《Intellects》

Trickle eventually flow to ocean, soil eventually become mountains; 
Be open minded in learning eventually profound, make no disguise in mistake eventually found trueness.

Truth feeling explore humanity; intellects sublimation spiritual.

by 陳孟飛；Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《This is Buddha dharma》

Cultivation - A greedy person keeps reminding to themself, the feeling getting smaller;
Cultivation - A hatred person keeps reminding to themself, the feeling getting smaller.
The transformation from heart by inward spiritual cultivation, this is Buddha dharma. 

by 大寶法王噶瑪巴；Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Cause and effect》

By understanding the philosophy of cause and effect, we are able to improve our own fate.

by Shi Jengong；Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《Lotus able to grow from mud》

If we come across Buddha Dharma, just like Lotus able to grow from mud, same to our world.

by 傳喜法師；Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Great Love》

All for self, none for others – a base person / villain;
First for self, follow by others – an ordinary person;
First for others, follow by self – an upright person;
All for others, none for self – is Mahayana Bodhisattva (大乘菩薩)

by 陳孟飛；Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《Your own feelings》

It is impossible everyone like you, also impossible everyone dislike you;
It is impossible everyone praise you, also impossible everyone offend you;
It would be fine if your heart does not being affected. 

by 修心；Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Get rid of the evil》

Life attached with karma, human life cannot be separated from cause and effect;
Living attached with Buddha Dharma, while Buddha can get away from it all.

by 鄭光傑；Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《World Heart caused》

Fate come destined by heaven, Fate go destined by human. Cause and effect, all created by our mind.

by 鄭光傑；Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《The reason for worry》

In this world, AFFECTION is the source of annoyance. It is easy to teach Buddha dharma by using men and women love hate feeling as an example and this including love obsession from parents toward children. 

by 塵緣；Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《The size of the points》

By understanding preceding text but not the subsequent, known as Hinayana;
By understanding preceding text also the subsequent, known as  Mahayana.

by 鄭光傑；Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Quotation from Wise Man》

There are Buddhists who like to quote the words from “zhu shi da de” to critic others; this is to demonstrate to others they are being well cultivated. In fact, they have abuse/misuse the true meaning of the quotation. Indirectly, this is harmful to the core value of Buddhism Studies. A true behaviour of Buddhist is to learn from step by step to understand Buddha dharma, by applying the knowledge or true meaning into practical world.

Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《Suicide》

Suicide is mistaken of Hope. Death does not end all one’s troubles and would not bring peaceful as expected, in fact, this was not the case. Death does not bring to an end; it means the start of another. These new start always connected with our mind. If our mind is getting better, same apply to our life.

Article by Shi Jengong / Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Happy Sources》

Giver indeed will obtain benefit. Enjoy being giving out, peaceful and happy will follow accordingly.

by IBS Prison Program 菩薩寺監獄佈教 / Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《Buddhist practice》

Worship on bended knees, it’s not about bending the body, it’s about set down arrogant;
Chant the name of Buddha, it’s not about the number of chanting, it’s about refreshing mind;
Putting palms together, it’s not about purely putting palm together, it’s about respect universe;
Meditation, it’s not about sitting still, it’s about nothing outside the mind;
Gladness, it’s not about showing on face, it’s about stretch in mind;
Cultivation, it’s not about abandon desire, it’s about selfless in mind;
Giving out (dana), it’s not about giving out without any reservation, it’s about spreading out love;
Study in Buddhism, it’s not about gaining knowledge, it’s about practicing without the words of ‘I’ for one.

by 慈悲生命协会 - Compassion Life Society / Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Hetu Paticca Kamma Vipaka》

Always there is Cause and effect, which is closely related with each other.

by 釋證廣/ Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《Happy Heart》

Have no desire of gains and losses in heart, there is no such thing known as ‘person’

by Ashin Vira Nanda / Translation by Sandy Cheah

 

《Overcome difficulties》

The meaning and value of Life, it’s not living satisfaction with foods and clothing, it is all about confront the adversity and overcome difficulties

by 釋本融 / Translation by Sandy Cheah

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《WHAT IS A BUDDHA?》
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "enlightened one". The Buddha was an "ordinary" human like you and me before he became enlightened. Enlightenment is compared to waking up, because we suddenly experience a complete transformation of body and mind when we wake up. A Buddha is a person who has developed all positive qualities and eliminated all negative qualities. One could say that a Buddha represents the very peak of evolution, as he/she is omniscient or all-knowing. With his wisdom, a Buddha really understands the truth, whereas ordinary people live like in a dream, an illusion that prevents us from understanding reality properly.

Our teacher, Sakyamuni Buddha, is one among the thousand Buddhas of this aeon. These Buddhas were not Buddhas from the beginning, but were once sentient beings like ourselves. How they came to be Buddhas is this.

Of body and mind, mind is predominant, for body and speech are under the influence of the mind. Afflictions such as desire do not contaminate the nature of the mind, for the nature of the mind is pure, uncontaminated by any taint. Afflictions are peripheral factors of a mind, and through gradually transforming all types of defects, such as these afflictions, the adventitious taints can be completely removed. This state of complete purification is Buddhahood; therefore, Buddhists do not assert that there is any Buddha who has been enlightened from the beginning.

The historical Buddha, Shakyamuni or Gautama Buddha, lived about 2,500 years ago in India. However, he was not the first Buddha, and will not be the last either. He taught that during this eon (very long time period, maybe comparable to the life-time of the universe as we know it), there would be 1,000 fully enlightened Buddhas who would introduce Buddhism (after it has been totally forgotten). The numbers one to three in this eon are Krakucchanda, Kanakamuni, Kashyapa, then comes Shakyamuni (the historical Buddha some 2,500 years ago), and the next Buddha will be called Maitreya. （彌勒佛）

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《HOW TO REDUCE OUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS?》
The most basic method to reduce our negative emotions is via analytical meditation. The reasoning is that the negative emotions are delusions - misunderstandings of reality. If one analyses the process of how they come about, we can discover where real problem lies. Analytical meditation appears a very good method, as one avoids emotional excitement in meditation, and very calm observation of the workings of our own mind usually presents answers quite easily.

So, simply by being calm and quiet, analyze what is behind these destructive emotions and learn where the fault really lies. In Buddhism, the fault never lies ultimately with the outside world! As all our positive and negative experiences are results of our own karma, only our failure to behave more positive causes us problems.

One of the biggest obstacles to rid ourselves of these delusions is habituation. Although it is possible to analyse afterwards why it may have been unjust to become angry at someone, it is not simple to stop oneself before anger comes up. More pages on specific negative emotions and how to deal with them are given under the heading of Delusional Emotions in the top left corner of this page. The 'Summary' page describes the general approach in detail.

It should be noted that the ultimate antidote to negative emotions is the wisdom of emptiness. As all distinctions of 'self' and 'other' vanish with this realisation, when all duality vanishes, things like good and bad, or pleasant and unpleasant become meaningless. Due to the way our mind works, it is quite difficult to make this wisdom 'breakthrough', and analytical meditation is a good starter to work on our day-to-day negative emotions and actions.

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