彼岸度！彼岸竟度！成正觉！一切成就！

世上本无事，庸人自扰之。知人很难，知事也难，知理更难！但最重要的，人要知道自己。才能改进缺点，发挥自己的长处。智慧就是自知知人。知人着智，自知者明。

by 星云法师

心心心难可寻,宽时遍法界,窄也不容针。 我本求心不求佛,了知三界空无物。 若欲求佛但求心,只这心这心是佛。 我本求心心自持,求心不得待心知。 佛性不从心外得,心生便是罪生时。

by 达摩大师

做事时多为别人想一想，犯错时多对自己看一看

by 圣严法师

平日处世待人接物，都要用清净、平等、慈悲的心。慈悲要有理性、觉而不迷，不是 感情用事；清净心是随缘不攀缘，凡事顺其自然。心地清净，不管环境再复杂，也 能看得清楚明白；心不清净，想看也会看错。所以清净心能生智慧，这是自性的本 能，我们现在失去本能，是因为妄念很多、心散乱，如果心清净，有定力，六根能 力自然就恢复。

by 净空法师

<圣般若摄颂>（又称<般若摄颂>）是释迦牟尼佛亲口宣说的、具有不可思议加持的、阐述甚深空性的大乘经典，汉译为<佛说佛母宝德藏般若波罗蜜经>，它总结了广、中、略三大般若的甚深意义。

佛陀曾以金刚语断言，犹如孕妇怀胎足月临产时，阵痛是即将分娩的征兆，同样，有缘者得以听闻此《圣般若摄颂》，此乃迅速证得大菩提的象征。

般若波罗蜜多，被称为十方三世诸佛之母，是一切佛法宝藏中最无上、最甚深的精髓。而在不可胜数的般若经典中，最为殊胜的莫过于这部《圣般若摄颂》，它囊括了般若的所有要点，可以说是一切般若的精华所在。

释迦牟尼佛在接近涅槃时对阿难尊者说：“即使你把我所讲的法全都忘失了，般若的只言片语也绝不能忘，当以对如来知恩报恩之心，受持此般若、切莫失毁，这一点理应铭记于心！”

在藏文中，<广般若>有十万颂，<中般若>有二万五千颂，<略般若>有八千颂，汉文的<大般若经>共有 六百卷，字数达五百余万。如此巨篇，对我们忙碌的现代人来说确实难以去翻阅、读诵。而《般若摄颂》囊括了般若的所有要点，可以说是一切般若的精华所在。

麦彭仁波切在讲<般若摄颂>时曾这样说：“传讲、听闻诸如此类众多功德而超胜的这部经，就相当于传讲、听闻了所有的般若。”

 <般若摄颂>中说：般若是一切法的根本，如果把这个放下来，而去希求其他的法，那就像一个人在找到大象后，还去寻找大象的脚印一样荒唐；也像一个人在得到美味佳肴后，为了吃得更好而去寻找其它低劣的食品一样愚痴。

释迦牟尼佛在本经中告诉我们：“过去未来十方佛，道皆般若非余者，此度是入大菩提，光灯日轮胜导师。”

“此学处乃导师说，诸学之最是无上，智者欲学到彼岸，当学佛学此般若。”

“佛子声闻独觉天，一切众生安乐法，悉由殊胜般若生，智慧无尽亦无增。”

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If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

by Dalai Lama

波罗密多 

"波罗蜜多"又作波罗蜜,意思是"到达彼岸"。

Human beings suffer when unable to find the objects they desire and, when do they find them, have the fear of losing these desirable objects.

by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

by Ajahn Chah

一切众生的自我感，都将自己从一切中分离出来，意解作一独立体，一切问题就层出不穷了。

by 印顺法师

So sometimes, saying “Oh good!” is a good antidote.

I’ll tell you a story about one nun who is a friend of mine. One time she was on retreat and she had a big boil on her cheek which was very painful. During the break time between her meditation sessions, she bumped into our teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Rinpoche said, “How are you?”

She said [in a moaning tone], “Oh! I have this boil…”

And Rinpoche said, “Great! Fantastic! You’re so fortunate!”

This was of course the last thing she wanted to hear. She wanted some pity instead.

But Rinpoche said, “This is fantastic! All these negative karma that could have ripened in a horrible state, you’re experiencing it just by having a boil. How fortunate you are!”

So whenever we have some kind of physical pain or illness, if we look at it in this way, if we are able to see it from this other perspective, then we realize that it’s actually not so bad. We can bear it when we think of how it could have ripened in another way that would have brought much more suffering. And we can feel fortunate that this karma is ripening now, so then it won’t obscure our mind anymore. So this is another tool to use when you are sick.

by Thubten Chodron

别人骂我，不谅解我，毁谤我，我反而应兴起一分感谢的心理， 感谢他们给我修行的境界。

 by 证严法师

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened. If you vanquish it tomorow, you will be enlightened tomorow night. But if you never vanquish it, you will never be enlightened. Yet ” I ” is just a thought. Thoughts and feelings have no intrinsic solidity, form, shape, or color.

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

处事难，处人更难；处事待人都要做得圆满如法，这些就是修行。

by 净空法师

菩提萨埵 

全称为"菩提萨埵摩诃萨"，意为"大菩萨"。直译为"大觉有情"、"大众生"。"摩诃"，意为"大"；"萨"为"萨埵"的略音。"萨埵"，意为"有情"或"众生"。

摩诃萨指有大心，能救度极多众生，便得度脱生死的菩萨。

<大智度论>说，此种人心能为大事，指心能度大众，智能悟大理，勤修六度大行及一切大善，能修难修，能舍难舍，能忍难忍；经三大阿僧祇劫而行愿不退；唯以阿耨多罗三藐三菩提为所求目标。这是区别于二乘菩萨的。

Rest in natural great peace.
This exhausted mind beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thought.
Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara.
Rest in natural great peace.

by Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

对人付出友谊，伸出援手，就是在散发和乐平安的光芒。

by 圣严法师

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

by Dalai Lama

Once a visitor asked Ajahn Chah if he was an arahant. He said, I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the trees point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

by Ajahn Chah

难行能行，难舍能舍，难为能为，才能升华自我的人格。

 by 证严法师

Real peace and happiness has to come from the heart, from within. So therefore, to eliminate wars and destroying each other,to eliminate famine, disease and earthquakes,and to eliminate all other disasters an unfavourable experiences, all this can be stopped by having loving kindness toward each other. From having a good heart with loving kindness, negative action cannot arise.

by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

by Buddha

Our worries may zoom outward about the state of world.

"What happens if the economy plummets? If the ozone layer keeps increasing? If we have more anthrax attacks? If the terrorists take over the country? If we lose our civil liberties fighting the terrorists?"

Here, too, our creative writing ability leads to fantastic scenarios that may or may not happen, but regardless, we manage to work ourselves into a state of unprecedented despair. This, in turn, often leads to raging anger at the powers that be or to apathy, simply thinking that since everything is rotten, there's no use doing anything.

In either case, we're so gloomy that we neglect to act constructively in ways that remedy difficulties and create goodness.

by Thubten Chodron

菩萨是印度话，菩是菩提，是觉悟的意思；萨是萨　，就是众生的意思。

by 印顺法师

But this is like some sort of sweet fruit: even though the fruit is sweet we must rely on contact with and experience of that fruit before we will know what the taste is like. Now that fruit, even though no-one tastes it, is sweet all the same. But nobody knows of it. The Dhamma of the Buddha is like this. Even though it's the truth it isn't true for those who don't really know it. No matter how excellent or fine it may be it is worthless to them.

by Ajahn Chah

Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara  may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears  in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds  appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense  of contentment.You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“不知观空，必随境转。生天之后，决定堕落”。《金刚般若》就是教我们‘观空'。‘空'是指事实真相。一般初学的人听到‘空'字，往往心生恐怖─空了，怎么办？明了空就是宇宙人生的真相，就不至于有恐怖的感觉。

以为一切法都‘有'，这个观念是错误的。一切法确实没有！可是这一切法的现象明明在我们面前，怎么说它没有？佛在经上告诉我们，这不是真有，而是‘幻有、假有、妙有'。这些名相的意思表示这个有不是真的，如梦幻泡影。由此可知，‘空'不能当作‘空无'，什么都没有了，这不是佛经的空义，而是相有性空、事有理空的意思。一切相是幻象，刹那不停的变化，决定不能执着。 　　

 若不知道一切法有而非有，一定起执着；心里稍有执着，就被境界转，就不自在。凡是会受环境影响的，一定是凡夫；小乘圣人，皆不受环境影响。须陀洹、斯陀含、阿那含皆是小乘圣人，他们已不受环境影响。修行一定要‘证果'，这是我们修行的目的不证果，不得受用。证果，一定要‘离相'，就是心里不能执着，一切法相、非法相皆不能执着。这就是‘观空'，不会被外面境界所转。 　　

‘生天之后，决定堕落'，因为天最高，天福享完，寿命终了，只有往下堕落。人修得好，还可以到天上。已经在天上，天福享尽，就要往下堕落，不能出离六道轮回，因为他不晓得一切法相是幻有。如果知道一切法相都是幻有，有而非有，于一切法不执着，就不是凡夫而是圣人。凡圣的差别就在此。 　　

“入闇”是比喻，前面经文说‘如人入暗，则无所见'。闇是无明，“喻不见性。喻此人道眼未开，无明未破。虽学大乘行布施，既是盲修，必生重障”。这可能就是我们现前犯的毛病而自己不知道，还以为学佛学得不错，最后得不到结果，差错就是没有见性。

by 净空法师

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

 by Dalai Lama

  Ten Wholesome Actions :

  1. Abstaining from killing living beings
  2. Abstaining from stealing
  3. Abstaining from sexual misconduct
  4. Abstaining from false speech
  5. Abstaining from malicious speech
  6. Abstaining from harsh speech
  7. Abstaining from gossip
  8. Abstaining from coveting
  9. Abstaining from ill-will
10. Possessing Right Understanding of the Dharma