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2018年9月2日 星期日

About the Heart Transmission Experience by Jue Miao Miao Ming

About the Heart Transmission Experience


Jue Miao Miao Ming
This sharing was given at Cihang Guanyin Temple,
Xinzhu, Taiwan,
on October 22, 2011.
1. About the Heart Transmission Experience
When I first met Shifu in Shanghai I didn’t have any expectation going to that meeting, I didn’t even think I would have a chance to actually talk to him. I was actually just very excited about the chance to hear him talk in a small room, and have a chance to do some Q &A. Shifu talked for about an hour and then gave us a little break. During the break, he asked one of the people that could speak English to come over and asked me if I would come up. And he said that he had recognized something about me; he had this feeling – as soon as he walked into the room – there was something different. He wanted to know if I practiced Chan, I told him yes, I had practiced Chan for 37 years. He asked if I teach, I said yes I teach. I said I had seen some of his DVDs and I was very intrigued by this Heart Chan practice, because over the past 30 plus years I had learned bits and pieces of his practice, I learned Chinese medicine, I learned meditation, and I learned how the energy flow through the chakras and qigong, but I had never met anyone who could put these altogether in one practice, and I said that is what I think he has as his special.
So at that point Shifu asked me if I would meet him privately after the main session. So, we went into the room, and we talked. He asked something about my background where I wanted to go. We exchanged and had a very good conversation, just about Chan practice, how it needs to spread in the world and how it needs to be shared; it was a good practice. He said that you don’t realize it. I didn’t ; I was slow or maybe I got enough of mind …. He said that he would like to offer me heart to heart transmission. Now, I didn’t really know what heart transmission was. I knew it was very special, and I have read obviously about how through Buddhist practice and through each generation how masters to the disciple has passed the teachings with no words, and that the entirety of the teaching can be passed directly heart to heart, and to have the opportunity to experience that is more than I thought I would have in this life time.
But I also knew, as amazing as this opportunity was, that if I accept this, there is great responsibility that goes with it also. It is not like you just get this gift and you run away and say, “Look at what I’ve got.” No, now you have the responsibility to share and show others for the rest of your life. Every day and everywhere you go you’ll have to share and help people on the path, bring more people into the practice, help people that are dedicated get to the next level, and this will be your life every day for the rest of your life, and you’re willing to accept that responsibility. My answer to Shifu was that I have been dedicated to this practice since I was a teenager, and I have been asked by hundreds of people: why do you do this practice? Why do you meditate? Why do you do Chinese medicine? My answer was: I don’t know. I only know it is going somewhere, but I don’t know where, so I just practice. I told Shifu that I had studied with masters all over the world, in Asia, in the Western world, in Europe, in Africa, in many many places, and always sought out spiritual leaders, masters and teachers. I said that his teaching is the only one that really made sense to me. Every other one had something wrong or something missing. Some of them seemed very good, but when you started practicing it is not one hundred percent good, and I knew it when I first saw one of Shifu’s lectures on DVD 3 years ago, I knew this is it. This is it, absolutely!
So I agreed to do the heart transmission, and basically my part was very easy. I just had to close my eyes, and do a deep belly breathing and try to establish a Chan Ding state. Over a few minutes’ time I had the absolutely most profound experience in my life. Immediately, everything within the field of, you don’t really see with your eyes closed, but everything was completely saturated with the brightest and deepest red I had ever seen. And then, I’m sure when Shifu first walked into the room it literarily felt like someone had attached an electrical cable to me, I could feel this tingling and sparkling sensation like an electrical current. When he did the transmission, it first felt like a bloom inside my heart, and inflated up to where it was so full and it felt like it was going to burst. Then the brightest and most intense light I have ever seen filled everything. Then it turns into the most incredibly intense white bright light that I have ever seen like someone holding a spotlight right in your face. And then Shifu says, “We are done!”
And everything in my life from that moment forward changed: the way I see the world, feel the world, and how I interact with people, is completely different from that moment, and I didn’t expect that and I had no idea what to expect, but everything changed from that moment forward.
The biggest changes were  – I’ve studied kongfu, martial arts, fighting things my whole life, and I’ve done these practices every day for 37 years up till then. Most of these kongfu practices are based on the possibility of pain as teaching: they teach the same thing, teaching to keep your mind on the current moment. If you mind wonders, boom, you got hit. And then your mind comes to the current moment or you die, or don’t practice very long; so these practices are all based on pain, rather pain – I could not teach these anymore. I could not threat someone, or hit someone anymore. I couldn’t feel it in my heart, couldn’t bring myself to do it. I still practice the body forms, but no fighting, no hitting. This is very difficult for many of my students because I have 3 schools. Now I say that I can teach you the mind, I can help you correct your body moments, but you really should try Heat Chan meditation because it is better practice.
I have a much clearer feeing of people’s emotions. When I talk to someone, everyone creates this mask that we show the world where we want everyone to think everything is OK, but sometimes people are holding pain inside, maybe sadness, maybe fear; I can see this very clearly in people. Shifu gives me the ability to help people, and to be able to clear their … and make their life a little better. So, many many changes along these lines, but most of them are just a life that is now expressed from compassion. I haven’t felt the slightest bit of being angry or frustrated over anything since this moment in Shanghai.
Now many people ask me: now this has happened, will you stop working at your job and just teach Heart Chan all the time?  I said no, and I think it is very important for me to stay in the work place because there are many instructors out there that can teach people how to do meditation, how to clarify the mind, and how to settle, but you also have to have people that know how to take this from the temple and make this in your real life, in a relationship, in a job where people don’t care about your practice. They don’t support you at all. In a temple everybody is very kind to each other and very respectful; in the real world people are not kind, people are not respectful, and people are not fair.
So I have to be able to show how to take this practice into real life, and make it work because most of the people that come here to practice, they live in jobs, they have relationships and they raise children, and they have all these challenges, and they need somebody that can show them how to make this work in real life. So, for the next few years I will do this. I will study with Shifu. When he tells me where to go to teach, I will go there and teach.
2. About Miao-Tien Shifu’s Practice
There are many people that teach very good Buddhist practices. There are varied good mediation instructors and there are many good people that teach Buddhist practice. But everyone that I’ve ever met, has not got beyond form, everybody only teaches how to release the mind. The highest level in every other school, monasteries or temples I’ve been in, they teach you how to break through the mind. Shifu takes this to a much higher level; he takes this to touch your spirit. This is the goal of all these other schools but they don’t know how to get there; their path stops. Shifu knows how to get to the end, and I can feel this immediately and I know it is absolutely true.
Shifu’s practice is spiritual practice and everyone else that I’ve ever met all over the world is still stuck in form practice, and you can feel this difference very clearly.
3. About His Buddha Name
The name, by the way, is a very cool name. No…, I didn’t realize the meaning behind it, but this name, Miao, is very difficult to define, if not impossible. People will say many different words, but that doesn’t quite define it. Shifu explains. When he first saw me in Shanghai, he said, “when I looked at you, what I saw was real Chan in a human body.” He said, “This is Chan” when he looked at me. But the Chan that can be named is not the real Chan, so he had to give me a name that could not be defined.
4. About Chan in China
I had a very strong feeling when I moved to China several years ago. One of the things that was most confusing, most frustrating to me when I moved to China – I moved here because finally I can get to the source of Chan, the real knowledge, and I have a chance to be in the land where it was developed to the highest level. Then I moved to Shanghai, nobody has ever heard of Chan. For one year I go to temples, I go to shifus, I go to Kongfu masters and I go to Taiji masters and qigong masters, and nobody is Chan; it is gone from China for two generations now. Nobody knows. So, I think after a time that maybe what I’m supposed to do –  because only foreigners now, people that live outside of China still have this connection – so, I think maybe my role in life is to bring Chan back to China because people wanted it very much. They want this practice, they know they are missing spiritual practice, but they don’t know what it is and where to get it. Then I meet Shifu. He tells me: no, I came to China to learn, to meet him, and then my job is to take this back to the West. So I will be back to the English speaking countries at some point.
5. About His Parents and Friends’ Attitude
Both of my parents are still alive and both of my parents are very strong Christians – Catholics. They spent their whole life as Catholics, but they’ve always supported me exploring these other things. I’ve shared with them and they are very happy. They have Shifu’s books. They read and they believe this is good practice. What I try to share with them is that they can have this practice in their life too, and they don’t have to give up their Christian religion at all. They could use this Chan practice to see their Christian practice more clearly. They can still keep this connection, they can keep these words, this form. It’s fine. They understand, and they are very strong supporters. They see a change, yes they think it is very good.
I went back to America for maybe one week last December, and everyone that I see from this area that had known me when I was growing up in upstate New York could see this.
6. About  Purification of Karma
As far as karma goes, this complete purification was a very amazing feeling.  I have worked many years doing meditation practice, doing clear your mind, and this can clear a lot of karma out of your body.  You can clear the physical karma out, you can clear the mental and emotional karma out, but there is spiritual karma that is still there, that you can’t get.  When Shifu does this purification of karma, you can feel it completely gone.  I think everyone, at least I know I did, there are things in my life, maybe you regret, and you think you could have done better, done differently.  Maybe there are people that you had hurt emotionally somewhere in your life.  You carry this, you feel bad about this, even later in life.  After Shifu does this, I feel it’s OK, it’s gone.  I don’t feel this attachment to any of these regrets or old pain, and you can feel that it goes back longer than just this life time.
After the second time, Shifu tells me: I cleaned your karma back many generations, back to infinity.  Karma is completely cleaned. Well I think it sounds like it’s a very cool thing.  My karma is completely clear, and what I think in my mind is all my bad karma is gone.  And then I came back here, Kuan Yin Temple, I sit here and doing meditation at night, and I see the twinkling lights and I get this feeling of this enchanting feeling. It hits me that he didn’t clear away my bad karma, he cleared away all karma, so any good karma I’ve accumulated, any bad karma that I’ve accumulated, it’ all gone, and he took me to some place above karma, beyond karma.  I asked him if this was true, and he just kind of smiled and nodded at me.
7. About Effort
The answer that comes to me is maybe the easiest way to understand is it is like a business model.  If you were trying to make an investment, if you want to make more money, you invest some money.  And then you get a return on this investment.  If you invest $1.00, maybe you get $0.20 back and you make some profit.  If you invest $10,000, maybe you get $5,000 back.  So the more you invest in, the bigger the return.  This practice is the same.  If you just only come here once a week, that’s very good practice and your life will improve. If you can meditate every day for about 1 hour of your time every day, you’ll see your return goes up 100 fold.  If you can stay with the practice and go through and be very dedicated…, the more you put in, the more you get back out.
For everybody this path is different.  The process is the same, but what you feel, what you experience, it’s you.  What I share, what I felt will be different than what you feel.  And everyone else that walks this path will have different amazing experiences, because you are a unique different person.  But this path, this process will work, absolutely work, for you the same as it will work for everyone else.  So it’s just how much you put in, is how much you will get back.  It took me a very long time, so I might not be the best model, almost 40 years of practice to get to this point.  You maybe can do this much faster.
8. About Spiritual Karma
Spiritual karma is beyond thought and words.  And to try to explain it in words is too abstract.  It’s something you feel, you know is there, and I think where you get to the spiritual karma – because this karma is a hindrance- it’s kind of like you hit the wall or if you think of it as something that covers up the light. So when you get to the point where you think you have done a good job cleaning the body karma, you feel OK physically, and then you think you’ve done a good job cleaning out the mental karma, but there is still something left that you can’t define.  This is the spiritual karma.
You create the spiritual karma the same way you create the other karma.  It happens in past lives.  You know there are physical things that maybe you do wrong that you’ve gained bad karma, or maybe there are physical things that you do good, you gain good karma.  It’s the same at the spirit level.  When it clears out, it clears out the same way as the other karma.  When it clears out, you know that you are on the right path because the light gets brighter and you can feel it.
But words will never capture, and no matter how I try to explain it in words, I can’t transfer it, but when you feel it, there’s no doubt.  I feel bad that I can’t give you a better answer.  But I honestly don’t know how to express in words.  But when you feel it, you will have no doubt.  If you have doubts, if you think you are clearing out spiritual karma, but you are not sure, it’s not spiritual karma.  When it is, you’ll know for sure.  And that’s the best I can offer.
9. About Attending Chan Classes
I don’t understand Shifu’s words at all.  But, it’s very similar to – almost like the heart transmission experience, I can feel.  I can feel, like today for instance, Shifu’s teaching was very light, very happy energy through his whole talk.  So when I start to feel this energy, I just close my eyes.  Just like I’m in meditation and I feel what he’s teaching; I don’t listen to what he is teaching.  The sensation I was getting today was extremely light.  I can feel like I’m almost going to float off the ground.  It’s a very strange feeling. I feel extremely light, like not even touching the ground.  It got to the point where my legs which usually don’t hurt very much, hurt very bad today because it was almost like they didn’t have support.  They’re like floating off the ground and you could feel this.  And the colors were very intense.  And flashing of lights get very intense, and the different parts of this feeling.  And I can feel my own energy purifying and I can feel my own clarity of thought getting clearer.  But I don’t understand any of the words at all.
When I meet with Shifu privately, I will go in usually with a list of questions, things that aren’t clear, things that I need to verify.  And someone will transfer those to him as a translator.  And he’ll answer.  But when he provides me with actual teaching, there’re no words.  This practice is very much beyond words.
Words are just to help, and guide, someone else sharing their experiences so that you kind of know that you are on the right path. If you have some confusion or frustration, it helps you, but it’s not necessary at all in any phase of the practice.  For example, if we try to do the seated posture and we try to sit straight. If you sit with your bones very straight, muscles very relaxed, you can stay in meditation for a long time.  If someone tells you that, you can advance very quickly.  You’ll find this same answer by yourself if you bend over, you get very uncomfortable.  It gets very sore. It hurts.  You’ll even quit meditation or you’ll learn.
If I sit straight it’s much more comfortable and the energy flows.  Chi flows through the body.  If my body is bent over, it’s like a hose, you try to water the garden and you try to water the flowers.  If the hose is bent no water will come out or very little.  But if I hold it straight the energy flows very well.  So if no one ever teaches you that, you’ll find it on your own.  You’ll discover that if I sit straight I can sit very long and the energy flows very well.  If someone teaches you, you can do it much faster.
With no offense to instructors, because I have great respect for them.  A Chan teacher cannot teach you anything.  You already know everything inside your own body, inside your own mind, and inside your own spirit.  All they can help you do is be more efficient and not take so many side paths in discovering, but it is already all inside of you and you have to discover it yourself and you have to take every step yourself. Nobody can do any of this practice for you. So all instructors can do is help make corrections along the way and help you process, but it’s already all inside every one of us.
Just one other thing to share. These kinds of shared practice sessions where you come to the temple, take a class, are very very important.  You can learn this sitting by yourself.  You can understand the very basics of seated meditation, how to breathe, and go sit by yourself and you would get there, but it is a very slow process and you’ll make many errors, and maybe get yourself so far off track that maybe you’ll quit. But if you come to practice and you have an instructor, and have other people to share with, they can help you see this practice from more perspectives because normally we only see life from our own experience, from our own mind, our own values, and our own emotions.  And we are generally pretty sure that we are right.  But then if you share this same experience with other people, you will see that other people are right too.  They look at things from different ways and so it broadens your ability to see a path.  So now your path isn’t so narrow and so difficult to stay on.  Your path gets wider and you can follow this path much more easily if you share this experience with other people.

2018年8月23日 星期四

不怕鬼門開!認識「魂魄」就能不怕鬼啦!

不怕鬼門開!認識「魂魄」就能不怕鬼啦!

農曆七月鬼門開,好兄弟們要出來逛街了!
司馬中原杯杯說,恐怖喔~~,每次看完鬼片就要躲進棉被裡,就算是夏天也覺得背部涼涼der。
各位別擔心!鬼並不可怕!我們會對不了解的事情懼怕,因為鬼看不見的,所以對祂們的了解就不清楚,所以談鬼色變,人人怕鬼。

阿飄到底是甚麼呢?

其實鬼是人的「精神體」,人死後因為精神體沒有提升,變成在幽冥界的虛空界飄來飄去找不到歸宿。
要先了解人有看不見的三個精神體,一個就是從宇宙天下來的光體「靈性體」,也稱做本性、自性,一個是從爸爸的精延伸出來的無形的生命力,就是精神體叫「魄」,另一個是從媽媽的卵子演化變成我們的五臟六腑跟肌肉,無形的力量就叫「魂」,而魂魄是陰陽一體的。

當壽命終了的時候,魄就是一股氣,中國字叫白鬼,一股白的氣飄在虛空當中,魂就一直留在肉身,即使死了把它燒成灰,魂還是留在骨灰上。

人選擇土葬,魂就會守在墓地或墓碑上,晚上就會在墓仔埔附近遊蕩了!魂是離不開屍骸的,即使燒成骨灰魂仍然念念不捨,如果沒有經過修行提升靈性層次的話,魂魄就會很暗很髒變的黑漆漆的!

現在大家懼怕的阿飄,孤魂野鬼其實就是指人的魂魄,如果人死了以後魂魄沒有安頓好,也沒有人把祂超度到更好的法界,魂魄就在虛空飄,就叫做孤魂野鬼!

鬼只人死後無法受到安頓的精神體,壞人比孤魂野鬼可怕上萬倍!
如果不修行提升靈性層次,我們的魂魄都會變成孤魂野鬼,你怕祂其實祂也怕你,修對了正法就會讓你身上有亮光,可以讓魂魄變得乾乾淨淨甚至放光,鬼黑漆漆且怕光所以不用再害怕了!

佛光清淨魂魄,就能轉運-悟覺妙天禪師開示
如果把人比喻成一輛車,魂魄與靈性的關係,就好比:車輛本身就是魂,駕駛是魄,而乘客就是靈性。魂保護身體,魄是人的思想行為運作,所以魂魄要合作,就像駕駛要好好開這部車,乘客才會平安。
印心佛法的修習,能以禪定接佛光清淨魂魄,跟著靈性上升,一起住位在禪心輪,這就到了天界,人間一切災難就能避免。

什麼是脈輪?

脈輪是人體能量的中心,透過禪定專注的修練,可使脈輪的能量活躍,並將能量輸送至五臟六腑,補充體能元氣,延年益壽。
在我們體內有十個很重要的脈輪,代表著許多生命體的元素,包含器官、循環系統、內分泌、骨骼等,而且是人體電能的產生地。每個脈輪是否清淨,關係著內臟或身體各部的健康。舉凡荷爾蒙分泌、新陳代謝、營養吸收等,也都可以透過專注脈輪而得到強化。
想要擁有健康,透過禪定開發人體自癒力,清淨十脈輪,是最自然且直接的自療方法。

從物質延伸到精神體

佛所說的十法界,就對應在我們身上的十脈輪,跟我們的身心靈有直接的關係。
十個脈輪有不同的精神力量,每個脈輪都從色身通達法界、然後直接到淨土。
印心禪法是釋迦牟尼佛所傳的智慧禪法,透過禪定專注十脈輪,在清淨當中得到一種精神的力量,就能發現並排除身心累世的障礙,使身體細胞活化、健康長壽,度盡一切心理的汙染,讓每個法界清淨而解脫。
每週一晚間,《十脈輪生命能開發》告訴您如何用禪定方式開發十種生命能!


2018年8月13日 星期一

《回家》--見證「宇宙聖靈之光」





「真正的修行,要修到身光、心光、性光。讓靈性放光,接到跟上帝、佛一樣的頻率,很自然地就『回家』了。」

--禪宗第八十五代宗師 悟覺妙天禪師

各個宗教團體,不論是道教、佛教、一貫道,甚至基督教、天主教,在其祭典或法會中,偶爾都會拍到顯現「聖靈之光」(簡稱聖光)的照片,這已不是稀奇的事。證道的聖者在傳法時所顯現的證量光被照相機拍攝到,也是經常有的事。

證道聖者能發出廣大聖光,東西方皆有說法。萬物都與光有關,眾生跟佛菩薩也都有「光」,差別只在光波的大小與光的明暗度有所不同而已。釋迦如來在《金剛經》中說:「一切聖賢皆以無為法而有差別。」就是指得到聖光的證量大小而有差別。菩薩修行到了第三地就會發光(稱為發光地),修到四地菩薩,智慧光如火焰(稱為焰慧地),十地以上佛菩薩的聖光更是不容懷疑。幾乎大部份的佛聖號也都跟「光」有關,例如:西方阿彌陀佛是無量壽無量光佛、東方有藥師琉璃光佛、千光王靜住如來…等。耶穌也說:「上帝是光,上帝是大能。」佛與上帝同屬宇宙的光源本體,名異而實同。證道的聖者所發出的肉眼看不見的廣大聖光,正如中西方佛菩薩、聖徒、天使的畫像頭上都有光環,還有背光及身光,這真是異曲同工,真理皆相通。

本影片剪輯了禪宗第八十五代宗師 悟覺妙天禪師弘法以來同修所拍攝到的一小部分聖光照片,提供照片的同修們都感到法喜、殊勝,樂於與人分享。一位證道明師的修行證量,真的假不了,假的真不了。人的肉眼看不到無相實相的證量,但聖光真實存在;正如 悟覺妙天禪師開示:「佛心就是光,把聖光傳給歷代的弟子們,一代一代的傳下來,就是『佛心傳心』。」

只要你願意入門嘗試,與佛菩薩的聖光相應,人人都可得聖光加被而提升靈性層次,入世得健康、快樂、幸福,出世可以明心見性,解脫成就,轉凡成聖,使內在的聖靈得以回歸宇宙源頭的光明世界。這不就是佛教及其他各宗教追求的最高境界嗎?

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2018年7月13日 星期五

7/29(日) 上午10:00~11:30 心經 先修講座@關西藥師佛禪寺 --- 悟覺妙天禪師 親自授課

【關西藥師佛禪寺 重要活動訊息】
「心經 先修班講座」 
7/29(日)藥師佛禪寺 將恭請 禪宗 第八十五代宗師 悟覺妙天禪師 親自授課,歡迎邀請新朋友踴躍参加!!

時間:7/29()上午 10:00-11:30
地點:關西藥師佛禪寺
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新竹市科園禪修會館 敬邀
TEL : 03-6669995


2018年6月29日 星期五

假如世尊是游泳高手





世尊有個讓你碰到大海嘯也不用怕的游泳絕技,怎麼學才學得會?心經說的「度一切苦厄」,其實不只是經文,現代人只要找到秘訣,就能讓它變成現在進行式,除一切苦。

千載難逢的心經講座,報名倒數計時中 (7/15截止報名):
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2018年6月24日 星期日

智慧

【悟覺妙天禪師開示集】智慧
本文摘錄自悟覺妙天禪師演講集「禪的真如世界」
一般人常誤將「知識」或「常識」、「學問」,當成是「智慧」,其實這兩者是有分別的。智慧與知識的差別在哪裡?
區別「知識」與「智慧」的方法很簡單,就是前者是經由學習而來的,來自你的意識、你的能力、你的思考,知識不具圓滿性,不能涵括整個宇宙,所以不一定是對的;而後者則不需要學習,因為智慧是則來自本心,每個人的自性中,天生就具有這些智慧,只是一般人沒有開發出來罷了,智慧包含整個宇宙的真理,是絕對的,是圓滿的。
一個人的思想若達到智慧層次,他的愛心就不再侷限在家人、朋友之間,而是擴大到整個人類、整個世界、整個生態,甚至整個宇宙。這就是博愛,是一種大慈大悲的大愛。
悟覺妙天禪師開示:一個人的思想若達到智慧層次,愛心是擴大到整個人類、整個世界、整個生態,甚至整個宇宙。
修行就是要得到這智慧。就是指找到你的本性,經過禪定才能夠發現到自己、找到你自己,這個就是佛、就是佛性,一切具足。

2018年6月18日 星期一

超越自己的第一步

【悟覺妙天禪師開示集】超越自己的第一步
 本文摘錄自悟覺妙天禪師演講集「禪的真如世界」
要認識「真正的我」,就要進入禪定,入禪定是要經過訓練的,當我們用單盤禪坐的時候,可以坐一個鐘頭,用雙盤只能坐二十分鐘,但坐雙盤雖然只是二十分鐘,卻比坐單盤一個鐘頭的效果還要好,為什麼?因為它加強了突破身體障礙的耐力。同樣地,雙盤坐一個月,超過單盤坐兩個月的效果。我們在超越別人之前,先要超越自己,超越自己原來的本能,然後自然能夠超越別人,能夠有更廣大的開創力,事業才能夠成功,學識的研究才能更徹底。
禪定盡可能要求自己坐上三十分鐘到一個鐘頭不動,這必須要靠毅力。然而,這樣坐著不動有什麼益處呢?就是要磨練你的心,降服內在浮動不已的心。如果有一天,你能夠真正依照內心的意志來行事,精神力量自然就會顯現。
悟覺妙天禪師開示:要認識「真正的我」,就要進入禪定如果你把這些精神力量轉移到工作上,全神貫注在思考上,就可以從定中培養精神統一,而這就是超越自己的第一要件。若能養成禪定的工夫,無論在任何環境都能適應良好。
再來就是意識方面,要能夠自我控制,自我掌握。一般人的心中都有很多妄念,即使把心拉回來了,還是會在瞬間再度產生新的妄念,所以做事時很容易被客觀環境所左右。因為你沒有超越意識的力量。
如果連自己本身的意識都沒有辦法掌握,那麼外在的生活、工作環境自然也就操控在人家的手裡,更不用說要掌握人生了。唯有能夠掌握自己意識的人,才可以掌握自己的生理健康,同時在工作上,也會表現得稱心如意。
修禪絕對不要自我設限,最重要的是開拓自己的思想領域,跟宇宙體合而為一。不要只停留在自己、或是自己的家人、自己的國家,這樣的格局太渺小了。學禪以後,你的心就要有禪的無量境界,要有無邊的智慧;而這種自我超越的力量與智慧,要從禪定中點滴地累積。

2018年6月13日 星期三

2018-06-30(六) 10:00 ~ 15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 喜樂家庭日 + 心經先修講座

關西藥師佛禪寺  喜樂家庭日 + 心經先修講座 


活動時間:6月30日(早上1000 ~ 下午300
活動地點:關西藥師佛禪寺
活動費用:
(1)自行前往100 (含午餐與場地費用)
(2)一起搭遊覽車500 (車資、保險、午餐、場地費、平安米一包)
活動內容:
(1) 心經先修講座!(講師 : 覺妙明蓮 師姐) 
(2) 接太陽與隕石能量、相應法(講師 : 覺妙行蓮 師姐)
(3) 品茗、求靈籤、觀音佛樂飄!

歡迎全家大小一起共襄盛舉! 
請按此 http://t.cn/RuHCQ5E 上傳名單!


新竹市科園禪修會館  敬邀
TEL : 03-6669995

2018-6-2(六) 10:00~15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 --- 喜樂家庭日 活動照片

2018-6-2(六) 10:00~15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 --- 喜樂家庭日 活動照片

Happy Dragon Boat Festival~~~

大雄寶殿 殊勝合影!







很多師兄姐分享 : 看到"聖光" , 禪中淚成行, 











露台 享用中餐, 平安果汁

觀音佛樂飄


三五好友 同登喜樂佛國

2018年5月15日 星期二

氣功禪 練身修心 百病不生


氣功禪 練身修心 百病不生

/悟覺妙天禪師  出處:禪的真如世界

氣功禪:
它主要的修行目的是把身體練好,得到身心的身心平衡。它的修行法是經由「守竅」的方式,來達到這種練身修心的目的。「竅」是指身體的某一器官的重要部
份,以心臟來說,首先要一心一意地把注意力放在心臟的部位。我們曉得在心臟的中央有一個空隙,我們把全部的精神都集中在這個空隙的地方,慢慢地,一切妄念都消失了。沒有了妄念,就不會胡思亂想,就可以定在心中。甚至我們可以感覺到心臟的跳動,和這跳動所給予我們不同的感受。這是一個方法。經過守竅,然後再把心臟的氣導引;因為氣非常重要,一個人如果沒有氣,生命就完結了,所以氣是我們延長生命最重要的原素。因此不管是練氣功也好,練道家的功夫也好,就是要練氣,也就是練呼吸。
我們曉得,一個人到四十、五十、六十歲的時候,氣就開始由最高峰往下降,因為平時我們為了生活、為了工作一直在消耗精力、體力與腦力,等到有一天,我們身體的各種機能、功能都衰退了,就會影響到我們的健康。而這種「氣」可以經過某一種方法來修練,讓我們身體裡面的氣非常地通暢,非常地飽滿。所以藉著守竅跟導引術可以來導引、運轉身體裡面的氣,做小週天的運轉,所謂小週天的運轉就是讓氣在身體內循一定的軌道運轉。等到大家都可以運轉後,就會發現自己體內的氣,很自然地往上昇,上昇了以後,會很年輕。
我們上了年紀以後,臉頰部位的肌肉會垂下來,這表示一種老化的現象。經過我們修練、禪坐以後,體內的氣會非常自然的往上提昇,進而帶動我們的肌肉恢復彈性,讓新陳代謝非常旺盛。讓我們已經失掉功能或是已經退化的器官,可以因為我們的這種修練而恢復它正常的功能,再度得到身心的健康。一個人得到身心平衡之後,精神、身體會覺得非常輕鬆愉快,走起路來也會覺得輕飄飄的,這就是練氣功的好處。一個人把身體練好,可以延長壽命,可以百病不生,這是氣功禪

2018年5月3日 星期四

2018-06-02(六) 10:00 ~ 15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 喜樂家庭日 + 心經先修講座

關西藥師佛禪寺  喜樂家庭日 + 心經先修講座 
( 喜樂家庭活動, 全勤有獎哦 ~~~ )

活動時間:6月2(早上1000 ~ 下午300
活動地點:關西藥師佛禪寺
活動費用:
(1)自行前往100 (含午餐與場地費用)
(2)一起搭遊覽車500 (車資、保險、午餐、場地費、平安米一包)
活動內容:
(1) 心經先修講座 !
(2) 
接太陽與隕石能量!
(3) 
品茗、求靈籤、公益市集、觀音佛樂飄!
歡迎全家大小一起共襄盛舉! 請按此 http://t.cn/RuHCQ5E 上傳名單!


新竹市科園禪修會館  敬邀
TEL : 03-6669995


2018-4-28(六) 10:00~15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 --- 喜樂家庭日 活動照片

師兄 說 活動很活潑 他很開心


師兄說 釋尊旁邊看到一顆大太陽 ^^ 

好棒的小菩薩第一次上完 完整的課

小菩薩的桐花心

小菩薩說 媽媽我吃完飯要去跳舞

示範公益市集

老師提供吃不完的水果大餐

開心吃飯 ...

頂天立地  酸酸的...

2018年4月12日 星期四

2018-4-28(六) 10:00~15:00 關西藥師佛禪寺 --- 喜樂家庭日

關西藥師佛禪寺  喜樂家庭日
活動時間:4月28日(六)早上10:00~下午3:00
活動地點:關西藥師佛禪寺
活動費用:100元(含午餐與場地費用)
活動內容:
               (1) 接太陽與隕石能量!
               (2) 歡唱、泡茶、求靈籤!

報名, 請 按此 上傳名單, 謝謝您 ~~~



心經最後一段心咒 --- 趕快回家, 回靈性的家


2018年3月11日 星期日

純粹,就有力量:專訪.鋼琴家胡瀞云

純粹,就有力量:專訪.鋼琴家胡瀞云
文章來源 : MUZIK ONLINE

摘要
對於一個七年級的鋼琴家,13 歲就和波蘭國家愛樂巡演日本,陸續贏得辛辛那堤國際大賽首獎、歐塞夫斯基國際鋼琴大賽、加州國際鋼琴大賽、賽勒國際鋼琴大賽,今年3 月還贏得魯賓斯坦大賽第二名,這一路的看似順遂,的確讓許多台灣年輕演奏者羨慕。然而她自律自主的習琴生涯、早慧的堅持,和這一路的獨立(或許也有點孤單),也許能夠乍悟到要把自己磨亮、刨光成為一塊光鮮的鋼琴家,絕不是偶然或幸運。
禪坐和演奏是合而為一的,當你投入的時候,觀眾掌聲或舞台都已經不是在這個現實的世界裡頭。
9 歲那年,跟著媽媽參加兒童禪修的胡瀞云,談起這項特別的“嗜好”時,先分享了一段深刻的經歷。小時候的她非常容易過敏,醫生為了要測試究竟何為過敏原,得在她兩隻小小的手臂扎上 40 幾針,當下的胡瀞云只覺得內心的世界應該比身體的感受還來得重要,因此打針的同時竟完全不覺疼痛,連醫生都嘖嘖稱奇。胡瀞云緩緩地表述:「就像禪坐和演奏是合而為一的,當你投入的時候,觀眾掌聲或舞台都已經不是在這個現實的世界裡頭。」禪修讓她心境純粹,也得以將源自心靈深處的聲音表現出來。
胡瀞云認為禪修就是學專注,這對她的學琴和生活都有很大的幫助。坦言自我要求極為嚴格,每天要需要做什麼、做到哪裡,自有一套規範。「做任何事情都需要自律,就像太陽每天升起日落一樣。」所以父母從來不必逼她練琴,爸爸抱持著不介入的態度,媽媽又非常民
 主,頂多對她講講道理,告訴她不練琴的後果,胡瀞云就會像上了發條般自動自發,尤其是到美國時,沒有家人在身邊,反而練得更勤。「如果家裡有小朋友偷懶不想練琴,或許可以試試禪修。」談吐內斂的胡瀞云露出難得的捉狹。
面對宛如空中飛人的職業鋼琴生涯,很多人問她如何調整時差,她都笑答:「因為隨時都很累,所以沒有時差問題。」現在演出滿檔、彩排不斷,訪問一個接一個,才是早上 10:30 的約訪,胡瀞云卻已經完成一個電台專訪匆匆趕來,臉上看起來有些微倦意,可是始終充滿笑意。
10 月與台北愛樂演出的普羅高菲夫《C 大調第三號鋼琴協奏曲》,正是讓她在魯賓斯坦大賽中獲得銀獎的曲目,談及這首曲子,胡瀞云回憶第一次演奏是16 歲,也曾與許多國際級樂團合作演出過,談及這首跟了她 10 年的曲子,胡瀞云說「它讓我感覺Ican do everything!」



心得分享 2010.06.17
實至名歸的台灣之光 - 胡瀞云
鋼琴家胡瀞云,來自台灣的年輕女子,輕瘦的身軀裡有著奔放的靈魂。她擁有美國茱莉亞音樂學院碩士學位,2008 3 月憑著穩健及精湛的演出,擊敗來自全球的200多位鋼琴好手,獲得向來有「音樂界奧林匹克大賽」之稱的「魯賓斯坦國際鋼琴大賽」銀牌獎,同時獲得「最具觀眾人緣獎」,是台灣音樂學子近年來所獲得國際大獎當中最好的一位。究竟是什麼樣的力量,讓她如此專注在音樂國度,透過悠揚的音符,訴說著一種心靈澎湃的自性美?

「我要成為一位鋼琴家!」這是胡瀞云師姐從小接觸鋼琴後便立下的志願。五歲開始練琴,對鋼琴的深度喜愛,讓她從五歲到現在不曾間斷。
九歲那年,胡瀞云師姐參加兒童禪訓營,因這樣的機緣,接觸禪坐的專注與清淨,讓她日後有更多空間發揮在音樂上。一次因緣,胡瀞云師姐與 師父同桌吃飯,席間, 師父問她長大以後想做什麼?她回答:「我要成為一位鋼琴家!」,師父慈悲的回答她:「妳要專心,不然只能成為一個鋼琴表演者。」這句話深記在胡瀞云師姐的心裡。
十四歲,師大附中初中部畢業後,她便跟著姐姐二個人,赴美留學,進入茱利亞音樂學院。那段時間,姐妹二人在異地語言不通,身邊又無父母親陪伴,姐妹倆只能互相照顧,生活的很辛苦。
每天練琴八小時的代價,就是胡瀞云師姐的手指嚴重受到傷害。大學期間,有很長一段時間必須接受治療,完全無法碰琴,待手指頭漸漸恢復後,又得像初學者一樣,一個一個琴鍵慢慢練習...
開始參加比賽至今,胡瀞云師姐說,不是每場比賽都有成績,沒有得名的場次其實比得名還多。手指受傷沒有讓她放棄、比賽失敗沒有讓她氣餒,因為她始終記得 師父說的,要專心。專心的走著「成為鋼琴家」這一條路,不理會一路上的考驗與磨難,不理會種種打搫與挫折。
多年禪修的她如此表示:「音樂家是要花很多時間學習如何讓自己與樂器相處,而禪修的意境亦是如此,唯有專注,超脫外相的干擾,才能將心靈深處的原始聲音表現出來。」
修行其實就是如此,眾多的考驗是為了成就靈性的成長。考驗是功課,也是提升,秉持著耐心與決心,終究會像蝴蝶破蛹般,遨翔天際,進入心靈那美妙無比的光明世界!